Spotify - anyone heard of it?

works fine on 5s

just got the new spotify on my mac

hope i do too soon

fuck, almost all of Underworld has vanished now

starring stuff is now a huge PITA

I'm less worried about the technological stuff, and more about the fact that a huge chunk of their Kinks catalog seems to have vanished in a puff of smoke.

I logged out and logged back in on my iPod yesterday and now I have the Your Music stuff plus it's somewhat better about displaying album art in offline mode.

what's the difference between pressing the + button to add a song to your "Songs" list, vs starring a song to add it to your starred list?

you can browse items on Your Music by album or artist, other than that it just seems like an additional "star" list as far as I can tell

GOT IT

yay!

lol this looks much better

--this kind of looks ios7-y
--kind of an improvement i guess
--pity they didn't think about the bullshit layout
--i don't want to individually hit 'back' n times to get to the damn menu
--nor do i want a 'start playing playlist/album/search result in shuffle play' button taking up space that could instead allow shuffle and repeat options on screen
--haha i'm probably meant to shake the phone or invert it or use some kind of vigorous wanking motion but fuck off

--that said i can't really imagine getting all that cross about this because, you know, all of recorded music ever is available to me through the air

all of recorded music ever

kind of lol but mostly sad

why have they got that 'starred' bit at the top of the faves on the left there?? either way i do like the look of it, makes the old one look dead cramped.

ugh i hate minimalist scroll bars

I hate how big everything is

That music travels through more glass than air

It's cool how you can't tell whether shuffle is on or not except by getting your face right up to the monitor, squinting and clicking the icon repeatedly, hoping the difference between faintest gray and faintest gray gently kissed by faintest green will assert itself.

I miss iTunes.

so is there no way to a whole bunch of tracks to Your Music at once? looks like the most you can do is add a whole album, but you can't do a whole playlist.

i would love a way to "star" albums separately from tracks.

― brimstead, Thursday, April 3, 2014 5:08 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well awesome, the new (?) "Save" feature basically allows you to do just this. maybe it was there all along.

I actually miss the ability to Star tracks with a single click, since I had my Starred Playlist set to store offline as per some discussion above. Still getting used to My Music.

I mean can you just set all of My Music to be offline?

i am using spotify right now (free month trial) and i am loving it! like how it scrobbles to last fm, very nice... im still contemplating 10 buckz a month is worth it though?

yes

Yes. It's kind of a great deal for what you get. Almost too good to be true.

it is worth it for me. there was a fairly annoying spotify commercial before the movie I went to today where a girl got a playlist from a ~cute boy~, linked it to her friends via text, and was all "AHHHHH look what Devon made me!!"

tempted to make a parody where I receive a playlist of Jim Ford rarities from my local record store owner and forward it to my brother

not sure what the point of 'your music' is & why it has replaced starred tracks for one-click adding w/out replacing starred tracks entirely. ticks are better than stars but otherwise I am at a loss

yeah v confused by it all and dont want to spend the time to figure it out really.

You used to have to make a playlist out of an album in order to save it. Now you can just save it, and use playlists for actual playlists. Plus you can see your music by song or album or artist, and sorted a variety of ways, none of which was true with a flat sidebar of playlists.

thinking of it as an archive makes more sense. might be useful for mobile if I can be bothered to fill it up. was never big into albums playlists but I appreciate that organizing music is a pretty daunting task, I only wish the year info was better as I do like to group things chronologically

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/13969183184_28f286c630_b.jpg

Scared to install in fear that it will make my phone explode.

Ok, this is like a billion times better. Don't know wtf happened with that last release.

is an update available for iOS 6?

No idea, I'm on 7.

Are you guys talking about iPad? Don't see much difference on iPhone between this update and the prior one. Also no Repeat One.

The update is that isn't crashing constantly.

Which is really all I care about. Just play the music.

yeah, seems much better for me as well. I can actually hit 'next' with the screen locked again!

still wish the art for all my local music didn't get zapped :-/

so, I imagine 'stars' are getting phased out now, huh? suxx.

I never really used the stars. Of the new system is a way to organize albums I want to have easy acces to, but keep it separate from the playlists that I create, then that's great.

Chronology - yes. And I realize that my favorite playlists are often idiosyncratic...I wish you could locate playlists by means other than title. Like keywords. It needs more social "glue", more personality.

It sucks when you get re-recordings when you search for songs, especially when you want to spice up your playlists with one-hit wonders or oddball tracks.

otm. One rerecord can ruin your whole playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDZys3nrYLY&feature=kp

If the stars go, I go.

loss of stars is a shame, in theory you could just add to 'starred' playlist but yeah it's not the same. i'm also guessing you can't see what tracks ppl have saved which is a shame cuz ppl's starred playlists could be pretty interesting/great. otoh 'save' w/ albums has definitely increased the utility of the app. love everything else about the update, much closer to matching the desktop experience.

never really understood "starred". was it a rating system?