Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I get it both on my PC at work and my Mac at home. it's easy enough to just click on the next track to skip something, but it would still be nice to see it fixed. judging by the number of people who have reported it, I must be in the minority.

The greyed out buttons are a bug with the last release. I only get it when I queue tracks using 'Right Click + Queue.' The buttons work fine if I play an entire playlist or album without queuing it.

ah, yes. I mostly queue big playlists that I work through over the course of the day, so that's why I didn't even realize that the buttons appear when you don't queue. it IS annoying as hell!

thanks for the info!

this weird thing where Spotify recommendations turn into Facebook messages is kind of creeping me out

I still don't quite get how Facebook and Spotify work together. Like, there are obvious and easy ways to control and group what posts on Facebook -- but right now, it seems like every single thing you play gets posted as a status update...or nothing does. Or at least, I think that's how it works -- because I can't really figure out how to track it.

I'll tell you tho: Spotify should just go out and buy Last.FM. Those two technologies are perfect for each other.

oo good point

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16755449

Singers and bands who withhold their albums from music streaming services, such as Spotify, are in danger of alienating their fans, an executive from record label Universal has said.

Acts including Adele and Coldplay kept their latest albums off Spotify, which is seen by some as damaging sales.

But Francis Keeling, vice president of digital at Universal Music, said such acts risk "alienating their fanbases".

Universal is the world's most successful record label.

Adele's track Rolling In The Deep was the most-played single of 2011 on Spotify UK, but the star has withheld the complete album, 21 - released by the XL label - from the service.

Coldplay's manager Dave Holmes recently told Bloomberg Businessweek that the band's Mylo Xyloto, released on EMI, would be on Spotify eventually.

But he said: "I am very concerned. Spotify competes with download stores."

The Black Keys and Tom Waits are among the other high-profile acts who have kept their latest releases off streaming services.

Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach told Billboard magazine that the royalties from streaming services were "so minuscule it's laughable".

"It's a cool thing to have if you're in a new band and you want to be heard," he said. "But if you are a bigger band that's already known and you rely on record sales for a living, then it's really no place to be."

Universal has said its research proved that Spotify did not cannibalise sales, and Mr Keeling said the label negotiated with artists on a case-by-case basis.

"Over time, we're trying to convince our artists that streaming services are the right thing to do and these services should be supported," he said, according to PaidContent.

Mr Keeling was speaking at the label's Investors' Open Day in London, where Spotify announced that it now had three million paying subscribers, with approximately 12 million more using its free service.

and coldplay,black keys etc wonder why people download their stuff for free

I can see their point, if the royalties are as bad as people say, can't you?

People download all sorts of stuff for free, regardless of whether or not it's popular or available on Spotify.

is there a differentiation to be made he about records you'd like to hear and records you'd like to own? casual fans vs hardcore fans? or is owning stuff something you did in the past?

*made here*

Spotify is such a ridiculously good thing, not having classic rockers and such can be annoying (especially those re-recordings)...but people would have chopped off their right arm to have this kind of access twenty years ago!

Used and discounted CDs are cool for me right now, just upload the thing and you can mix it with Spotify...

Spotify needs to make some concessions around royalties for more popular acts. I could imagine them using a sliding scale where the royalty rate increases if a track exceeds a certain threshold of plays. I don't see this as an insurmountable problem over the long term.

Totally agreed.

Anyone had any issues with offline syncing to a device recently? My wifi connection at home is fine (minimum 1mb/s) but Spotify behaves like I'm on dial-up, taking about ten minutes to add a single track. Doesn't stream well either, unless I'm on 3G.

it's always been fine with me, i take it you've tried un-syncing then re-syncing again?

or it could be an issue with your mobile device and a firewall blah blah

so i have spotify in my dock (mac os x lion), and whenever i click on the icon, another spotify icon appears in the dock, and it's that icon that gets the little blue light under it saying the program's running or whatever, while the original spotify icon i clicked just sits there. is there a way to fix this? not a big deal but it's weird

I synced some tracks the other day and it worked like normal.

so... no one really uses the "recommend things to ppl" features other than me, right

some of my friends use it.

thanks for sending me underworld yesterday, i really enjoyed it!

Is that the same as the inbox? Someone (hi jim!) once sent me a whole cliff richard album.

thanks for sending me underworld yesterday, i really enjoyed it!

woot awesome!

Is that the same as the inbox?

Yeah; it seems like most of my friends had a flurry of "omg cool!" for a week and now I'm the only dork still sending tracks/albums to people

(that's okay though because that is precisely the mantle of dorkdom I choose to take up)

i do this with one or two people. love finding a song in my inbox that someone has heard and thought I would appreciate.

Dan, have sent something to you.

listening now, thanks!

oh this is pretty cool

not 100% convinced by the singer but the gothy overtones in the music more than make up for it

(song in question for those curious: http://open.spotify.com/track/189gb58kHUdS5MdLBcz18f)

A complete stranger sent me a track via Spotify Inbox last week, because he had found and enjoyed one of my playlists. This made me happy.

Ha, thought the vocals might be the stumbling block. He's actually rather restrained on the new album', he was very Beefheart-ian on their earlier stuff.

Cheers Dan, sadly it came up with a not available in your region warning. Having said that I'm familiar with the track from the album and it's terrific.

Shabazz Palaces - ' An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum' btw

just cancelled spotify premium for the billionth time. i always waffle between whether paying $10/month is worth it and sometimes i think it's totally worth it, and other times I think I should just put the $10 toward some bills. let's see how long till not having access on my phone will get to me...

soo it turns out that if you cancel spotify premium while your iphone app is on "offline mode", you can continue to listen to all those songs you marked for offline listening until spotify automatically goes back in online mode in xx number of days.

Just trying the Soundrop app, which works from within Spotify and lets you set up collaborative listening rooms - a bit like Outloud, but tracks with the most votes from the room get played first. There's an iPhone app, but you can't see other people's user-generated rooms.

Take a look: http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VrrEtGY3yyQaHUHa

Trying Soundrop again while I do the ironing - please feel free to interfere and disrupt: http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vrr02QEOWXaDDJOo

Would like to joinm in but it needs a facebook account. Still always nice to hear 'Snooze 4 Love'.

enjoying this specific session, but i do wonder whether the voting thing could get a little annoying - prefer the outloud set-up of just queuing stuff up.

yeah if a certain faction only likes one sort of music then they all vote en-masse for it and it could get very samey.
of course if you only want one form of music played that faction could set up their own room

Just clicked on the African room and Jack Peirson has added Nigger Hatin' Me by Johhny Horton.

If everyone agrees not to vote then I assume it's the same as an Outloud queue.

yeah true

mikes got a nice wee room going come join us

the dubstep room is by far the biggest room. 379 listeners just now, lol.

:( Canada.

No way to use this in Canada, eh?

Started this thread Bump This Thread if you have an ILM Spotify Soundrop Room going
got a funk/soul/disco room going just now if anyone would like to join. Link is in that thread.

the overlay ads are freezing & crashing the entire app, i may pay up just so that i can use it properly

by the way, it seems sort of dumb that spotify and last.fm aren't.. the same thing

haha OTM

i started a post on http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/doom_black_metal_public_rooms_please asking for more subgenre rooms, the viceroy replied too. Could maybe you all reply to the thread agreeing with us and ask for what genre rooms you would like? (djp if you say the metal subgenre rooms are a great idea i'll back you up on 80s goth and 80s industrial!, deal?) :)

i figure the more who post on the thread the more notice they will take. It would be much appreciated if you all do.

posting