Spotify - anyone heard of it?

you can put a star in the pictures

the best ones, anyway

the ones with good light

Sure, but you can't star them.

― Jeff, Friday, November 20, 2015 9:02 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love how Jeff pops up every three months with a dig about starring.

he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!

Stars work fine in the Scottish version

he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!

― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, November 20, 2015 2:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what now?

sorry, it was a ~*goof*~

u r mean v v mean

curry about to be v v mean to my bulls

he's gonna do it for me. payback.

ex rdio user. spotify is very bad, isn't it?

on ios is there any way to make the big green "shuffle play" button on an album page be just "play"? or do i have to click on track 1 to play the album in order?

also spotify connect doesn't seem to work reliably. i can transfer from iphone to ipad ok, but my computer often doesn't show up. if it does the "connection" between the spotify sessions seems to drop when i try to transfer.

never had any real problem using spotify

experience so far is that it's as bad as itunes without the excuse that it's 15 years old and trying to do 30 different things

except spotify is a streaming service and itunes is not

ok it's as bad as microsoft word without the excuse that it's 30 years old and trying to do 45 different things

it's a mess

that's a fair comparison, spotify is actually a much worse word processor than word, they kind of dropped the ball there

every time i start spotify on my phone it says "spotify is offline. go online for a world of music!" or some shit. always with full bars on 3G or 4G. after 20 seconds or so it usually figures it out. seems kind of basic.

it's not perfect perhaps but generally i just press play on things and they play. or search for things and save them then play them. i'm not sure what other functionality is needed.

the one bug that annoys me is it fucks up on your iphone when you leave a wifi zone to go into 3g or 4g.

This is why slsk is still going strong, it didn't change.

i don't know what kind of fancy things you're trying to do, caek. it works fine if you just do things like search for an artist, select an album, press play, make a playlist, add songs to it, fart..

do large offline libraries still lag?

that's a fair comparison, spotify is actually a much worse word processor than word, they kind of dropped the ball there

my point was that i wasn't trying to say spotify is like itunes in that it plays music, my point is that it's like itunes in that it's complicated, inconsistent and apparently buggy in the way massive old apps get given enough time.

well, bugs schmugs, it's plenty more than usable for me,

yeah seems a minority take

exactly, I've definitely had times when the bugs in spotify were extremely frustrating, but the versions I run on my pc and phone right now work very smoothly. I get that other examples of buggy software exist as well, but I don't understand comparing one to the other when they perform very different functions.

the problems i have so far (one week in) are the two above (i.e. a core feature simply doesn't work, and playing an album in order on ios is weird from a UI pov)

there's also the fact that my "offline devices" are not listed in the offline devices section of my account so i can't manage them, that it thinks i am in australia, that when you create a new account it makes all your itunes playlists public by default without asking you; that there's no way to undo this except making them all private one by one, or deleting them all, that there's no way to bulk delete playlists on the desktop;, that what happens when you delete a folder of playlists on the desktop is different from what happens when you do so on ios (in a way that guarantees data loss if you don't know about it)

... and when you report bugs to them they suggest you post on the community board and add them to their "ideas wall" so see if other people upvote them as feature requests

but yeah it plays music so give these guys a turing award imo

i think people are just saying "it works and it plays music" because it is hard to understand what else it is supposed to do. i can't think of anything i've tried to do with spotify that it failed to do.

idk most software is total shit, i have very low expectations in general

give or take i think it works p well, it syncs well with other devices that i have - easy search and browse. it's hardly at itunes or ms word level.

I just deleted my Facebook page and now I can't get into spotify. Any advice?

idk most software is total shit, i have very low expectations in general

― brimstead, Sunday, November 29, 2015 3:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rdio wasn't total shit. i have plenty of apps that aren't total shit. i've never paid $120/yr for a service this buggy.

spotify has gotten clunkier and slower with time. i wait on it way more than you'd think i would have to, like just chilling while it decides whether it wants to give me search results or not. love the mystery factor of whether the song i just dragged onto a playlist really made it there or not. i don't think it's a completely buggy disaster, but let's not pretend it's winamp-level "it plays music when you ask it to and gets out of the way, what more do you want?"

it works fine as long as you're using version [checks version] 0.8.5.1356.gh1d40f3a

spotify is shit

Yeah. I love Spotify and use it every day, BUT it has many many flaws and glitches unless you run an old version. And even then it occasionally goes batshit.

the spotify apps (mac & iOS) are hot garbage. I thought this was taken as read. that being said, they are functional at least in a way that itunes isn't any more

Yeah the spotify app was such a crashy POS, getting worse with each update, that like so many itt I used that link to lock it to an old version, which runs fine and has a far better UI. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to do that on iphone so I'm stuck with the one that takes forever to load when I'm out & about. The trade-off is that the newer versions have stuff like discover which has been pretty cool ime

There's only so much I can complain though. I pay £5 a month for this!

Can too much choice be a bad thing?
I left my Spotify device at home this afternoon and went for a walk with my old iPod. I listened to a couple albums I discovered a couple years ago and had more enjoyable time than with Spotify recently.

is the spotify social feed on anyone else's desktop broken for anyone else right now?

one of the reasons the spotify phone app is slow and isn't that great is bc of apple not wanting it to outshine their native music app

my social feed is regularly like 3 or 4 days out of date, pretty sure that's 'normal'

ios and mac apps solid apart from minor niggles and the ios app smashing data when playing saved music. not a bug, but i also want it to let me save more music to my phone. eh.

my discover weekly has suddenly become 50% western music that broadly matches my taste and 50% awful taiwanese ballads. i assume spotify taiwan has been drawn into discover weekly, but not in a way that identifies what genres people listen to so much as just chucking random taiwanese anything into the mix.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815

compared to Rdio, Spotify is very bad. people who don't feel this way never used Rdio. unfortunately, Spotify seems to be the best available option now. RIP Rdio.

have to remember dumb search syntax when I want to do normal things like search by label or year. can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album. can't sort things by release date. awful web app. mobile interface that can be described as weird at best. just bad. and yet the best of all available (and really bad) options, so I will give them my $10.

I only use the android and connect (amazon fire tv) apps, and they are generally good.

spotify support asked me to delete my week old account and recreate it to fix the spotify connect problem

maybe that's why community support is the better option

if only there were a third option