We wish the playlist were much longer, providing the same treatment to many more faves. Our account features 12 artists spread across 52 tracks, which gives an indication of depth. “Your Artists Revealed” –This is an exploration of each user’s most beloved artists, offering more tracks and, of special note, podcast episodes which interview some of those artists. There are two of them included in Wrapped 2021: The playlists, which should work normally for all Premium subscribers, offer an entertaining reminiscence of each user’s audio passion points. Most complaints we have seen report the crash happening early in the presentation, when the app stalls and closes. The rest of the Wrapped experience is presented as a “Story,” which is a multi-segment animated video presentation, available only in the mobile apps (iOS and Android). They are the only part of this which works for everyone. The personal playlists work fine they are presented just like Spotify’s many other AI-created user lists. Spotify 2021 Wrapped is in three parts: personalized playlists, personal listening statistics, and global statistics. Why isn’t the info available in non-video format, such as a web page that any user can sign into? For a company which aspires to be the global leader in online audio, presenting a beloved annual feature with technical elitism - especially after a good deal of promotional noise leading up to the release - is a bad look for Spotify. But as an editorial aside, we must raise a critical eyebrow toward Spotify for making those requirements, and not offering a different path to the personal metrics that the most avid users are keen to see. We’ve put the technical requirements at the bottom of this post.

The result is a wave of social media complaints that the Wrapped experience crashes quickly, and closes the Spotify app. Unfortunately, the package is available only in the mobile app, and the video presentation requires memory and operating system resources that are unavailable on some phones. Well, not for everyone.Īfter weeks of anticipatory promotion, Spotify unleashed its annual “Wrapped” feature yesterday.

Spotify for artists wrapped 2018