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Hi, I used to have between 100-200 tracks every friday on release radar, this week I only got 30. It seems it's the 'default' number when you don't follow lots of artists (which is not my case, I follow almost 2000 artists) How can I get back to getting all the new releases ? Thank you !

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.

  • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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    3 months 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?

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

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

    • OwlBoy@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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!

        • OwlBoy@lemmy.world
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          3 months 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.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.