Release Notes - Spotify for Desktop 1.0.7

[meahtenoha]

What's new in this version (1.0.7):

• On Windows, the corner X button can close or minimise Spotify. Choose in your Settings.
•  Making a collaborative playlist in 1280x800 resolution? Excellent. Now you can see who's added songs in the User column.
• Create Playlist option for playlist context menus to allow you to quickly create a playlist from a right click
• Lyrics, Messages and Play Queue each have their own button. Click once to view, click again to go back.
• We've improved the way playlists are sorted. 
• Having trouble logging in? Try changing your Proxy Settings from the the login page. (It's easy, promise.)

[HsvIllini]

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@spectrum wrote:

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@HsvIllini wrote:

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@spamandtuna wrote:

I was SO excited when I logged in this morning to see the systray icon back in place!  Then I realized it's still missing all the music controls (play/pause, next, etc.) that it had before.  Oh, well.  Baby steps in the right direction!

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No doubt. As is, the feature is useless. The whole point of keeping it in the systray is so it's out of the way while still giving you the ability to control the playback. But without playback controls, what's the point? June 30th and Apple Music cannot get here soon enough.

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Well, the point is to keep the music playing when closing Spotify with the top right "x" button.

But I definitely agree with you that those menu items are an important use case as well, and should be put back in, especially since it's one of the easiest things to implement (menu items calling already existing code for play/next, that's it).

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While I agree the point is to keep the music playing, my use case definitely requires the menu items. When listening at work, I frequently have to pause if someone comes into my office for something and then play again when finished. And then there are the songs I want to skip. Without the menu items, none of this is possible unless you restore the app, hit the button to do whichever operation you want and then minimize the app once again. At least with the option to not use the system tray, the little preview window for the taskbar button has the play/pause and track navigation buttons.

[Devs]

thanks to spotify devellopers team to having handed the minimise option on desktop software.

[geek53000]

@o-l-a-v

you have the mac version?

[user-removed]

Hey there.

I love the update, but really you could do also some more updates in future.

1. I want to REMOVE Starred playlist. Reason: since Starred option is removed from apps, it's useless to have this list.

2. Bring ability to load your details eg. name and picture to profile without need of Facebook link. Reason: not all want to connect with Facebook to deal with these nicknames and blank grey people on profiles.

3. Make option to remove unwanted items from sidebar. Reason: on 1366x768 resolution, when cover image is open, playlists are under it. If I could remove no-needed local item and some more I don't use, I could open cover image in large view.

4. Bring back top charts to profile. Reason: I can't see my or my friends top charts anymore.

5. Keep your hands off of adding no-needed garbage to sidebar. Reason: we don't need more items to sidebar or other side of app. It's no needed, as we use app to listen music.

6. New Releases option, please make it music taste based. Reaason: I don't listen pop, hiphop etc. I just want to look out new releases from music genres I listen like hands up, dancecore, jumpstyle. I don't want to follow other genres. Please implement it!

7. Improve radio variety. Reason: same artists and songs over and over - not perfect.

8. Listen your customers better. Reason: we know what we need.

9. Improve album, artist pages etc. Let us filter content. Reason: we really want to find album or single very fast on never-ending artist page.

10. Do your job. Reason: don't you see even if app is more perfect than ever, there's still some stuff to deal out.

Many thanks.

[hypatia]

Consistent freezing problems on W7 64bit since updating to 1.0.7 Desktop version

I upgraded to 1.0.7.157 from 1.0.4.90.g0b6df40b a few days after the prompt appeared then started one of my regular play lists.  After 2 tracks it froze completely, the only way to stop it was to kill the process.

I restarted, all was well for 2 tracks, froze again.

Killed process, restarted changed play list. First 2 tracks fine, then same freezing behaviour.

Restarting Windows (grrr), restart Spotify, yet another play list.  Played 2 tracks then froze again. This time it was running in isolation (ie no other applications running beyond OS and AV).

Completely uninstalled Spotify, downloaded and reinstalled which took me back to 1.04.  All was well.  Had to restart Windows for an update, this unfortunately reupdated Spotify and brought back the freezing behaviour.

Tried the link to go to 1.0.8, updated successfully but unfortunately that had a whole bunch of UI issues so guessing this one is still beta.

The box it was running on was the household media server which is pretty much overspec'd for what it was running at the time  - cpu/memory footprints remained low in all tests compared to overall capacity.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?  I've seen lots of reports of freezing under 1.0.7 but none as specific as mine.  Interestingly my MacBook Pro running Yosemite also showed freezing problems with the upgrade but they seem less specific at the moment (not tested all the options on that one yet).

It makes Spotify largely unusable on this box as my old workaround to block upgrades no longer seems to work so every time Spotify is stopped or started this patch applies itself. This is a pain since its the box I use for  distributing media around the house.

[m0n1ca22plus]

Those the decision makers at Spotify work for Google Music ?

Im only wondering sense the on advantage a windows program have over a browser is the control over where to install and where to store the files. and sense the futere was removed i can only assume that Spotify wants people to move over to google music. witch is what i will be doing when my two free months are up unless Spotify opts for reason and returns the function.

[nothumbsup]

Finally, no longer moving sideways, eh?

Nice to see you got the system tray thing going again, but I hear no controls? I'll stick to v9.7.16 for now, otherwise it would still be a downgrade for me.

I'll be checking every now and then to see if your project lead(s) figure out their egos are less important than overall customer satisfaction. It wasn't that long ago the idea to return the program to system tray was marked "Not Right Now", rather telling, don't you think?

Unwanted Criticism Man... Away! *WHOOSH*

[Piuschka]

hypatia:

Finally someone who has the same problem.

I also tried reinstalling Spotify and it was ok with the older version. Today it updated to version 1.0.7. Now it crashes after playing 3 or 4 songs. I'm suspecting it somehow can't load the audio advertisements and then crashes. After that you have to kill the program via task manager. This problem is extremely annoying. 

I'm using Windows 8, on my phone (Android 5.0.2) or the iPad everything is fine.

[nico83560]

Hi guys, 

Idem on Win 7 pro, Spotify crashes during the first advertissement...

No error/debug message.

- Spotify version 1.0.7.157.g2a6526f9

- Windows 7 pro, 64 bits, 

Hope to see a upgrade soon.

[hypatia]

Piuschka:  I'm using the premium version (although I'm reviewing that ) so it shouldn't be adverts causing me to freeze but hey...

Looking through the comments I suspect some peopel define as 'crash' what I might call 'freezing'.  My UI freezes up, won't play anything and I can't shut it down. THe only way to stop it is to kill the process which logically has crashed.  I tried leaving it to see if it would become responsive and half an hour later still no joy.

I'm definitely seeing something similar on my Mac so this may not be OS related.

For me if the desktop versions don't work there is very little value in paying for the premium versions - that has got me looking at alternatives as I'm just not getting the main value out of my subscription if I have to keep downgrading or freeze up every two songs.

[o-l-a-v]

v1.0.8.59.gee82e7e6-108

http://upgrade.spotify.com/upgrade/client/win32-x86/spotify_installer-1.0.8.59.gee82e7e6-108.exe

[bozzmuzik]

Can you post any changelog for version 1.0.8 ?

[hypatia]

o-l-a-v:

Thanks for the link for the newer build of 1.0.8, I'm getting some slightly weird behaviour.

I tried the upgrade and initially it made things worse. 

I then uninstalled, went back to 1.0.4 and upgraded to 1.0.8 without going via the patchset for 1.0.7.

Spotify started up, initially looked quite promising.  Then I realised about three or four songs down the playlist that whilst the music was playing, the controls on the UI had all frozen. Titles, pictures not progressing with the music through the list, volume control not working, next/pause/previous not responding. This was new behaviour as with 1.0.7 sound stopped as well.

I closed Spotify and the music kept playing.  Looking at the running processes Spotify now starts with three iterations of Spotify.exe*32 instead of two.  When I closed down Spotify to restart it one process went but the others stayed - presumably they were playing the music in the absence of the UI, and the remaining process was progressing through the list but obviously couldnt' be controlled in anyway.

I've reinstalled and retried several times today and get teh same behaviour each time.  Also the memory footprint seems to have increased with one of the three processes steadily increasing but the freezing doesn't seem to map onto a particular level of memory use.

Any other options to try?

[o-l-a-v]

hypatia:

That has not happened to me. 

I'd try to porperly uninstall with Geek Uninstaller or similar. Then try offline installer of current newest, or earlier, versions of spotify.

[takingbackbenny]

Release notes for 1.0.8.*

I have had multiple updates in the 1.0.8 range so far without any changelog / release notes.

C'mon Spotify - what the actual f*** are you working on with these updates?

Some clarity on these releases would be excellent

[bullo152]

If you sort two or more songs from a playlist after adding a new one, the playlist freezes, and you are unable to add a new song to that playlist.

[railrider4]

im running windows 7 64bit and ever since the last update spotify will not open- i have tried reinstalled it a couple times and same problem. 

[DoubleTime]

@Medicinebow:

I wouldn't be too worried about SSD writes. Although SSDs have a finite lifespan, their write capacity far exceeds their advertised limit. For example, the Tech Report SSD endurance test shows that consumer drives can withstand the equivalent of more than 140GB of writes per day, for 10 years. https://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-500tb-update

[asono]

Please post the 1.0.8 release notes, I just upgraded to it.

Still don't see any local files - which is simply annoying.

Testing the apple music right now. 

[rjlima72]

Just upgraded to Version 1.0.8  Everything working fine so far  - local files also. What has been changed in this  version?