Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Spotify used to tell you the running time, in minutes, for a playlist at the top of the playlist. doesn't seem to do that anymore, am i not looking in the right place?

they seem to have dumped that feature in one of the updates awhile back--hopefully because they're working on a more precise one. Seems silly for a service with an emphasis on playlists to lack a time measurement.

How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.

Apple probably has a patent on counting playlist times

Some kind of weird mashup in the app now, mixing the current and prior search, so I have Top Tracks and Artist Bio for Television, but albums by Charley Patton.

And now some Russian group called Television in Cyrillic alphabet, but I guess that can't be helped.

> How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.

ha, ha. (i laugh to hide the pain). at work we do something similar and i've written the equiv playlist code. playlists are in one table, the tracks belonging to those playlists are in another. total time belongs to playlist, individual track times belong to the playlist tracks. keeping the two in sync during inserts and deletes is a pain. also, the track list is paged, fetched and displayed 10 or 25 or whatever at a time, you don't get all of them at once because there can be up to 9999 tracks in a playlist. so you can't just add them up...

otm. men die about a little spoonful messing up their television playlist times.

Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.

^^^ driving me crazy totally.

it has made me mad for months now

Super weak that the desktop app doesn't sync with mobile over USB. Each device syncing up through the internet seems like a waste of bandwidth, not to mention time.

I just subscribed to iTunes Match -- until Spotify makes it easier somehow to determine what tracks on your hard drive aren't available on Spotify, it's not going to be the über-library it can be.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4331110/google-lands-universal-music-sony-for-spotify-competitor

Dammit! The hack to keep old spotify working doesn't work anymore. Now I'm stuck with the new version like the rest of you saps.

Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.

― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:45 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just install the 'Spotify for iOS 4' app.

i can see myself jumping ship to google's service even if the functionality/coverage are no better than spotify's because i'd expect them to have better catalogging - spotify's database/tagging/etc is just so messy even on some more popular artists

yes

Yeah, the Spotify update really does seem to have come at the worst time - this is assuming that many users are finding it as unwieldy and laggy as I am, which doesn't seem unreasonable given the attempts to prevent updates to the new software - but if someone could offer me a similar service right now for the same price minus the lag then I'd bite their hand off tbh

the google service has a 30 day free trial right now (if you supply a credit card) but there doesn't seem to be an iphone app, so it's kinda useless for me.

i just wish the fuckers would bring back playlist durations. every new update (ie every frigging second day) makes me hope it will appear, but no

Google play's streaming service is greatat the moment once you've uploaded your catalogue to the cloud, so if they manage to seamlessly integrate that with the non-owned streaming music then I'm there.

If I save a playlist for offline, does the track stream if data is available, or does it play the offline stored version?

Asking because battery life seems to drain quickly even if using offline playlists.

I think the best cloud-based service that let's you upload your own files (and has a player that you can stream them from remotely) is from Amazon. Especially if you have more than 20,000 music files, which I do. Their limit is 250,000 songs and it's $25 for a year. The initial upload takes a crazy long time, but it's worth it. I just use that + Spotify.

The key with the new Google thing from my end is whether UMG properties on there will be watermarked (aka audibly distorted) like they are on Spotify, itunes, emusic etc. If UMG stuff on Googlify is unwatermarked, they've got my money.

why would they watermark on one service but not the other?

i am def assuming they'll be watermarked. But there could be a ghost of a chance google was all, yo how about hooking us up with the uncut shit in exchange for some sweet ass private user info?

I use Spotify mostly on my desktop pc, but love using my ipad as a remote. The bugger is, I use the remoteless app for it, but it's absolutely shite. Crashes almost every time. Does anyone have any experience with other apps to do it this way?

I don't think the Spotify app can sync with your desktop and be used as a remote, can it?

They're posting number of plays now? It's slowing it down something fierce.

the client is fucked up

I've read the payout for spotify is something like .5 cents per stream, anyone know if that's accurate?

Less iirc, but it also differs based on whether the stream was a free user or a subscriber and whether you're a highly visited artist or a barely visited one.

to the artist or the record company? if the artist, that actually sounds high to me. an artist would normally get what from a CD sale, $1? they'd get that from 2 plays of a 10-track album on Spotify.

it'd be 20 plays, that's half a cent not 5 cents

but

I see. Now that top 10 songs on artists pages include # of plays I'm trying to figure out the level of revenue that is being generated.

For example, icona pop - I love it has 27 million plays, and if it were half a cent per play that'd be about $130,000.

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

okay.

desktop app now takes about 20 seconds to open on current version of OS X

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

― Spectrum, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:43 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

idgi

every four songs or so there's a 50% chance Spotify will play an ad for !!!!ADVANCE AUTO PARTS!!!!

Spotify has been opening quickly for the past few weeks now

xpost okay. i've had a paid account more or less since spotify came to the us so that was over my head

I know some of you get on your tall box and pull the ol' "you get what you pay for" routine with us degenerate cheapskates. That's cool. I grew up listening to commercial radio, even worked for a few stations over the course of about 20 years. I don't mind ads breaking up the flow. Usually my cue to push my chair back and go to the rest room. I'd rather pay Spotify for their service by listening to their commercials, giving their salesguys a few extra ears when signing contracts with accounts, but that's me.

But that said, goddamm, you'd think they could sell more than two fucking ads.

dude go for it! i was rewinding lala for multiple plays when i was hustling.

after Ver Floyd bite, who will be the biggest bands to hold out? Led Zep and the Beatles natch. who else? there's Oasis, Peter Gabriel.. any other big or biggish guns?

oh OK so there's also Eagles, Zappa, Metallica..

Metallica are on Spotify as is Zappa

Crimson.