Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Oh no!

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I feel like I'm on the bus in Speed. I can't ever turn the ignition off again!

Just added text files to that folder Johnny Fever posted (and made them read only). We'll see what happens.

Hey Spotify, how about fucking off with putting '2009 Digital Remaster' after every Kraftwerk track title. We don't need to know and it messes up my last.fm page.

I'm *glad* they do that because they often offer different masterings of the same album, and frankly that's my favorite thing about spotify considering how many fucked up remasters there are out there

They could put that stuff in the album title. It annoys me too.

working a bit better today so far

yeah i mean ethics and all aside

the blue note app for spotify is just about one of the most amazing things ever done in music IMO

Just added text files to that folder Johnny Fever posted (and made them read only). We'll see what happens.

I think I did the fix about a week ago now and I haven't had any problems with it at all.

text files with nothing in 'em except for the filename, right?

Yeah, they're just blank text files, but save them with the file extensions shown above.

They could put that stuff in the album title

Exactly.

this updated version is constantly crashing on my ubuntu machine grr

yeah, ditto. although it was never tooooo stable anyway.

This app is reversed-engineered using alien technology

"Like to install the latest version of Spotify?" Haha, Fever, you rock.

I was able to create read-only files. I am a computer genius.

I updated the client on my pc last night so I could build out a playlist based on the 70s poll results. Wow, I had some frustrating problems, especially with opening albums from the spotify URLs in the 70s thread. The client crashed or lost its connection a bunch of times. I finally gave up on using the links and just started looking up the albums in the spotify search bar and that worked a lot better.

They need a way to copy and paste a url directly into the client or better yet, have some kind of playlist url mass entry box where you can copy and paste a whole list of urls and generate a playlist from them.

Another annoying thing: when you click a spotify URL it opens up a browser window with links to your music and related music. If you click the background/border of the spotify browser tab, it opens up a really terrible generic house album. Since I was clicking back and forth between my browser and the spotify client a lot last night, I accidently clicked on the browser border about a million times, so I kept getting this same terrible house music, which really spoiled my 70s hard rock vibe.

I think I can help you there moodles from now on (thanks for doing the playlist!)

thanks, I should be able to crank through the rest of the list either tonight or tomorrow morning

cool. you just put that other link in search bar and it will take you right there (unless its not in your country so you need to search your own version)

ah, didn't realize you could plug urls into spotify search

the spotify: ones yes you can not http ones

gotcha

oh man the Blue Note app. see you in a few hours after I finish messing with the "Blue Break Beats" section.

Understand that is the only way to locate yr Denny Vertigo albums.

I thought those were only available on MOG.

can anyone tell me how i can stop spotify of starting automatically after turning on my windows xp computer?

go to spotify preferences (edit > preferences)

way down the list, you'll see "open Spotify automatically after you log into the computer"

set it to "don't open automatically"

thanks!

I've always heard of Spotify ever since it started, but is it really that good? I've yet to try it, but I've heard it has ads in the middle of a song, unless you pay to remove them. Is this true?

If this is so, I'd much rather stick to 8tracks, even though Spotify seems to have more variety, people on board and, thus, a higher potential to discover new music.

The free version has ads in between every few songs, not in the middle of songs. The pay version doesn't have ads. It gives you access to a huge library of music. The premium version allows you to download up to 3333 tracks on a single mobile device, 10000 across 3 devices.

and they have higher bitrates if you pay £10 a month

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm sold. I will create an account right now.

At one point it had ads in between songs that were like 15 minutes or longer, but that doesn't happen anymore.

Have any of you tried the iPhone app? Thoughts?

It works really well if you have premium. I currently don't have premium so I can't use it. You get a 48 hour free trial of Spotify mobile when you start a free account.

I played around with it for that 48 hour window and it was much better than say, Pandora... obv cause you can choose exactly what you want to listen to.

App is frustrating as hell. Buggy.

My user is 573v3n on there. Please feel free to add me, guys!

I like the iPhone app, it seems to do everything the Mac version does.

The Spotify plug-in for SqueezeCenter has the ability to show recent searches and recently played artists and albums. It seems strange those features aren't available in the iPhone or Mac apps. Maybe I just haven't found them?

SqueezeCenter? Is Logitech still supporting that?

I don't know what level of support is available any more ... I haven't seen any updates in a while. It's still working fine on my system.

I guess I'm actually running Logitech Media Server now.

Spotify and attempts to reinstall have been crashing on me for about 2 weeks now. Is it an OSX thing, as I'm still on 10.5.8?

Maybe ... it hasn't crashed for me on 10.8.3, though it loads slowly.

i had problems with it crashing, then with its becoming unusable after it updated itself, so i de-updated it and blocked it from updating per instructions above in this thread; but now it's back to crashing on startup again. worst piece of software i've used in years.

it's been slower for me since the update but not crashing, thankfully. aren't they supposed to be offering a browser-based version at some point?

You rang? https://play.spotify.com/

Are you buying everything on CD or on iTunes? Because as someone who was a big illegal downloader for a long time, I pretty much feel like there's no justification whatsoever for it unless you're trying to hunt Dow something that is completely out of print and otherwise impossible to find.
$10/mo is nothing. If you can't afford it, you can spend $5/mo for ad-free streaming. If you can't afford that, you're a loser.

At the moment, I'm also subscribing to MOG because I really want to ECM catalogue as well. So that's $20/mo, which is--gasp--$240/year total. Which probably equals a couple of months of what I used to spend in a pre-P2P era.

When you consider that you are getting instant access to virtually every record you ever wanted, have some principled stance against the idea of subscription services because they pay so little to artists (a fair criticism), or don't buy $120 worth of music per year, it's a no brainer, really.

― Naive Teen Idol

There has not been a year in the last 25 that i haven't spent between $1-5k on music. I don't stream for any other reason than to preview the desirability of some titeles (or i'll do an illegal dl -- but again, only for preview -- or if the material is hopelessly unavailable through legitimate means). Grooveshark still shows ads, but i'm not forced to read to them like you are forced to listen on Spotify. The FCC has done a huge injustice to public airwaves by making both radio and television a simple rubber-stamped commodity.

My mobile music is comprised mainly of items i've pre-sifted; and i save album listening for the home stereo -- streaming the bulk you listening is yet another form of instant gratification that makes many of so shallow. Fight.

Your last sentence makes no sense.