Spotify Radio

[Theravenofyore]

so what the hell happened to spotify radio? I loved the feature of making a playlist in to a radio staion and just having it play and play and play. No formed playlist that end when they're done. I mean what's the point of listen to anything on spotify radio? I used it to find new music and it was awesome... now it sucks. can we go back to it being awesome?

[MattSuda]

Are you using the desktop app?

This is the new format. Now you can actually see what is coming up like a play queue. Makes it more usable.

It works the same as before, just the look of it is different. You can also now follow stations and they will show up under the "stations" section of your library. 

As the songs play, more songs will show up on the list and you can double click on songs you want to skip to.

The thumbs up and thumbs down have moved to the bottom right corner of the desktop app.

[ledrobster]

I appreciate your reply but it does *not* work as it did before with a facelift.

Radio now has a limited amount of songs (each of my top three has 15 songs, so I'm guessing that's a fixed value) for a total of about 45 minutes of music.  On each of the top three, the 15 song playlist has repeated groups of the same artist. (For example, my Sleater-Kinney has multiple songs from S-K, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, and The Pixies.)

Once those 15 songs are done, the radio is done.

Skipping tracks only brings you to the end faster.

Thumbs down appears to do nothing.  I thumbs downed 3 tracks by the same artist, yet he keeps appearing in that radio.

The experience now is a infomercial by the same three bands that ends and leaves you having to scramble to find something else.