Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

ah i meant ipad specifically, you get CD sized album covers on the ipad app. i keep forgetting that most people probably use spotify primarily on their phones.

If you click on one track in a playlist, you can select them all with command-A, and then drag them all at once into Your Music...

hmm, I'll need to look into this. Part of my problem was that I didn't see Your Music as a playlist in the menu on my desktop. Maybe I need to first add something to it and then it will show up?

Ok this starred thing is bumming me out. Why take away a popular feature just because you think people should be using the product differently? Your fucking with people's workflow.

I'd guess that the GUI and underlying code are closely intertwined. As spotify scales, they have to decide which features are sustainable. So it was probably more of a painful but necessary decision.

hard to understand why they'd get rid of stars, since that was one of the only things I missed when i switched to Rdio.

they didn't really get rid of it. it's just one more click away.

yeah i made a "Favorites" playlist on Rdio but goddamn that extra click...

they really wanted to emphasize this new feature, i think.

"we can't have a plus sign AND a star"

Having copied the tracks from my starred playlist over to the new "Your Music" section I've gotta say that I really have no problem with this. The "Songs" playlist is identical to my starred playlist but I now have the second option of browsing a pretty-looking rundown of all the artists included. Not sure when exactly I'll take up that option, but it's kind of interesting for the acts where I have no idea what they look like. The albums view is worse than useless because of how much stuff there is, but given that the "Songs" playlist looks and functions exactly like the old starred playlist it's hard to get too annoyed by this. Just another facelift

Can you set that songs playlist to Offline?

Ah yeah, realising that I'm probably not a good bellwether re: is this a good idea or not and I probably should have read the complaints of others more carefully. I gave up on the iPhone app ages ago and have very little interest in making any of this stuff available offline. But upon closer inspection, no you can't and a cursory google reveals that people are fucking pissed about it. Eh, well I'm happy enough with the new set-up anyway

you can keep using the 'starred' playlist for offline. then drag the starred playlist to 'your songs' every once in awhile. it won't add the same song twice.

actually, the better flow for people who miss starring is to use the '+' as the star. then just go to your 'Songs' in 'Your Music', ctrl+A and drag to your starred playlist every once in awhile

but, yeah, that's really easy on the desktop. less easy to do if you use wifi on your phone to do all of this.