Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

I listened to the dubstep room this morning, and it sucked.

They need more electronica rooms in general, plus maybe more than one hip-hop room.

http://open.spotify.com/user/barackobama/playlist/6J9kgSvipjimfDLYTsCOAv

well then post on my thread and ask.

i did post on another thread , as did viceroy http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/more_stations-16k1lj

i suggested a drop down submenu for each genre where subgenre rooms could go

Maybe if when you click on the Metal room in main list it could bring up a sub-menu that asks if you want to join a Doom ,or Black or Death,Heavy,Industrial,Thrash etc room
Same with indie - it could have a submenu with all the subgenres. This way the main page could be kept nice n tidy?
And of course with the various other genres like Electronic et al

as in the metal room there's arguments over metalcore/deathcore/borecore/death metal/black metal/grey metal/nu metal/old metal and so on. Its bound to be the same in Indie or Electronic or Country and every genre on there.
just having one metal/country/indie/electronic etc room is no use.

so the best way to make it happen is to post on one of those threads. The more who actually post on a thread the closer it rises to top of the page and will get noticed by employees of soundrop

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

or CBS buy Spotify?

:( Canada.

No way to use this in Canada, eh?

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, February 6, 2012 5:42 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I use Spotify in Canada with a VPN. My employer pays for it, but they are not really expensive and totally worth it. Can't get Spotify premium though... need a US billing address and credit card for that.

iOS app added extreme 320kbps quality streaming and syncing today. Not sure if that will make a difference that I'll be able to notice. Sounded pretty good to me before.

My idea was that you could log into Spotify with last.fm I'd...because last.fm has a strong community feel that Facebook doesn't.

I think Last.fm are still pretty suspicious and wary of Spotify for obvious reasons.

looks like theres been some trouble in the dubstep room on soundcloud/spotify
http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/harassment-ivhag

Spotify tells all of my friends the title of the last song I played, but it doesn't tell me what it was.

holy hell, AG

play queue > history?

History only goes back as far as one session.

I was only wondering because it lists the last song for my friends list, and I'm wondering what it's telling them I listened to.

DJP- i dunno what to make of that. Terrible she's being harassed, but wtf was she doing posting nudes of herself to all and sundry.

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.

this started happening to me and around the same time Airfoil stopped working to send Spotify to my good speakers

I'm hoping these steps will fix both issues but I haven't tried it yet

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/support/knowledgebase/?showArticle=AirfoilSpotifyRelaunch

When an update for Spotify is available, Spotify automatically downloads it. It then quits itself and launches the update, all without any interaction from you, the user. This is non-standard behavior for Mac OS X, and can cause issues.

Additionally, when Spotify is unable to modify itself in the main /Applications folder -- for example, if the user is running a non-admin account -- then Spotify will install the update to the user's Home folder (in ~/Applications rather than /Applications). After that, every time the version in /Applications is launched, Spotify will quit itself and launch the version in ~/Applications. Again, this is non-standard behavior for Mac OS X, and can cause issues.

the soundrop rooms on spotify have now been expanded. Lots of dance music genres like House, drum n bass, electro, chill out and theres rnb, reggae,post-rock rooms too.
no indie or metal subgenres as yet

oh yeah theres a trance room. think the hip-hop room is new too

this is my first year primarily listening to new music thru spotify and there's just too much! i already have 35 hours worth of music from 2012 alone to listen to. who has the time???

lol my 2012 list has two albums on it (Schoolboy Q and Sleigh Bells)

I downloaded Airfoil for the first time yesterday and it worked okay with Spotify for me.

What are ppls experiences w spotify on an iPhone while driving? Is the connection really spotty? Is it worth subscribing to?

With Chicago 3G coverage, I basically can't stream unless I'm on wifi. I use the available offline feature extensively.

how does the available offline feature work? is it just select albums, or do you get a certain amount a month to make available offline?

You can make any playlist available offline. It is limited only by the storage capacity of your device.

you can make them available offline as much as your HD can take i assume

come in http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VjWCayQ8GaB04GHI

Your smoking buddy and i are in there, mordy

um, can't we all hang out somewhere w/out non-ilxors?

theres user rooms but outlouders wont use soundrop so there would only be us. its a pretty good room. will be better once they have more subgenre rooms. We use this during the day while frobisher is at work but outloud gets used normal times. except noone ever seems to be around in there when i go in, its just jeff or sanpaku in

The offline feature lets you download 3300 tracks to each of your mobile devices. This is what I use for driving.

i got premium and it looks like it does exactly what i want. yay.

does anyone maintain new album playlists curated by taste/genre/new comedy albums/etc?

what did you think of the metal room? also you tried a user room yet? you could get ilxors in it who dont do outloud

they could listen to destroyer and pj harvey and argue about it at the same time

fans of each voting their songs up past the other. all out war!

not a big fan of the metal room. my tastes there run so idiosyncratically that most of what is played by other metal fans doesn't interest me

start a mordy metal room

What are ppls experiences w spotify on an iPhone while driving? Is the connection really spotty? Is it worth subscribing to?

In DC it works great in most places. I don't have to use Offline.

dear god, I had a look in the indie room and the rock room. You wouldn't believe me how bad it is, so go look for yourselves. It will look awful no matter when you read this and look in.

idk if this interests anyone, but i've got a couple playlists for 2012 w/ new music that i've been updating pretty regularly. not exhaustive at all - pretty much if i hear something, or get interested in something, i throw it in one of these:

2012 new music of any interest: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/26nzMghRdSKUM4WhfLYDxk
2012 metal: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/0Qp2Pf6TdcLrqak0ZvISyC
2012 country: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/48BTwfZlrD0cJq3GnO6v9M
this is called 2012 best music but really it's just the playlist that synchs to my iphone so it's stuff i think i might want to listen to when i don't have an internet connection:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2WPKGFgC5xncEu6AfY5gTe -- i think all of it is on one of the other lists but this is kinda a in-circulation list.

um -- plz share if you have similar playlists? and if there's stuff i should throw on these that i don't have yet?

I always drive with iPhone Spotify here (LA). It is dope.