Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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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.

email subject line: "Remember Say My Name by Destiny's Child?"

really getting into the deep cuts here

(Your Time Capsule isn't supposed to be deep cuts...)

oh, sure, I just thought it was funny

Is the Time Capsule a one shot thing or does it update regularly?

the algorithms do weird things, a friend of mine got MMMBop twice. He mostly just listens to trad folk and soul.

Maybe your friend hasn't been completely honest with you.

(for me that part makes total sense -- I did a sunday pitchfork piece on the destiny's child album)

Jesus, all the KMDFM in mine--WAY TOO REAL

Mine seems to mainly be radio hits from 96-98.

Maybe your friend hasn't been completely honest with you.

enh, there's a LOT of overlap between our lists and some other co-workers' and we all have v different listening habits

I'm guessing the way this works is that it looks at the most popular songs that you've listened to from a certain time period, which is determined by your date of birth. Though I'm still not sure if that's completely correct since my e-mail said "Enjoy 2 hours of the most memorable tracks from your teenage years", and there's quite a bit of early 90s stuff on there, which is before my teenage years.

It has a mixture of things you've played and things from your youth (assuming you were honest about your birthdate) that are disproportionately popular with people of your age-group...

my only potentially actionable request for future attempts at this sort of thing would be fewer tracks by the same artist and/or some way to keep out multiple release versions of the same track appearing on the same playlist

Hmm... here are the first 10 artists in my time capsule:

Public Enemy, Front 242, Inspiral Carpets, Jane's Addiction, Pet Shop Boys, SL2, The Shamen, Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era, Urban Hype, Ministry

Yeah this thing pretty much has me pegged, even if the time scale is a little off (it stretches up through college for a lot of the rave stuff)

It even has a random REO Speedwagon song, which I know is there primarily because of listening I did for a cabaret show but is still a song I loved the hell out of when I was a kid.

ha mine are: Brotha Lynch Hung, Ghostface, Lost Boyz, 2 Pac, Mase, Three 6 Mafia, DMX, Mystikal, Outkast, Capone-n-Norega

thats beautiful. mines pretty similar

it mostly just gave me a lot of emo which is amusing because I didn't listen to any when I was that age at all

faith no more, beastie boys, scarface, ice-t, dead milkmen, george michael, orbital, rob base, chubb roc, geto boys
it's not WRONG but it feels kinda easy

mine is very 80s heavy: The Cure, Talking Heads, Bauhaus, The Smiths and The Church. i loved that it picked up on my Boo Radleys crush and Spoon.

I can't figure out what mine is trying to get at. It's weirdly eclectic in a displeasing way. Did Glenn explain the algorithm upthread?

It has a mixture of things you've played and things from your youth (assuming you were honest about your birthdate) that are disproportionately popular with people of your age-group...

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, September 29, 2017

Ah, thanks