Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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?

No. You could only "star" or "unstar." It was a list of Favorites or an On-The-Go Playlist, the default playlist that was always first and easiest to get to. Still there, but harder to add to.

Just a quick way to note a track for replay-ability. 80% of the time I listen to music, it's my starred playlist on random.

yeah "starred" is now this weird neutered version of its old self, functionally a normal playlist but one you can't move or delete

Basically a while back, based on somebody's suggestion upthread, I set my Starred Playlist to be Offline and never looked back. Until now.

Mines off line. What's different about that?

Nothing. For all I know it was you who gave me the idea.

PERHAPS.

I use this app every day and lost track of what the hell you people are talking about two dozen posts ago.

It means its stored on yer comp/phone and you can play those tracks when not online

I defer to ilxor Jeff on these matters.

This is just semantics,
make a playlist, call it "Starred tracks" and add songs that you want to it
Oh no, one more click

What even is offline listening for? Air travel?

Subway travel. Not using cellular data when you are not on wifi.

ah ok, that's pretty useful then

Yeah and it doesn't eat at your data.

I have only ever starred tracks by accident.

Got the update and it does indeed skip tracks much faster. Still doesn't show any artwork in offline mode, I suspect that won't change.

Starred tracks are pretty important to me because they are the only way for me to play my big master playlist on Roku.

Haven't yet found a way to dump a large amount of songs, like a whole playlist, into Your Music. How would I do this? I don't want to build it from scratch since I already have a favorites list.

dunno about iphone but the ipad interface hasn't really changed, all the "starred" stuff is unchanged.
However, i clicked the 3rd button from the left on a track (window with a plus sign) and it obviously did *something* to the track or put it somewhere but hell if i know what happened.

i wish album covers on desktop were as big as they are on mobile.

They are smaller on my iPod touch than on my wife's iPhone