Spotify - anyone heard of it?

got the wrong KING in my release radar this am

https://open.spotify.com/track/6YvyrLlTVMW7B9vllp11Af

also got the wrong stevie b in there a few weeks ago

https://open.spotify.com/album/7dm56Ix8VsU3wxjGWWYpBf

there's a weird glitch in the elf kid artist entry too, an (awesome) unrelated malian band's latest record

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Ha, I listened to that King track very briefly, was fairly confused about their new direction.

Ha! Just came here to post the KING fiasco.

but there's this in my Release Radar! Not sure what it is but it sure ain't ABRA:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1waSktqN636A1pwqhnuUMZ

Glenn can you cook up a "here are playlists by artists you dig" feature real quick, thanks

Just to say that not being able to 'add to queue' in the web player is a very strange UX decision.

As is making users watch a spinning circle of dots for 15 minutes when they click on a playlist

That's ok, the roku app just got rid of playlists altogether

As is making users watch a spinning circle of dots for 15 minutes when they click on a playlist

Two spinners no less! One over the other but offset slightly. I do have six billion playlists tho.

can't search by label anymore :(

Rhythm & Sound - S/T

can't search by label anymore :(

noticed this today as well.

Worked for me just now...?

whoop me too!

So my paid-for-a-year subscription ran out about two months ago, I've not renewed yet, and what has amazed me ever since is the complete lack of anything-near-intelligent ads. I mean, I get execrable ads for "lazy Sunday" playlists, or for fucking Avicii's new ep. Both couldn't be farther from what I listen to. It's so completely off the money, pumping "LISTEN TO AVICII" to someone with my listening habits. It's off the chain. Yeah, I just listened to Liars, Microphones and Daisuke Miyakami, I *really* need some Avicii now...

Two options, here, really:

A) The ads are such abhorrent misfires because Spotify hopes to annoy me into a new subscription
B) The "algorithm" hasn't a clue, is not used with ads at all, and is clueless.

I'm guessing it's the latter. "Lazy Sunday" lol.

Would love a dedicated portable Spotify device, I wonder if such a thing exists. There's the Mighty, but that seems pretty buggy/flawed https://bemighty.com/products/mighty

I'm considering getting a Bluetooth/Wi-Fi streaming box for my stereo so I can play spotify on my stereo without having to connect my phone directly to it. Of course, I wouldn't need to waste money on this if the roku app weren't completely hosed

I use a Gramafon (https://gramofon.com) to connect to my existing amp+speakers. It works great.

Before that I had a Rocki (http://www.myrocki.com), which worked like crap and eventually exploded.

ooh yeah, I'd forgotten about little streamers. I wonder if there's one I can use entirely without a smartphone (part of the goal here is to get apps out of my bedroom)

We really should poll the most entitled posts in this thread

Meaning what exactly? I've been a premium subscriber since day 1, and I've watched the quality of once good apps steadily deteriorate. I really want to support spotify because I think it's great, but I'm frustrated th at the many elements of it that I've put time into are now broken.

Gramofon looks interesting although it gets mixed reviews. How is the sound and connection quality?

If I'm reading the details correctly, I think stet could use it to stream from the desktop app.

The Gramofon sounds fine, and stays connected. (The Rocki constantly disconnected from WiFi and had to be rebooted, even before exploding.)

if Airplay worked properly on my Airport Express I'd use that, but :(

plenty of cheap bluetooth dongles on the market, quality varies but I know this one is decent so you needn't pay more
http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Logitech-Bluetooth-Audio-Adapter-for-Speakers-980-000910-/301357217458?epid=2173091400&hash=item462a4a36b2:g:UuEAAOSwDN1UQVWZ

if you're looking for a cheap wifi dongle I doubt anything beats the chromecast audio, but I'm sure the gramofon thing is cool

Would love a dedicated portable Spotify device
you can buy a cheap Android phone (a Motorola G4 or smth) and use it without a sim, DAC is sure to be better than the tiny iPod shuffle thingy, if you want it to only be able to use the Spotify app I imagine you can do that with a custom launcher or a kiosk app

Chromecast Audios hooked up to my upstairs and downstairs stereo receivers are doing a good job playing Spotify as synchronized multi-room audio.

Amazon Echo works great for Spotify! I have a Dot hooked up to some speakers in my kids' room.

Does gramofon allow you to stream local files or only files in spotify library?

You can play local files, but you have to use their oddball player to do it. It works, but I don't do it much.

what's the oddball player? my big goal is to stream from spotify on either my PC or phone to my stereo, including local files, what is a good device for that?

I use Apple TV and it works pretty well. Very much wish that I could also connect Spotify on my PC to the Apple TV but haven't found a good way to do that.

I've been using a Cambridge Audio DAC for Bluetooth Spotify streaming for many years. The sound quality is vastly better than using the headphone jack, and barely discernible from CD. https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/products/hifi-and-home-cinema/dacmagic-100

Chromecast Audio will do this, no?

I think maybe it would work if casting from the phone overall instead of specifically from spotify, but I'm not sure. From what I understand, spotify connect does not support local files.

It's definitely confusing

Spotify Connect can't do anything with local files. One of the cool parts about Connect is that the Connect device is talking directly to Spotify, so you can turn off your phone or computer or whatever and the music keeps going. But thus no local files.

The Gramofon comes with an app called AllPlay Jukebox, however, which can stream from your phone's local music library directly to the Gramofon. I don't use it often, but it does work.

From what I understand, spotify connect does not support local files.

I found the best solution was to dump my local files into a free Google Play Music account, which accepts up to 50,000 songs. The nice thing about that is that once you start streaming, you can turn off your computer/phone without interrupting the music. That'd work well with a Chromecast Audio.

2011 called

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The point is to play local and spotify files together via the spotify app.

Anyway, after all this talk, I decided to go to Fry's and Best Buy to see what they had. I ended up buying a Rocketfish Bluetooth receiver for $50. Just hooked it up and it seems to do exactly what I was looking for. I'm currently playing my local files on my phone's spotify app and hearing them on my stereo, while simultaneously posting to this thread, also on my phone. The audio quality seems good to me, so barring any glitches or drop outs, I'm going to say mission accomplished.

Yep, I'm living the dream right now. This was far easier to set up and is working far better than I had thought possible

My LG TV just did Spotify on its own, which was lovely, but Spotify killed that app "to improve the customer experience", so now I have to have the ipad go through chromecast via the wireless to the TV, so much more convenient

I don't get their strategy re: TV apps

feel like it's similar to DC comics wrt digital books

Boil the Frog was on reddit front page yesterday.

cool new feature where you are asked to sign in again and all your playlists have been wiped? anyone else?

it’s just possible that i hadn’t changed my payment details after i lost my card recently - tho thought i had. even so to lose about five/six years of playlists etc is p galling.

fragility of digital.

There's a feature to restore playlists - under your account details somewhere.

There's a feature to restore playlists - under your account details somewhere.

yes, thanks, found it. unfortunately it’s throwing an error. going through a (fairly protracted) help chat process now.

still haven't found a manageable way of backing up playlists, I've got hundreds & would like to be able to automate it

You can sort of do it with IFTTT - I've got a document in Google Drive that is periodically (automatically) updated when I add new playlists, and new tracks to other playlists. Kinda clumsy but it works.

has anyone signed up for the Capital One credit card offer? they are running commercials on it. it doesn't sound like you need to be a new member just use your Quicksilver card and you get half off through April of next year.

Have tried this IFTTT thing: it looks promising, but more than 48 hours after setting it up, it has yet to actually run and do anything, so I'm not optimistic.