Spotify - anyone heard of it?

so the best way to make it happen is to post on one of those threads. The more who actually post on a thread the closer it rises to top of the page and will get noticed by employees of soundrop

by the way, it seems sort of dumb that spotify and last.fm aren't.. the same thing

or CBS buy Spotify?

:( Canada.

No way to use this in Canada, eh?

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, February 6, 2012 5:42 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I use Spotify in Canada with a VPN. My employer pays for it, but they are not really expensive and totally worth it. Can't get Spotify premium though... need a US billing address and credit card for that.

iOS app added extreme 320kbps quality streaming and syncing today. Not sure if that will make a difference that I'll be able to notice. Sounded pretty good to me before.

My idea was that you could log into Spotify with last.fm I'd...because last.fm has a strong community feel that Facebook doesn't.

I think Last.fm are still pretty suspicious and wary of Spotify for obvious reasons.

looks like theres been some trouble in the dubstep room on soundcloud/spotify
http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/harassment-ivhag

Spotify tells all of my friends the title of the last song I played, but it doesn't tell me what it was.

holy hell, AG

play queue > history?

History only goes back as far as one session.

I was only wondering because it lists the last song for my friends list, and I'm wondering what it's telling them I listened to.

DJP- i dunno what to make of that. Terrible she's being harassed, but wtf was she doing posting nudes of herself to all and sundry.

so i have spotify in my dock (mac os x lion), and whenever i click on the icon, another spotify icon appears in the dock, and it's that icon that gets the little blue light under it saying the program's running or whatever, while the original spotify icon i clicked just sits there.

this started happening to me and around the same time Airfoil stopped working to send Spotify to my good speakers

I'm hoping these steps will fix both issues but I haven't tried it yet

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/support/knowledgebase/?showArticle=AirfoilSpotifyRelaunch

When an update for Spotify is available, Spotify automatically downloads it. It then quits itself and launches the update, all without any interaction from you, the user. This is non-standard behavior for Mac OS X, and can cause issues.

Additionally, when Spotify is unable to modify itself in the main /Applications folder -- for example, if the user is running a non-admin account -- then Spotify will install the update to the user's Home folder (in ~/Applications rather than /Applications). After that, every time the version in /Applications is launched, Spotify will quit itself and launch the version in ~/Applications. Again, this is non-standard behavior for Mac OS X, and can cause issues.

the soundrop rooms on spotify have now been expanded. Lots of dance music genres like House, drum n bass, electro, chill out and theres rnb, reggae,post-rock rooms too.
no indie or metal subgenres as yet

oh yeah theres a trance room. think the hip-hop room is new too

this is my first year primarily listening to new music thru spotify and there's just too much! i already have 35 hours worth of music from 2012 alone to listen to. who has the time???

lol my 2012 list has two albums on it (Schoolboy Q and Sleigh Bells)

I downloaded Airfoil for the first time yesterday and it worked okay with Spotify for me.

What are ppls experiences w spotify on an iPhone while driving? Is the connection really spotty? Is it worth subscribing to?

With Chicago 3G coverage, I basically can't stream unless I'm on wifi. I use the available offline feature extensively.

how does the available offline feature work? is it just select albums, or do you get a certain amount a month to make available offline?

You can make any playlist available offline. It is limited only by the storage capacity of your device.

you can make them available offline as much as your HD can take i assume

come in http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VjWCayQ8GaB04GHI

Your smoking buddy and i are in there, mordy

um, can't we all hang out somewhere w/out non-ilxors?

theres user rooms but outlouders wont use soundrop so there would only be us. its a pretty good room. will be better once they have more subgenre rooms. We use this during the day while frobisher is at work but outloud gets used normal times. except noone ever seems to be around in there when i go in, its just jeff or sanpaku in

The offline feature lets you download 3300 tracks to each of your mobile devices. This is what I use for driving.

i got premium and it looks like it does exactly what i want. yay.

does anyone maintain new album playlists curated by taste/genre/new comedy albums/etc?

what did you think of the metal room? also you tried a user room yet? you could get ilxors in it who dont do outloud

they could listen to destroyer and pj harvey and argue about it at the same time

fans of each voting their songs up past the other. all out war!

not a big fan of the metal room. my tastes there run so idiosyncratically that most of what is played by other metal fans doesn't interest me

start a mordy metal room

What are ppls experiences w spotify on an iPhone while driving? Is the connection really spotty? Is it worth subscribing to?

In DC it works great in most places. I don't have to use Offline.

dear god, I had a look in the indie room and the rock room. You wouldn't believe me how bad it is, so go look for yourselves. It will look awful no matter when you read this and look in.

idk if this interests anyone, but i've got a couple playlists for 2012 w/ new music that i've been updating pretty regularly. not exhaustive at all - pretty much if i hear something, or get interested in something, i throw it in one of these:

2012 new music of any interest: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/26nzMghRdSKUM4WhfLYDxk
2012 metal: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/0Qp2Pf6TdcLrqak0ZvISyC
2012 country: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/48BTwfZlrD0cJq3GnO6v9M
this is called 2012 best music but really it's just the playlist that synchs to my iphone so it's stuff i think i might want to listen to when i don't have an internet connection:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2WPKGFgC5xncEu6AfY5gTe -- i think all of it is on one of the other lists but this is kinda a in-circulation list.

um -- plz share if you have similar playlists? and if there's stuff i should throw on these that i don't have yet?

I always drive with iPhone Spotify here (LA). It is dope.

Sounds awesome.

Here is my Spotify playlist LOL.

http://open.spotify.com/album/57csDpHKcStfEWPvFjhFsR

anyone interested in listening to the metal room with a few other ilxors in there?
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VjWCayQ8GaB04GHI

DJP (and everyone else) want to see what HELL looks like?
go here http://open.soundrop.fm/s/VhzLPcWDnXhakl0e (no its not metal room)

Ooh thanks for the country playlist Mordy.

Though it is a bit uh sparse so far! Love the Tim McGraw.

http://www.facebook.com/soundrop/posts/333424550026360

Soundrop
Hi Soundrop fans. We're moving to a new back-end infrastructure today. The server surgery will take approximately 2 hours and Soundrop will be down starting at 6:00 PM CET.

As a side effect of this transition, the Soundrop.fm app for iOS will no longer work and will be removed from the App Store. We're already hard at work on the new version and it will be available as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this will lay the foundation for many great things to come. Stay tuned.

What would that be UK time?

xp oh yeah -- i have a bunch of stuff i hadn't moved into the playlist yet. should be a little more.. uh... comprehensive now?

Metal is not what I want to hear right now but good luck to you. Electronic rooms are underwhelming, as I said. I like Spotify but the quality of music in their rooms look like some shit streaming service.

Not that it bothers me, that's what you get when you get 25-50 people who don't know each other in a room together.

more rooms are coming. That's why they're moving servers so they have more space for more rooms.
btw you can create user rooms. Either for you or your friends or start one for ilx and post the link either in this thread or Bump This Thread if you have an ILM Spotify Soundrop Room going

mordy/tracer one of the new rooms will be a country room.
People are sking for new rooms here http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/ideas/recent

If you create a playlist and post it here http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/more_stations-16k1lj
they might just use it for a room.

tbh, i'm only interested in ilx-only rooms

start one then!

Offline mode (Premium only)
You can now choose to go offline in the desktop application, just as you can in the mobile apps. Some customers have asked for this. It means that you can listen to offline synched playlists and imported local music files without any P2P complications that can sometimes arise if you are, for instance, using a corporate network, or using a mobile 3G dongle.

You'll find the setting under the File menu in Windows, and under the Spotify menu in Mac.

more on new features http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Announcements/Preview-release-Spotify-Desktop-0-8-5-Gapless-crossfade-offline/td-p/6979

Gapless playback, at last.

Oh but:

Local files are aren't yet supported for gapless playback. The status on that one is "Working on it".

The entire catalogue has not yet been re-encoded for gapless playback. The tracks are being re-encoded in order of popularity. This means that practically all Spotify "plays" will be gapless-enabled. You may still find some music that does not play gaplessly, if you have exquisitely obscure taste. Please don't report any such tracks for the time being.