is there a way to make the mobile app stream in extreme quality over wifi and normal quality over cellular?this is my dream feature.
― olly, Monday, 20 April 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
Latest Windows desktop "upgrade" finally made me go back to 0.8.5 and disable updates. The final straws were lack of ctrl+F and (seriously!?) inability to modify column widths.
then I was all HELLO OLD FRIEND why on earth have I not done this before? Desktop Spotify c. 2012 is a beautiful little application; not only compared to the current clunky webwrap debacle, but on its own terms.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
Some rando used my email address to create a free account, so I emailed customer service to have it deleted, and got this response back (where "xxxxxxxx" is my email address):
We've checked on the email address "xxxx✧✧✧@icl✧✧✧.c✧✧" and can confirm that it has an account which is "xxxxxxxx-4". Since you've said that someone used your email address, may I please know what email address or username is it?
I... what?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
WHY DOES THIS PIECE OF SHIT SOFTWARE NEVER RECOGNIZE MY IPHONE WHEN I PLUG IT IN. WHY DOES THIS PIECE OF SHIT SOFTWARE SEEM TO BE COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF HANDLING MY LOCAL FILES. FECES.
Really, really makes me appreciate iTunes. Can't wait for apple to start their streaming thing.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/No-device-menu-in-the-new-update/m-p/1065741#M116532
Oh, any indicate that your phone is connected has been removed. NBD.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Evidently, there is no more wired sync? That's incredibly stupid when I'm trying to sync a thousand or so local files.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I expect the inability to handle local files now is just a precursor to removing that feature.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
I love when you are syncing via wifi, the app has to be open and the screen on. And it takes hours, so you're just sitting there with spotify on constantly tapping your screen so it doesn't go to sleep.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 April 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's bad
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 25 April 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
mog was already pretty good. I switched to spotify bc mog ipad app didn't seem to have the programming support, ironically.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 25 April 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Does anyone else have trouble with downgraded Spotify continuing to try to upgrade even after following the instructions? I don't think I missed anything...
― JoeStork, Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
You must have missed a step. Those txt files should stop any attempts to upgrade.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
Weird, the txt files are in the folder, read-only, but after maybe 5 minutes the Spotify_new application will reappear, along with the real .sig file.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
The jig is up!
― Jeff, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
while we're in this zone: is it normal for there to be 3-4 separate spotify.exe processes running, at like 30MB each (not counting the "web helper")? not the biggest deal in the world since firefox takes like half a gig for NO REASON all the time (need to fucking switch to something else at this point, also flash crashes constantly and fucking homestarrunner videos from 13 years ago play with huge lag). but anyway, annoying. this started, i think, right around the time of the upgrade, which was also when spotify decided to 'forget' that i told it not to open automatically on startup.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
it really is amazing how crappy and bloated they have made this program.
― skip, Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Xpost not to prolong an off topic note but does flash crash like a mofo on other browsers as well? It's definitely become a liability for me on Firefox too
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
i really don't think i'll ever convince spotify on my tablet that i don't want to listen in shuffle. baffling.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 27 April 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Notifications not working on desktop player and no notification emails since April 23rd.
― djmartian, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
current routine to start spotify desktop
1. Start Spotify2. Stop Spotify 3. Open task manager4. Kill Spotify processes 5. Start Spotify
― who writes compassionately about poor people for the Guardian (onimo), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Cool feature
― Jeff, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
charmingly temperamental program
― Treeship, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
Check that the files don't have an actual .txt extension; they have to be Spotify_new.exe and Spotify_new.exe.sig.
To check this, you might need to change your view settings to display file name extensions, as this generally doesn't happen by default in Windows.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
Same on Mac btw, i had to remove the txt extension from the terminal.
― Siegbran, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, they don't have the txt extension. No one else seems to have this issue, and the instructions are pretty simple, I'm kind of baffled.
― JoeStork, Monday, 27 April 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
spotify made you, man. get to the safe house.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
Weird, I haven't had any of the problems being discussed here. I'm on an i7 with a ton of RAM, though.
― brimstead, Monday, 27 April 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
I also used onimo's startup procedure for awhile, but I discovered that the desktop app eventually sorts itself out if you wait a few minutes. It is hilarious that it starts up immediately after you kill all of the processes, though. Feels like there's a bottleneck in the data center for whatever info spotify gathers on startup, but it just gives up on gathering it if you just kill it once?
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
The instructions don't spell this out, but you need to download and install the program, but not then run it, then do the two text files, and THEN run the newly intalled SPotify for the first time.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:50 (eight years ago) link
I have been on Spotify Unlimited (£5 a month) for years and recently upgraded to Premium (£10 a month) to try it out on my phone. It was useless, so now I want to go back to Unlimited, but I can only see ways to cancel the subscription completely. Is the Unlimited subscription still available?
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
nope
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Oh well, good opportunity to try something else.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
ha, I can only use my phone right now because my laptop's DAC is so awful
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 May 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
Only disadvantage of using the old, working, un-upgraded version of Spotify is it's from the era when the program couldn't count beyond 59 minutes of playlist without giving up and rounding to the nearest hour.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
Apple allegedly trying to kill Spotify's free tier:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotify-streaming
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Lots of cursing at spotify this morning as I try and access my local files in the Mac desktop app. Evidently 64,000 songs just grinds it to a halt.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/05/06/most-popular-keys-on-spotify/c, g and d major coming out on top
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
to me bach, arise liszt, b minor must rally
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 May 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
streaming video, eh?
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/596748233008816128
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeesh
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
"you mean like an electron probability cloud surrounding a hydrogen nucleus, son?""no, not that kind of cloud, mom!"
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
moms don't get it!
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Moms: pretty damn dumb
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
wonder if any moms work at Spotify
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
no no no. it couldn't be true!
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
moms belong at the particle accelerator, doing fundamental work. typical moms!
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/business/media/as-spotify-expands-revenue-rises-and-losses-deepen.html?_r=0
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
what did the deleted tweet say?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
ah never mind, i found it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link