Spotify - anyone heard of it?

A friend in Amsterdam picked this one up fine yesterday:

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/2zYHbXxldh3YIti4SM3doz

my test one is still there. there are a couple of questions about this on the support forums, unanswered; if we 'vote' for the questions they might get some attention.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/playlist_not_found_when_loading_someone_elses_playlist?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_spotify

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/why_dont_friends_playlist_links_work?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_spotify

no joy with amsterdam one. it's fucked, is my diagnosis.

Yeh, that's barking: the only one I've ever got working was your test one, Ledge, but now that doesn't work either.

Had a further Google and there seems to be a lot of this about. There's also an entire site devoted to Spotify lists (go on, have a guess at the URL), none of which I can get to work. Aye, I'll have a look at the support forums.

Right. I've done my bit to raise awareness of this terrible scourge. I'm off to do something more useful instead :)

suckify

ok waiting three hours and/or restarting got me the playlists.

hurrah!

I have been able to get all of the linked playlists

on free spotify, on a mac

Me too.

I can get them all to work too.

yes me too but ima homegrown so that s probably it

and ive listened to tons of king crimson on spotify?

I can open the playlists ok in IE7 but when I try to open them in Firefox I get 'Invalid option:spotify:user:.....', any ideas, google isn't my friend when it comes to this.

I find the most reliable method is to copy the links and paste them in the spotify search box and hit return.

can someone please send me an invite?

Are you UK? If so go here, no invite needed:

http://www.spotify.com/en/get-started

nope. Greece.

https://www.spotify.com/invitation/cJFKjAsTazyHdXWG

curses! spotify free is not available in your country. oh well. thanks anyway, guys.

spotify videogames playlist

awesome

no saria's song, no credibility

20 (of the 25) country #1's of 2008

Loving the ILX collaborative playlist...
http://troubled-diva.com/spotify-ilx-playlist.gif

This works perfectly for me now. Wonderful! Am too busy weeping (once again) at the eternal fucking shitness of Microsoft Excel to explore it much further, mind. Hurrah, though.

I added that ghost cauldron track : D

who put up the letta mbulu? was really feeling that earlier

Letta Mbulu was one of mine.

It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.

this is starting to piss me off too. on the pazz & jop playlist above for instance the gaslight anthem track is an acoustic version and pink's so what is some hi-nrg dance remix. don't think the compiler intended it that way. i keep coming across stuff in live versions (biz markie's just a friend) or sixties tracks that sound that they were rerecorded by one or more of their original members somewhere in the eighties (the bobby fuller four's i fought the law).

How can you add to it?

spotify videogames playlist

omfg

I've corrected the Pink. There's no other version of the Gaslight Anthem track, though...

This is amazing. AMAZING. Although I will now only be buying records that aren't on it, so business-model-wise maybe not the best idea.

I can see the playlists - how would one add to one if one wanted too?

If it's a collaborative playlist (like the ILX one above) just drag and drop the track onto it.

loving this. wishing it included videos and more better data tho.

would be cool if you could see who added what to playlists too, and maybe a SUGGEST BAN system...

Top of my wishlist: a recommendation engine; social networking features.

I quite like being able to add stuff anonymously to the ILX playlist. It removes the pressure to impress.

Two adverts in one album so far, and both for something called the Energy Saving Trust, so can't complain, really. I like that there is a little graphic showing you how much of the ad is left, so you could mute the ads quite easily.

Some sort of friends list where you can access all their playlists (or ones they choose to share) seems like a no-brainer for them to add. And that's just for starters.

If, like me, you tend to hop around tracks before they've finished you never hear an advert.

Love the Sir John Betjeman track someone added. Didn't even realise he recorded an album, will check out the rest later.

Looks like King Crimson were removed on request: http://www.dgmlive.com/forum.htm?entry=13308

Same goes for KC on YouTube: http://www.dgmlive.com/forum.htm

I suspect that Spotify didn't just randomly upload KC material without permission. I would guess they asked Universal or Warner's or whowever can we upload your companies back catalogue and they said sure, then individual artists got wind of it and complained.

Luddites.

Top of my wishlist: a recommendation engine; social networking features.

I quite like the fact that there aren't social networking features, but I'm sure they'll appear soon.

I wish I knew how vinyl only straight-up unauthorised re-edit stuff like this ended up on there.

There's some info here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/where_is_the_catalogue_on_spotify_really_sourced_from

The-Dream is listed as D:Ream *roll eyes*

Things can only get better.

yeah, def needs better data, an equalizer and a suggest ban system

suggest ban any song you hear and dislike