the interface really kinda sucks; there are a bunch of little navigational things that would make it so much easier to use
THIS. Starting with multiple tabs, so I can have one with the currently playing album while I go browsing and searching in others.
Appearance of ads in the free version is very haphazard, and seems to depend on time of day maybe? Last night it seemed like there were ads after every other song, but this morning I listened to a whole album without hearing any.
― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
pretty shitty that you can't play it on two devices at the same time as i found out when i got kicked off this morning while my wife was using it.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Starting with multiple tabs, so I can have one with the currently playing album while I go browsing and searching in others.
You can search all day and click back to "play queue" any time you like.
Tabs would be nice though.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
plus they really need to clean up their "artist" pages, figure out what to do about two artists with the same name, etc.
yeah, not just that but I've seen lots of cases of one artist with multiple slight variations of their name (capitalization or punctuation differences, with or without "The" etc) which is super annoying. And I've seen a bunch of cases where the "related artists" tab doesn't even include side projects or related solo acts.
But my biggest gripe is that they need to let you select multiple playlists so you can put them into a folder all at once. That, and it would be nice if they indented the folders a bit more like itunes does. Even if you organize everything into folders, the playlists still look like just one huge long list.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
listening to incubus, counting ufos, signaling them w/ my ladder tbrr y'all!
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wish u were here
Artist discographies are messy too
I think the best part is the playlist sharing for sure. Not terribly impressed by the rst so far
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
spotify's one of the best services i've ever used imo
yeah playlist sharing is by far the best thing about it for me
― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
definitely
― dmr, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
but being that it's everyone's favorite feature, the fact that you can't search for public playlists except through a third-party website is ... weird
my favorite feature is being able to listen to such a big library of music
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
no need to worry about bitrate or metadata or blah blah whatever it's all just there
yeah playlist sharing is the only reason I haven't deleted this yet
― (oboe interlude) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
I still worry about metadata and slowly die inside because I can't change it.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
u ppl
― markers, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
it would actually be kind of cool if they let you add your own tags to stuff. and maybe you could browse or search by friends tags, etc.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
basically one of these companies needs to buy lastfm and fully integrate it in with the actual music
I'd rather last.fm retooled Spotify than the other way around.
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
well lastfm already failed at the streaming thing and got rid of their radio feature didn't they?
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
They still have radio.
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
At least in the US.
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
i use this to listen to new albums that i don't necessarily want to download -- pretty convenient imo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
i've starred over 2,500 tracks, many of which are things that i used to love to listen to at one time or another -- i can just put it on random & hit play and it's great
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
also, yeah, when i start listening to new music again with any frequency i'll obv use this for that too. but right now it's 4 creed
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
i've never been into playlists much myself -- i keep some for end of year listmaking purposes
i mostly don't have the patience -- actually did them some when i was in school for when ppl came over & shit but right now half of my playlists are shipley's decade lists \(o_O)/
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
and i play those from time to time
or my neptunes playlist
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:19 PM Bookmark
^^^
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted to bump some Ryan Leslie the other day and they didn't have him tho. :/
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really listen to playlists front to back or even shuffled, i just have tons of playlists for organizational purposes... but I mostly just listen to random tracks.
― (oboe interlude) (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
like I'll listen to a full album if I'm the mood for a particular artist, or if it's a new album I'm just getting into, but I'm not one to listen to full albums all day
― (oboe interlude) (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah making playlists seems like too much work so i just star shit i like
― markers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
One of the best things is searching for an artist or producer and having it call up some random compilation you didn't know existed and then listening to it and realising said compilation is full of awesome shit.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this. I trawl for new release albums, and add them to a "new albums unplayed list". (Well, actually, it's just become two lists: a fast-track and a slow-track.)
If I like the album, it gets moved to a "favourite new albums" list. If not, it gets shunted to a "new albums played" list.
Then if I really like the album, I buy it on CD, and move it to a "current albums I own" list.
It's all about self-organisation!
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've hardly used iTunes since I got Spotify - it's great for sampling music I've been curious about but didn't have the drive to acquire and raiding other people's playlists. And then there's the nice feeling I get from it being completely -legal-.
― thinveneer, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Matt I second that about the comps
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
This. Selection is crap and interface/search is either broken or functional but hopelessly obscured and convoluted. But people sending you tracks/playlists - YES PLEASE FOREVER.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Things I'd really like to see: a widget for embedding playlists on web sites (playable by people with accounts who are logged in). And also a similar thing for facebook where you can post songs and people logged in can play them.
― timellison, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp what is the problem with search functionality?
― ledge, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also, as someone else said somewhere else, a chat room or something would just about obliterate turntable.fm etc.
― scotstvo, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
xp You can share songs/albums/playlists to Facebook quite easily, though...
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
just click on 'share' underneath the name of the playlist
― smells like PENGUINS (remy bean), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
― ledge, den 3 augusti 2011 16:47 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
what bothers me the most is that they added all these label and year and genre search functions, but there's still no way to properly browse one label's output or a certain year for that matter
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Playlists, yes, but individual songs, too? xp
― timellison, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Of all the aggregators for new releases, this is the best one I've found http://spotimy.co.uk/
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
otm. also great for an artist who has like 5 records out and I own and really like two of em, to backtrack and hear the others ...
― dmr, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Yes, individual songs and albums as well.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and then if you do the label search, there doesn't seem to be a way to view all of the artists. You just get a limited number of artists listed up top with an ellipse and then a huge list of all of the songs below.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
this five-times rule kind of makes you confront mortality, like, i will only hear frank black's 'abstract plain' four more times in my life, if that
― sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link