Spotify - anyone heard of it?

sounds move magically from outer space to the speakers of my 1993 college stereo in the other room
it is amazing

Oh yeah, I do need that, I'd just been hoping to find a free option before I ponied up the $25 - but it seems like my best option at this point.

The spotify app has been bad recently. It will hang and crash every time I start it and make me login again. Reconsidering my subscription. Which is a shame because I've listened to it a lot.

iPhone app eventually creates huge data footprint even if I have hardly anything set to offline access so I have to delete it every once in a while and redownload it.

The spotify app has been bad recently. It will hang and crash every time I start it and make me login again. Reconsidering my subscription. Which is a shame because I've listened to it a lot.

― Jeff, den 31 oktober 2011 15:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean the desktop app? i've had the same problems. getting kinda bored with this.

No, iPhone app. Haven't had issues (yet) with the desktop app.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15524852

Virgin Media has released the details of its promised partnership with the Spotify music service.

New customers buying Virgin's 30Mbps or faster broadband package in the UK will receive six months of free access to Spotify's premium service.

Existing subscribers will get the same offer when they renew their contracts.

Experts believe the bundle will help Spotify compete against Apple's iTunes music store, and other streaming services such as Deezer.

Spotify Premium usually costs £9.99 a month. Spotify claimed musicians will also benefit.

"Telecoms companies moving into the music space increases revenue streams to the music industry and provides benefits for fans and artists alike," said Andreas Liffgarden, Spotify's global head of telecom business development.

Virgin Media said it will also waive related data charges for Virgin Mobile customers using the offer.

Customers who take up the deal can listen to an unlimited number of music tracks, including exclusive content, on either their computer or mobile handsets.

Virgin Media says it also plans to let owners of its Tivo video recorders stream Spotify's music directly to their television sets at some point in the future.
Competition

The announcement comes a month after the French streaming music provider, Deezer, announced a similar tie-up with the mobile network Orange.

"It helps the firms automatically boost their subscription numbers overnight," said Chris Cooke, business editor at the CMU music news service.

"One would assume that both may be looking to sell out or float their stock at some point in the future, and this will build confidence."

Spotify may also benefit from the opportunity to reach an older audience than it typically appeals to, especially if the new users take out a subscription once the promotion period ends.

However, previous efforts to link music and telecoms packages have not always proven fruitful.

BSkyB closed its music service, Sky Songs, at the end of last year. It said it had been "unable to reach a large enough customer base" for its £4.99 per month offer.

"We think the dynamic route to market is the mobile one, like Deezer's with Orange," said Alice Enders, music expert at Enders Analysis.

"Selling music subscriptions to broadband households has the problem that the account holder isn't necessarily the one who listens to the most music.

"Free offers often promote experimentation, but it can be hard to get people to dig into their pockets afterwards."

complete* FELT collection now up!

*no 'Snakes Crinkle..' but hey.

I canceled a couple of weeks ago, it won't be compatible with Tiger soon anyway.

Missing question from their FAQ: "How do I play a track?"

Is there a reason why I'd want to sync my ipod to Spotify? As far as I can tell it would just result in fewer songs on my ipod.

Also, I'm trying to figure out what would be the best portable device to use with itunes and spotify. I have pretty big libraries in itunes and spotify and I'd love to have a single device that can play all that stuff together, but my options seem to be limited to a really large ipod that can't run the spotify app or a smaller ipod touch that wouldn't be able to hold all of my mp3s. Are there other options I haven't considered?

Some sort of large capacity android-based mp3 player? If they exist.

does android support itunes?

oh I don't think so actually. I overlooked that.

is it now normal that one gets up to three ads played in a row, with no "extended listening" compensation later on? dudes really ramped up on the coca-cola ads.

"extended listening" compensation? Dude, if you're listening is that extended, give them money!

after getting my classical playlist interrupted over and over again with "Walk This Way", I finally gave in and subscribed.

they need to work on the programming for the "radio" feature
http://i.imgur.com/Ua7gF.png

yeah get the taake and D.O. the hell outta there!

The Spotify page for James Last and his Orchestra has some unexpected related artists.

Mobile app has been updated. Finally shows song title/album art on the lock screen. That was a huge complaint of mine previously.

Update on the makeup ads:

Since I changed my gender to male in my profile, I have gotten lots of ads for pants that don't sag, and music I would never listen to (David Guetta) but no ads for makeup. Not a one!

try listening to Adam Lambert or Fall Out Boy for a while and see if the makeup ads come back

I'd rather not, tbh. does it keep a record of which ads i've received somewhere that i could check out later?

So I'm absolutely loving Spotify Premium. No, it doesn't have everything. And there are features I wish made a little more sense.

But the ability to basically condense years of record collecting into a few hours of playlist creation is seriously inspiring. And ILM can be a critical resource. For instance, the other day I trawled through a few King Tubby and dub threads to put together an essential King Tubby playlist. And where something like that would have taken, literally, years of collecting in record stores, with all sorts of duplication and mis-credited stuff, I was able to put six hours of music together in about 3 or 4 hours on my phone.

link pls

I've weirdly got a completely different-looking version of Spotify at work now than I do at home. Wondering if it's a Mac vs PC thing, like maybe newest version is only on PC for now? Dunno. Tried to run an update at home (I kinda like the new version) but it didn't change anything.

Did my regular delete and reinstall on my iPhone yesterday.

I'm also loving Premium. In a matter of weeks my music collection went from ~10,000 to ~20,000 tracks, and all the new stuff has been great. I liked it so much, I bought a new ipod touch to replace my 7 year old ipod, and now use it for only Spotify, no iTunes.

My only concern is that I'll quickly fill up the new ipod with offline files and Spotify is going to make it difficult to clean those up when I want to. Anyone have any experience with deleting offline files from a mobile device?

Yes. My experience is they don't quite go away, requiring a periodic delete and reinstall of the app.

I like sifting through the stuff, but then I care a lot about oldies (those comps are expensive on CD)...if you have a regular 9 to 5 it has to be tough, though!

Oh yeah, and I tried that radio - great feature but more for novices.

I remember the only time I needed to free up space, I toggled the "offline" switch but it didn't instantly free up space for me. Maybe took a few syncs? I can't recall. But the next time I thought to check, the space was freed without me having to delete or reinstall anything.

I too love spotify premium but I wish there were some way for interoperability between spotify and itunes...which is demanding too much, I guess. I have a bunch of mutually exclusive songs -- songs that I either can't get on itunes but can on spotify, or songs that I have in my itunes that are not available on spotify. And since most of the ppl I know are not on spotify, the social aspect of it is rather limited at this point...

link pls

http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/6MvzKDgECGZBNUEuIEGRxB

Thanking you, NTI.

Rayuela, I dealt with similar problems between itunes and spotify. The biggest problem I found was that Spotify doesn't allow you to sort a list by whether or not the track is available in Spotify, so I ended up looking through my entire Local Files list and taking any track where the song title was greyed out and placed those into their own Not In Spotify list.

You can also import your iTunes playlists into Spotify, which could be helpful.

But if I'm correct, you can't export Smart Playlists in which is sort of a bummer.

I've weirdly got a completely different-looking version of Spotify at work now than I do at home.

and of course today it appeared on my home computer! I've had it on my work PC for weeks though. guess it takes them a long time to roll things out.

xpost

Adding some kind of Smart Playlist function would be very nice indeed.

thanks moodles, i had somehow convinced myself that the local files function wasn't usable on the mobile app but realized that it's totally possible!

it would also be nice if we could subscribe to ppl's lists of starred songs like any other playlist.

^^^^^ yeah this!

I'm kinda bumming that so many 60's singles claim to be the original versions but are instead horribly produced "re-recordings." And then the next 15 times the song appears in the artist's discography it's the re-recorded version, with the original version appearing only once or twice usually buried somewhere towards the bottom. The re-recording is usually the one that shows up in the artist's "top tracks" and in some cases the original isn't there at all.

How do people organize their Spotify playlists? I was just making playlists here and there (Johnny Cash on American, King Tubby, etc.), but I saw Geir's (yeah, I know)
and was sort of stunned to see how tightly he had them organized.

I was making playlists by artist if they had more than like two albums I wanted to save

the rest I throw into bigger group playlists by genre

also have a playlist called Mobile that's only the stuff I want on my phone. checking and unchecking all the other individual playlists to mark them as offline or online got to be a pain so I found it easier just to drag stuff on and off one list that's always marked for offline.

Yeah, I have a "Spotify Offline" playlist I usually put all the stuff I want to take with me as well.

I like the "Not in Spotify" playlist idea where you drag all the stuff from your iTunes it doesn't have. One of the reasons I was asking about smart playlists is that I stopped syncing my iTunes manually a while ago with the idea that I could use smart playlists to sync the newest stuff, stuff I rate highly but haven't played enough, etc. But as of now, Spotify won't import those.

So I'm still using both Spotify and iTunes, which may not be the worst thing -- but I like the idea of doing it all in one place. It also means that if I rip a disc for the express purpose of putting in a Spotify playlist, I have it on my phone twice.

I have my lists organized to an insane degree, probably need to pare it down a lot. I mostly listen to the Spotify Only folder when online, and the Offline Lists folder when offline. My Lists would be my music collection overall.

DJ Mixes
My Lists
|- iTunes A-J (in Spotify lib.)
|- iTunes K-Z (in Spotify lib.)
|- iTunes, not in Spotify
|- Spotify Only
|-Disco
|-R&B
|-Electronic
|-DnB
|-Ghost Box
|-Dubstep
|-Electro
|-Techno
|-Rock
|-60s
|-80s
|-Indie
|-Lux and Ivy's Favorites
|-120 minutes
|-70s
|-Prog and Metal
|-Jazz
|-ILM Jazz Album Top 250
|-Sun Ra
|-New Jazz
|-classical
|- Hip Hop
|-ILM all time rap albums 1-50
|-ILM all time rap albums 51-100
|-Stoned
Offline Lists
|-Electronic
|-My Favorites (itunes)
|-Classical
|-Rock
|-70s
|-Indie
|-60s
|-Lux and Ivy's Favorites
|-Jazz
|-2011 Music

ok, that came out crazy without all the formatting and indenting that I expected

Awesome. So have you ditched iTunes altogether?

i throw everything i'm unfamiliar with into one big playlist folder (recommendations I get from ppl, bands I want to check out) and listen to it randomly on shuffle when I feel like it. This is because I'm horrible at actively listening to songs that are recommended -- they usually have to sneak up on me when I'm not expecting it. When I hear a song I like, I star it, which is the only offline playlist I have. And usually the 3 or 4 bands I'm really into at the moment get their own playlists.

I've found that since I got spotify, I hardly use itunes for anything but podcasts.