Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (12458 of them)

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

yeah, that is annoying. my workaround for mobile is sending my playlist to a new temporary one, clearing the original playlist, sorting the temp one by artist, then sending everything in the temp playlist back into the original one. a 'sort by artist' option on mobile would eliminate the need for me to do this weird stuff.

original bgm, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

Scotland's post-rock heavyweights weigh in

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@jetfury No, just realistic – I don't see that there's any way to beat it, and Pirate Bay are just this week's scapegoats.

stuart braithwaite ‏ @plasmatron
@AidanJohnMoffat @jetfury if you opened up a shop selling photocopies of all books on the best seller list you'd get the jail.

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@plasmatron @jetfury The Pirate Bay isn't a shop.

stuart braithwaite ‏ @plasmatron
@AidanJohnMoffat @jetfury I know. at least they are honest about their pirate status. Spotify are worse with their fake respectability

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@plasmatron @jetfury Aye, I'd honestly rather folk just stole my stuff than use Spotify.

Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 4 May 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link

i'd listen to arab strab on spotify now to spite him but then i'd have to listen to arab strap

thomp, Friday, 4 May 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link

Lisetn to this instead http://open.spotify.com/track/3hFEsMMCUCMZwZN6nZh8E2

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 4 May 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link

ipad app looks real good honestly

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link

They've finally released an iPad app?

*updates app*

Oh wow!

mike t-diva, Friday, 4 May 2012 13:04 (twelve years ago) link

Is there an anti Spotify backlash forming? Why exactly?

Moodles, Friday, 4 May 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link

artists don't really get paid

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link

Aye, I'd honestly rather folk just stole my stuff than use Spotify.

I think that can be arranged.

Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link

again that would mean listening to arab strap

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link

i take the logic of spotify as being 'we should accept that people now expect music to be free and on-demand, and making it not so will actually make them less likely to go and buy records by artists they enjoy, or to see them tour'

i'm not sure it's good logic

thomp, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like the labels are more to blame here if they are letting Spotify use their music on economic terms that are not in their favor.

Moodles, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

"making something free will not stop people buying it" is slightly flawed logic imo

Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

there's something of a - > ??? - > PROFIT issue, yes

thomp, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link

Moodles OTM, if you feel Spotify isn't returning value, renegotiate your contract.

Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

oh dear
http://www.fellody.com/

matchmaking app for spotify. it supposedly matches up people in your area who have similar taste.

no thanks i dont want big hairy bearded spotify users contacting me! male or female

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 14 May 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link

Don't be afraid of intimacy!

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link

Bob Dylan has heard of it.

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link

Because his stuff came and went and came back again?

Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link

Well, until tonight it'd been gone since I had Spotify...

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link

I always thought he was gone, so thanks for the tip. But brief glance at intranetz seems to say he came back in the beginning of February.

Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah hadn't checked yet. One of the things that's hilarious is that not only are all his Columbia records on it -- so are all the budget three-packs and the like.

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link

Loving the great compilations on here...stuff that might cost $28 at Tower back in the day.

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

oh dear
http://www.fellody.com/

matchmaking app for spotify. it supposedly matches up people in your area who have similar taste.

no thanks i dont want big hairy bearded spotify users contacting me! male or female

Fellody bills itself as a means for finding people to meet up with for concerts, not merely a dating app. That actually would be quite useful for people like me who find themselves frequently going to live performances alone because my eclectic musical tastes dictate a low likelihood of having friends who want to see a band they've never heard of (or don't like).

This must be an issue for lots of us. If you want to see a live show by an obscure band that your spouse/friends/others don't want to pay to see, do you call around (or look online) for someone to go with, or do you just go alone? If the former, what means do you use to find someone? Online forums? Facebook et al.? Music websites? Blogs? Send a group text to your friends?

Lee626, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

Obvious answer: go alone.

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

go with a stranger to stand next to a bunch of strangers? what's the point?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 May 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link

stranger things have happened

Djibril Citté (onimo), Monday, 21 May 2012 09:58 (twelve years ago) link

a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet... (sorry)

anyway, last.fm does something similar over here - will list people attending events and even recommend people from your friends who might like to attend based on their playlists.

koogs, Monday, 21 May 2012 10:18 (twelve years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.