Release Notes - Spotify for Android (1.0.0.70)

[Goodman]

What's new in version 1.0.0.70

• New: A bold and beautiful new look.
• New: Even smarter playlists on Browse.
• New: Save what you love in Your Music.
• New: Better, faster search results.
• Fictitious: This app had a dream about you last night.

Notes

• This update started rolling out today and will reach all Android users over the coming weeks.
• You will find a bit more information and some pretty images over here.

[user-removed]

google music

+app is WORKING

+upload your own music and listen to it on a WORKING app

shut down spotify before your burn more money!

[thebejesus]

Just logging in to let you know that I will be cancelling my Spotify subscription shortly. I've spent hundreds of pounds over the years with you guys but your lack of interaction with the needs of the community has pushed me, along with many others, away.

For a few years I've had one desire for a very simple feature to be returned since it was arbitrarily taken away some time ago, and as insignificant as it may seem to you, it's a deal breaker for me. I maintain a large offline playlist of my general music to which regularly gets added new whole albums of artist that I enjoy. New album comes out, I add it and it gets downloaded and becomes part of my commuting playlist. Unfortunately, a few years ago somebody at Spotify decided that I didn't want to do that, so removed the option to add an album to a playlist. I can add a whole album as a playlist (do you guys actually know what people use playlists for - hint: it's not for individual albums) and then set it to be available offline, or I could add single songs to an existing playlist but not the whole album. Why? Who the hell knows. This means that for Spotify to work as I'd like it to I have to open the terribly sluggish PC application then add it through there which obviously assumes I'm near a computer which I often am not.

My overarching point is that it is not up to you how people use your service. You guys have one job in regards to the end user, which is to supply an easy, effective set of applications that meet their needs. Yes they have a variety of needs and workflows but yours is simple, to fulfil them, and they pay you a relatively large amount of money to do that. They simply ask that you don't dictate to them how to use your product and listen attentatively to and act on their needs. By all means innovate to your hearts content but not to the detriment of your basic service.

I will be switching to Google Play music which seems to have the same depth of catalogue and, unsuprisingly, lets me add a whole darn album to an existing playlist.

For the record, I actually like the new app design and was excited to see if all my (sadly not ficticious, but really very basic) dreams had been fulfilled with this new iteration. Alas not.

[Joe]

But you can do this @thebejesus .

Search for the album, select it and touch the "save" button at the top to add it to Your Music. Go to Your Music/Albums tab, find the album (you can sort on date added to make this quicker), long touch the album and then "Download".

[thebejesus]

I wasn't aware of that particuar way of saving it but effectively that's exactly the same as the adding it as its own playlist and downloading the playlist ie. it remains separate from the rest of my music. I can't then play the whole playlist on shuffle or have it appear in multiple themed playlists etc.

It's such simple functionality that I'm after and I have no idea why it was removed in the first place.

[Joe]

I don't agree. While Your Music still has some rough edges, it's a much more sensible way of storing what I used use album playlists for. Now. I can add albums and see them under artists and albums much more easily. I can filter in those views to in some useful ways such as displaying only albums I have made available offline. What's more, if I want to shuffle all my offline tracks, I can do that too from the Songs tab in Your Music.

Playlists can now be used for mixes and not for albums.

I get the impression that you haven't actually tried Your Music or you wouldn't be demanding a feature which isn't actually needed any more?

[thebejesus]

You're not wrong about the 'your music' section though I only saw it for the first time today and didn't get much indication that it was more than just a new name for my playlists. After having a look it certainly seems better than the albums as playlists design of previous versions and is probably a step forward. However it still doesn't provide the same functionality as adding an album to a playlist. Say I like to keep my albums sorted by theme or event or genre, if I have all of those albums in my music, how can I then just shuffle amongst those? Not to mention the fact that I already have a numerous playlists with multiple thousands of songs (usually full albums) in them. Am I to go through and add every single album to my music? Also if I add multiple albums to my music I would have to go through each one and make them available offline. If I add them to an offline playlist, that's one click and it's automatically downloaded.

This goes back to a point in my original post about Spotify wanting to decide how I use their service. I have a workflow, I'm happy with it. Don't arbitrarily decide that you'd rather I worked a different way and force me to go along with it. Especially as all of the functionality I require is available on the desktop application.

[Goodman]

Hi folks. We just released a new update. You'll find more info here.