it's pretty amazing as long as you accept it for what it is. i mean $5 (?) a month is still a bargain, but i never expect to find anything spotify.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Just acquired a new phone and have 600 or so spotify offline tracks on it and none from itunes at the moment. pretty sure I'll add a few obscurish downloaded mixes but for now i'm quite happy. i would like to be able to browse through "my" tracks by artist/album etc but that's a minor price to pay for the convenience of wireless syncing.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
god these commericals are so aggravating
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
wait lol where do i look to see if ppl have added me /noob
I'm not sure you can, actually! I think you have to enable Spotify social and then you can start adding ppl and browsing their playlists
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I still think there is a punishment to be had for being able to listen to whatever you want without paying.
― Indie Pop: Intelligent People's Music (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Well, supposedly in a few months some limits to the free hours per month are going to kick in.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:59 (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. I almost want to email them and ask Dave and Zia and Jeff from Spotify and ask them how they're doing these days?
I just had that awful moment, when I was making a Spotify playlist for a friend and found myself wanting to tweak the BPM and maybe cut out the annoying outro to make a smoother transition - #headdesk #FrustratedDJ
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
daerest upt0eleven: TYVM for reminding about "Breakfast" by Le Le
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
i am in love with spotify. i still have two invites...
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Can you jump over onto the MOLLIFY thread on Idiot Thread Repository and tell Sara-RC you've got invites? She's dying to hear my playlists.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
dan are your playlists on sharemyplaylists? since im listening from my phone, im wondering how to listen to them.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
they aren't yet, I should throw them up there
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
yah
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't go that far, I've gotten burned a couple of times by random songs being unavailable (why the hell would every song on Brandy's Full Moon be available EXCEPT for the two singles everyone knows and likes????) (well I can guess why but still)
Tell me about it. Spotify currently does not have approximately 30% of what I have in iTunes, and I've never NOT been overwhelmed by what I need to process, but it is incredible and fast.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
I put my playlists up on sharemyplaylists, under the usename djperry1973, but I don't know how to effectively search for them
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
search by member
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
im finding a lot of stuff i wanna listen to is unavailable, im not whining, its free, but im definitely not giving up on itunes/mp3s yet
yeah Spotify is great but for me it's a supplement to vinyl / mp3's not a replacement
I plan to just keep using it free as a way to discover and try out new stuff
― dmr, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
found you dan, thanks!
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
wait i can just go to "local files" and play songs from my itunes! i never have to open itunes again!(?)
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
beware of putting local files into your playlists, tho
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
local files almost the best thing about spotify since it starts up 10000x faster than itunes
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol, sharemyplaylists ppl apparently do not like long grab-bag playlists; so far all 3 of mine have garnered 1 star ratings
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
i got a 5 star on my new jack swing one. it was probably you.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
ha it wasn't! clearly the way to get a good rating is to get to the point rather than be a meandering hodge podge
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
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