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jakubito / spotify-release-list

📅 Display list of Spotify releases from artists you follow
https://spotifyreleaselist.netlify.app
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Track didn't appear despite being released #2

Closed KatyLB closed 4 years ago

KatyLB commented 4 years ago

So, I'm not sure if this is a bug, but because the list is supposed to catch everything I'm going to report it anyway.

Today The Strokes released a new song called Bad Decisions. It's on Spotify here. I follow them, but it didn't appear on the list for today, despite refreshing. For some reason it didn't catch it.

jakubito commented 4 years ago

Hi @KatyLB,

Thank you for the bug report. I just tried following The Strokes, refreshing the list and it shows up correctly. Can you please try again and see if the issue still exist?

I think the problem is on Spotify end - there are times when Spotify endpoints return an error for no reason. It's pretty rare and the error lasts only for a few minutes, but it can happen.

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KatyLB commented 4 years ago

I tried again, and it still isn't showing. I tried unfollowing and following as well.

KatyLB commented 4 years ago

Actually, now it is showing. Not sure if unfollowing/refollowing is what helped (which wouldn't be useful for tracking) or if it just showed eventually. It took two refreshes to appear, though...

jakubito commented 4 years ago

Good to know it's showing up now. I think unfollowing/refollowing does not have any impact and this issue is related to https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/1311

The way it's working now is actually intended - when Spotify fails to return data for specific artist, the app suppresses the error and shows the rest of data.

I believe this is Spotify Web API bug and there's not much I can do here @KatyLB 😕