Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

(UK) Students get a 50% discount on premium

-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

are you people mac users or something

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

ipad app looks real good honestly

They've finally released an iPad app?

*updates app*

Oh wow!

Is there an anti Spotify backlash forming? Why exactly?

artists don't really get paid

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

I think that can be arranged.

again that would mean listening to arab strap

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't be afraid of intimacy!

Bob Dylan has heard of it.

Because his stuff came and went and came back again?

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

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.

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.

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?

Obvious answer: go alone.

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

stranger things have happened

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.

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

point is they don't stay strangers for long, and I have someone to talk with about a shared musical interest before and after the show.

i've never been a good loner, but i do often go to concerts alone and have learned over the years to like it. If I go with friends, I wind up talking with my friends, but if I go alone, I strike up or join conversations with anyone that seems interesting and meet new people (tactfully of course - I do realize not everyone is up for gab). Striking up conversations is especially easy since we start out with at least one obvious common interest.

Going for a four billion evaluation.

So Spotify has launched in Australia and New Zealand...

how does Rdio compare?

Is there a way for me to use this that doesn't involve me broadcasting what I'm listening to on Facebook?

Yeah, you can turn that off.

Rdio seems to basically Spotify but running in the browser instead of its own app (there's also a mobile app apparently that you get with your 9.99/month sub)

In the UK at least Rdio pretty much sucks. You're rpesented with a big homepage of music, 2/3 of which is greyed out because not available here. I can understand not having the rights, but if you can figure out that you don't have the rights, why can't you figure out not to display the music?

[Originally posted this in wrong thread...]

In Australia: Well fuck, was all prepped to hate Spotify, and have no FB acct, but made a fake one and am already hooked, looking a better PC speakers

Rdio seems to basically Spotify but running in the browser instead of its own app

yep I think that is the main difference. I know some people who use it over Spotify for that reason (i.e. can't install the Spotify software on a work computer but can open a browser and listen to Rdio no problem)

Is there a way for me to use this that doesn't involve me broadcasting what I'm listening to on Facebook?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, May 21, 2012 8:49 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

if you're using the same version as me, go to the File menu and click 'Private Session' -- of course you have to do this every single time you turn on Spotify/your computer, or else it just defaults to public mode. i hate it too, and always forget to make it private until someone leaves an obnoxious comment about what i'm listening to on FB.

Huh, in mine I can just go to preferences and uncheck "Show what I listen to on Facebook" and it stays like that forever.

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

seems like a lot of labels have done this, some of the ones I lamented disappearing upthread are back (rvng, sacred bones)

still no drag city though

can't you just remove the Spotify app from your Facebook account?