Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Another day, another non-working, utterly useless mac app...

Probably banal question: I've got a shit ton of playlists, only a handful of which I keep offline at any one time. Is there any way to isolate these so I don't have to scroll through everything to find the downloaded ones? 'Offline mode' bizarrely replicates online mode, as far as I can tell - it just takes away the possibility of data usage.

i have often wanted exactly this - just show me my offline playlists

you actually can just filter your playlists for offline only though?

just select 'downloads' on the filter

lol i never knew that was there :/ hidin in the burger menu!

Same here - not seen that before. Duh.

glad to be of service!

new to me too, very helpful

Another day, another non-working, utterly useless mac app...

One day the desktop version will work properly within 30mins of being launched.

I don't know what I do right with Spotify on my 4-year-old Macbook but it works pretty much like a dream.

The ropy, features-dropping-off, non-album-artwork-displaying unupdated old version running on my crappy old Windows XP pc at home where I have shitty bandwidth responds much better, starts up faster and does searches near-instantly. The up-to-date version running on my shiny new PC at work with high bandwidth takes up to an hour of the dreaded spinning circle of dots before it will do a search or even display a selected playlist. I usually just give in and use the web browser version just so i can actually listen to some music before lunch.

My shiny, up-to-date PC desktop version remains forever convinced that I am still listening to Kid Creole's "Stool Pigeon", with Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright" queued as the next track. Thus, every time I start it up, the second track I hear is always Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright", unless I remember to clear the queue first. Luckily, I'm quite fond of Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright".

Lol

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immaterial girl

mmhh youtube soul wormhole

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everything else on my computer works fine

This is the correct florid techno visualisation.

spotify is a bit different than most other things on your computer though

It runs so faster on my work computer (ssd, i7)

so much faster

it might have more to do with your network connection on that computer, though

Ah yeah you're probably right

it does seem to have got slower

How do I keep The Chaimsmokers from always coming up on My Release Radar?

lol at the idea of an all-Jew Chainsmokers tribute band

“Lover Man”, oh where can you be? In my Release Radar Playlist!

Chainsmokers on my Release Radar, too. And David Guetta.

ouch

In addition to the Chainsmokers (again), I also had "The Temptations" coving Sam Smith this morning.

can I deactivate the ?si=YLlbiLPJRx2yiGRXbGCYFA string that's attached to all links I copy from Spotify? I'm guessing they're used for data analysis but I like my links clean...

IPO today

Good luck, Glenn!

Weird non-IPO IPO is sort of interesting:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotifys-un-ipo-everything-need-know-132349447.html

Damn, guess they were waiting for Drag City before they IPO'd.

stock will take a beating after investors learn that they still can't listen to "halfway to a threeway"

lol

why does spotify think i like the chainsmokers? i don't get it? *orders market sell of 10,000 shares*

So basically their net loss grows faster than their revenue? Pass.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518063434/d494294df1.htm#rom494294_12

Spotify started trading on the New York Stock Exchange moments ago. And, after a few hours of behind-the-scenes buying and selling, its official debut public price has been revealed – $166 per share, resulting in a market cap worth approximately $29.6bn.

The news comes after months of speculation regarding Spotify’s official valuation, with analysts recently reporting that private trades of the company put its worth anywhere between $18bn and $44bn.

Spotify’s valuation stood at just $8bn as recently as May 2015, according to reports in the financial press at the time – meaning that this figure has more than trebled in less than three years.

Experts have warned, however, that some price volatility is expected in the wake of Spotify’s unusual ‘direct listing’ approach to flotation.

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http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/official-spotify-is-worth-as-it-begins-trading-on-new-york-stock-exchange/

Short term trading aside, this looks designed to be a nightmare as an investment on both the long and the short side, given that Spotify’s profitability is pretty much completely dependent on the royalty rates that the majors charge and the music they make available, and they won’t like it if too much cash leaks out to investors as buybacks/dividend.

So low rates now, big rise in profitability/users, stock goes up, majors offload their holdings, and then raise rates. Too many sceptic hedge funds on the short side? Just keep rates low for a while, wipe them out first, then do the above.

But wtf do i know, good luck to everyone involved.

I thought this was a good explanation of the weird IPO strategy

https://www.recode.net/2018/4/2/17189624/spotify-daniel-ek-ipo-silicon-valley-wall-street-relationship

spotify is telling me nirvana is having a concert in my area in june. i'm confused.

It's the official reunion tour with Geddy Lee on lead vox

Or at least I hope it is

Latest version on Windows 10 seems to have all sorts of stupid problems. Often suddenly unable to drag or even select tracks in playlists, green play button on releases stops working, even little things like the 'About Spotify' link under the recently introduced 'three dots' catch-all menu (also bad) just bringing up nothing.

My Discover Weekly was so so, but it did make me discover the song Seabird by Alessi Brothers.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 11:13 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 Alessi Brothers