New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on December 07, 2021) follows:
If you an audiophile, you must have definitely heard of Spotify. The popular audio streaming service is used by millions worldwide and has more than 158 million premium subscribers.
With more than 70 million tracks, Spotify generated a revenue of more than 2.5 billion euros thank to Spotify developers continuously working on bringing in new features.
But sometimes these updates break some functionalities such as the recent issue where the shuffle function was broken and was playing the same songs over and over.
Having said that, Spotify subscribers are now reporting (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) that whenever they ask voice assistants like Siri and Google Assistant to play Daily mix, Release Radar, or Discover Weekly, the app plays albums or songs instead of their playlists.
This is really annoying for those who use voice commands on a daily basis to listen to their playlists using voice commands. Interestingly, Spotify had claimed that they had fixed the issue a while ago, but users suggest otherwise.
Moreover, some artists and creators seem to be aware of the exploit and are now renaming their content after the same names that feature on Spotify, among them ‘Discover weekly’ and ‘Release radar’, in order to get played by voice assistants who can’t exactly tell the difference.
But with Spotify yet to comment on the matter, it looks like users will have to wait for a while before the Daily mix issue with voice commands is fixed.
Nonetheless, we will be keeping an active track of further developments on the topic and update this space as and when required.
Update 1 (December 16)
04:29 pm (IST): Some users are now reporting that the daily mix using voice commands is working for them as it should. So, it seems that the issue is now fixed, however, there is no confirmation if its resolved for everyone.
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