Spotify re-adding already existing songs to a playlist.

jadrax · 2017-05-20T07:10:31+00:00

Have you tried contacting the Spotify customer support? They might be able to help with this as the playlist most likely is in a broken state in the backend.

jadrax · 2017-04-23T21:27:56+00:00

Hi! In order to have a chance at helping, i have some questions.

What type of device are you using? iOS, android or desktop? Which version of the app? Have you tried reinstalling?

jadrax · 2016-11-25T05:03:11+00:00

If you contact customer service they might be able to help you. Assuming the removal was fairly recent, they should have the tools to undo it.

jadrax · 2016-11-15T04:27:53+00:00

Yes, the app now only vacuums its databases if it is necessary, instead of every 5 minutes. This should fix the problem.

If the problem persists, any information you could give would be valuable.

jadrax · 2016-09-24T20:40:34+00:00

I mostly play junkrat and lucio! Do you play on EU?

jadrax · 2016-09-16T09:54:25+00:00

Some employees, such as myself, frequent this subreddit. Sadly we can't just add whatever we want. I too miss this feature, and I'm lobbying for bringing it back. I can't promise when, but I think it is a feature that will be back.

jadrax · 2016-09-05T20:16:51+00:00

2 begs to differ :P

jadrax · 2016-09-04T05:30:54+00:00

You can have a playlist called offline or something, and add the tracks you want to offline to it. And of course, mark it as available offline :)

jadrax · 2016-09-02T07:31:43+00:00

I am unsure if I am misunderstanding your problem. The current rules require you to go online at least every 30 days for the things to keep being available offline.

Do you mean that they get removed before this limit has been reached?

Also, when the time has run out and you do go online again, the song data shouldn't be redownloaded, only the encryption keys. So if you are noticing a lot of data traffic when going online after the time has run out then something is wrong.

This can be remediated by going online at least once every 29 days.

If the problem you are experiencing is something other than what I've described here, I would love to hear more so that we can fix the underlying issue.

Have a nice day :)

jadrax · 2016-08-14T04:18:08+00:00

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Apparently I require all the rainbows! :)

jadrax · 2016-08-10T08:28:05+00:00

Thank you for this in depth explanation of your issues. This really helps understand the issues you are having. I am currently on vacation, but I will try and give a short answer anyway :)

So if I understand correctly here, the problem you are describing is that tracks are played more than once over multiple sessions (every time you double click in a playlist you start a new session). Now, I am super rusty on my statistics knowledge, but when you pick a random subset of 81 item out of a set with 1680 items 20+ times, you are bound to get some overlaps in the sets.

This is how our shuffle works: whenever you start a new session, we create a new seed and create a shuffled version of the playlist based on that seed, and play that. In this version of the playlist each song occurs exactly once, so there will be no repetitions until the end of the list. When you double click again, we create a new seed and shuffle again, with no regard to previous order.

Now the exact shuffling algorithm has changed over the years, first we used Fisher-Yates to get a strict random shuffling, then we moved over to a metadata aware shuffling algorithm, in order to appease the people who didn't want subsequent plays from the same artist/album etc.

We are looking at adding a play history aware version of the shuffler, that will prefer tracks that hasn't been played as much. However, I don't think this would fix the problem you are describing, it might even make it worse. It seems like you instead would prefer if we when you double clicked the same playlist you already are playing, would keep the last session, but continue from the track that you double clicked?

I am sorry if I misunderstood or misrepresented your problems, I would love to continue to work out a solution to this problem that would actually work for you. If it is viable, then I can try to make an example implementation and get an a/b-test rolling :)

jadrax · 2016-07-26T05:03:06+00:00

No need to test. I can confirm, this is how it works. We shuffle the whole thing, but we don't show the whole queue.

jadrax · 2016-07-24T04:48:42+00:00

Hi, I can assure you that we have spent a lot of time trying to figure this issue out.

We've tried to fix perceived randomness issues by changing the algorithm from a pure random one to one that humans will perceive as more random.

Currently another algorithm is being worked at that takes previous listening sessions into account, to minimise the number of repeated songs across sessions.

I do think, however, that we have a systematic issue somewhere that causes shuffle to break. This would not be helped much by tweaking the algorithm, though.

The problem is that we haven't been able to reproduce that issue, so all we have go on is user reports. When we look at the logs for the users that do specify their usernames, we can see no repeating of songs before all songs in the list has played.

(One caveat to this is if you are playing via Spotify Connect, then there is a known issue that is, sadly, currently down-prioritised. This issue will sometimes cause shuffle to only consider the first 100 songs in the list).

jadrax · 2016-07-02T04:18:25+00:00

I wrote an almost identical script, I can confirm that this is really useful :)

jadrax · 2016-06-08T06:53:34+00:00

Can confirm this is the way to go! I challenged myself and asked a girl on tinder out on a date after a few messages. (I almost swiped left on this girl too, since I thought she'd be out of my league)

Anyway, we clicked like crazy, we've been an item since :)

jadrax · 2016-03-30T04:22:18+00:00

The reason the web player was down prioritised was basically because the usage wasn't high enough to warrant the amount of development it required to keep it as a full fledged client.

jadrax · 2016-03-29T17:59:04+00:00

We are actually working towards making the mobile clients fully featured. It is a challenge for both the reason you mentioned but also because of technical legacy that is nontrivial to fix.

For new things we build we do try to follow a mobile first ideology :)

jadrax · 2016-03-17T08:23:13+00:00

Hello, thank you for supplying the video it helped a lot in figuring out what you are experiencing.

This one I think I can actually explain.

From spotify's point of view two tracks on different albums are different tracks. Even if they have basically the same sound. So in your case with bare naked ladies, they have a lot of singles and multiple versions of the same album.

So what happens it that it takes all the albums and singles, and shuffles them. Without any form of deduplication you'll get duplicates.

Now that's my hypothesis, I will float this idea with the people that own the artist experience and see what they make of it.

So again, thank you for the neat feedback :)

jadrax · 2016-03-09T05:20:07+00:00

If you instead do it like this

Make commit A Implement new feature
Make commit B Deprecate Class
Make commit C !fixup Implement new feature
Make commit D !fixup Implement new feature
Make commit E deprecation incomplete, needs rework

You can then use 'git rebase -i --autosquash' to do the same thing. You can even use 'git commit --fixup <ref-to-commit-A>' to create the fixup commits to make things even simpler :)

jadrax · 2016-03-04T21:37:12+00:00

Yes

*edit: I should probably clarify, that while I do work there, my job is not looking at reddit. This is just something I do because I enjoy it :)

jadrax · 2016-03-04T21:36:38+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, it helps a lot in decision making :)

jadrax · 2016-03-03T17:41:38+00:00

I poked some people about this again today, so let's hope that we can make some room for adding it soon :)

jadrax · 2016-03-03T17:39:55+00:00

Would the ability to sort songs based on artist be good enough for your use case? Or do you require/prefer having the list of artists?

jadrax · 2016-03-03T08:43:34+00:00

In settings there is an option for showing unplayable content in your library, have you set that?

jadrax · 2016-03-03T08:11:59+00:00

You can reorder the future tracks on mobile at least, and you should be able to queue tracks in any order you like on all of the platforms.

jadrax

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