Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I think they are ad-related, I've never seen any of these problems and I've been on the $5 plan from the beginning.

Can you search for playlist themes? Like if I'm interested in Ego Trip's 40 best singles of 1994 but I don't feel like downloading a torrent... Or Billboards top 100 singles of 1989 or something... I feel like people must have made these into spotify playlists by now.

If anyone uses the foxytunes firefox (or IE) extension it can control spotify from the status bar.

http://www.foxytunes.com/firefox/download/

I don't think you can search for playlists by keyword or genre on spotify. I think you'd have to go to somewhere like http://sharemyplaylists.com/ or http://www.sharedplaylists.com/ and do a search from there.

Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.

Never any problems with the premium

Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this seems like a huge flaw? they should also have a last.fm/netflix style recommendation system

Jon, I agree, the advertising isn't that annoying and I am still not clear on what goodies I will get if I up to the $5 plan.

When I get more money, though, the $10 plan will be cool, would love to listen on my Blackberry.

There is no Spotify for Blackberry afaik - only iPhone/Android.

this...is amazing

it really is

Oh, I had no idea, I thought one could listen on any phone. I'm sure in time you'll be able to get these services on any phone.

i can p much delete itunes and all of my mp3s?

not that i'm going to, but

i mean i'm sure there's stuff they don't have and all but wow. and it scrobbles to last.fm!

I wouldn't go that far, I've gotten burned a couple of times by random songs being unavailable (why the hell would every song on Brandy's Full Moon be available EXCEPT for the two singles everyone knows and likes????) (well I can guess why but still)

but yes, the impulse is strong

radiokeller

^add me

im finding a lot of stuff i wanna listen to is unavailable, im not whining, its free, but im definitely not giving up on itunes/mp3s yet

for example, how do they not have the wurzels combine harvester

i ask you

sez you have not enabled Spotify social, k3v!

(djperry1973)

lol nvr mind

wait lol where do i look to see if ppl have added me /noob

it's pretty amazing as long as you accept it for what it is. i mean $5 (?) a month is still a bargain, but i never expect to find anything spotify.

Just acquired a new phone and have 600 or so spotify offline tracks on it and none from itunes at the moment. pretty sure I'll add a few obscurish downloaded mixes but for now i'm quite happy. i would like to be able to browse through "my" tracks by artist/album etc but that's a minor price to pay for the convenience of wireless syncing.

god these commericals are so aggravating

wait lol where do i look to see if ppl have added me /noob

I'm not sure you can, actually! I think you have to enable Spotify social and then you can start adding ppl and browsing their playlists

I still think there is a punishment to be had for being able to listen to whatever you want without paying.

Well, supposedly in a few months some limits to the free hours per month are going to kick in.

Trust me, when you graduate to the paid ad-free service in a few months, you will seriously miss some of those ads. I almost want to email them and ask Dave and Zia and Jeff from Spotify and ask them how they're doing these days?

I just had that awful moment, when I was making a Spotify playlist for a friend and found myself wanting to tweak the BPM and maybe cut out the annoying outro to make a smoother transition - #headdesk #FrustratedDJ

daerest upt0eleven: TYVM for reminding about "Breakfast" by Le Le

i am in love with spotify. i still have two invites...

Can you jump over onto the MOLLIFY thread on Idiot Thread Repository and tell Sara-RC you've got invites? She's dying to hear my playlists.

yup

dan are your playlists on sharemyplaylists? since im listening from my phone, im wondering how to listen to them.

they aren't yet, I should throw them up there

yah

I wouldn't go that far, I've gotten burned a couple of times by random songs being unavailable (why the hell would every song on Brandy's Full Moon be available EXCEPT for the two singles everyone knows and likes????) (well I can guess why but still)

Tell me about it. Spotify currently does not have approximately 30% of what I have in iTunes, and I've never NOT been overwhelmed by what I need to process, but it is incredible and fast.

I put my playlists up on sharemyplaylists, under the usename djperry1973, but I don't know how to effectively search for them

search by member

im finding a lot of stuff i wanna listen to is unavailable, im not whining, its free, but im definitely not giving up on itunes/mp3s yet

yeah Spotify is great but for me it's a supplement to vinyl / mp3's not a replacement

I plan to just keep using it free as a way to discover and try out new stuff

found you dan, thanks!

wait i can just go to "local files" and play songs from my itunes! i never have to open itunes again!(?)

yup

beware of putting local files into your playlists, tho

local files almost the best thing about spotify since it starts up 10000x faster than itunes

lol, sharemyplaylists ppl apparently do not like long grab-bag playlists; so far all 3 of mine have garnered 1 star ratings

i got a 5 star on my new jack swing one. it was probably you.

ha it wasn't! clearly the way to get a good rating is to get to the point rather than be a meandering hodge podge

im loving your playlists.

yay

I will be playing your New Jack Swing playlist tonight

the one that gus gus starts off is fanfuckingtastic.