Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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Do a search for every song that begins with the letter "T" in it and save all of the 2:18 ones. Repeat with every letter of the alphabet.

You can do this by entering "label:________" in the search field. It's not perfect.

I notice you can do this with genres as well. I know nothing of Boolean searches, so this is all new to me. Where do you find how stuff is catalogued by Spotify?

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link

Here's their list of genres https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psnjFY3R2itsqjinSs9hkZw

wk, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link

Disappointed by the lack of coverage in "genre:yodeling". Only three albums!

fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

the genres aren't so great. a bunch more yodeling albums come up (for instance) just searching for 'yodeling' than going thru genre

Mordy, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

Well they need to sack some people.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link

Uh oh, I have a job interview with these guys. Am I asking for trouble?

Moodles, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link

Tell them to fix their damn iOS app.

Jeff, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

I have a whole list of things they could work on, although the specific job I'm going for may not be one that would have much say over such stuff

Moodles, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

I hope you looked at their job listings... when you're not at work.

pplains, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link

Worried I was slacking off?

Moodles, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link

I may be paraphrasing it wrong... seems like I hear their house ad "Why don't you come work for us? Check our website now... or maybe when you're not at work." (she says with a grin.) every five minutes.

pplains, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

Thank goodness I'm a subscriber and don't have to hear their terrible ads anymore.

Still, it's odd that they are making such a big hiring push when they are so deep in the hole. I hope that means they have a clear plan on how to turn the corner.

Moodles, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link

i think their (correct) plan is to be in the hole for four years until they have a generation that thinks of them as netflix for music, puts it on their credit card and forgets they're even paying anyone

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

already happened for me

Mordy, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

I hope that works, but unlimited free play kind of makes that more difficult

Moodles, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link

I was doing that until I had to close my bank account for reasons that are TMI... Unlimited free play is nice but it means I have to hear those damn condom ads every 4 songs.

Frobisher the (Viceroy), Saturday, 6 October 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link

I just compiled the "Scorpio Rising" soundtrack -- apparently no one had done this yet!

http://open.spotify.com/user/1245064873/playlist/4Wz7H3L5x0xR9rnp9c4p0W

bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 October 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link

which site does everyone use for good/interesting playlists? there always seems to be hundreds.

piscesx, Monday, 8 October 2012 11:56 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

Crackle Box, Monday, 8 October 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

fish frosch (seandalai), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link

There's a lot of really bad playlists here (http://sharemyplaylists.com/), but you can find great big ones to at least filter some chaff out of.

pplains, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

guys if I am skipping through an album, are the Spotify + Facebook timelines spammed with EVERY SINGLE TRACK that I skip through?

*triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link

it doesnt usually post every track. I think if you play 5 tracks from the same album it makes that post. (unless its changed today)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link

nothing from you has appeared to me fwiw

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link

but i am fairly new to fb and dont really understand it fully

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link

does spotify still stream while online w/playlists marked offline?

cozen, Sunday, 28 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

http://spoti.fi/UB5foW

Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 28 October 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link

Been listening all day with no problems.

Trip Maker, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link

Yes! I have heard of it. Some guy was talking about it the other day.

Hinklepicker, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

that happened to me when I tried to go to an artist page from a search; I got around it by clicking on the specific album I was looking for in the search results

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link

spotify has finally arrived in ireland!

Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link

not even bothered now

Number None, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link

comhghairdeas!

Well, ILE be damned! (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link

is there playlists for all that music that was on the ILX "Rough trade to...." thread?

Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

A few of the rough guides are linked from here:

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

ILM Communication (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

^ new blog post i hope

Mordy, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link

New support page if anyones having problems
http://spoti.fi/Wa8zIy

Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link

Anyone tried new look updated and improved Soundrop app yet?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

Just noticed that Zeppelin isn't on there anymore. The whole Zep catalogue used to be on Spotify, and now NOTHING. I'm sad. ;_;

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

I don't remember the Zeppelin catalog ever being there.

Moodles, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

Oh shit, you might be right. I was probably thinking of the Stones.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link

still no Hounds of Love which saddens me since they have every other kate bush record - was that one on a different label than the rest?

ciderpress, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link

Nope, same label as everything else prior to The Sensual World.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link

Weird one-album gaps like that baffle me. Why no Pretenders debut album, when the rest of their stuff is there?

WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link

I've never seen any Zeppelin on Spotify.

Signed,
An American

pplains, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link


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