30 Album Songs
Berenice Pretlow
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Hi, the issue I've been having with trying to play one particular album is that it often plays these random Indian songs instead of the album I want to listen to. This wasn't an issue before I stopped using Premium but has become much worse over time. It isn't the same thing as getting to the end of the album's songs and then it playing similar ones because 1) The songs are completely different to the album and 2) It plays them far before the album is over, even sometimes when I press play, those songs are first before any of the actual album. I don't know if this is an intentional feature to try and annoy people to pay for premium but there seems to be no other people talking about this specific issue.
Playlist should have around 50 songs (Minimum sometimes more I recommend getting up to 100) and 4-6 albums minimum so that Spotify doesn't turn your playlist or album into a radio playlist and automatically add new suggested tracks. I've been on free for years.
If you don't like this, I suggest 5 other options. Any one of these options will allow you to select individual songs rather than shuffle mode only (shuffle mode on free accounts is an intentional limitation of the Mobile app by Spotify developers):
@ColeGateNB Yes create multiple playlists if needed with different moods, genres or themes and get creative using the above techniques I mentioned. For Example: If you like a certain artist-1 and you like a whole bunch of their albums but they also are similar sound to another artist-2 maybe create playlist with just the single artist if you have enough tracks/albums you like or mix it up with the other one that sounds similar in style or mood.
This should make free account way more enjoyable going forward. That's what I've been doing for years, and it helped me really enjoy the free features after understanding the techniques mentioned. Ironicly it's a limitation that sparked fun creativity with the playlists.
The only other Free with ads Rival is YouTube Music which allows you to pick any song but it comes with big negative that you can't close the app and multitask or run the app in background or in lock screen. So YouTube Music not ideal for use beyond a quick listen to an individual track or two.
Hello, I just uploaded an album and I wanted to play all the songs in order on my iphone but it won't stop shuffling the songs. No matter what I do, it plays the album in shuffle mode. How do I turn it off on my iphone?
Select a song to play, select that song again via the bottom bar that contains the pause/next controls. That should expand your currently playing song to fill your entire screen revealing further controls.
I figured it out!!!! Yay! I clicked on the number in front of the first song on the album a few times until a bar above the song list popped up with both the icons for continuous and shuffle popped up. I clicked on the shuffle icon until it went gray and clicked on the continuous icon till it was orange. YAY!!! It works.
Glad you were able to figure it out. For future reference, this forum is for questions from people managing sites on iTunes U, Apple's service for colleges and universities to post educational material in the iTunes Store. Normally you will get the quickest and most applicable responses if you ask your questions in the general iTunes or iPhone forums.
After purchasing a couple tracks from one album, I decided to also purchase another track that comes earlier in the album's number order than the other two. However, after downloading, I noticed this.
For absolutely no reason whatsoever, the tracklisting is out of order. Now, i've seen problems similar to this before in previous versions. However, this one is unique in that attempting to change the the track or CD number via the info box does nothing. I've encountered a very, very similar problem not too long ago with another album.
I purchased a track ("Ready to Start") from one version of the album, and then purchased the rest of the tracks from the other version (the Deluxe Edition). I tried to fuse them together, only for the one track to go out of order. Even after multiple attempts to change the track and CD number, as well as just deleting and redownloading the entire album (which costed me a digital booklet that I can't redownload; thanks alot, Apple), it was still like this.
The strange part is that the tracklisting is perfect when the album is shown on my iPhone, so I don't understand what's going on with this. It's extremely frustrating. Any suggestions or possible solutions?
So I'm having a similar issue; an album's tracks are showing as 1-2-3-5-4 in Album view; I checked them in Song view and each track is tagged with the correct track number and all tracks are part of the same disc. When I sort the tracks by track number, everything is in the correct order, but when I sort by album, or return to Album view, they revert to the incorrect song order.
I checked the actual song files and they're showing in the correct order in the folder (and include the track number in the file name)--the issue only seems to be with the Album view. I've even tried deleting and re-adding the album, but it keeps showing as 1-2-3-5-4.
Is it possible that there's an issue with the files themselves, or is there anything that can be done at that level to get them sorting in Album view properly? As far as I know this is the only album in my library that's having this problem, and it's really causing my OCD to flare up.
As above check the disc number field. you may need to switch this on in the Songs view if it isn't already shown. Check also that Sort Album, Sort Artist, Sort Album Artist & part of a compilation are used in a consistent fashion. Full details in link given earlier.
I recently did a clean reinstall of the Spotify app because it was crashing randomly during playback. Now I have the problem that every album I try to view appears to be empty, showing no songs. This does not affect the display of songs in playlist, and it does not affect the display of the top songs on any artist's page.
If that doesn't do the trick and you have an SD card we suggest that you uninstall the app > turn off your phone > take out your SD card > turn on the phone again (without the SD card) > reinstall the app since the card can be corrupted.
To keep investigating your case, would you mind confirming if you've followed the steps mentioned above by @Jeremy? This will give us a better picture about what you've tried so far to avoid repeating processes.
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Thanks for reaching out. At Spotify, we're often testing new features and improvements, that's why you may have something in the app that other users don't or vice versa, or have a feature to try temporarily. In this case, we suggest to keep the app always updated so you don't miss out on any new features and improvements.
For the time being, the best way to like all songs in an album is to highlight all songs using Ctrl+A or by Ctrl+clicking multiple tracks, then right clicking and selecting "Save to your Liked Songs". For the time being, this only possible on the desktop app.
tbh, this is a feature - for years I was endlessly frustrated by a "Liked Album" assuming that I want to add every song within the album to my "Liked Songs" playlist. that was my biggest gripe with spotify. Many albums have at least one absolutely trash song (loving the beatles doesn't mean you ever want to shuffle your "Favorite Songs Playlist" and land on Revolution 9)... or even just songs that are fine, but don't resonate with me enough to add to my personal collection of Liked Songs
I reserve Liked Songs to those individual pieces that have moved me, and that I would recommend to others. I save albums because I like them as a piece of work, not because every ingredient is perfect, and I also save albums that I want to listen to in the future or were recommended (in which case, I have no idea if I like those songs or not).
I think having it so you can manually add songs that you like (even if it's the whole album) to your liked songs playlist is a great compromise, so both sides can have it their way. But before, it didn't give you a choice, and I am still cleaning mediocre songs from my Liked Songs playlist daily because of this, and skipping almost 50% of songs on shuffle because it's one of a 40 songs in a live album i saved back in 2016. #2cents
Many of my CDs Bluesound does not recognize. It's crazy..some that are million album sellers. How do go in and manually add the artist name/album/songs so they can be in the catalog instead of the vast tab that says "Unknown Artists!"???
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