Spotify - anyone heard of it?

definitely

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

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

I still worry about metadata and slowly die inside because I can't change it.

u ppl

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.

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.

well lastfm already failed at the streaming thing and got rid of their radio feature didn't they?

They still have radio.

At least in the US.

i use this to listen to new albums that i don't necessarily want to download -- pretty convenient imo

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

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

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)/

and i play those from time to time

or my neptunes playlist

i use this to listen to new albums that i don't necessarily want to download -- pretty convenient imo

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:19 PM Bookmark

^^^

I wanted to bump some Ryan Leslie the other day and they didn't have him tho. :/

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.

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

yeah making playlists seems like too much work so i just star shit i like

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.

i use this to listen to new albums that i don't necessarily want to download -- pretty convenient imo

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!

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-.

Matt I second that about the comps

yeah playlist sharing is by far the best thing about it for me

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.

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.

xp what is the problem with search functionality?

Also, as someone else said somewhere else, a chat room or something would just about obliterate turntable.fm etc.

xp You can share songs/albums/playlists to Facebook quite easily, though...

just click on 'share' underneath the name of the playlist

xp what is the problem with search functionality?

― 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

Playlists, yes, but individual songs, too? xp

Of all the aggregators for new releases, this is the best one I've found http://spotimy.co.uk/

i use this to listen to new albums that i don't necessarily want to download -- pretty convenient imo

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 ...

xpost Yes, individual songs and albums as well.

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

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.

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

OK, I'm still not seeing how you share individual songs or albums to facebook...

if yr on a mac it looks like u can control click a song and select "share to..." (n.b. i haven't tried to actually share anything)

Aha, yes, that works.

also while a track is playing it's in the lower left below the artwork. little arrow coming out of a box is their Share logo.

it's probably been said here but the Stones section is worth it alone. soooo much.

Why does it keep crashing? I have to keep dragging it to my applications folder. Not sure if it's me o que.

uh i'm an idiot and just now turned on the facebook/social connection stuff. so much fun!

also, the point has been made a million times now, but it is mindboggling to me to think about how i listened to music 15 years ago compared to now. even 10 years ago, i was heavily into the mp3 stuff via audiogalaxy, but this is just...*pukes* holy shit. 2011 has a lot of problems but spotify ain't one

by the way, has anyone heard of Spotify?

i just figured out the social thing too, if that makes you feel better. i also puked with mirth.