Spotify - anyone heard of it?

This thread reads like my parents are posting.

The radio app has promise tho I'm not sold yet.

lol what did you think Spotify's app would do?

Excellent question! I didn't really think about it.

spotify is being a right bastard this morning with connectivity issues in the uk.

when will there be spotify for comix?

MDCU.

no herge or barks iirc

it's a start at least.

not on ipad it's not

dont have a premium account but have had spotify on for 2 hours and have not had a single ad

holiday weekend promotion?

Still figuring out the art of the playlist. Right now my playlists pretty much stick to one style of music. Making one out of a mix of styles takes a lot more work. I have one (unpublished" of all new wave albums I could find that I haven't heard enough...but I like mixing it up with old doo wop and soul...so now I have to combine playlists...making about three days of music.

I'm getting lazy about doing a queue and just put the playlist on.

Oh wait, I am a dummy. If you start playing your playlist, your queue will use that as a default. Then you can pick out other tracks and throw them in your queue.

Wow, their FAQ sucks, though. You have to learn by using it pretty much.

There's still a mix of things I like and things I hate, but the thing I like a lot lately is that when you thumbs-up a song on the reasonably interesting Spotify radio, it gets sent to a playlist of songs you've thumbs-upped. That's really cool. I didn't even realize it was happening at first. Probably should have read the instructions...

On the iPhone/iPad app, I'm forever being rolled back to what must be a months-old backup of my playlist directory (maybe it's even a year old). The app then re-loads all the updates that have been made since then. This can take several minutes, which is annoying, as none of the current offline playlists are present on the backup...

...apart from "Starred", which is always immediately available and fully up to date. N.B. "Starred" has become a favourite feature: its a tidy way of maintaining a rolling "A-list"/"heavy rotation" playlist.

Weird, that hasn't been an issue on the Android app and I'd have expected the iPhone one to be more advanced, unless Apple are being dicks about it which is entirely possible.

So you can't get the app for iOS 4 anymore.

this new droid app interface is so confusing.. and it doesnt download songs anymore. it says "0% downloaded" next to anything recently selected for offline. what am i doing wrong?

NO I DON'T WANT TO AUTOSUBSCRIBE TO YOUR STUPID PLAYLISTS

Dunno if this will only happen in the UK but check out the 1st album listed when you go to the Public Enemy page http://open.spotify.com/artist/6Mo9PoU6svvhgEum7wh2Nd

Can't login on to Spotify uk. Says check my firewall settings, but they're fine. Anyone else having issues?

fine here

It'd been weird on-and-off for the last couple of weeks now. spotify admin seem to be aware of it, so I guess it's just a case of hunkering down.

Still no joy :-( Looks like I'm not the only one with issues https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/keeps-on-going-offline-Error-Code-102-112-117-etc/td-p/109089

spotify needs some kind of library feature (not just local library), smart playlists, and a way to tell you when an album you have in your playlists has been removed from the site.

i want to make a serious run at using spotify exclusively for playing music on my computer, but i'm so worried that it'll just close shop one day and like 10 years of music listening will be lost and i'll have to reconstitute my entire collection

yep, that'll certainly happen

i'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not... they've already removed albums when publishers stopped contracting w/ them

No, i'm being serious! Just saying it comes with the territory.

Mordy, you should just do it. It probably makes sense to redo your collection every 10 years anyway.

^this is kinda what i'm getting at

Long before spotify disappears there will surely be some new music app that you'll be even more excited about anyway. There's no reason to assume that any solution will be perfect for you forever.

I have so many playlists it would be nice to organize them by style so I or anyone else could browse them more easily.

yeah it needs playlist folders. and the social tools are just execrable

yet i use it all the time anyway \o/

Spotify will be sold rather than fold, even if its business model doesn't work out some internet behemoth will buy them out.

You can make playlist folders.

any way to set it to warn you when you're adding something to a playlist already in that playlist?

Don't think so.

Andy really?? haha i guess i should do that then

The business model might not last but the design and the way the program works will. Spotify is kind of a killer app IMHO... I hardly ever use iTunes anymore, for instance.

As with Windows Media Player, the darker color goes with the music experience better. I still use itunes from time to time, but in retrospect it seems designed with the office in mind. Clearly Spotify is ace for parties!

yeah, my last house party was dj'ed by spotify. i just had a really big playlist set to random and a trippy screensaver running at the same time.

When you download playlists to your phone on the Android app do the files just sit there regardless of whether or not you delete the playlist? I downloaded a playlist ages ago, deleted it, then downloaded it again and it was immediately there. Must be taking up a vast amount of disk space.

yeah does that with iphone too (sometimes) last time i checked the solution was to reinstall the app

due to new laptop i'm finally switching over completely to spotify. that mostly consists of checking all the albums in my collection (super arduous time consuming process, so i'm going genre by genre when i have some free time) to see if they're on spotify. if they are, i'm moving them into a genre playlist to replicate the system i had on itunes. if not, i'm copying them onto dropbox to move over to my new computer. some questions tho:

what's the best way to backup stuff from spotify? for example, if spotify already has an album, i don't want to waste time/space/etc moving it over to my new computer. i will back it all up, of course (and all my music is backed up multiple times already). but can i make html/text file backups so that if spotify ever removes an album from the service i can tell that it's gone? will i know if they remove an album or will it just disappear from my playlists?

i know this may seem super ocd but c'mon, it's ilm. surely other ppl have thought seriously about how to organize/reference/backup their digital music collections?

I haven't

you'll be happy to know that i have an entire playlist of just folk metal

your poor wife

Mordy, why don't you want to import your iTunes playlists and the mp3s that go with them into Spotify?

Bc I never really arranged my iTunes by playlist - I had a couple that I did import but primarily listed music by genre, artist, & year