Spotify - anyone heard of it?

they need to ditch this invite reminder thing. i have 18 left...

That's funny - it never forgets my password.

never forgets mine either

huh - yeah it remembers mine for exactly one time after I check the box

I had that password problem for a long time. sorry I can't remember how I fixed it but there might be a faq on it or something

i'd suggest re-installing

you would

re-install THIS

yeah i gotcher spotify right here, bud

huh - yeah it remembers mine for exactly one time after I check the box

I get this on the PowerBook (PPC, 10.4) but not the iMac (Intel, 10.5). Can't really be arsed worrying about it.

That's funny - it never forgets my password.

I'm glad it remembers mine, because I can't.

Is anyone else insanely bugged by how Spotify's scrollbars/ads are programmed specifically to FUCK YOU OFF? Like, click on right-hand scrollbar, it brings up an advert in the right-hand panel so that if you click again (e.g. you are scrolling and do not have a scrollwheel) you are clicking on the advert. Click on the bottom scrollbar or on the bottom arrow of the main scrollbar and it brings up an ad in the bottom panel, which you'll click on if you do it again.

But what really fucked me off on this occasion: have an ad at the bottom already? Click a couple of times on the non-ad space above it, and it replaces the ad with a new taller ad, which you are now clicking on!

...Nobody else?

PS I know they've gotta get paid (or at least make some nods in that near-futile direction), but also, I've gotta be able to scroll without major UI irritation if I'm going to keep using their program. Or something?

Yeah, I'm with you on this issue.

hook a bro up?

you cant, you're in the US

Good luck USA!

srsly tho, why don't you have a scrollwheel?

I'm on a laptop and there is some kind of scroll-gesture on the trackpad which I am incapable of doing consistently. Ahem.

I'll never buy anything from Suitopia.

No shit - and that is the only ad I hear, other than Spotify trying to sell advertising. I've no idea what their costs are, but if they are making 14p a month from each user then I cannot imagine the service can possibly be sustained for very long:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/25/spotify_exclusive/

I'm not trying to revel in schadenfreude over this; Spotify is the *only* streaming music service I use at all and in many ways it's superb. But I just cannot see how they make any money, or how they can possibly pay the licensing on the tracks from such a low income.

Spotify's demographic is around 40, and precisely the sort of impulsive media buyer defined by 50 Quid Bloke.

What on earth is wrong with suitopia guy's voice?

lol at new suitopia ad being an apology for previous ad

i have actually heard two or three different ads on this now!

REALLY ANNOYING: if you turn the volume on ads down below 40% they pause until you turn back up
ANNOYING AND KIND OF CREEPY: if you mute sound in yr OS spotify recognises this and again pauses the ads

also, really, really, really bad hot compression - anything with an isolated drum hit really really hurts to listen to

subscribers now get twice the bitrate quality btw

i think default compression is 160bkps

i mean range compression, it feels like some of that is going on. listening to music on spotify is more painful than listening to it via VLC player or similar. maybe it's me.

oh wait, there's a 'volume normalisation' box to uncheck

That chap on the ad singing David Watts is a champion tool, isn't he?

so now that I'm living in France I can use this thing, right? but I guess I need an invite? I filled out the form on spotify.com but is this like gmail where someone who's already using the service can invite others? and if so, would someone here invite me?

you should be good to go sans invitation

ok cool

looooooool if you turn the volume right down during an advert, the advert pauses XD

I went premium last month. Worth every penny. And you now get 320k streaming.

that's odd. so are they compressing the files as they stream them? or do they have both 320/160 versions stored somewhere?

if the area next to my hifi wasn't some sort of black spot for our wireless connection i'd def sign up for premium @ 320kbps.

also spotify has done wonders for the middle8haters/30secADD/girl talk fans. i'd love stats on what percentage of each song is played in full.

re: the 320kb streaming, could you feasibly record the stream from your computers soundcard and save each track as a 320 mp3? would it be perfect quality or would it degrade somehow?

it would degrade but not significantly. i'd probably re-encode it lower anyway as it doesn't seem worth having at 320 if it's not prime source.

seriously, this application makes my ears hurt

nice to see they had the jazz composers' orchestra record on there tho

how would it degrade, is it just something the pc soundcard does and you can't avoid? the end result would be better than a 128 wouldn't it?

The most tiny of tiny gripes (that still gets to me sometimes): The song progress bar at the bottom is sensitive far outside of the actual knob-moves-in-slot area. Thus, when only the bottom of the Spotify window is visible behind the bottom of another window on my screen, and I click on it to bring Spotify to the foreground, I usually accidentally skip to somewhere else in the track.

how would it degrade, is it just something the pc soundcard does and you can't avoid? the end result would be better than a 128 wouldn't it?

it's like taking a screen grab of a hi-res jpeg and re-saving that. it won't match the quality of the original source because any compression process (based on already compressed material) never can, but it would probably be equivalent to 256 ie not a big deal.

Yes. Though it would obv depend on how the rippage occurs. The thing is that soundcard-ripping is probably already one decompress-compress removed from what was sent to the computer. (Also, sounds from other computer activity -- email alerts etc -- will/may then also enter.) However, I've never really understood why it is not easy to simply intercept the received bitstream and just save that? Proprietary formats instead of eg mp3?

would say why record anything from spotify anyway? doubt there's much on there you couldn't get off slsk (latest version), often quicker

Yeah, this is the Big Thing -- perceived cost of disk space, cheap as it is, will go below perceived insurance cost of "omg what if ubiquitous net disappears!?" very soon. Ie: why hoard musics when you can just summon them from the cloud?

> would say why record anything from spotify anyway? doubt there's much on there you couldn't get off slsk (latest version), often quicker

or you could, y'know, *buy* some cds...

no they suck

better than mp3s