Spotify - anyone heard of it?

is anyone else having lots of "can't play next track" issues? it seems to be happening when it wants to play an ad but instead just stops playing everything all together.

yes, you just have to click on the next song or whatever

i had the same problem, but i was trying to listen to music from a different room and was getting really annoyed that it seemed like i had to click on each song in order to hear it. that's kinda weird and not very useful.

I get it too. makes the ads extra annoying. maybe that's the point!

yeah, happening constantly for me as well

Yeah, its definitely happening a lot more frequently.

it seems like i'm getting less ads when it happens tho-- i don't mind ads as much as i mind having to click to the next track LOL FIRST WORLD PROBS

Someone at Spotify central should figure at how to delete those songs properly instead of leaving these ghost tracks around.

Seems like they posted a message five hours ago about being glad to report that they will soon fix the "can't play current track bug" which is hopefully the very thing we are complaining about.

bugs aside, they're basically killing it, so i don't care too much

^^

i would rather just click to play the next track instead of hearing those commercials.

There is a distinct lack of Jonzun Crew on spotify. Sometimes I just want to listen to Jonzun crew, you know?

cool they have War on Drugs!

this might come in pretty handy: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103880/Spotify-The-Definitive-Music-Search-Engine-Guide

lol I just spammed 60+ ppl with mass Spotify invites

this might come in pretty handy: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103880/Spotify-The-Definitive-Music-Search-Engine-Guide

The Internet really let me down there - I was convinced before I got to the end that the first comment was going to be "Paul Simon sucks!"

Handy wee guide though, thanks upto11

Seems like they posted a message five hours ago about being glad to report that they will soon fix the "can't play current track bug" which is hopefully the very thing we are complaining about.

Hope they do fix it, because today it has been happening with every single ad.

Okay now it just happens every single track. Its like Spotify knows it hasn't played you an ad lately, so it just keeps trying after every single song.

10 minute limit means White Light/White Heat with no "Sister Ray"

Yeah, although it sucks, there are at least a handful of positive aspects as well. Like that one.

loooool

FUCK YOU SPOTIFY

In order to give Spotify users the best possible experience, we’re constantly improving the Spotify desktop application. Every so often, these advances push Spotify beyond the capabilities of some older Macintosh computers.

In a few months’ time, this process will affect Macs with the following system properties:

OS version: Mac OS X versions earlier than earlier than 10.5
Processor: PowerPC Macintosh (regardless of OS version)

(You can find information about your own Mac by accessing "About this Mac" under the Apple menu.)

We’re really sorry if you’re affected by this change. For the time being, you can still use Spotify on these Macs – you just won’t receive new feature updates. Ultimately, Spotify will cease to be available for these systems, but not just yet.

Kind regards,
The Spotify Team

it is really annoying when you hit clean versions of albums

it'd be cool if there were some reverse parental controls type of feature where you could just say, if there's an explicit version of a song, give me the explicit version instead of the clean version

Yep, fuck you Spotify. Now that I won't be able to use you on my home Mac you are completely useless to me. Kindly fuck off and I hope your business model is a failure.

yay Spotify, thank you for catering to me and my technology magpie demographic

jon why can't you use it on your home mac

Well, I'm not 100% sure until I get home, but I thought I had 10.4. Now that I've done a little research, I might be okay though. But still, think that pretty much sucks that they'd just say "WHOOPS SORRY YOU CAN'T USE IT AT ALL", rather than at least trying to allow a slimmed down version or something.

Who, in 2011, doesn't make their software at least a little backwards compatible?

Is it wrong to think this might be a little "fuck you" to Apple?

why aren't you on 10.6?

That's why I retracted a bit, I think that is what I have. Whatever, I still think its a bit of a dick move.

spotify requires leopard, which was released in fall 2007 -- that seems reasonable

It sucks, but at some point the diminishing returns of supporting older OS's and PowerPCs just don't make sense.

I guess I don't understand not being on the most recent stable OS, esp in the Apple world where OS updates cost like $30

like for Windows I totally get waiting until you upgrade the hardware since the OS upgrades are well over $100 but OSX is cheap

I'm with you, I need to upgrade mine anyway.

I guess I just saw those numbers and thought they weren't going backwards as far as they actually are.

I guess I don't understand not being on the most recent stable OS, esp in the Apple world where OS updates cost like $30

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:07 PM

this is how i break it down to an extent -- i was on lion the day it was released

i do get that some ppl have their reasons for not upgrading right away though

ha yes, that is why I said "stable"

not going to Lion until 2012

OTM

Sorry Spotify, I still <3 you.

jeez they're up to 10.7 now? I never bothered to get Snow Leopard.

I guess I don't understand not being on the most recent stable OS, esp in the Apple world where OS updates cost like $30

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

My Intel mac doesn't allow it to go beyond 10.4

EXACTLY, and no I do not have money to buy even a used Mac from the last few years.

same with my gf. to add to the misery, i recently bought her an iphone, but she can't put music on it because it requires a version iTunes that her Mac can't handle.

wait, you have an intel Mac that can't upgrade? I know the old power pc macs can't run certain software but I've never heard of an intel not being able to. Is it a ram thing? Ram is pretty cheap.

I have to believe that was a typo and he meant PowerPC.

yep mine is a lol 800 MHZ G4. I'm guessing I only have a year or two before I'll be forced to upgrade in some way.

playing tracks w/o stopping today

listening to tori amos' boys for pele, headphones on, volume up to hear nuance, then: BOOM DANCE REMIX OF "PROFESSIONAL WIDOW" SUBBED IN FOR REGULAR TRACK!! heart attack, dead.

there's nothing more amazing than watching your friends cross-pollinate on playlists

(this came up because one of my wife's opera grad school classmates is subscribed to Chris V's new jack swing playlist)

haha.