Spotify - anyone heard of it?

it sounded pretty good on my speakers earlier - but just switched to headphones and the dynamic range is noticeably compressed when I compare the stream to high quality mp3s I already have

I mean, premium costs $9.99/month. Is there really anyone out there who doesn't have that?

And really, in 2011 we still can't get the rights to the Vapors' proper albums, or most of Men Without Hats? Really?

it sounded pretty good on my speakers earlier - but just switched to headphones and the dynamic range is noticeably compressed when I compare the stream to high quality mp3s I already have

yup, good for computer speakers and earbuds, not for close listening.

Does anyone know what, specifically, the sound quality differences involve?

spotify premium is 320 kbps, no idea on anything else

from what I've read, it's 160 kbps for regular users, occasionally 320 kbps for premium. Not all tracks are yet available in 320 kbps and the company has dissembled repeatedly about how many tracks currently stream in higher quality and the timeline for full adoption of 320 kbps streaming for premium users.

This is confusing to me because I would think the record labels are providing the files and they're only going to have one version of a given album created using a particular bit rate.

They get the original files in lossless form and make at least two versions of each track available - at minimum, 96 kbps for mobile streaming and 160 for regular users. 320 kbps is available to premium users for some unknown number of tracks.

"Bitrategate" might be a bit much but here's more information: http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2011/07/spotify-bitrategate-story-so-far.html

That is fascinating!

On now.

any of you using this on more than one computer? I'm finding that if I star things at home or make a playlist, the changes don't always show up when I open spotify at work ... am I doing it wrong

I have it on 3 machines and have had zero synchronization issues; in fact, I never close it on my work or home computer and see changes made in one location at the other, seamlessly.

sorry if this is an annoying question, but could someone explain what spotify is exactly... I checked the website but didn't really get what the big deal was. You can make playlists?

It is a gigantic online database of music that you can stream to any computer and many handheld devices. You can also make and share playlists with other users.

Ah okay, thanks.

I guess that could be cool to have a streaming on-the-go playlist instead of taking of space on my phone w/ mp3s...

well strictly speaking I believe it downloads music to your handheld device rather than streaming to it, so for example you can still listen to music on the train etc

really the biggest strengths here are:

- not needing to store gigabytes of music locally to have a diverse music collection
- being able to put together and share playlists with friends by swapping URLs

As I've discovered over the course of the week, this is next to fucking useless at public free WiFi places like coffee shops or whatever, if their connection is anything less than ideal.

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It does both, as it downloads data for offline listening. You can also listen to tracks on the fly, though I'd make sure you have a generous allowance for streaming data otherwise it may be quite expensive.

in fact, I never close it on my work or home computer and see changes made in one location at the other

thx. maybe I'll try leaving it open. might be that my work computer is on a weird network. dunno.

It does show some changes, like playlists I unsubscribed from disappeared off the display, but other stuff I renamed or changed didn't show.

someone invite me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111

sorry if this is an annoying question, but could someone explain what spotify is exactly... I checked the website but didn't really get what the big deal was. You can make playlists?

I would describe it as iTunes music store, but you can instantly play the full version of every song for $5 a month instead of having to pay 99 cents per download.

xp: try the Coke link, everyone I've passed it to has gotten in off of it:

https://www.spotify.com/us/coca-cola/

this was on my twitter today

via Mexican Summer records

Spotify hooked us up with some free invite codes! The first 250 people to e-mail mexsumspot✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ will receive a free code

no idea how fast they would get that many emails

mexsumspotify at gmail

oh hey i just posted a spotify list of the random stuff ive dragged into my itunes stuff i liked this year folder (sil2011) on facebook and it was kinda effortless. thats pretty cool actually!

alright joining this now

is there a way for me to add songs from my library? or is it just from their selection?

the first song I searched for they don't have o_O

it will pull in local files (ie, your iTunes library)

yeah, when I first started using it, I searched for a bunch of stuff to try and stump it and there's a ton they don't have yet.

LMAO DUDES

KIDZ BOP IS ON SPOTIFY

i want to be a billionaire so very bad

"sippin on my juice"

wait so does my entire library become public?

no, not unless you put it in a published playlist, and even then ppl won't be able to play the songs unless they have them locally as well

can't wait for the markers metallica/kidz bop megamix playlist

no metallica except for like 4 live songs or something

holy shit there's an evanesence kidz bop cover lmao

a chorus of kids: "there's just too much that time cannot erase!"

there is a Kidz Bop cover of practically everything

come back when you've found their version of the Crazy Frog "Axel F"

ugh!!! it deleted my playlist while I was adding songs to it twice now!

I got an invite code but I'm not sure if it's linked specifically to my gmail or not

is there a way to re-arrange the tracks in a playlist? I only seem to be able to organize by name, last added, etc....

drag and drop

just drag up and down ... ?

yeah i'm trying that..........................

eh I just kept getting this no matter what I pressed:

http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/10/3/1/9/72638461468245495.png

so I just copied all of the songs to a new playlist

well if you click on the little header bars you can sort by song title in alphabetical order, or artist name, etc. so if you had one of those selected, you can't drag them around anymore. but you can click on the header again until it untoggles and goes back to numerical order.

thanks, dmr! Your hookup worked.

aaaaand my playlist doesnt work as far as i can tell

no beatles
led zeppelin
the associates