im loving your playlists.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
yay
I will be playing your New Jack Swing playlist tonight
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
the one that gus gus starts off is fanfuckingtastic.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
that's the first one I did (and probably the most successful of the three)
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
So, when you have a song in a playlist that Spotify does not have, those who don't have it won't see it at all -- no "light gray" listing. That kinda sucks.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously it makes sense for Spotify to do that.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
can p much delete itunes and all of my mp3s?
No because then they won't show up on your Spotify!
― timellison, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
ha yeah i got excited for a minute there
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
So, when you have a song in a playlist that Spotify does not have, those who don't have it won't see it at all -- no "light gray" listing. That kinda sucks.― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
OK. If you want to see playlist tracks you cannot play, go into preferences and un-check "Hide unplayable tracks."
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
sorry if dumb question, but is there a way to view and sort the tracks in your library by bitrate, file size, play count, and other data fields that don't show up by default?
― why delonge face? (unregistered), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
DJP did you put the alley cat mix in your playlist as a cruel joke
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
LOL no, I genuinely dig that mix! It would have been between that or the original; I pretend the album mix doesn't exist.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if I'll use itunes again, Spotify is much prettier as a music player. I feel like such a pratt for thinking Spotify was crap when it first came out.
― Keep Reading! (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
Trust me, when you graduate to the paid ad-free service in a few months, you will seriously miss some of those ads.
lol
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I could ditch iTunes and get over Spotify's tagging issues real fast if column browsing and smart playlists were possible.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
That stuff will probably be available in a few years time. I don't know, I think dark colors are better for music, psychologically. I like the black and green, it's soothing. Although it is kind of a blatant rip-off of itunes.
― Keep Reading! (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
bunch of white stripes stuff disappeared?
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/spotify-playlist-generator-creates-playlists-based-on-your-favorite-artist/
just found this and am at work so haven't tried it out yet. sounds quite good though and, if it works as described, a solution for those that want a bit of last.fm functionality.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
That looks rather neat, will try when home!
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
Be careful, looks like you might download something you don't want!!
― Keep Reading! (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, like what? Toolbars or advert shite?
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
How is this different to artist radio?
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
It generates a playlist
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Try this for a web based playlist generator http://spotibot.com/playlist/
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
x-post: No there is a link there to some idiot software, be careful. I looked at the page, it isn't worth it.
― Keep Reading! (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
decided it was actually better to try it at work than at home and it's fine. really basic but still quite impressive.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Spotify has made me appreciate the full album listening experience rather than always listening to random things on shuffle.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
annoyed at the lack of a single repeat button so that I have to manually start 'livin on a prayer' every single time
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
:-D
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
back from vacation and noticing Spotify saying I have a number of invitations I can send to USers. If this is still a thing and you need one, feel free to gmail omhalck. First come etc; also I cannot promise lightning-quick reaction at all times.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
dude make a "Livin' On A Prayer" playlist!
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
done and done
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
what is to stop someone from just going analog port in and recording anything they want and KEEPING IT!
― hwy not write Ohkhaye!" Onktean? (Latham Green), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
HOME ANALOG PORT RECORDING IS KILLING MUSIC
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I've wondered about similar questions myself, and ended up thinking:
1) analog port as in whatever the soundcard processes? vulnerable to random facebook chat alert dings and other unwanted sounds;2) otoh the sound files are actually temporarily cached on your computer and you could probably get the exact digital file if you were superhumanly fantastic at decryption etc;3) however if you wanted to care for the collection you'd get in one of those ways, you'd have an hell of a tagging and organizing task ahead;4) all of which indicates that it seems too much hassle when the app allows you to call it up anytime you want anyway?
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty simple to mute all sounds except for one app
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
(loving the ilm 50s playlist from upthread btw; is it a countdown or a countup or more random than that?)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
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― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
Love it myself! It is in random order though, it was made based on people's votes.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
The votes make it unrandom though, right? It's a countdown from 101-ish (Battle with the Invisible Monster) to #1, I Only Have Eyes for You.
― an excellent source of vitamins and minerals (WmC), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
xps: fair enough Dan, but also
5) I guess rather few people would be simultaneously a) sufficiently nerdy to build a digital music collection based on re-encoding to digital form the actual analog sound signals and b) sufficiently unnerdy to not care about the resulting files not being the same as the original digital files.
Damn, loads of negations in there. Hope it is untanglable.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, WmC, thought it was just a compilation of all the tracks people nominated. Sorry, misused the word vote there.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
I am using this to listen to the new Kelly Rowland album right now.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
Are ppl still getting defensive about how this is missing lots of stuff? Didn't feel like pulling out my cd of the infamous, tried to pull it up on spotify, oops! A bunch of classic tracks are missing
again not saying it's useless but there are def some canonical rap artists poorly served by this
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
that is probably because a lot of artists and/or labels want certain tracks unavailable as they are ones that they think people should/will pay for. Blame them not spotify.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't just happen with rap either , it happens with other genres. Some artists wont even allow anything on spotify.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
2 tracks! idk, were they the biggest tracks from the infamous? could also be weirdness with a sample or one of the credited writers, tho i've got my copy of the infamous right here and can't really figure out what the issue would be (one has a sample listed, the other doesn't, they have different co-writers).
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
but anyways yeah rap and metal are certainly going to get shafted by this as they usually do.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
i think some labels are leaving out some tracks to create a ~pain point~ that leads ppl to go out and shell out $$$ for those songs/a copy of the record, but that's just a guess
― markers, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link