Spotify - anyone heard of it?

im loving your playlists.

yay

I will be playing your New Jack Swing playlist tonight

the one that gus gus starts off is fanfuckingtastic.

that's the first one I did (and probably the most successful of the three)

So, when you have a song in a playlist that Spotify does not have, those who don't have it won't see it at all -- no "light gray" listing. That kinda sucks.

Obviously it makes sense for Spotify to do that.

can p much delete itunes and all of my mp3s?

No because then they won't show up on your Spotify!

ha yeah i got excited for a minute there

So, when you have a song in a playlist that Spotify does not have, those who don't have it won't see it at all -- no "light gray" listing. That kinda sucks.

― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

OK. If you want to see playlist tracks you cannot play, go into preferences and un-check "Hide unplayable tracks."

sorry if dumb question, but is there a way to view and sort the tracks in your library by bitrate, file size, play count, and other data fields that don't show up by default?

DJP did you put the alley cat mix in your playlist as a cruel joke

LOL no, I genuinely dig that mix! It would have been between that or the original; I pretend the album mix doesn't exist.

I don't know if I'll use itunes again, Spotify is much prettier as a music player. I feel like such a pratt for thinking Spotify was crap when it first came out.

Trust me, when you graduate to the paid ad-free service in a few months, you will seriously miss some of those ads.

lol

I could ditch iTunes and get over Spotify's tagging issues real fast if column browsing and smart playlists were possible.

That stuff will probably be available in a few years time. I don't know, I think dark colors are better for music, psychologically. I like the black and green, it's soothing. Although it is kind of a blatant rip-off of itunes.

bunch of white stripes stuff disappeared?

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/spotify-playlist-generator-creates-playlists-based-on-your-favorite-artist/

just found this and am at work so haven't tried it out yet. sounds quite good though and, if it works as described, a solution for those that want a bit of last.fm functionality.

That looks rather neat, will try when home!

Be careful, looks like you might download something you don't want!!

Oh, like what? Toolbars or advert shite?

How is this different to artist radio?

It generates a playlist

Try this for a web based playlist generator http://spotibot.com/playlist/

x-post: No there is a link there to some idiot software, be careful. I looked at the page, it isn't worth it.

decided it was actually better to try it at work than at home and it's fine. really basic but still quite impressive.

Spotify has made me appreciate the full album listening experience rather than always listening to random things on shuffle.

annoyed at the lack of a single repeat button so that I have to manually start 'livin on a prayer' every single time

lol

:-D

back from vacation and noticing Spotify saying I have a number of invitations I can send to USers. If this is still a thing and you need one, feel free to gmail omhalck. First come etc; also I cannot promise lightning-quick reaction at all times.

annoyed at the lack of a single repeat button so that I have to manually start 'livin on a prayer' every single time

dude make a "Livin' On A Prayer" playlist!

done and done

what is to stop someone from just going analog port in and recording anything they want and KEEPING IT!

HOME ANALOG PORT RECORDING IS KILLING MUSIC

I've wondered about similar questions myself, and ended up thinking:

1) analog port as in whatever the soundcard processes? vulnerable to random facebook chat alert dings and other unwanted sounds;
2) otoh the sound files are actually temporarily cached on your computer and you could probably get the exact digital file if you were superhumanly fantastic at decryption etc;
3) however if you wanted to care for the collection you'd get in one of those ways, you'd have an hell of a tagging and organizing task ahead;
4) all of which indicates that it seems too much hassle when the app allows you to call it up anytime you want anyway?

it's pretty simple to mute all sounds except for one app

(loving the ilm 50s playlist from upthread btw; is it a countdown or a countup or more random than that?)

HOME ANALOG PORT RECORDING IS KILLING MUSIC

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

(loving the ilm 50s playlist from upthread btw; is it a countdown or a countup or more random than that?)

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Love it myself! It is in random order though, it was made based on people's votes.

The votes make it unrandom though, right? It's a countdown from 101-ish (Battle with the Invisible Monster) to #1, I Only Have Eyes for You.

xps: fair enough Dan, but also

5) I guess rather few people would be simultaneously a) sufficiently nerdy to build a digital music collection based on re-encoding to digital form the actual analog sound signals and b) sufficiently unnerdy to not care about the resulting files not being the same as the original digital files.

Damn, loads of negations in there. Hope it is untanglable.

Oh, WmC, thought it was just a compilation of all the tracks people nominated. Sorry, misused the word vote there.

I am using this to listen to the new Kelly Rowland album right now.

Are ppl still getting defensive about how this is missing lots of stuff? Didn't feel like pulling out my cd of the infamous, tried to pull it up on spotify, oops! A bunch of classic tracks are missing

again not saying it's useless but there are def some canonical rap artists poorly served by this

that is probably because a lot of artists and/or labels want certain tracks unavailable as they are ones that they think people should/will pay for. Blame them not spotify.

It doesn't just happen with rap either , it happens with other genres. Some artists wont even allow anything on spotify.

2 tracks! idk, were they the biggest tracks from the infamous? could also be weirdness with a sample or one of the credited writers, tho i've got my copy of the infamous right here and can't really figure out what the issue would be (one has a sample listed, the other doesn't, they have different co-writers).

but anyways yeah rap and metal are certainly going to get shafted by this as they usually do.

i think some labels are leaving out some tracks to create a ~pain point~ that leads ppl to go out and shell out $$$ for those songs/a copy of the record, but that's just a guess