i doubt anyone uses the web version, terrible
― tremendoid, Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:42 (twelve years ago) link
let's keep posting playlists
I put together this list of stuff from Pitchfork's Best New Music, the ILM 2011 indie thread, the ILM 2011 punk underground thread, and part of the "best of 2011 so far" thread.
http://open.spotify.com/user/polyphonique/playlist/2xuruS2QGMSVrfILOGWahp
― polyphonic, Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
My Spotify playlists, let me show you them
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 July 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
Invites from britishers work, right? Anyone needs one webmail me.
― useless chamber, Thursday, 21 July 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Here's a few ILM related playlists:
ILM best tracks of 2007ILM best tracks of 2008ILM 77 tracks of 2010ILM best remixes of th 00sILM 20th century tracks poll - This is a monster with over 1000 tracks.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah anyone needs an invite let me know
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
ILM all time rap albums 100-51ILM all time rap albums 50-1
― a million anons (onimo), Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
*cough cough*
― ledge, Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
ILM Top 100 Tracks of the 1970sILM's 125 Best Tracks of the 20th Century
― a million anons (onimo), Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
sorry ledge :)
Why? It was already linked upthread anway.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
many thanks to the kind ilxor who sent an invite my way!
this is really cool.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
That was me. No worries. I've got a few left in anyone wants one.
I'm finding the ads really annoying today.
Does skipping to the next track just before it finishes still work?
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
No, but double clicking on the next song does, weirdly.
― hand me the banana of shame (NotEnough), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
I think they count how many times you do that tho, and then when you inevitably forget to double click, they play you a bumper crop of adverts that you can't get out of.
― hand me the banana of shame (NotEnough), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
I wish it would stop asking me to share what I'm listening to on Facebook.
― skip, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
digging it so far. looking forward to enjoying some of these ILM lists!
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
listening to all of marquee moon for the first time in a while
probably won't be posting about alt rock from the 90s and nu-metal from the early aughts so much anymore rip
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
artist radio is showing up now. I can't figure out how to make it actually do anything though. it just shows a list of related artists.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
duh never mind. you just click on the album art boxes at the bottom I guess
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
That's not on the mobile app though?
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, I'm using it on the desktop app only.
They should allow you to subscribe to an artist and then have it automatically create a playlist with everything they've done, plus new stuff appearing as it arrives. That would be amazing. And then some kind of running new music playlist that shows you all of the new stuff from artists you've subscribed to.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 21 July 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
And then some kind of running new music playlist that shows you all of the new stuff from artists you've subscribed to.
I use this for notifications about new stuff - http://www.freshspotify.com/
It sends you an email when any of your artists have new material available. If you use spotify you can point at that to go find your top artists.
― a million anons (onimo), Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
sorry that should read "if you use last.fm"
― a million anons (onimo), Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Thats a cool link, if a lot of info to sort through. It'd be cool if you could change filters for that, at this point I'm more interested to see when certain lables pop up as opposed to artists.
I did see that markers should be thrilled that they added a bunch of Metallica.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
There's a "new album releases on Spotify" playlist here: http://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3Yrvm5lBgnhzTYTXx2l55x
And this new releases list is also useful: http://open.spotify.com/user/the_junes/playlist/4lAy93JwdfYICArhzndaxs
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the links.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
thanking u spotify for showing me that owl city has a new single out called LONELY LULLABY
― her lawyer, Andrew Wallet (reddening), Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks, that's pretty cool. Just signed up for it. I wish something like that were integrated right into Spotify though. It would also be nice if you could subscribe to a label.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Friday, 22 July 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
I just signed up for Spotify and was sort of dubious about their claim to have every song ever available. Not true on many fronts--however, somehow they have a song available that I sang for this cassette-only Tucson bedroom band compilation 19 years ago. Bizarre.
― President Keyes, Friday, 22 July 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
i am loving all the sound-alikes
― Hot Tub Timelord (Latham Green), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
shit! they have my last band's two albums on there, crazy
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 July 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Spotify doesn't have Kim Fowley's "Sunset Boulevard" or anything by Zoogz Rift or Lisa Suckdog, so I say it still has a long way to go....
― dlp9001, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
so it looks like the 'enhanced sound quality' only comes with the premium package
https://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/unlimited/
fuck you spotify!
― dayo, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
what streaming services out there do 320 or at least 192?
The free quality sounds fine to me.
― Jeff, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
it sounded pretty good on my speakers earlier - but just switched to headphones and the dynamic range is noticeably compressed when I compare the stream to high quality mp3s I already have
― dayo, Friday, 22 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, premium costs $9.99/month. Is there really anyone out there who doesn't have that?
And really, in 2011 we still can't get the rights to the Vapors' proper albums, or most of Men Without Hats? Really?
― dlp9001, Friday, 22 July 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
yup, good for computer speakers and earbuds, not for close listening.
― skip, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone know what, specifically, the sound quality differences involve?
― timellison, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
spotify premium is 320 kbps, no idea on anything else
― markers, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
from what I've read, it's 160 kbps for regular users, occasionally 320 kbps for premium. Not all tracks are yet available in 320 kbps and the company has dissembled repeatedly about how many tracks currently stream in higher quality and the timeline for full adoption of 320 kbps streaming for premium users.
― skip, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
This is confusing to me because I would think the record labels are providing the files and they're only going to have one version of a given album created using a particular bit rate.
― timellison, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
They get the original files in lossless form and make at least two versions of each track available - at minimum, 96 kbps for mobile streaming and 160 for regular users. 320 kbps is available to premium users for some unknown number of tracks.
"Bitrategate" might be a bit much but here's more information: http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2011/07/spotify-bitrategate-story-so-far.html
― skip, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
That is fascinating!
― timellison, Friday, 22 July 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
On now.
― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Friday, 22 July 2011 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
any of you using this on more than one computer? I'm finding that if I star things at home or make a playlist, the changes don't always show up when I open spotify at work ... am I doing it wrong
― dmr, Friday, 22 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I have it on 3 machines and have had zero synchronization issues; in fact, I never close it on my work or home computer and see changes made in one location at the other, seamlessly.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
sorry if this is an annoying question, but could someone explain what spotify is exactly... I checked the website but didn't really get what the big deal was. You can make playlists?
― writing down my vagina’s sorrows for all the world to see (The Brainwasher), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
It is a gigantic online database of music that you can stream to any computer and many handheld devices. You can also make and share playlists with other users.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link