Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Try again now, Mike ...

nope. i mean, nope still can't see it

what did you try?

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Oh, OK. That's fucking weird, and puts paid to my incredibly simplistic theory, which was: it works when the sharer has Spotify running, and not when they don't.

Hmm.

Still get "playlist not found".

I've just changed the Pazz & Jop list to "collaborative". Does that make a difference?

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/2tpQvA2ojTVgOLr6fozpFh

Spotify removing good stuff? Oh well fuck spotify then.

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Nope: I get "playlist not found" for that link too, Mike.

Curiouser and curiouser: having deleted my own shared playlist, if I click the link, it recreates the fucking thing! This is absolutely fucked-up.

nope. i thought about that but i managed to get the freakytrigger/popular 1950s playlist which ain't collaborative. xxp.

OK. Another one. Can someone try this?

http://open.spotify.com/user/weesimon/playlist/7cz83ptHcO9jbQ9XSwoH1L

Well, it IS beta. Can everybody get the FT playlist?

http://open.spotify.com/user/freakytrigger/playlist/2u5G9BcsC34s65XnksFnea

Grimly: nope, not found.

ditto.

Can everybody get the FT playlist?

Nope. Hmmm! I wonder how this actually works (or, er, doesn't) at the Spotify end?

Ledge: I just tried yours again, which worked before, and it now says "not found". Have you deleted it, or is this further evidence for the fact it's all a bit buggered?

A friend in Amsterdam picked this one up fine yesterday:

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/2zYHbXxldh3YIti4SM3doz

my test one is still there. there are a couple of questions about this on the support forums, unanswered; if we 'vote' for the questions they might get some attention.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/playlist_not_found_when_loading_someone_elses_playlist?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_spotify

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/why_dont_friends_playlist_links_work?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_spotify

no joy with amsterdam one. it's fucked, is my diagnosis.

Yeh, that's barking: the only one I've ever got working was your test one, Ledge, but now that doesn't work either.

Had a further Google and there seems to be a lot of this about. There's also an entire site devoted to Spotify lists (go on, have a guess at the URL), none of which I can get to work. Aye, I'll have a look at the support forums.

Right. I've done my bit to raise awareness of this terrible scourge. I'm off to do something more useful instead :)

suckify

ok waiting three hours and/or restarting got me the playlists.

hurrah!

I have been able to get all of the linked playlists

on free spotify, on a mac

Me too.

I can get them all to work too.

yes me too but ima homegrown so that s probably it

and ive listened to tons of king crimson on spotify?

I can open the playlists ok in IE7 but when I try to open them in Firefox I get 'Invalid option:spotify:user:.....', any ideas, google isn't my friend when it comes to this.

I find the most reliable method is to copy the links and paste them in the spotify search box and hit return.

can someone please send me an invite?

Are you UK? If so go here, no invite needed:

http://www.spotify.com/en/get-started

nope. Greece.

https://www.spotify.com/invitation/cJFKjAsTazyHdXWG

curses! spotify free is not available in your country. oh well. thanks anyway, guys.

spotify videogames playlist

awesome

no saria's song, no credibility

20 (of the 25) country #1's of 2008

Loving the ILX collaborative playlist...
http://troubled-diva.com/spotify-ilx-playlist.gif

This works perfectly for me now. Wonderful! Am too busy weeping (once again) at the eternal fucking shitness of Microsoft Excel to explore it much further, mind. Hurrah, though.

I added that ghost cauldron track : D

who put up the letta mbulu? was really feeling that earlier

Letta Mbulu was one of mine.

It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.

this is starting to piss me off too. on the pazz & jop playlist above for instance the gaslight anthem track is an acoustic version and pink's so what is some hi-nrg dance remix. don't think the compiler intended it that way. i keep coming across stuff in live versions (biz markie's just a friend) or sixties tracks that sound that they were rerecorded by one or more of their original members somewhere in the eighties (the bobby fuller four's i fought the law).

How can you add to it?

spotify videogames playlist

omfg

I've corrected the Pink. There's no other version of the Gaslight Anthem track, though...

This is amazing. AMAZING. Although I will now only be buying records that aren't on it, so business-model-wise maybe not the best idea.

I can see the playlists - how would one add to one if one wanted too?

If it's a collaborative playlist (like the ILX one above) just drag and drop the track onto it.

loving this. wishing it included videos and more better data tho.

would be cool if you could see who added what to playlists too, and maybe a SUGGEST BAN system...

Top of my wishlist: a recommendation engine; social networking features.

I quite like being able to add stuff anonymously to the ILX playlist. It removes the pressure to impress.