Release Radar Order & Other Updates

[Leah96]

I would love to know how many other users this happens to. Every week on Thursday night my Release Radar comes out with the whole playlist in one order and then sometime in the middle of the week it refreshes anew and the entire order of the playlist changes! This switch is so frustrating when I purposely try to listen in order so I know what I've listened to and what I haven't. My Release Radar's are generally really long so when the order of the playlist changes I lose my place. 

I also find that the order of the Release Radar isn't even based on my most listened-to artists which it should be. As the playlist goes down, it should reflect my listening history with those artists with the top being the most listened to and the bottom being the least. This is aside from the issues other people have rightfully brought up about fake releases etc.

For Premium individual users like me, these small (but not so small to us) changes mean a lot. Especially with the recent price hike, I need to know I'm getting great service for paying so much every month!

In general, I think Spotify has some work to do to better reflect fans and users who are looking to listen to what they want easily and without having everything else thrown at them. If not, there will be a migration of users that will go to other apps and streaming services like Apple Music for better use of their dollars. 

[ematt2]

Enterprising souls with a little patience can automate playlists through IFTTT, I used it for years to automatically capture an archive of Release Radar and Discover Weekly.

Still, the sorting has worked.

[tlinn]

Just to make sure I was being clear, you create the playlist once. Mine
is cleverly named “Combined transfer”. Every week I drag the contents of
both Discover Weekly and Release Radar to it. It is a five-second
process. For Release Radar, I get a dialog box asking me if I only want
to add the new ones. I say “yes” to weed out duplicates from between the
playlists. I leave the most recent tracks (~120) in the playlist to
ensure duplicates are recognized. Otherwise, I either delete tracks as I
listen to them or I add them to a permanent playlist.

[Leah96]

Wow, I just looked this up. Maybe I'm late to the game, but I never heard of the whole thing. I will have to look into this further. Thanks!

[lithium_1]

Same issue with me. This is so frustrating 😞

[vectorfuton]

Feel the frustration here too. At least I'm not the only one! So annoying to try and guess and remember what I've alreadt heard and what I haven't, or if there's new stuff on RR that gets missed with initial upload. Please just make it work like how it used to, Spotify!

[prism_t2]

This is really annoying, I thought I was going mad because I had already heard certain songs...

In terms of a workaround you can copy the entire list to a new playlist the first time you open it and just play that as it won't change. Still annoying though!

[albertpassos]

This is so annoying!! I lost the pleasure of listening to the playlist! They need to fix it.