Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I think in practical terms we go after missing labels more than missing albums. But the licensing situation is complicated, to put it mildly. The missing albums are likely to have hit an expiration date in some very specific deal that nobody is even really thinking about any more. And they may be missing in only some countries. This is an industry-wide problem that has to be solved with changes to the whole underlying model, probably...

Oh good, now Spotify Installer keeps hanging and never actually installing

I used to get annoyed that Spotify didn't exit when I pressed the big X. Now I'm annoyed that it does.

fp'd

It closing with the X is literally the single good thing about this update.

got another update for the desktop app a couple days ago and it appears to be working much better now for me.

okay often now spotify will just plain not play a track when i click on it, or sometimes it will start playing a track by the same artist but from a different album (???). not just me- friends have reported the same thing. weird.

you must have displeased the Spotify

try apologizing

2 things:

- there need to be arrows at each end of the scrollbar for scrolling massive playlists

- if anybody needs to delete their queue, the easiest way I've found is to make a playlist with one short song and then double click this new playlist's name on the sidebar. It seems to replace the whole queue with the newly created playlist so sit through your random napalm death or curd duca tune and enjoy your empty queue. hope this advice is intelligible.

interesting to see others are having the notifications issue, as someone who compulsively clears notifications wherever they may be this has been fun

yeah hanging notifications has always been a problem for me - as for previous poster it irritates my digital OCDs

i've been getting around the notifications problem by viewing them on the web player

as a power user (maybe 8 to 10 hours a day every day?) i've been much pleased by moving back to retro spotify; it loads faster and is more controllable. I miss subscriptions and play counts but those are fair tradeoffs.

on the plus side the recommendations (under the Discover tab) have gotten a lot more interesting. a year ago it would have been "like Miles Davis? try Wynton Marsalis!" but now it's throwing out apposite obscurities like Randy Weston and Terence Blanchard. thanks, Glen!

Much work still to be done, by a lot of people, but I do think we're making progress...

By people do you mean monkeys, and by a lot do you mean a couple

you're still here?

http://themintyplum.com/wordpress2/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/torches_pitchforks.jpg

If I left, you'd have to turn on each other.

Assume that whatever you hate, I don't work on that part, and so can cheerfully take your feedback without being personally offended.

i feel like a lot of paying customers like myself feel really poorly done by here. almost non of the masses of feedback and requests from users have been implemented, just instead loads of things taken away. £120 a year is a lot to be giving for a service that doesn't pay any attention to its users and downgrades a lot. Nevermind all the stripped features and poor usablity, but how on earth you managed to release a piece of software so buggy and crashy and slow is unbelievable.

Buy some fuckin mp3s on iTunes then

I have 12 notifications but I don't know what they are :(

did you try closing and reopening?

yeah sometimes that fixes it but more often than not it doesn't

I see. I only had that happen the first time run after install :-/

after the program has been open for a while, i can no longer add new songs to my playlists

i have to relaunch. this is irritating.

I found that dragging songs from the search drop-down into the big playlist window will stop working, but you can still drag the song onto the name of the playlist over in the left-hand panel. Baffling.

have you tried turning it off and back on again?

£120 a year is a lot to be giving

no it fucking isn't lol

I mean I agree with everyone that the spotify application is a garbage application and gets worse with each update but the *service* is absurdly good value even if I do have to log out and log back in every single time to get the mobile version to work

Agreed

I prefer to think of it as 'brushing spotify's teeth'

since u can just install an older superior version in about a minute it doesn't make a lot of sense to complain. idk what spotify as a corp gains from making newer versions of their app progressively worse but at least we have a choice.

the program is bad and the programmers should feel bad

maybe the idea is that the UI gets simpler and therefore more aesthetically pleasing and easier for new users? i guess apple has had some success w/ that design theory but itunes, even tho a terrible program itself, still has way better functionality in almost every important area for a music app (playlists, sorting, searching, etc)

Can I install an old version that has stars? I know I can't in mobile, which is where I really need it.

That fix upthread is the best btw, would never have occurred to me to try so thx!

the only problem to the retroactive version fix is that it synchs up somewhat sloppily with mobile... though to be fair, so did the up to date model so

Yes, the old version I linked to upthread has starring - as does the ancient version of the iPhone app that I steadfastly refuse to upgrade. Taken together, they synch with each other just fine.

just downgraded and it feels so goooooood

this is the buggiest, shittiest program

ime the buggiest, shittiest programs are sold at crazy high prices to a narrow customer base.

£120 a year is a lot to be giving

no it fucking isn't lol

― Finn McCoolit (wins)

That's more than buying 1 CD album every month. Most ppl don't buy 1 CD album a month, every month. Especially when people just dl for free today. I have probably over 500 CD's but I hven't bought or listened to one in years. So yes, £120 of my money is a lot, I don't know how much you value money so I can't talk for you. Put it this way if Spotify put it up to £15 or £20 a month probably 70-80% of their users would disappear.

Especially when people just dl for free today.

c'mon dude

RMDE if you buy one CD a month you get 12 albums a year, if you pay £120 you get access to hundreds of thousands of them.

right. spotify may be a bit like a vitamin supplement in that you can't possibly absorb all of that value, but you still come out way ahead in value for your £ or $

I am the cheapest motherfucker I know and I don't find the premium price exorbitant

Considering how much I use Spotify, I just factor it in like any other utility bill. Also, since when are cds less than the monthly Spotify subscription? Even on Amazon, they're still routinely more than $10.