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Spotify quietly limits Release Radar playlist to 30 tracks from 200, tries to convince users that's how it always was (community.spotify.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have used Spotify for years, in spite of the fact that they pay artists terribly - the reason for this was that out of all the streaming services, they had the largest and most complete weekly playlist of new releases.

Having a new release playlist like this is quite important for DJs (or people who curate popular playlists... or people who just like music). I searched online and found that people have made posts on reddit stating that their new release playlists have also been severely limited.

After going to the Spotify forums, I came upon the bullshit I have linked, in which a Spotify employee tells everyone complaining that the playlist has always been limited to 30 tracks, and if anyone received more it was a temporary glitch (despite people providing evidence of having 200 tracks for 5+ years), or was caused by external factors (??? lol).

Personally I hate it when companies do things like this. I am not sure whether they are trying to get their power users to quit, or if they truly believe that they can get away with lying so blatantly.

I have decided that I will no longer be supporting them. Figured I would share in case anyone needs to make a decision regarding which service to go with.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When was it ever 200? Mine is always around 50-60 tracks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don’t think mine was 200 either. Nor is/was discover weekly. And I have used both for years now for the purpose the post says, seeking new music for djing/playlists.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a bug that quietly inflated a certain percentage of playlists.

I think I’d like larger playlists for both playlists though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Allegedly it was related to the number of artists you were following

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Damn. They need to revert this change. I don’t get why they would have made it.

I’m also sad that everynoise was halted. Spotify, man. Their recommendations are their only strength.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't use it because it inject artists i don't follow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've had good luck with it up until now, besides the occasional cover by a no name artist who pretended that they worked with the original creator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Recently ran into this with an artist that did a cover of a song by a popular band from 40ish years ago and the cover artist had the gal to date their song to earlier than the original so it looked like they were the original when you searched for the song. The only clue to their trickery was to drill down into the individual song credits and the fan that they were a no name artist that self-labelled their genre as 80s rock, like no artist from the actual era would. Spotify will outright refuse to fix any of this bad metadata and tells you to contact their label, as if that will ever work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At some point, I'm beginning to think that Spotify is worse than Youtube music.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I thought my release radar was lighter than usual, I wonder how many of my artists are getting artificially ignored from this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nevermind, Instagram somehow manages to recommend better music in their ads

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Release radar has always been 30 for me. I use the web client and don't have premium though. The web client randomly seems to lack features that the desktop client has so maybe this was one of them?