Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

Also
Blue Note Jazz
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W17NnyaEs2PP2Kjd

Funk
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16ubv7yznrcAmXN

Krautrock/Kosmiche
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16sYgyHTuZRkSer

This shit needs to work on mobile.

it does on iphone. Android app to come apparently.

I tried it out on my ipod touch and it froze a lot so I gave up on it

There's already an Android app for Spotify, works fine for me.

The Android app. for Spotify is completely broken. It's a "known issue" with no timeline for addressing it. I downgraded my subscription due to this.

Fair enough. I've got in on my mobile and a tablet and works fine on both.

There's a Goth room now http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1GKFiSg2FOT9c2r

And another more ILM Goth friendly http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1NHgDXLKS4AnTjE

80s pop metal ezsnappin/johnny fever friendly room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W1GYFWKEy7m42hS1

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

So sad....I love these rooms but in many of them I drop a few tracks and leave.

it does on iphone. Android app to come apparently.

So was I . Soundrop app is available for iphone. Android app will come say the developers.

Permanent link http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16fTbbsgjzuGhsN

You can subscribe to the room too I think. So please everyone come check it out!

I dont know. I dont have an iphone.

btw spotify is launching a new android version http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2012/04/19/new-android-preview/

I just downloaded this and it works perfectly so far, about 5 minutes of playing with it. A much needed improvement!

hurrah!

just grabbed it as well. it can't really be much worse than the previous version! that thing crashed if i did ANYTHING.

looking fwd to playing around w this...

I think I've already complained about this, but I've been playing around with it a bunch the past couple of days to find a fix and haven't been very successful. There are a bunch of local files that I have that are on one of my offline lists. No matter how many times I sync that offline list, it pulls the songs from the Spotify library instead of from my local files. I can't seem to figure out a way to force it to use the local files instead.

have you done the "unlink track" thing on them (select track, right-click, choose "Unlink Track")? so far i've only done it when i want my meta-data to show instead of theirs, so i'm not sure if it would solve this problem.

Does that unlink the track from the spotify library or from my file directory?

I really like spotify, it has become my my method of listening to music. But I feel out of control with it, I need a better and easier way to organize everything. I feel overwhelmed with all the music I want to listen to. Here's my wishlist:

-Put the damned playlists in alphabetical order. I create a folder for new albums and I have to manually drag and drop them in alphabetical order. This is insane, I should just be able to drop a playlist in the folder and it is automatically sorted. Who the fuck wants a folder of playlists to be in a random goddamned order?

-Smart playlists. Knock iTunes all you want, but smart playlists was a beautiful feature. I want playlists from songs I've added to my library in the last x-amount of time. Playlists based on playcount/last time listened/year/genre/etc. Can't live my life this way.

-Family pro account. Stupid that I have to pay for two pro accounts.

Another thing missing from Spotify that I really like in itunes and ipods is the ability to browse through your music in a number of different ways. I'd love to be able to go to an artist menu that spans all of my playlists and then pull up a specific album to listen to.

put Spotify on my desktop 5 months ago, there it stays despite my not being able to operate it.

"fire up the Spotify, Bertha, i'm goin in"

weird that the version of Tori Amos's Boys For Pele on US Spotify is the UK version w/ different tracklist

When will the desktop app finally be compatible with Apple AirPlay??!

some dude it's "weird" only if you imagine Spotify have their shit together

This new app update is buggy. The skipping has returned. Drives me bananas.

album artwork seems to be gone in offline mode, otoh I'm glad they added gapless and crossfade

baaderonixx, you know you can get Airfoil and send any app's audio to AirPlay right? Does cost $ ...

Spotify + last.fm app + 9 years of my listening data is out of control

some dude it's "weird" only if you imagine Spotify have their shit together

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

eh i use spotify constantly and haven't noticed anything like that before that wasn't easily explained.

it's easily explained by the notion that someone has fucked up which is not too surprising given the number of plates they must be attempting to keep spinning at any given moment

well, i haven't seen a lot of examples of human error, usually it's something like tracks/albums being held back for legal reasons, track lengths, etc. if different countries' versions of albums being available in the wrong territory is commonplace, sorry i brought it up, it just caught my eye.

they should figure out how to tally the all time listens for individual users. i wanna see mine. i look forward to my weekly ones, even though i know theyre not that accurate.

I want a "delete queue" button. I'm tired of having to delete each individual track on a queue of tunes I may have wanted twenty minutes ago.

You can just highlight the first and last song in the queue you want to delete, or do you mean something different?

http://www.spotify.com/uk/nus/

(UK) Students get a 50% discount on premium

-Put the damned playlists in alphabetical order. I create a folder for new albums and I have to manually drag and drop them in alphabetical order. This is insane, I should just be able to drop a playlist in the folder and it is automatically sorted. Who the fuck wants a folder of playlists to be in a random goddamned order?

click the 'track' header to sort by track name in alphabetical order, 'album' by album in same

I want a "delete queue" button. I'm tired of having to delete each individual track on a queue of tunes I may have wanted twenty minutes ago.

highlight first track, hold shift, click last track, all the tracks now highlighted, now hit delete

are you people mac users or something

there should still really be a "clear queue" button - also there's no way to delete the placeholder tracks that spotify adds in at the bottom of your queue in case you run out of songs, which is very annoying - you can't even delete them manually

Yes, I am on a mac, and sort of see what you are saying, but I don't think that's what I'm looking for. For example I keep a folder called Archived and I drag playlists in there. They don't automatically sort alphabetically, they just go in whatever order you put them in there. You have to go in there and manually drag them till they are in order.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/7140175351_1cc1696036.jpg

Because when I look at them on mobile, they are in the same order they are in the desktop app. Fine if you have a few, but if you playlists for tons of albums, it's hard to sort through.

yeah, that is annoying. my workaround for mobile is sending my playlist to a new temporary one, clearing the original playlist, sorting the temp one by artist, then sending everything in the temp playlist back into the original one. a 'sort by artist' option on mobile would eliminate the need for me to do this weird stuff.

Scotland's post-rock heavyweights weigh in

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@jetfury No, just realistic – I don't see that there's any way to beat it, and Pirate Bay are just this week's scapegoats.

stuart braithwaite ‏ @plasmatron
@AidanJohnMoffat @jetfury if you opened up a shop selling photocopies of all books on the best seller list you'd get the jail.

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@plasmatron @jetfury The Pirate Bay isn't a shop.

stuart braithwaite ‏ @plasmatron
@AidanJohnMoffat @jetfury I know. at least they are honest about their pirate status. Spotify are worse with their fake respectability

Aidan John Moffat ‏ @AidanJohnMoffat
@plasmatron @jetfury Aye, I'd honestly rather folk just stole my stuff than use Spotify.

i'd listen to arab strab on spotify now to spite him but then i'd have to listen to arab strap

Lisetn to this instead http://open.spotify.com/track/3hFEsMMCUCMZwZN6nZh8E2

ipad app looks real good honestly