> Four MB albums, Deano
thanks. we don't have any, amazon.co.uk mp3 store has scratch n stitch and a couple of tracks from compilations, emusic had a lot... all these people seem to be getting their info from the same places though, they all make the same mistakes (search for broadcast on amazon - details are about duophonic / warp broadcast but the listed albums aren't)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 December 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
One detail I like: when it gets to the end of what I've queued up, it just continues with the current album without me needing to ask it to. (I suppose I can see how someone might not like this, though.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally got round to sorting scrobbling for this (there's a windows messenger box ticked by default in the last.fm client that somehow stops Scrobblify from working). So far I'm really liking Spotify - handy for hearng stuff you randomly think on that you haven't got in your library or for legal trying before you buy. The adverts don't annoy me in the slightest.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
fails Boredoms test :(
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
anyone got a spotfiy INVITE?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
If not, try the "oooh ask me please!" option on the website ("Get started" -> email in "Not invited?" field). Took about five days for me, was surprised to get it at all actually.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
jordan, webmail me an email address to send an invite to.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't get asked for an invite here, just got straight in
― stet, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
This is amazing! You type in what you want to listen to, and then you are listening to it. all this needs is to work on an iphone, and then i'll buy an iphone, and then i will have achieved bliss.
― Slumpman, Sunday, 7 December 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Mine appears to have made it through an album without giving me any adverts. Maybe they've bumped me up to a pro account without realising it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 December 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
you can now scrobble to last.fm from within spotify (it's in 'preferences')
― braveclub, Sunday, 21 December 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That's handy, saves me running that scrobblify thing at the same time.
Spotify lists 'The Prodigy' as 'Prodigy' and makes last.fm think this guy sings Smack My Bitch Up and Out of Spacehttp://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/17704623.jpg
― dj onimotian (onimo), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
can someone please send me an invite?
thanks!!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Er....
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Think there's still a waiting list though.
<3 this service btw.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Got in straight away with the link I posted.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Aha they've obviously opened it up!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Downside is loads more ads (I've heard two during the same album), but you can hear them coming after a while and tune out. Still great.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.
Please!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
If i hear gareth jones from cardiff reciting pi again i'll scream
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
(advert)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
And I'm not buying that White Lies record either.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
At least it doesn't scrobble the adverts
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
jonathan from spotify sounds remarkably like Michael Vaughan
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf 2 adverts in a row (the 2nd was for that White Lies album)
See what I mean about them? The Killers meet Editors big wowz!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
can i get a spotify invite
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.Please!― kaiser, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmarkcan i get a spotify invite― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:03 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
― kaiser, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:03 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
Have any of you actually tried the link posted? Quite a few of my friends in the UK have used the link and joined today. Maybe it doesn't work in other countries...
\o.0/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in the US and that link asks for one of two things:
1)an invite code
or
2)your email address so they can notify you when it goes "public"
I wonder what their excuse is. Don't they want more people to hear their stupid ads?
― I am a vampire, therefore I take garlic pills (Bimble), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
is it UK only?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
mr bimble check your email
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in the US and unless something changed in the last few days, we can't use spotify and all the workarounds have been blocked
― miss precious perfect (musically), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I selected this a couple of weeks ago, and got an invite from them within the same day. May not be the case now, of course.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 23 January 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/ gets you straight in without an invite.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I went in on that link above, no trouble at all. I'm in the UK tho - maybe there's a problem with the US, I dunno.
It's awesome, btw. Nearest thing to the "universal jukebox" I've seen for a long time.
― NotEnough, Friday, 23 January 2009 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's staggering. At least 95% of my track/artist searches to date have returned results. And I like the concept of shared playlists.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Spotify Premium is available in Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the UK. The Free version is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.
It amuses me to see the adverts briefly appear in last.fm (and permanently in your Spotify history).
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
This is impressive. There's a lot more weird, small stuff on than I thought there would be, thopugh also mystifying gaps too.
Someone should set up a shared ILX playlist for Jan (then we can move to Feb etc to stop it getting unwieldy). I'll do it tonight if no-one else does.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Excellent idea. I was thinking of doing one for the Pazz & Jop Top 50 singles, and maybe the Rocktimists poll tracks as well. But it'll have to wait until tonight.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Gaps spotted so far: no King Crimson, very little UK Funky, no Aeroplane mix of Grace Jones "Williams Blood" (although their mix of Friendly Fires "Paris" is on there). Remixes are generally well represented, though.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Remixes are generally well represented, though.
But not always listed as remixes, I've found. And they don't scrobble as remixes (sorry, I'll take that to the last.fm thread)
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I also like the non-bloatiness: the software was running at around 14,000k on my home PC last night - so I could close iTunes for once, and benefit from the faster performance.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope this thing a) goes global so the US can use it b) they make a mobile/iphone app c) ushers in a new era of music use.
I confidently predict big 4 will put a stop to it.
― NotEnough, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
All the majors have signed up in europe, though. I suppose it's whether the US ones are far-sighted enough.
It's also notable that most of the big digital music holdout bands aren't represented- no Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Every Stones album is there though, yay!
Another thing I've noticed is that the service avoids any queueing problems, as you occasionally get on, say, last.fm.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 23 January 2009 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Last.fm is screwed unless they can come up with something as wide ranging as this.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 23 January 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The DJ Khaled selection is spotty and Denim aren't on there either.
I do like the way that you get to see all the crummy compilation albums that bands appear on. If you pick someone like The Sweet it takes about 5 mins to scroll through them all.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 January 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
How on earth are they going to make any money out of this model? I can only imagine that once they've got a critical mass of people using it, they're going to radically increase the amount of advertising.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 23 January 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
That and premium subs I guess.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 23 January 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
xp haha that's v good
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― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 21 December 2023 15:45 (two months ago) link
Glenn McDonald. xp
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 21 December 2023 17:14 (two months ago) link
Pp
― mike t-diva, Friday, 22 December 2023 10:47 (two months ago) link
Anyone else get nearly half live tracks on the their Release Radar today? Not sure if it's a quirk of the algorithm or just that record companies aren't releasing studio recorded material this week much
― Alba, Friday, 22 December 2023 12:07 (two months ago) link
Spotty keeps defaulting to smart shuffle which is a bit annoying
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:49 (two months ago) link
My Release Radar is the usual 200 tracks and over 14 Hours. However over 120 are repeated from last week.link:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbna71kiV69B1?si=68wT47W_SCCoKevNHVvinw&pi=e-IUdSrtk8Q7mTHowever this time of the year if the artists you follow aren't releasing music it will be reduced.
― djmartian, Friday, 22 December 2023 20:02 (two months ago) link
how on earth do you get a 200 track release radar?
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 23 December 2023 11:32 (two months ago) link
Systems thinking
― Alba, Saturday, 23 December 2023 11:33 (two months ago) link
Search doesn't work for me at all lately on Mac desktop app. Lots of issues lately (couldn't play anything for quite a while the other day after multiple restarts).
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 December 2023 13:22 (two months ago) link
Nor does clicking through to an album from a playlist entry work now.
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 December 2023 13:24 (two months ago) link
I guess you just need to follow lots and lots and lots of artists xps
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 December 2023 20:43 (two months ago) link
Alba at 5:33 23 Dec 23Systems thinkinglol deep cut
― jaymc, Saturday, 23 December 2023 21:54 (two months ago) link
I hope Glenn won't mind if I link directly to that post here; it's relevant to the subject of this thread and includes some wisdom about corporate employment I wish I had encountered a decade or so ago.https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473― Brad C., Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:12 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473
― Brad C., Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:12 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Thanks Glenn (and Brad for sharing) - this spoke to something I think about a lot, as someone who also works in a big tech corporation. All the really great ideas I've seen have come from individuals thinking up something cool, or getting frustrated at something not-cool and wanting to do better. As a manager I sometimes think my best work involves putting those individuals in situations where they will be sufficiently inspired/frustrated and then retrofitting our existing plan to whatever great ideas come along.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:37 (two months ago) link
Took me a while to realise that if you click on the green tick next to a track in the desktop app it now tells you what playlists you've added it to. Miss being able to see which songs I've liked at a glance though.
― Alba, Monday, 22 January 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
the worst change ever getting rid of the heart AGAIN. you can post your displeasure with it here:https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/The-Heart-button-is-being-replaced-with-a-Plus-button/bc-p/5831722#M23900and vote for it here:https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idi-p/5709907
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
Clicking on the tick works on the phone apps too. I do really like that feature
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 08:10 (one month ago) link
It doesn't work properly on the phone for me. Even when the green tick shows it only sometimes tells me which ones it's in. Weird, as exactly the same track it doesn't work for on desktop will not work on the app.
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 11:33 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KA7C43F.jpgAghhh im paying to be advertised to agghhh
― calstars, Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:40 (one month ago) link
They wanted me to listen to some booktoky audiobook about singer songwriters :/
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
how can I copy/paste japanese from spotify?
for when I happen upon a massive banger but have no clue who the artist is
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 12 February 2024 09:45 (one month ago) link
japanese lettering* that was supposed to be (or kanji or furigana or katakana, sry for being a complete novice)
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 12 February 2024 09:47 (one month ago) link
If you open your Spotify acct in your web browser, you should be able to copy the text
― Vinnie, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:15 (one month ago) link
how can I copy/paste japanese from spotify? for when I happen upon a massive banger but have no clue who the artist is
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link
cool!
thanks, eventually was able to get it via a pluging for copypasting url titles
Asei Kobayashi
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 12 February 2024 14:39 (one month ago) link