Spotify 1.0.1 - The complete changelog

[icemaker]

Thanx to http://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/2y6a68/spotify_update_1011060gc75ebdfd_mega_discussion/cp6m... here is the true complete changelog of this horrible update:

• Apps removed (this is a planned removal and will not be returning)
• Activity feed redesigned (now emphasizes social aspects over the music they are listening to)
• Closing spotify with the "X" now exits the application
• Top Charts has replaced Top Tracks (located in Browse)
• Play Queue moved outside of sidebar, it is now located on the play bar next to the "shuffle" icon
• Local files can't be dragged directly into playlists. You must manually add a local folder from the settings menu
• CTRL-F No longer works
• Playlist dividers gone
• Can no longer see list of songs in a folder, only the playlists it contains
• Cannot set cache or offline playlists location
• Not all of local tracks show up (people with large local track libraries)
• Can't remove local tracks from playlists
• Can't edit ID3 tags for local tracks
• Clicking song that's playing no longer takes you to the album (for some people)
• Notifications on the taskbar icon
• Previous notifications disappears on application restart
• Crossfade toggle and adjustment has been further buried under Advanced Settings
• Volume normalization broken
• Some ads are playing abnormally loud
• App is not maximized on launch even if it was on closing.
• Some notifications will never go away
• Song title and artist no longer appears on the taskbar.
• Can't use aero peak to see currently playing track
• Saving entire albums to 'My Music' no longer works correctly
• Various aspects of the "Sort by..." feature including "date added" for local tracks and "by artists" in playlist view are nonfunctional
• Can no longer press first letter of name to skip to that section in the playlist/sorting
• Can no longer drop tracks into the playlist view, you must now drag them to the playlist using the left sidebar
• Can no longer use "delete" key to remove songs from the play queue
• Media buttons no longer work for some users
• Can't resize the sorting columns to see the full text.
• Track playing won't show on hover view for macs
• Apple scripts broken
• Some songs wrongly categorized as local files so they become unplayable in the client
• No longer able to click currently playing song title to see its position in the playlist
• No more number of new tracks marker on subscribed playlists

[xJustpulse · Accepted solution]

If you go to this link: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815

(Spotify will probably remove the link soon....)

You can get the 0.8.5Version It was the best version ever made, before Spotify went **bleep**

If you follow the steps it won't update Spotify.

[mountmccabe]

To add to the change log:

Non-Facebook or Spotify-based sharing options reduced. Now the only other option is "Copy Playlist Link"

If you want to make that into something useful (I cannot imagine why anyone would EVER click on such a link) you have to edit it down to the URI manually.

[Xanmeth]

Looks like Jumplists on Windows 8 are gone too 😞

[King_Phu]

Please fix those bugs and revert back to our old features please...Why would you changed and removed something that people loved it for so many years? You don't listen to bugs, but you changed the entire purposes of spotify instead!?

[hanspeterdill]

I had a proxy in the settings which I don't need anymore (just after the update). Cannot change the settings anymore since the update so I can't take out the proxy.

Going to settings just shows me a loading circle and then nothing. Why would I need to be online to change settings?!

Anybody with the same problem?

[faerydreaming]

-Media buttons no longer work

-Apps removed

-CTRL-F is gone

-Cannot set cache

-Saving albums to music doesn't work correctly

Basically all of the reasons why I liked the Spotify application. I'll stick with the web player, or a downgraded version of the desktop application, until this appalling, outrageous update is taken back and or changed drastically. 

I love Spotify, I really do. It gives me the ability to discover new artists, and listen to music, and it's a -legal- way to do so. I and others, surely, hope that they reconsider these decisions, listen to the feedback, and change certain negative decisions.

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[jarnomkel]

Wow, the new version of Spotify is an abomination. At least for me the downgrade is essential, recommending to everyone else too.

[caseyforever]

WTF?!?! 

are you planning to change this back:

   "Local files can't be dragged directly into playlists. You must manually add a local folder from the settings menu"

Not being mellodramatic but for this alone i may have ot switch to "GOOGLE PLAY All Access" (currently i use Spotify Premium and love it).
I have to be able to mix my own music in with my spotify music. I have Soundcloud DJ remixes i need to play at events, as well as music from friend's bands, music i've made, and music i've aquired over the years. This new absurd spotify change wiped all of this out. 

currently the workaround is to point spotify to the folders in preferences / Local Files which absolutely AWEFUL. laughably bad. Every file is just in this HUGE list that you can't even separate by which folder it come from. it's absolutely madenning and useless. thousands of songs all in total chaos. WHY did they change the way it was done... I'm paying $ for this!

Q: IS THIS PLANNING ON GOING BACK TO WHERE YOU CAN DROP IN SONGS? PLEASE LET ME KNOW! 🙂
(if not i think i'm making the switch to google play music... ugh)

p.s. and when the heck is spotify going to add a folders or arts or albums view so you can have bands saved and albums saved instead of just playlists?!?!?!?!?