Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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
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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.

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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.

Besides specialised playlists like my disco compendium I have:

- a list of things I want to listen to but haven't made up my mind about yet
- lists of my favourite albums/tracks of the year (useful come EOY time)
- a big list of jazzy/spacey/droney/percussive music for working to

That plus Outloud covers most of my listening these days.

people probably know about this, but my computer has a mute button, and if i mute my computer while spotify is running an ad, it pauses the ad until i unmute my computer! it's so obnoxious!

So far, with the new ipod, I haven't loaded anything to itunes, just to spotify. I hope that I won't have to use itunes, but it is too soon to tell.

I'll probably still use itunes on my computer if I get new CDs or mp3s as it does a good job of organizing my hard drive, but then I'll bump that all to spotify for listening.

people probably know about this, but my computer has a mute button, and if i mute my computer while spotify is running an ad, it pauses the ad until i unmute my computer! it's so obnoxious!

that is diabolical

smash your speakers -- it won't notice

when i use spotify i usually hook it up to my receiver and speakers, and then when the ads come on it doesn't notice if the receiver is muted. it does notice when the computer is muted, yep, and it truly is diabolical.

BONOBOS

all my ads are for bonobos now

your pants must sag. me too.

you deserve to look fantastic

is anyone else having problems connecting to spotify today?

yeah it's been weird for the past two days for me

it says i'm in offline mode.

i want to be in online mode.

yeah i just had to quit/restart and if that failed try again later