also podcasts. maybe spotify could match the pace of my footfalls with appropriate spoken subject material.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
There's something very Compilation Zeitgeist about those playlists, like they're designed to appeal to people who are a bit insecure about picking the appropriate social context for music. There's one called 'Hipster House Party' that surely no real hipster would touch with a bargepole.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5e/89/d2/5e89d2b0e549f7424783c6b1e20c17a5.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 May 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i listen to lots of songs while i jog that i would never listen to otherwise but it don't mean my tastes change completely
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Right, so the "personal" running mode tries to pick songs that are both good for running to the beat, and either songs you've played a lot, or things we think are in the same vein as things you've played a lot. Nobody is trying to make you run to any particular music you don't like.
But the running app is very definitely for running to a beat. Lots of people run to music or podcasts or whatever, and there doesn't need to be any special mode for that. But if you want to run to the beat, it has been next to impossible historically, because you had no good way to even find a critical mass of songs at a given tempo to begin with, never mind how much you like them or how good they are for running.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Def in a Stereo Mood right now.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Never say that Spotify won't listen to user complaints, the latest mobile update fixed the issue with connecting to BMW ConnectedDrive.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 23 May 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
so is the running thing live yet or....? would like to try it.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
It's rolling out gradually, but you ought to have it soon.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
NYT article yesterday about the Sony leak, no new information that I could see
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Evidently the new windows version of spotify has playlist searching back? But not for local files. Mac version doesn't seem to have been updated yet.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
Controlling my phone with the PC interface seems to work really well now. Which is great because it saves me from needing to buy a DAC for my laptop.
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Not being able to resize columns now is a reeeeeeal bummer
― Spottie, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
New mac version this morning has playlist filtering. Still totally incapable of handling my local music library though.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 May 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
i'm trying to find the old spotify version from before the awful March upgrade. anybody have a link?
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
the thread linked above that had the old version has been deleted.
the new version is still. completely. unusable.
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
Aw shit, I had the exe saved on my desktop until just a couple days ago. I could've sent it to you.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
crut, this still seems to have working dls for PC and Machttp://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
wow local file management on spotify is hot garbage- either it doesn't recognize or play tracks at all, or it will produce three entries for a single track. sort of ridiculous
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
or it will add only some tracks from an album despite all the .wavs/.mp3s whatever being in the same folder... ostensibly they should all appear in the local files list but it just never happens. even when spotify is open I right click on a track and specifically select 'open with spotify' and they still don't play
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
So spotify will have until September 30th to get their shit together. I've never been so happy to use iTunes again.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
really? hard for me to imagine apple improving on spotify at this point
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
The fact that Apple Music is going to be nested inside the iTunes Store is almost certainly a dealbreaker for me unless they totally revamp that horribly bulky and slow piece of shit software.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
^this.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Not having to use the spotify app is improving on spotify. As long as I can get most of what I listened to on spotify, I can't thing of a reason not to switch.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
But I've never had issues with iTunes. In fact, I quite like it.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
The fact that Apple Music is going to be nested inside the iTunes Store is almost certainly a dealbreaker for me
Where are you reading that? Everything I'm seeing suggests that this is an entirely new app -- if anything it sounds like it might have a store nested within it, not the other way around?
I'm mostly curious to know if it's going to support Sonos . . . that's my dealbreaker.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 03:51 (nine years ago) link
Ooops, just saw Sonos announced that Apple Music won't be available. I'm out.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
So with Spotify I still can't even filter/search my local files since the desktop downgrade. It's been months and it's absurd.
As I understand it, with Apple Music I'll be able to have all of my local tracks in the cloud along with access to all of Apple Music's catalog. This is the killer aspect for me, to be able to listen to all of my music and all of a streaming catalog on the go - and to be able to properly see them on my laptop.
Is there something I'm missing about the other services that is equivalent?
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
From http://www.apple.com/music/
http://i.imgur.com/1uKDhew.png
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
I suspect (it's just a guess) that the iTunes software works loads better on a Mac than on a PC. Or not. I mean, it must work well enough for it to have hung around as long as it has, but I absolutely hate it (on a PC).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that doesn't look promising. ITunes does in fact work fine on my Mac, but the interface has gotten way too clumsy as the software has taken on new roles.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
“Sonos will not have Apple Music on it at launch but we fully expect to support them when they’re ready to focus on the home listening experience. Right now they’re fully focused on mobile .”
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 06:10 (nine years ago) link
I suspect (it's just a guess) that the iTunes software works loads better on a Mac than on a PC. Or not. I mean, it must work well enough for it to have hung around as long as it has, but I absolutely hate it (on a PC)
Yeah I have a Mac and never quite understood the hatred this program gets (I can understand a lot of complains aimed at Apple's way of doing things in general though) until a friend who's on a PC tried to explain to me how iTunes worked on his computer. It seemed like a totally different program, and one that was very shitty by the sounds of it. That was a few years ago so maybe iTunes PC has gotten better but either way if it really functioned like he told me I understand people hating it. Weird that they would make something that shitty.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 10:02 (nine years ago) link
iTunes is immensely better on a mac.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
Why is Apple even bothering to put this on iTunes? Surely there's more value in signing a few exclusive mega-deals, watching as music starts disappearing from Spotify, and using it to drive sales of iPhones?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Hope that doesn't happen
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
They're saying it won't be available "at launch"
Yeah, but I read the rest of their statement -- "we fully expect to support them when they’re ready to focus on the home listening experience" -- as a diplomatic way of saying don't hold your breath. People have been asking Apple to make iTunes Radio available through Sonos for two years. Since Beats Music was already available through Sonos I thought it was a possibility for the rebranded service, but if they're withdrawing support now I suspect they don't plan to reintroduce it. The thing with Sonos is that you access all of your audio -- on-demand streaming, radio, podcasts, local music, etc. -- through the Sonos app (whether desktop or mobile), and Apple generally seems wary of giving up that control over the user experience.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
As I understand it, with Apple Music I'll be able to have all of my local tracks in the cloud along with access to all of Apple Music's catalog. This is the killer aspect for me, to be able to listen to all of my music and all of a streaming catalog on the go - and to be able to properly see them on my laptop.Is there something I'm missing about the other services that is equivalent?
I've been using Google Play Music to do this for years
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
iTunes on a PC is bad like spotify on anything. That bad.
― joked for the dadness (wins), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
xpost, ok. I've been spotify for so long that I haven't really looked at anything else.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
iTunes sucks on a mac too. So much.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
How?
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
It cannot recognize compilations correctly (at least sometimes), it seems determined to get rid of list view, it's larded up with videos and movies, the iPhone UI tool is a joke, wireless syncing works only sporadically.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Exactly how is itunes on a PC different from on Mac?
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
i still hate iTunes on my mac
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
itunes on a pc sounds like pc music on a mac
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link