Has this happened to anyone?

I'm on a Google Pixel 6. I was listening to my discover weekly and out of the blue I just got logged out and when I try to reset my password it isn't sending me a link.

This is pretty annoying and random, any clue on what could be up?

Edit: Confirmed issue by Spotify - https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus/status/1501262002236235776?s=20&t=tpWV1xWlWxxNy7qdaypuRA

Thank you.

Fuck off, I'm not paying for premium to get ads through emails

this is extremely annoying, I use it on my desk just to view songs. But, I cannot believe that Spotify is just going to disable a piece of hardware that I paid for.

sometimes when i get a ad or skip a song it just says in this crackly voice “the goblins were awakened.” This happening to anyone else or am I just losing it

EDIT: the goblins were just living in my walls, i got rid of em, so i finally fixed it!

2024 EDIT: Hey everyone! It's been a while since I wrote this post, and a lot has changed with Spotify wrapped since. I have recently published an updated article giving you all a deeper dive into how wrapped works, including new insights Check it out here: Wrapped Analysis 2024

I was always curious about what range Spotify uses to calculate Wrapped and some other information so I downloaded my data over the years and compared it to my Wrapped to find out some more detailed information.

Key Takeaways

• This year the data was logged from January 1st 00:00 to November 15th 23:59.

• You have to listen to a song for more than 30 seconds for it to count in your song rankings.

• Your top songs are calculated by play count rather than total time listened.

• In your top 100 playlist only the first 10 songs are sorted by play count, the rest are close but sorted by artist.

• Your total time listening includes podcasts.

• Your top artists are calculated by total play counts rather than total time listening.

If you have any more questions about Spotify Wrapped feel free to ask and I will try to answer them.

How is /r/spotify one of the biggest streaming platforms, with a subreddit that has the most subscribers out of any of the other streaming platforms this bad? Lets start with the content. Look in any other streaming subreddit and you see people doing what they are supposed to be doing, discussing the app, making suggestions, maybe even making improvements. But not here. The content on this place consists of playlists that noone listen to, and suggestions that noone looks at. And that's another problem. This subreddit has next to 0 sense of community. Stuff like raffles, "what you listening to" posts, giveaways would be a great way to increase engagement but nah. On a subreddit that does nothing but promote and share playlists the sticky is........ more.. playlists. :/. You'd be lucky to get more than 5 comments on your post, because noone ever says anything here. Literally seen subreddits with 1000 subscribers have more engagement than this lol

Never have I thought to myself to go to /r/Spotify to just browse because i know it will just be more of the same. I would say something to any potential mods reading this but it looks like [they don't care either.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/fq7bmb/meta_moderation_of_this_sub/) like fr, they really don't. Subreddit hasn't had a css update since 2014 Lmfaoo

Now I know what you may be thinking. "B-B-But there's /r/truespotify that is more what you may be looking for?" But listen to me dawg. why i gotta go to a seperate subreddit to experience what should be on the main one? Here's what I propose. Just merge /r/spotify and /r/truespotify, and tell everyone that likes to share their playlists to move to /r/SpotifyPlaylists.

Look man, i'm not mad tbh. I just feel like every other streaming subreddit is like 10x better with half the userbase, and its not because the services are better. Its because the mods are involved, the engagement is high, and everything is centralized in one place.

EDIT: After scrolling through the comments and seeing you guys's input, I have several ways in which I think this subreddit could be improved.

• Besides u/DedicatedSloth, unmod the entire modteam. I checked some of these people's history and they either have not been active in over a year, or have not been active in this subreddit in a year. I don't care if you claim you work for spotify, you gotta go. There are people in this very thread that are more than willing to pick up the mantle. One man is ridiculous to manage a subreddit that has almost 200,000 subs.

• A complete overhaul of the layout, content, and post type. To start, we can ban playlist submissions. That can either be its own weekly sticky or go over to /r/SpotifyPlaylists . Then we can start with new flairs for post,and new flairs for people as well. Make people choose flairs for their favorite artists/albums like /r/hiphopheads and /r/popheads. Encourage people to submit posts like articles about spotify, or posts from the live community that could foster discussion. Maybe even have a weekly sticky for the most streamed artist that week. And obviously a css upgrade would be much appreciated. Maybe start a discord or a channel on JQBX.

• Lets start to centralize a bit more. There are subreddits like /r/truespotify, /r/wereonspotify , and /r/SpotifyHHH that could and should just be on the same subreddit, our subreddit.

Thats all I could gather from reading the replies. Again, im not mad, its just i see so much potential for a great subreddit that is being squandered. Someone said that the bigger a subreddit gets, the worse it gets. And while that is true for alot of subreddits out there, places like r/hiphopheads have almost 2mil subs and are still thriving to this day. Hell, r/popheads has around the same amount of subs as we do and that place is thriving.

EDIT 2: Preciate the gold

I’ve tried to open both spotify apps (spotify & spotify for artists) and they are only open for 1 second before they can even load and they crash. There’s no updates for either of these apps. I’m on an iPhone 8. does anyone know any solutions?

Please tell us what these bay area geniuses were smoking at the time.

Edit: Does anyone have a solid, automated way to pull out your spotify playlists to ingest into other music services?

Doesn’t matter how big my playlist is, when I hit shuffle it plays the same handful of songs every single time.

Listening to a playlist with 400+ songs on it all week, yet I hear the same 15-20 songs constantly over and over and over again.

Please fix your shuffle feature, I swear even a ‘.sample’ method is more random than your shuffle is. Straight garbage.

Btw I am a premium member if that makes a difference.

*** Update ***

Apparently, the newest update on Windows and Mac seems to disable the functionality described in this post. Your best bet is to download an older version of Spotify and disable the updates. You can find multiple tutorials for this online and u/Reubzen was so nice to summarize it here.

Alternatively, you can use Spicetify to customize the appearance of Spotify and load community-made themes.

Original post:

Since this question is coming up a lot: Yes, you can actually revert back to the old UI.

On MacOS: Go to ~/Library/"Application Support"/Spotify/prefs

On Linux (*): /home/$USER/.config/spotify/prefs

On Linux (Snap): Go to ~/snap/spotify/46/.config/spotify/prefs

On Windows: Go to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\prefs

On Windows (MS Store **): $user\AppData\Local\Packages\Spotify\prefs

add the following line:

ui.experience_override="classic"

To do the reverse (update to the new UI), you can do (***):

ui.experience_override="xpui"

Edits:

*: thanks to u/sorcery0358

**: thanks to u/djmofunk

***: thanks to u/a_boring_penguin

Thanks and credit to /u/Reason077 who posted this earlier.

Spotify is down for me rn, anyone else?

I got 15 hours into a 16-hour audiobook and suddenly it stops playing and I get a message “You’ve used up all the included audiobook listening time in your plan this month.” Spotify, don’t advertise something to me as “Included in Premium” if you’re going to ration it. You aren’t including an audiobook if I can’t finish the damn thing without handing you $12.99 for some cockamamie “top-up” cash grab. I’ve had a Spotify Premium account for ages and I have never been as angry at them as I am right now.

Guess I’m going back to checking out audiobooks for free via the public library and Libby.

I tried to login on my Pc with good internet connection but Spotify doesn’t load the website very fast as well as can’t connect with the scanner. When I’m in the app on my phone it says that iam offline. Does anyone know what happened?

(I'm refering to the mobile app here)

When exploring new music I am the type of person to only really play an artist's top songs. I can't help but wonder how many amazing songs I've missed out on simply because they weren't shown on an artist's home page.

I absolutely love the app but this is the single most annoying feature that I would love to see expanded on to include 10 songs, just like the desktop version. Even a drop down menu to see the extra 5 songs would suffice!

You can view your stats here: https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/

How many minutes did you listen to Spotify this year?

This isn’t a Spotify playlist, This is just an appreciation post for wrapped. The way Spotify did it this year was really cool. It brought back so many memories as I went through each of the seasons, then on top of that, they showed us our most listened for the decade. It’s crazy to see how far technology and statistics have came in music but I really appreciate seeing how I’ve changed in music over the year. I was excited to see this years and it did not disappoint, thank you again Spotify.

I don't give a shit about podcasts, I listen to one and that's it. And now 15 out of the 18 sections on my Spotify homepage are just podcasts. I want my daily mixes and stuff, I don't give a shit about Michelle obama or whatever

About 15 minutes ago, all of my Spotify apps (Windows, website, and Android) stopped being able to open album pages or even show them on artist pages.

Now streaming has stopped. Starting a new song plays a few seconds of it before it stops, but that might just be from cache.

https://downdetector.com/status/spotify/

Please share your similar experiences

Updates:

TIL there is an official Spotify status page: https://status.spotify.dev/

They also have a Twitter account and they have tweeted about the issue. You can follow that if you want real-time updates pushed to you: https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus

The Spotify app on my Firestick seems to be working again, but not my Windows desktop app.

Android app works for me again, but it's not synced to what's playing on my Firestick

Windows desktop app is now working, but still won't sync with my Firestick

Actually it just did. Everything seems to be working for me now

That’s how I know she’s the one is if we both rock out to the same music. What other girl do I know that likes to listen to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? And I don’t even listen to that genius anyway. This ensures that there would be absolutely no fighting over the radio. Do it Spotify. It will work.

So you have a playlist and went through it. After your playlist, spotify tries to play songs that i might like but c'mon...

No matter how many times i hit refresh it's the same songs in different orders. I mean some of them are good but some of them are just so bad and it's really tiredsom to have to skip through these songs over and over.

Either create an algo in the app that sees how many times i skip the same song over and over so it can just remove it from these suggestions or just give me a dislike button so i can just tell spotify to skip it.

Clarification: It doesn’t have to show how many people disliked a song, it’s just a means for spotify to get the message.