Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

Sounds awesome.

Here is my Spotify playlist LOL.

http://open.spotify.com/album/57csDpHKcStfEWPvFjhFsR

anyone interested in listening to the metal room with a few other ilxors in there?
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VjWCayQ8GaB04GHI

DJP (and everyone else) want to see what HELL looks like?
go here http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VhzLPcWDnXhakl0e (no its not metal room)

Ooh thanks for the country playlist Mordy.

Though it is a bit uh sparse so far! Love the Tim McGraw.

http://www.facebook.com/soundrop/posts/333424550026360

Soundrop
Hi Soundrop fans. We're moving to a new back-end infrastructure today. The server surgery will take approximately 2 hours and Soundrop will be down starting at 6:00 PM CET.

As a side effect of this transition, the Soundrop.fm app for iOS will no longer work and will be removed from the App Store. We're already hard at work on the new version and it will be available as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this will lay the foundation for many great things to come. Stay tuned.

What would that be UK time?

xp oh yeah -- i have a bunch of stuff i hadn't moved into the playlist yet. should be a little more.. uh... comprehensive now?

Metal is not what I want to hear right now but good luck to you. Electronic rooms are underwhelming, as I said. I like Spotify but the quality of music in their rooms look like some shit streaming service.

Not that it bothers me, that's what you get when you get 25-50 people who don't know each other in a room together.

more rooms are coming. That's why they're moving servers so they have more space for more rooms.
btw you can create user rooms. Either for you or your friends or start one for ilx and post the link either in this thread or Bump This Thread if you have an ILM Spotify Soundrop Room going

mordy/tracer one of the new rooms will be a country room.
People are sking for new rooms here http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/ideas/recent

If you create a playlist and post it here http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/more_stations-16k1lj
they might just use it for a room.

tbh, i'm only interested in ilx-only rooms

start one then!

Offline mode (Premium only)
You can now choose to go offline in the desktop application, just as you can in the mobile apps. Some customers have asked for this. It means that you can listen to offline synched playlists and imported local music files without any P2P complications that can sometimes arise if you are, for instance, using a corporate network, or using a mobile 3G dongle.

You'll find the setting under the File menu in Windows, and under the Spotify menu in Mac.

more on new features http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Announcements/Preview-release-Spotify-Desktop-0-8-5-Gapless-crossfade-offline/td-p/6979

Gapless playback, at last.

Oh but:

Local files are aren't yet supported for gapless playback. The status on that one is "Working on it".

The entire catalogue has not yet been re-encoded for gapless playback. The tracks are being re-encoded in order of popularity. This means that practically all Spotify "plays" will be gapless-enabled. You may still find some music that does not play gaplessly, if you have exquisitely obscure taste. Please don't report any such tracks for the time being.

I keep getting thrown out of Spotify. Should I just trash the program and download it again?

http://www.facebook.com/soundrop/posts/333424550026360

Soundrop
Hi Soundrop fans. We're moving to a new back-end infrastructure today. The server surgery will take approximately 2 hours and Soundrop will be down starting at 6:00 PM CET.

As a side effect of this transition, the Soundrop.fm app for iOS will no longer work and will be removed from the App Store. We're already hard at work on the new version and it will be available as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this will lay the foundation for many great things to come. Stay tuned.

What would that be UK time?

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:38 PM (5 hours ago)

yeah, spotify crashes CONSTANTLY for me.

soundrop is great if a bit buggy. haven't used the public rooms at all but spend most days at work now in a room with 3 or 4 other friends.

Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but Spotify has my band from way back in the 90s:

http://open.spotify.com/album/1ttc7KoPS9ittZffhiDSBe

Apparently there were several other subsequent bands that took the same name.

Right now I'm having too many crashes and it is often slow, so I am staying away from the crack that is Spotify.

Back to scrobbling from itunes, which means I can't hear any music I want to when I want to unless I grab it off Amazon. Which is an enormous globally significant tragedy in my coddled worldview.

Shit, maybe I'll cruise SoulSeek or even play an LP.

Previously mentioned streaming Spotify issues are solved, please let us know if you have problems/questions: http://t.co/3HOxGdGf

New version of Soundrop is out today. Just restart Spotify to make sure you get it. More info here:https://www.facebook.com/soundrop/posts/344109505627208

Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but Spotify has my band from way back in the 90s:

http://open.spotify.com/album/1ttc7KoPS9ittZffhiDSBe

Apparently there were several other subsequent bands that took the same name.

― Moodles, Friday, 2 March 2012 05:21 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am streaming this now - enjoy your 0.005 cents or whatever it is, don't spend it all in the one shop :)

ha, I have no idea who put this up on Spotify or who would actually get paid for plays. Pretty sure it wouldn't be me.

I'm also playing this btw

Hope you like it! I think my favorites are "Phenomathon" and "Tranquilizer".

what did u do in this band?

Played bass, wrote the music with the other guys.

cool! i like this. i get a little adam duritz thing from the singer? (that's a neutral statement btw)

Thanks! That's a fair comparison. The singer is my pal Ben Averch. He's got a more recent album of his called Fortune Cookie up on Spotify too.

Something's been screwed up with the latest upgrade, tracks just stop, can't get some tracks to open. Hope there's a quick fix.