Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

I keep getting thrown out of Spotify. Should I just trash the program and download it again?

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?

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:38 PM (5 hours ago)

yeah, spotify crashes CONSTANTLY for me.

soundrop is great if a bit buggy. haven't used the public rooms at all but spend most days at work now in a room with 3 or 4 other friends.

Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but Spotify has my band from way back in the 90s:

http://open.spotify.com/album/1ttc7KoPS9ittZffhiDSBe

Apparently there were several other subsequent bands that took the same name.

Right now I'm having too many crashes and it is often slow, so I am staying away from the crack that is Spotify.

Back to scrobbling from itunes, which means I can't hear any music I want to when I want to unless I grab it off Amazon. Which is an enormous globally significant tragedy in my coddled worldview.

Shit, maybe I'll cruise SoulSeek or even play an LP.

Previously mentioned streaming Spotify issues are solved, please let us know if you have problems/questions: http://t.co/3HOxGdGf

New version of Soundrop is out today. Just restart Spotify to make sure you get it. More info here:https://www.facebook.com/soundrop/posts/344109505627208

Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but Spotify has my band from way back in the 90s:

http://open.spotify.com/album/1ttc7KoPS9ittZffhiDSBe

Apparently there were several other subsequent bands that took the same name.

― Moodles, Friday, 2 March 2012 05:21 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am streaming this now - enjoy your 0.005 cents or whatever it is, don't spend it all in the one shop :)

ha, I have no idea who put this up on Spotify or who would actually get paid for plays. Pretty sure it wouldn't be me.

I'm also playing this btw

Hope you like it! I think my favorites are "Phenomathon" and "Tranquilizer".

what did u do in this band?

Played bass, wrote the music with the other guys.

cool! i like this. i get a little adam duritz thing from the singer? (that's a neutral statement btw)

Thanks! That's a fair comparison. The singer is my pal Ben Averch. He's got a more recent album of his called Fortune Cookie up on Spotify too.

Something's been screwed up with the latest upgrade, tracks just stop, can't get some tracks to open. Hope there's a quick fix.

same here. keep getting 'search failed', 'browsing failed' etc

haha now it's crashed and is skipping like a cd. welcome to the future

I'm trying to max out my offline files for an upcoming road trip. The max is supposed to be 3,333. I got to about 2800 and was told I hit my limit, but I can't figure out where the rest of the files are. I'm thinking I might need to reinstall on my ipod and try again.

Spotify's unwillingness to support Android 3 and 4 mobile apps is making me want to quit the service forever:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas-and-Feedback/Spotify-needs-to-support-Android-3-Honeycomb-Android-4-Ice-Cream/idi-p/715

Android 4 dev kits have been available since October, no excuses.

Why is dubstep so popular? btw there's usually a thousand people in there at peak time

http://i42.tinypic.com/ztdp37.jpg

The max is supposed to be 3,333. I got to about 2800 and was told I hit my limit

you have a lot of disk space on your phone!

I'm using a 64 GB ipod touch

I suspect that some of my personal mp3 files are being counted toward that total.

I got an iphone with less disk space since I have a big 80GB ipod but now I'm like "why would I carry both of these things around." not that big a deal but I wish I woulda gone for the bigger hard drive on my phone.

an older ipod btw, no internet. not a touch.

so i was just durdling around with this for the first time last night since i got a new laptop and don't want to copy my whole music drive onto it. is there any reason why it's not easily worth the $5/month? how thorough is the licensing coverage now?

also are the 320kbs offerings extensive enough yet to make premium worth it if i don't plan to use it w/ a mobile device?

I don't even know how to tell what's streaming at what rate

how thorough is the licensing coverage now?

depends on what you like. there is stuff appearing and disappearing every day .... some of my favorite record labels have pulled out (Sacred Bones, RVNG Intl, there's no B-Music or Finders Keepers) but I still find a ton to listen to and it's worth the 10 bucks

I take that back, Finders Keepers does have some stuff on there

anyway I find a lot to listen to especially dance music

there have been very few new albums to come out that weren't on spotify. tzadik is really the biggest loss imo. most stuff is on there tho.

also tons of jazz and classical that I wouldn't have otherwise chased after but am now very happy to have on hand

i subscribed just because of all the Blue Note

yeah if the classical is good & thorough then i'm even more tempted. i've never had the time or resources to get a reasonable collection of that together, even digitally

soundrop has a country room now

http://i40.tinypic.com/5xvbqb.png

Shonze Famschen otm

haha