huh - yeah it remembers mine for exactly one time after I check the box
― four and twenty blackbirds too weak to work (G00blar), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd suggest re-installing
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
you would
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
re-install THIS
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i gotcher spotify right here, bud
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I get this on the PowerBook (PPC, 10.4) but not the iMac (Intel, 10.5). Can't really be arsed worrying about it.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
That's funny - it never forgets my password.
I'm glad it remembers mine, because I can't.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 21 June 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 21 June 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm with you on this issue.
― still counting on porcupine racetrack (G00blar), Sunday, 21 June 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
hook a bro up?
― "jesus on the cross seems like classic homoerotic imagery" (omar little), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
you cant, you're in the US
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Good luck USA!
― Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly tho, why don't you have a scrollwheel?
― stet, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm on a laptop and there is some kind of scroll-gesture on the trackpad which I am incapable of doing consistently. Ahem.
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll never buy anything from Suitopia.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 27 June 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Saturday, 27 June 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Spotify's demographic is around 40, and precisely the sort of impulsive media buyer defined by 50 Quid Bloke.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 27 June 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
What on earth is wrong with suitopia guy's voice?
― ledge, Sunday, 28 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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 upANNOYING 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
― thomp, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
subscribers now get twice the bitrate quality btw
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i think default compression is 160bkps
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― thomp, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait, there's a 'volume normalisation' box to uncheck
― thomp, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
That chap on the ad singing David Watts is a champion tool, isn't he?
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
you should be good to go sans invitation
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ok cool
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooool if you turn the volume right down during an advert, the advert pauses XD
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I went premium last month. Worth every penny. And you now get 320k streaming.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that's odd. so are they compressing the files as they stream them? or do they have both 320/160 versions stored somewhere?
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― NI, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously, this application makes my ears hurt
― thomp, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
nice to see they had the jazz composers' orchestra record on there tho
― thomp, Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― NI, Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
would say why record anything from spotify anyway? doubt there's much on there you couldn't get off slsk (latest version), often quicker
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 16 July 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
> 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...
― koogs, Friday, 17 July 2009 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
no they suck
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 17 July 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
better than mp3s
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 July 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
why hoard musics when you can just summon them from the cloud?
yes - this is what Spotify does so well which is why the whole question of people laboriously ripping songs through either the soundcard or a program like AudioHijack is moot - if Spotify works as it should, it makes that activity feel like pointless time-wasting from the get-go
i just feel like it should have been ASCAP or PRS who came up with this, since Spotify is essentially a monthly license fee to listen to music
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 17 July 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, reason i ask is for sampling/re-editing purposes, not just for casual listening. and as good as ssk is, it's hard to find songs in decent quality, especially 50s + 60s (and most pre-00s even). plus having to wait 3 days for ssk's crappy wishlist function to come up with a song vs spotify + 3 clicks (record/stop/save)
― NI, Friday, 17 July 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't actually use spotify at the moment btw, just curious if it's any use for the above. is there any chance of a particular label suddenly deciding to remove all their material from the service?
― NI, Friday, 17 July 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link