Tracks submitted weeks ago are being mysteriouly repeated over and over....
OK, I played the equivalent of one Depeche Mode album and one Dears album about four weeks ago.
The strange thing is, some of the tracks I played back then are being submitted repeatedly for some strange reason, and I keep seeing them in my 'recently played'!!
I don't even have the albums on my computer - I played them straight off CD.
This is distorting my profile considerably, as both bands (or at least some of their songs) are at the top of my profile now as 'top'/'most played' - which isn't the case at all!!
Very annoying, as it means that the recommended users function is of little use. They're bands I hardly play at all and yet it looks like I keep playing the same songs over and over......
Anyone else noticing this? Apologies if this has been discussed already, but I just joined this Forum and have to leave for work now!
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks :-)
Thanks for posting about your problem. Our developers have reviewed this item, and think that they know what's going on. It has to do with behavior that occurs when playing music from CDs through MyStrands with Windows Media Player. We're working on a patch release that should fix the problem.
In the meantime, in order to insure that you get correct play counts, we recommend that you rip your CDs to your computer and play them directly from the computer.
We'll keep you posted about when the update is available. Thanks again for posting--this really helps make the product better.
- The MyStrands Team
Besides, I listen to a LOT of music direct from CDs and it's only the two previously mentioned CDs that have played up this way. (Plus I've never had this problem with last.fm.....)
Thanks anyway for looking into this problem :-)
Thanks for checking back, and stay tuned--our release later this June will fix this problem. We'll let you know as soon as it's available.
- The MyStrands team
Thanks for the update--this is a new issue, and we're checking it out.
You can keep submitting--and please let us know if it keeps happening. It would be helpful if you also sent comments to support@musicstrands.com
One thing that makes this lower risk in terms of your music profile is that the next web site release will allow you to delete plays from your music history.
We'll keep you posted as we find out more, and we may request some files or info.
Thanks again
MyStrands Team
Perhaps we could if finding a bad track which is listed elsewhere have a method to point to the correct track/album if MyStrands has it?
I'm also finding that some songs are being submitted as different artists (possibly because MyStrands doesn't have my artist in its database but has another completely unrelated artist that has released a track with the same title...)
I really hope we can delete the artists that have been submitted time and time again as it just doesn't reflect our listening otherwise and we are probably being matched up with other users that we have little in common with.
Thanks :-)
Only bad thing is when a song submits itself AGAIN on the same day, you cannot correct the playcount, you can only delete the whole song (with all the playcount).
But about the thread issue, it's still happening to me and I'm not playing from CDs.
Some other observations I've noticed:
While creating playlists in my WMP11, sometimes songs would start playing accidentally and I'd press the stop button (like 1 second after) but the MyStrands program still sends the info over.
Yet, sometimes I listen to 95% of a song and if I press stop before it ends, MyStrands doesnt submit.