Spotify - anyone heard of it?

It's outloud or bust for me.

outlouds usually bust :( or trolled by a slipknot fan funnily enough

some new albums seem to hit U.S. Spotify on Thursdays, 2 days after they're released everywhere else. not complaining since hey i'm happy they're there but it makes me wonder what the logic behind that lag is.

it also seems like not all new albums get added to the New Album Releases playlist?

isn't that because thursdays are the official release days in stores just as its mondays here?

tuesdays are traditionally release days in the u.s.

ha thank you for reminding me that the new album playlist exists

next up: the new SPEECH DEBELLE

ahh ok, perhaps the artists/labels think streaming right away will hurt sales so dont allow it to be streamed to thursday? i doubt its a spotify decision. im sure they would prefer to stream right away

had never seen the New Album Releases playlist before but yes it appears that it is assembled in a way that filters out any album i am interested in hearing

poor Speech, she has found this nice little pocket of music that I and only I will like

I find this more useful than the playlist http://spotimy.co.uk/

are people's shuffle functions working fine? mine tends to play a few songs from the same album in a row...

also after this upgrade, new random people are showing up in my "x listened to" feed...are these actually not random?

also after this upgrade, new random people are showing up in my "x listened to" feed...are these actually not random?

yeah I was wondering about that too

Have release years always been so reliably broken? Anything released earlier than, say, 2003 seems to have some random year stuck on. Michel Polnareff's entire oeuvre is supposedly from the 1990s, for instance.

remasters maybe? albums that have been remastered always seem to be by that date

Spotify has created some serious space issues on my phone.

^

Definitely some kind of vampirism going on

I like how if you have songs loaded on your iTunes on your iPhone they'll show up on your Spotify Mobile.

I just noticed that now you can see what your friends are listening to. Which is like that cool thing in itunes where you can see what your co-workers are listening to.

Love my friends, do not care what they are listening to

i just found the room with the worst playlist on soundrop go look here

You will not find a worse one.

btw attention DJP, there's an Orbital room. And Orbital will be chatting to fans in that room on thursday.

spotify release dates for old albums are definitely more often than not tied to the re-releases (or in some cases something even more arbitrary like the year that it was first sold online on iTunes etc.)

these are both incredibly irrelevant pieces of information

http://open.soundrop.fm/s/orbital

Ahead of the release of their 8th studio album "Wonky", Orbital are hosting a very special live webchat event on Spotify.

Join the Orbital Soundrop room on Spotify on Thursday 29th March at 4pm to chat with the band live - and get your chance to ask them about their experiences from the last 25 Years at the heart of British dance music, and their triumphant return to the studio after an 8 year hiatus.

We'll also be hosting a truly democratic Orbital playback - where you can listen along and vote for your favourite Orbital tracks - creating the ultimate Orbital playlist - voted for by the fans, for the fans.

Soundrop is an app on Spotify to share, discover and experience music together with friends. Soundrop takes the original concept of the jukebox and brings it to the web in a social and democratic way. Find it in Spotify’s App Finder.

you know the bio at the top, on artist pages? is there any way to actually expand it, to see what lies beyond the ellipses?? every lengthy bio just sputters out in...

Other than clicking on the 'biography' tab?

Actually it took me months to figure that out...

AHHHHHH

Spotify for Linux is finally stable, woo!

How can you see who's added you as a friend?

There isn't a way, right?

are there actual 'spotify friends'? i've never added anyone on there but i keep getting sidebar things about what my facebook friends are listening to.

you can add them to your 'favourites'

How? Apparently I have a friend who's chosen a two-word username and spotify won't find him

xpost Yeah there are "spotify friends" but it is horribly implemented

this is bullshit, he's added me apparently but there is no way to even see that

if you want to add him ask him for the url to his profile then add him

jfc

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/spotifyscreencapsafeway.jpg

Have to check out this band Safeway....

Spotify Extends Free Unlimited Listening for US Users, Drops 5-Track Limit in Continental Europe

Originally was to be free in US for only first 6 months; it's been over 9 months now with no confirmed cutoff date.

UK service stays as is evidently.

That's great news for us yanks! I've been expecting a knock on my door in the middle of the night demanding payment for hours and hours of musical indulgence.

Found this today:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/velvetfrog.jpg

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577334190181355280.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

i'm obsessed with spotify - pretty much the only way i listen to music these days. even music they don't have i end up streaming through the program for easy cross-device sharing. but i'm scared to death that it's going to close soon and leave me without all this music... :(

Even if it did close something would surely replace it, it has upped the stakes in music consumption. I buy mp3s of stuff I really like just in case, and so I can have something to travel with.

wish this shit weren't so buggy

mordy do you subscribe?

xp
forks i dont find spotify buggy at all. It's never crashed on me. What bugs do you have?

i subscribe so that i have offline access on all mobile devices. essential feature imho.

it hitches up badly on me at work but i suppose that's mostly bandwidth
at home, every time i search anything it freezes for about ten seconds. started doing that some time ago. no idea why.

btw, if ppl don't already know, the Classify app mentioned in that wall st jr article above is killer app for listening to classical music (which is otherwise kinda hard to search for)

huge soundrop update today.

I'm Inge, the CEO and Co-Founder of Soundrop. If you're receiving this email, you are a registered user of Soundrop in Spotify. On behalf of the entire Soundrop team, I want to thank you for joining our community.

The team has been very busy over the past few weeks getting ready for a major update to Soundrop. We're very excited for this new version and wanted to share the news with you personally. It has some important improvements to the overall experience of using Soundrop. We think you'll really like it.

Here's what we've done:

- We fixed the "track not available in your region" issue. Instead of doing what Depeche Mode recommends and enjoying the silence, we now pick another track from the upcoming list to play during the time when the other, non-available track is playing. We do our best to make sure the substituted track is close to the same length.

- We greatly improved how you create and control your room. When you open a room, you can designate it as either "open", which means everyone can add tracks, or "curated" which means people can only vote. You control the tracks. You can also customize your room with own picture and room name, and you can tag it so others can easily find it.

- Speaking of finding rooms. You can also make your room discoverable by any Soundrop user. If you want to search for rooms, simply use the search field on the main Soundrop lobby to find rooms by name or tag.

- We improved the chat. You can now resize the chat area and also ignore users.

We've made a number of other improvements--some small and some big. You'll see it immediately if you get started. Look for a version number starting 1.6 in the lower right-hand corner. If you don't see it, restart Spotify. That should do the trick.

I have now created a room for ilxors

ILXOR ROOM on SPOTIFY/SOUNDROP. It's a permanent link too. Come add songs and listen