Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Well, I just tried to give them money for an upgrade and their payment processor kept timing out. Good work, Spotify.

I started paying for Premium last year when my listening started to be interrupted with Vote Conservative ads featuring David Cameron.

Actually the real reason to pay for Premium is for access to the best iPhone/Android app there is. By a mile.

The iPhone app drives me crazy for a few reasons. Not fault of spotify though, most of these are because of apple's limitations. Still, they restrict my joy of using the app.

-Can't use voice controls. I use these all time the time to tell me what song is playing so I don't have to take my phone out of my pocked.

-Since I do have to take my phone out of my pocket to see what is playing, I still can't see it from the lock screen. So I have to unlock the phone, pull up spotify if it isn't already just to see what is playing. Then I fall down the stairs while doing this or get hit by a car.

-Spotify doesn't always remember what playlist I'm playing. I'll start it up and then it will just be back at the listings of playlists.

-I wish playlists could be grouped by album. Not by album all in a list, but grouped where you would just see the album title and then tap to see the songs that lie within.

I just want everything.

anyone try the droid app? looks like i'm getting a droid phone at work.

I still can't see it from the lock screen. So I have to unlock the phone, pull up spotify if it isn't already just to see what is playing.

Looks like the missing 10 minute + song problem is finally getting sorted. I see that The Orb's 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld' is now complete, but 'U.F.Orb' and a few others are still missing tracks.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/long_songs_are_missing#reply_6567132

We're working with Universal to get the tracks back, hopefully you'll see more and more of them coming online. If you still see ones that are missing please let us know and we'll highlight them to get solved (we're aware of Rush and the others posted already)

Poor tortured rush fans.

1) I hate when you can't buy something you heard on Spotify. Like, anywhere. Doesn't happen often, but it is frustrating.

2) Just noticed they have a "similar artists" option, making shopping easier. Why didn't I notice this before.

The similar artists option is very useful, except in cases where the entire list is filled up with various solo projects by the band's members etc.

It's helping me with electronic music, because there is no way I have the time to sample everything on emusic. It's made shopping lightning quick!

See, I don't think its all that great when it comes to electronic music. Often when I read someone enthusing about an electronic act on ILM, I bring up Spotify to check it out and its most often not even on there.

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Poor tortured rush fans.
--Jeff

lol

While the oaks just tweet "smh"

Actually UMG have a lot of 70s prog in their rooster. They seem to have restored Caravan now (well, those few Caravan albums that are on Spotify at all), but still to get long tracks by Camel properly.

didn't know that happened when you swiped left to right on a song on IPHONE

If you hit the second button that appears, the one after the star, it adds the song to your play queue. Don't know how to see that queue, though

So this is incredibly annoying. Even if you have a premium account when Spotify needs to update, if it can't, it will just shut itself down and become inaccessible.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/spotify-is-no-longer-invite-only-in-the-us-and-users-get-their-first-six-months-of-service-free/

I’m sitting here at Facebook’s F8 conference with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and he’s just told me that Spotify will no longer be invite-only in the US, and that the service will have no limitations (essentially be free) for an unpaid user’s first six months using the service — the clock will start ticking, and be retroactive, after a user signs up.

This six months leeway will be available both internationally and in the US.

iPhone app has been giving me grief since recent upgrade.

As long as I can still pay my $5.00 without any ads, I'm happy. I don't care that I didn't get a free period. Right now I'm listening to an album that I would happily pay $5 for (it's Rachel Brooke, Lonesome West - A Bitter Harvest and it's fantastic gothic Americana.) I have that experience nearly every day.

Oops - that would be Lonesome Wyatt.

As posted over in the Facebook thread, you can now only sign up for Spotify if you have a Facebook account. Gross.

wow

I mean, this doesn't affect me because a) I already have an account and b) I do have a FB account, but, honestly considering cancelling my premium subscription on pure principle.

I don't want to encourage promising companies to tie themselves to Facebook so desperately.

if on a future update they say that you cant proceed without a FB account then im out

It's hard to imagine a worse way to torpedo all the goodwill and momentum they had. Unconscionable if true.

It is true, a real actual Spotify employee replied in that thread:

Hey Guys thanks for your question, Unfortunately you will need a Facebook account to access Spotify from now on, unless you already have an account set up.

what a disaster for spotify

what a joke

i have bs fb account set up jsut for this type of thing nbd

I don't know, I kind of think it is a bd if you have to go through the trouble of setting up a fake account at one service just to get access to a completely different service.

Yeah this is a complete nightmare.

Spotify guys must have finally seen "the social network" huh

one of the faster sell-outs of the last years imho

i have a skeleton fb account for these kinda things - simply says my name & dob, but otherwise no information whatsoever

I HAVE FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE

now FB will also know what music you listen to hooray

So not looking forward to the constant comments on my Timeline from my relatives, "lol I've never heard of this band", "you listen to weird stuff lol".

i have a skeleton fb account for these kinda things - simply says my name & dob, but otherwise no information whatsoever

Looks like that's what I'll be setting up. I loathe Facebook.

Fake FB accounts are essential, I use it more than my real account.

Does Facebook pay them to do this or something?

More like they probably pay Facebook for the "privilege".

uh i don't think so--it's not in spotify's interest to limit how ppl log in unless they're getting comp from fb. maybe that comp is in the form of promotion value only but still.

isn't fb supposed to be rolling out a bunch of media integration? assume this is one of those.

Don't think Facebook needs to pay them for exposing them to 750 million active users tbh. xxp

isn't fb supposed to be rolling out a bunch of media integration? assume this is one of those.

Yep, supposedly rdio, MOG, and one other streaming service that I can't remember off the top of my head have all signed on with Facebook. Wonder if they will have similar restrictions.

Crap observational comic from 20 years hence: Hey guys, remember when we used to call Facebook the [air-quotes] "Internet"....?