Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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Even if it did close something would surely replace it, it has upped the stakes in music consumption. I buy mp3s of stuff I really like just in case, and so I can have something to travel with.

wish this shit weren't so buggy

boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 April 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

mordy do you subscribe?

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forks i dont find spotify buggy at all. It's never crashed on me. What bugs do you have?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 13 April 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link

i subscribe so that i have offline access on all mobile devices. essential feature imho.

Mordy, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link

it hitches up badly on me at work but i suppose that's mostly bandwidth
at home, every time i search anything it freezes for about ten seconds. started doing that some time ago. no idea why.

boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link

btw, if ppl don't already know, the Classify app mentioned in that wall st jr article above is killer app for listening to classical music (which is otherwise kinda hard to search for)

Mordy, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link

huge soundrop update today.

I'm Inge, the CEO and Co-Founder of Soundrop. If you're receiving this email, you are a registered user of Soundrop in Spotify. On behalf of the entire Soundrop team, I want to thank you for joining our community.

The team has been very busy over the past few weeks getting ready for a major update to Soundrop. We're very excited for this new version and wanted to share the news with you personally. It has some important improvements to the overall experience of using Soundrop. We think you'll really like it.

Here's what we've done:

- We fixed the "track not available in your region" issue. Instead of doing what Depeche Mode recommends and enjoying the silence, we now pick another track from the upcoming list to play during the time when the other, non-available track is playing. We do our best to make sure the substituted track is close to the same length.

- We greatly improved how you create and control your room. When you open a room, you can designate it as either "open", which means everyone can add tracks, or "curated" which means people can only vote. You control the tracks. You can also customize your room with own picture and room name, and you can tag it so others can easily find it.

- Speaking of finding rooms. You can also make your room discoverable by any Soundrop user. If you want to search for rooms, simply use the search field on the main Soundrop lobby to find rooms by name or tag.

- We improved the chat. You can now resize the chat area and also ignore users.

We've made a number of other improvements--some small and some big. You'll see it immediately if you get started. Look for a version number starting 1.6 in the lower right-hand corner. If you don't see it, restart Spotify. That should do the trick.

I have now created a room for ilxors

ILXOR ROOM on SPOTIFY/SOUNDROP. It's a permanent link too. Come add songs and listen

Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link

This shit needs to work on mobile.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link

it does on iphone. Android app to come apparently.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link

I tried it out on my ipod touch and it froze a lot so I gave up on it

Moodles, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link

There's already an Android app for Spotify, works fine for me.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

The Android app. for Spotify is completely broken. It's a "known issue" with no timeline for addressing it. I downgraded my subscription due to this.

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Fair enough. I've got in on my mobile and a tablet and works fine on both.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

There's a Goth room now http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1GKFiSg2FOT9c2r

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

And another more ILM Goth friendly http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1NHgDXLKS4AnTjE

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link

80s pop metal ezsnappin/johnny fever friendly room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1GYFWKEy7m42hS1

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/onelistener.jpg

So sad....I love these rooms but in many of them I drop a few tracks and leave.

it does on iphone. Android app to come apparently.

I mean the Soundrop stuff. The regular mobile app is great.

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link

So was I . Soundrop app is available for iphone. Android app will come say the developers.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link

Permanent link http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16fTbbsgjzuGhsN

You can subscribe to the room too I think. So please everyone come check it out!


How do you open/subscribe to this room in the mobile version?

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link

I dont know. I dont have an iphone.

btw spotify is launching a new android version http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2012/04/19/new-android-preview/

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 19 April 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link

I just downloaded this and it works perfectly so far, about 5 minutes of playing with it. A much needed improvement!

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link

hurrah!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

just grabbed it as well. it can't really be much worse than the previous version! that thing crashed if i did ANYTHING.

looking fwd to playing around w this...

original bgm, Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link

I think I've already complained about this, but I've been playing around with it a bunch the past couple of days to find a fix and haven't been very successful. There are a bunch of local files that I have that are on one of my offline lists. No matter how many times I sync that offline list, it pulls the songs from the Spotify library instead of from my local files. I can't seem to figure out a way to force it to use the local files instead.

Moodles, Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

have you done the "unlink track" thing on them (select track, right-click, choose "Unlink Track")? so far i've only done it when i want my meta-data to show instead of theirs, so i'm not sure if it would solve this problem.

supreme sundae (reddening), Sunday, 29 April 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link

Does that unlink the track from the spotify library or from my file directory?

Moodles, Sunday, 29 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

I really like spotify, it has become my my method of listening to music. But I feel out of control with it, I need a better and easier way to organize everything. I feel overwhelmed with all the music I want to listen to. Here's my wishlist:

-Put the damned playlists in alphabetical order. I create a folder for new albums and I have to manually drag and drop them in alphabetical order. This is insane, I should just be able to drop a playlist in the folder and it is automatically sorted. Who the fuck wants a folder of playlists to be in a random goddamned order?

-Smart playlists. Knock iTunes all you want, but smart playlists was a beautiful feature. I want playlists from songs I've added to my library in the last x-amount of time. Playlists based on playcount/last time listened/year/genre/etc. Can't live my life this way.

-Family pro account. Stupid that I have to pay for two pro accounts.

Jeff, Monday, 30 April 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link

Another thing missing from Spotify that I really like in itunes and ipods is the ability to browse through your music in a number of different ways. I'd love to be able to go to an artist menu that spans all of my playlists and then pull up a specific album to listen to.

Moodles, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link

put Spotify on my desktop 5 months ago, there it stays despite my not being able to operate it.

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link

"fire up the Spotify, Bertha, i'm goin in"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link

weird that the version of Tori Amos's Boys For Pele on US Spotify is the UK version w/ different tracklist

some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

When will the desktop app finally be compatible with Apple AirPlay??!

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link

some dude it's "weird" only if you imagine Spotify have their shit together

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link

This new app update is buggy. The skipping has returned. Drives me bananas.

Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link

album artwork seems to be gone in offline mode, otoh I'm glad they added gapless and crossfade

Moodles, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link

baaderonixx, you know you can get Airfoil and send any app's audio to AirPlay right? Does cost $ ...

hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

Spotify + last.fm app + 9 years of my listening data is out of control

hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

some dude it's "weird" only if you imagine Spotify have their shit together

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

eh i use spotify constantly and haven't noticed anything like that before that wasn't easily explained.

Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

it's easily explained by the notion that someone has fucked up which is not too surprising given the number of plates they must be attempting to keep spinning at any given moment

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

well, i haven't seen a lot of examples of human error, usually it's something like tracks/albums being held back for legal reasons, track lengths, etc. if different countries' versions of albums being available in the wrong territory is commonplace, sorry i brought it up, it just caught my eye.

Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

they should figure out how to tally the all time listens for individual users. i wanna see mine. i look forward to my weekly ones, even though i know theyre not that accurate.

billstevejim, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

I want a "delete queue" button. I'm tired of having to delete each individual track on a queue of tunes I may have wanted twenty minutes ago.

kraudive, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

You can just highlight the first and last song in the queue you want to delete, or do you mean something different?

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.spotify.com/uk/nus/

(UK) Students get a 50% discount on premium

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

-Put the damned playlists in alphabetical order. I create a folder for new albums and I have to manually drag and drop them in alphabetical order. This is insane, I should just be able to drop a playlist in the folder and it is automatically sorted. Who the fuck wants a folder of playlists to be in a random goddamned order?

click the 'track' header to sort by track name in alphabetical order, 'album' by album in same

I want a "delete queue" button. I'm tired of having to delete each individual track on a queue of tunes I may have wanted twenty minutes ago.

highlight first track, hold shift, click last track, all the tracks now highlighted, now hit delete

thomp, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link

are you people mac users or something

thomp, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link

there should still really be a "clear queue" button - also there's no way to delete the placeholder tracks that spotify adds in at the bottom of your queue in case you run out of songs, which is very annoying - you can't even delete them manually

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link

Yes, I am on a mac, and sort of see what you are saying, but I don't think that's what I'm looking for. For example I keep a folder called Archived and I drag playlists in there. They don't automatically sort alphabetically, they just go in whatever order you put them in there. You have to go in there and manually drag them till they are in order.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/7140175351_1cc1696036.jpg

Because when I look at them on mobile, they are in the same order they are in the desktop app. Fine if you have a few, but if you playlists for tons of albums, it's hard to sort through.

Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link


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