Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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?

nope

Oh well, good opportunity to try something else.

ha, I can only use my phone right now because my laptop's DAC is so awful

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.

Apple allegedly trying to kill Spotify's free tier:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotify-streaming

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.

https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/05/06/most-popular-keys-on-spotify/
c, g and d major coming out on top

to me bach, arise liszt, b minor must rally

streaming video, eh?

https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/596748233008816128

Yeesh

"you mean like an electron probability cloud surrounding a hydrogen nucleus, son?"
"no, not that kind of cloud, mom!"

moms don't get it!

Moms: pretty damn dumb

wonder if any moms work at Spotify

no no no. it couldn't be true!

moms belong at the particle accelerator, doing fundamental work. typical moms!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/business/media/as-spotify-expands-revenue-rises-and-losses-deepen.html?_r=0

what did the deleted tweet say?

ah never mind, i found it

It would be nice to have an editable Notes column in a playlist. The notes would reside in a local file of the user who created the playlist, not part of the Spotify db, which I'm sure is already loads of fun to manage. Would be handy for poll result playlists -- "732/9/2" or whatever.

love how this thread is half discussion of what it takes to keep a billion-dollar industry-gamechanger, and half "you know what would make my experience as a 99% percentile music nerd more enjoyable?" fantasies/requests.

not denying we have an eager ear re: user experience, but i think we need to acknowledge that "scourer of ESP-disk discographies" is NOT the person the company is trying to build the company around

maybe they could build the company around users who have personal music libraries that they want to run through the same UI as the rest of what Spotify offers. i can't believe that's too small a demographic

honestly when you're competing with apple and google for Everyone That Listens To Music, "people with personal music libraries" is small ball.

xpost that used to be a feature, right?

the idea is to get your ass ON the cloud, not make it easier to stay off it

maybe they could make an artisanal reverb for Todd Glass to use w/ a live drummer at parties

and just to reaffirm, I am a 99th percentile music nerd, I have a music library etc. Obv I'd love a user experience designed for my pleasure. I just also realize that making playlist crazy explorers of obscurities happy is soooooooo low on the priority level of this battle of the gods we're getting into with Beats and Google Play

no way everyone has a music library - even if it's just a folder of accumulated top 40 singles xxxp

probably lots of spotify users have a taylor swift album on their hard drive

accept your insignificance

key difference between a music library and a taylor swift album dumped onto a hard drive is whether they'd care if it were gone in 5 years

key difference in my mind is OOP material unavailable on the cloud

xp not really, I kiss goodbye to my digital library every now and then, ocd is not a necessary part of loving music, yr old mp3 player dies while you weep in the rain

somebody who feels genuinely qualified, teach me on this: is there any credible school of thought to suggest that streaming is going back into the bottle? i.e. what would have to happen for the vast majority of catalogue to disappear from easy and reasonably cheap access in 2035? Because i kinda feel like keeping a copy of whitesnake's slip of the tongue album as an mp3 is unnecessary; that shit is gonna be part and parcel of whatever universal uses to digitally distribute as long as the model remains viable and then it'll transfer to whatever the next model is.

is there any credible school of thought to suggest that streaming is going back into the bottle? i.e. what would have to happen for the vast majority of catalogue to disappear from easy and reasonably cheap access in 2035?

-- forksclovetofu

as a mass, no. but it's credible -- and my guess would be it's getting more credible the way that people are vying for "exclusives" of material that is both imperfectly exclusive and easy to dead forever -- that SOME of the catalogue would disappear from easy or reasonably cheap access, or for that matter any access, in 2035. how much? nobody knows! there's no way to know!

or in other words: whitesnake's slip of the tongue? probably gonna be fine. that album you love that you found on the internet somewhere that hasn't made it to spotify and only printed 500 CDs because everything's digital now? probably want to back it up.

for sure! wouldn't ever argue against safe than sorry with small label, self-published stuff but i think the argument here is that if your "music library" primarily consists of the 30 tapes or CDs for the NICE PRICE and whatever you got for Christmas from your kids, you are gonna be able to have backup of that on the cloud with minimal work.

like i have well over a tb of music (and a half terabyte that was lost, sob) but it's increasingly rare i look for songs on that instead of on spotify, mostly for ease of use issues.

my mp3 collection that predates spotify is like 90% easily findable stuff but everything added since then is stuff not available on spotify (which includes taylor swift albums as well as like every tzadik album, every sublime frequencies album, etc). maybe this puts me in the 1% of music listeners but the first company to crack the code of letting me assimilate w/ super ease my library w/ their library is going to have me as a customer for life. ironically the app that does this best is spotify but from like 15 iterations ago.

in practice the factor that determines how much I listen on spotify vs. on my music library is how much I've spent on music and whether it went toward what I actually want to hear at any given point, but obviously THAT's not a business concern, nor will it change unless some miracle / lottery win / sudden groundswell of reversed reputation happens to me

Lots of issues with local files, especially those with large libraries: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/No-Local-Files-being-added-or-shown-in-new-version-1-0-1-1060/td-p/1045337

that's the thing it's not even like i'm asking for new features from spotify. i'm asking for old features + functionality that they used to provide!

All I want to do is listen to my local files of Xaphoon Jones Mixtape Vol 2, in a playlist in the correct order. There is no easy way to do that through spotify anymore. When my local files load (if they load and don't crash the app), I can search them, but there is no way to sort or drag them to a playlist.

why are you even using spotify for something like that, just download winamp (the old version, before it bloated)

he wants to listen to his library on his mobile away from home iirc, using Spotify's interface

"all I want to do is use this copy of Microsoft Word to organize my documents without to pretend to save a doc first to access my file system"