the ones with good light
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― the fiest p (onimo), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Stars work fine in the Scottish version
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
― 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?
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
sorry, it was a ~*goof*~
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
u r mean v v mean
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
curry about to be v v mean to my bulls
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
he's gonna do it for me. payback.
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
never had any real problem using spotify
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
except spotify is a streaming service and itunes is not
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
that's a fair comparison, spotify is actually a much worse word processor than word, they kind of dropped the ball there
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
This is why slsk is still going strong, it didn't change.
― xelab, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
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..
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
do large offline libraries still lag?
― Mordy, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
well, bugs schmugs, it's plenty more than usable for me,
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah seems a minority take
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
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.
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
but yeah it plays music so give these guys a turing award imo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
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.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
idk most software is total shit, i have very low expectations in general
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
I just deleted my Facebook page and now I can't get into spotify. Any advice?
― Heez, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
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?"
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 29 November 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
it works fine as long as you're using version [checks version] 0.8.5.1356.gh1d40f3a
― Mordy, Sunday, 29 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
spotify is shit
― hunangarage, Sunday, 29 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 29 November 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
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
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Sunday, 29 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
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!
― noe love derp wev (wins), Sunday, 29 November 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Sunday, 29 November 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
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
― pplasma, Sunday, 29 November 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
my social feed is regularly like 3 or 4 days out of date, pretty sure that's 'normal'
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 November 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 November 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
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.
― fffv, Monday, 30 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
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.
― fffv, Monday, 30 November 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
I only use the android and connect (amazon fire tv) apps, and they are generally good.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 November 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
spotify support asked me to delete my week old account and recreate it to fix the spotify connect problem
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
maybe that's why community support is the better option
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 November 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
if only there were a third option
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album
^^^^ this is maddening!
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 30 November 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Just click on a different one...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:35 (eight years ago) link