Recently played artists section not updating

[Maria]

We've been seeing reports from users that the recently played artists on their profile are not updating, while recently played in listening history is working as expected.

[stayk]

yeah, once again today doesn't seem to be working at all

both on friend's activity as well as recently played...

[Maria]

Hey folks,

Thanks for your continued reports about this! We're passing them on to the right team.

@stayk - you mention that you have issues with Friend Activity too, would you mind elaborating what's happening from your end? This will give us a better understanding of the issue.

If anybody else is experiencing issues with the Friend Activity, let us know as well.

Cheers!

[stayk]

@Maria  Thanks for getting back and looking into this.

yes, sometimes the songs they're playing do not even show on the friend activity.

Their recently played may update as they are listening but the friend activity doesn't show. 

It would only show the last time they listened to something previous to the new session for example.

Sometimes it also shows only a few songs stuck for longer but skips showing other songs they're listening to in between. 

Seems like the recenty played and friend activity isn't always in sync

 and Friend activity doesn't always show when they are in a listening session 

it's a hit and miss. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't

it's quite annoying 😖

[intoawovenbraid]

The iOS widget is also slow to update with my current listening history.

[xoxo1234]

Its not working since 5 days now. 
not even updated one single time.

pls fix, spotify. 

[Bmigz]

Recently played is not updating on profile. 04/11/24

[Ana109]

I have listened to music this morning. Its updating. But just took little time to update both recently played artist and recently played music.

[j93d_-tyvl3g9]

Not working here since 2 weeks ago. Specially annoying when using Spotify in the car.

[Maria]

Hey everyone,

We're still looking in to this together with our team - we appreciate you keeping us in the loop here as well!

Could you also let us know what device(s) the recently played artists doesn't update on? Does this happen on mobile (iOS or Android), desktop, or both?

If possible - your device(s) exact make, model & OS version would be great to know.

Cheers! 

@xoxo1234 @Bmigz @Ana109 @j93d_-tyvl3g9 

[1Dx]

@Maria It happens on both iOS and Android. Me and 4 friends who use Apple have this issue and a friend who uses Desktop has this too. For me, this issue first happened about a week ago and the recently played artists stopped updating and for about 2 hours all of my recently played songs since then didn't get put there. Overnight, they treacled into recently streamed but after about 10 hours the delay stopped and it went back to normal. I'm now having the same issue as before, I've tried everything suggested before and tried switching playlists.

Weirdly, When I stream from Shakira's artist page, the streams come in normally but anything from her specific albums are delayed like everything else. For me, this is the onlg exception. Only Shakira's artist page songs are updated.