Spotify - anyone heard of it?

if you're having probs with spotify taking ages to load and being a bit shit turn all the crap off in preferences, except for enable hardware accelleration i guess, made a huge improvement here

what stuff did you turn off?

everything except hardware acceleration. removing the 'sync local files' seems to have made a difference to the startup time on this machine. turned off all the social grap, gapless playing etc. really seems to have made an improvement.

iphone app is still fucked for me tho v annoying, crashing all the time, taking forever to load

artists not on spotify: isotope 217 for some reason. Seems like other thrill jockey stuff is on there.

fucked for me again? anyone else not getting it to work? (i'm on a mac)

been glitchy for me lately

same here. tracks dropping in and out a lot. happened once on iTunes too though so I was afraid it might be my wifi. (I beam from my laptop to powered speakers.)

been ok for me

Was crashing over and over again for an hour or two earlier, so I got the new update (another one) and now it seems to have stabilised a bit. I've had to stop it from opening on start up though, it was killing my pc for a good 6 or 7 mins each time, was really winding me up

i did the clear cache, uninstall, reinstall thing AGAIN and it's better now, still getting annoying tho

only glitch i ever get is sometimes when a song starts playing, it's completely silent, but if i bring it back to the beginning and start it over then it's fine. but i've had that issue the whole time i've been on spotify - not a recent problem.

according to my spotify feed, Miles Davis just listened to Walkin by Miles Davis

Yeah it was getting worse and worse for me but uninstalling and reinstalling cleared it all up. Killing a few of the apps might have helped as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22064353

^^^ This is interesting - not sure why artists are making so much more from streaming in some countries than in the US and UK?

that's only more as a percentage though, doesn't necessarily correlate to actual money.

New update for iPhone app claims it fixes crashes. We'll see....

I really liked using ctrl+f to quickly locate songs titles within long lists of artists, or to quickly filter out unofficial "re-recordings." And now one of the recent updates has disabled the filter option. (It's still an option under the "edit" tab, but it's been grayed so that it can't be selected.)

Also I'm still bummed about the lack of accuracy in my "top lists."

mac version borked again today

yeah this up and exploded on me today, had to reinstall from scratch

Same here. Didn't reinstall though.

i wish i hadn't! It's reloading all my local files and that's like a near terabyte of music and it can't get it down.
searching for anything makes this fucking program freeze like a deer in headlights

artists not on spotify: isotope 217 for some reason. Seems like other thrill jockey stuff is on there.

lol i noticed this

not sure why artists are making so much more from streaming in some countries than in the US and UK

Well in Sweden the takeup of Spotify is just huge. 70% of the population uses it. If 70% of the UK used Spotify I imagine Uk artists would be doing much better out of it as well.

goddamn, the new icon for the desktop app is very ugly.

And they've increased the font size on playlists, which greatly reduces the number of tracks that you can view at the same time. Yet the font sizes elsewhere remain the same. Visually, it's becoming such an ungainly cludge.

so what finally worked for this was to disengage all my own music from the service so now i have to use both itunes AND spotify, way to go new version

and everytime i start itunes, spotify crashes ten minutes later!

Conspiracy

Something new that I rate positively: you get a notification when there's a new release for an artist you follow. Just found out about the Josephine Foster Recordstoreday album!

Spotify used to tell you the running time, in minutes, for a playlist at the top of the playlist. doesn't seem to do that anymore, am i not looking in the right place?

they seem to have dumped that feature in one of the updates awhile back--hopefully because they're working on a more precise one. Seems silly for a service with an emphasis on playlists to lack a time measurement.

How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.

Apple probably has a patent on counting playlist times

Some kind of weird mashup in the app now, mixing the current and prior search, so I have Top Tracks and Artist Bio for Television, but albums by Charley Patton.

And now some Russian group called Television in Cyrillic alphabet, but I guess that can't be helped.

> How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.

ha, ha. (i laugh to hide the pain). at work we do something similar and i've written the equiv playlist code. playlists are in one table, the tracks belonging to those playlists are in another. total time belongs to playlist, individual track times belong to the playlist tracks. keeping the two in sync during inserts and deletes is a pain. also, the track list is paged, fetched and displayed 10 or 25 or whatever at a time, you don't get all of them at once because there can be up to 9999 tracks in a playlist. so you can't just add them up...

otm. men die about a little spoonful messing up their television playlist times.

Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.

^^^ driving me crazy totally.

it has made me mad for months now

Super weak that the desktop app doesn't sync with mobile over USB. Each device syncing up through the internet seems like a waste of bandwidth, not to mention time.

I just subscribed to iTunes Match -- until Spotify makes it easier somehow to determine what tracks on your hard drive aren't available on Spotify, it's not going to be the über-library it can be.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4331110/google-lands-universal-music-sony-for-spotify-competitor

Dammit! The hack to keep old spotify working doesn't work anymore. Now I'm stuck with the new version like the rest of you saps.

Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.

― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:45 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just install the 'Spotify for iOS 4' app.

i can see myself jumping ship to google's service even if the functionality/coverage are no better than spotify's because i'd expect them to have better catalogging - spotify's database/tagging/etc is just so messy even on some more popular artists

yes

Yeah, the Spotify update really does seem to have come at the worst time - this is assuming that many users are finding it as unwieldy and laggy as I am, which doesn't seem unreasonable given the attempts to prevent updates to the new software - but if someone could offer me a similar service right now for the same price minus the lag then I'd bite their hand off tbh

the google service has a 30 day free trial right now (if you supply a credit card) but there doesn't seem to be an iphone app, so it's kinda useless for me.

i just wish the fuckers would bring back playlist durations. every new update (ie every frigging second day) makes me hope it will appear, but no

Google play's streaming service is greatat the moment once you've uploaded your catalogue to the cloud, so if they manage to seamlessly integrate that with the non-owned streaming music then I'm there.