Spotify - anyone heard of it?

no more holger czukay. fuckers.

Biggest fail is this 10 minute song thing.

I like the idea of Spotify but I just can't get into it. Maybe I'm just too short on time to waste (and I don't want to give up my other time-wasting habits), or maybe I just don't find it to be terribly user-friendly, or maybe the social aspect of it isn't very fun since none of my friends have joined or been invited to join.

My only complaint is that I've noticed when I import my iTunes library, it replaces restricted catalogs like Apple with awful covers of the same songs. I just sat through bar band versions of Badfinger's
"Baby Blue" and song track off Double Fantasy.

some of the bugs are pretty funny -- they were just trying to cut into baroness with a michelle branch ad, but it said it "couldn't play the track" or something, where "track" meant their ad

so i had to click on the next track in the album, and baroness just started playing again

I don't use this to play mp3s I have, just stuff I don't have.

Lately spotify hasn't had any of the stuff I look for on it, but there's enough stuff saved in my to-listen playlist that I can chill until I forget to care about those other things I can't find.

The social aspect has yet to be useful to me.

no Crass, no Angry Samoans... but they do have Michael Hurley's Bellemeade Sessions, which I had been looking for for years and had never heard.

there's quite a lot of hurley on there for some reason! hate how i can never tell what stuff is just on my drive and what i can link to though.

Biggest fail is this 10 minute song thing.

so, what is this?

currently listening to miles davis' "he loved him madly" and that's 32:12. is it a region thing? I'm in the US.

it's a metadata issue affecting stuff from universal music group iirc; it may be fixed at some point.

ah, thanks.

Where did ZE Records go?

10 minute limit means White Light/White Heat with no "Sister Ray"

Hmm...even though I have Sister Ray in my iTunes I still can't play it in Spotify.

Yeah, thats super annoying. Quite a few of those 10 minute plus tracks I actually have in my library can't be played.

I haven't had a single problem with 10+ minute classical music

anyone else seeing some kill rock stars shit on here now!!!

awww yeah

more marnie stern, more elliott smith

feelin this tbh

been loving this, have been playing a lot of 2011 music for the first time ie Cults.

is anyone else having lots of "can't play next track" issues? it seems to be happening when it wants to play an ad but instead just stops playing everything all together.

yes, you just have to click on the next song or whatever

i had the same problem, but i was trying to listen to music from a different room and was getting really annoyed that it seemed like i had to click on each song in order to hear it. that's kinda weird and not very useful.

I get it too. makes the ads extra annoying. maybe that's the point!

yeah, happening constantly for me as well

Yeah, its definitely happening a lot more frequently.

it seems like i'm getting less ads when it happens tho-- i don't mind ads as much as i mind having to click to the next track LOL FIRST WORLD PROBS

Someone at Spotify central should figure at how to delete those songs properly instead of leaving these ghost tracks around.

Seems like they posted a message five hours ago about being glad to report that they will soon fix the "can't play current track bug" which is hopefully the very thing we are complaining about.

bugs aside, they're basically killing it, so i don't care too much

^^

i would rather just click to play the next track instead of hearing those commercials.

There is a distinct lack of Jonzun Crew on spotify. Sometimes I just want to listen to Jonzun crew, you know?

cool they have War on Drugs!

this might come in pretty handy: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103880/Spotify-The-Definitive-Music-Search-Engine-Guide

lol I just spammed 60+ ppl with mass Spotify invites

this might come in pretty handy: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103880/Spotify-The-Definitive-Music-Search-Engine-Guide

The Internet really let me down there - I was convinced before I got to the end that the first comment was going to be "Paul Simon sucks!"

Handy wee guide though, thanks upto11

Seems like they posted a message five hours ago about being glad to report that they will soon fix the "can't play current track bug" which is hopefully the very thing we are complaining about.

Hope they do fix it, because today it has been happening with every single ad.

Okay now it just happens every single track. Its like Spotify knows it hasn't played you an ad lately, so it just keeps trying after every single song.

10 minute limit means White Light/White Heat with no "Sister Ray"

Yeah, although it sucks, there are at least a handful of positive aspects as well. Like that one.

loooool

FUCK YOU SPOTIFY

In order to give Spotify users the best possible experience, we’re constantly improving the Spotify desktop application. Every so often, these advances push Spotify beyond the capabilities of some older Macintosh computers.

In a few months’ time, this process will affect Macs with the following system properties:

OS version: Mac OS X versions earlier than earlier than 10.5
Processor: PowerPC Macintosh (regardless of OS version)

(You can find information about your own Mac by accessing "About this Mac" under the Apple menu.)

We’re really sorry if you’re affected by this change. For the time being, you can still use Spotify on these Macs – you just won’t receive new feature updates. Ultimately, Spotify will cease to be available for these systems, but not just yet.

Kind regards,
The Spotify Team

it is really annoying when you hit clean versions of albums

it'd be cool if there were some reverse parental controls type of feature where you could just say, if there's an explicit version of a song, give me the explicit version instead of the clean version

Yep, fuck you Spotify. Now that I won't be able to use you on my home Mac you are completely useless to me. Kindly fuck off and I hope your business model is a failure.

yay Spotify, thank you for catering to me and my technology magpie demographic

jon why can't you use it on your home mac

Well, I'm not 100% sure until I get home, but I thought I had 10.4. Now that I've done a little research, I might be okay though. But still, think that pretty much sucks that they'd just say "WHOOPS SORRY YOU CAN'T USE IT AT ALL", rather than at least trying to allow a slimmed down version or something.