Spotify - anyone heard of it?

if i'm using the spotify app on my phone to play archived playlists, am i using data from my cell data plan? trying to figure out if i can use this outside of the u.s. without incurring international data charges.

Yeah, I think PG is only non-Spotify in the US.

I hope AC/DC shows up someday, but it seems unlikely.

by "archived" i mean "synced"

I think if they're playlists that you've made available offline and you have spotify in offline mode then you're not using data. otherwise, you are.

I've started using the web player a bit. Good for just playing stuff quickly but managing playlists on it sucks.

Like you can't highlight multiple tracks and drag, you have to move each track one at a time and it takes three clicks each. Bleagh.

Alright I finally found Discover view. Kinda sucky except for the Songkick info.

I have it on the web player but not on my desktop player(s) yet.

They killed 'What's New' in favor of 'Discover.' Completely bewildering why they would kill their new release section when it's probably responsible for a huge number of plays.

Not to mention the ease and speed it provided users to browse and quickly turn new albums into playlists.

haha wat

http://i.imgur.com/rgAjEB1.png

look at what ILX is doing to the Spotify recommendation algorithms

yeah those recommendations have been completely inane for me so far, sometimes not even the same genre

You listened to Depeche Mode. Here's a song you might like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72o3ojtP-g

Spotify is big on Electric Six fans checking out Social Distortion

"Since you listened to The Cars, you might like this new release by The Allman Brothers Band."

You listened to Wire. Check out Autechre.

Since you listened to Richard Wagner, you might like this new release by Marlene Dietrich.

If you like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, try Portishead

these are all real suggestions btw

ok we might have a winner

"Since you listened to LaBelle, you might like this new release by Christopher Cross."

If I start to find bands recommending The Cure or Depeche Mode for everything then I know DJP is working for spotify

the new release in question, inspired by my checking out the LaBelle's '71 self-titled album, is two discs of Chris live in Paris, 2012.

You listened to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Check out Tangerine Dream.

If I start to find bands recommending The Cure or Depeche Mode for everything then I know DJP is working for spotify

Like the Beach Boys and the Byrds? Check out Depeche Mode.

"You listened to Simon & Garfunkel. Check out Blondie."

I got The Slits recommended on the back of listening to Throwing Muses and Can...

You listened to These New Puritans this week. Like to try Le Tigre?

"You listened to Electric Light Orchestra this week. Like to try Dion?"

recommendations suck everywhere but i am pissed about losing the "what's new" section they had, meager as it was, as a way to find out about stuff they'd recently added

"You listened to Matthew Sweet. Check out Oingo Boingo."

xp

Is Top Lists, under Apps, the same content as the old What's New?

nope

you now have to follow their new releases playlist to see what's been added:

http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

"You listened to The London Suede. Check out the English Beat."

While reading The Scottish Play?

tbf "You listened to Morphine this week. Like to try Son House?" is exactly what an older record store clerk would have said twenty years ago.

xp thx DJP, following that playlist now

"Since you listened to The Byrds, you might like this new release by Devo."

you now have to follow their new releases playlist to see what's been added:

http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

― DJP, Friday, June 28, 2013 5:40 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now if only there was a way to sort by most recent...I see some stuff in there that was released a few weeks back

Because I tend to be in soundrop underground metal room a lot most of my recommendations aren't bizarre but this one made me snigger

"Since you listened to Coalesce, you might like this new release by Cunter"

Never heard of them but I want beavis & butthead to review them!

xxp: The new releases playlist has been there forever and was always more comprehensive than the "what's new" page, which is probably why they jettisoned the page. You can sort by when things were added, which is probably as close as you're going to get to sorting by release date.

I take it back. EMF and Queensryche??? Like fuck will I ever listen to Queensryche! (also I only heard megadeth because someone played the lolsy new song)
http://i.imgur.com/VuVx7GI.jpg

otoh this is proof dan is involved with Spotify!
http://i.imgur.com/TKUgNpz.jpg

You listened to Steely Dan. Check out the drummer from Gay Dad

You listened to Wire. Check out Autechre.

kinda not crazy?

thanks for the new releases playlist, i missed knowing what came out on tuesday

their Byrds algorithm is kinda messed up:

"If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode"

"You listened to the Byrds, here's an album you might like (picture of Talk Talk - Laughing Stock)

"Since you listened to the Byrds, you might like this new release by DEVO (reissue of Hardcore DEVO vol.1)"

There are a lot of little things about Spotify that suggest "not programmed by people who actually love music," which is a shame since on the whole it's such a great program. E.g. the fact that there are so many cases of multiple bands with the same name sharing a page, the fact that all the offbrand comps crowd out the albums, the bizarre chronological organization, the lack of advanced search capabilities, etc.

that there are so many cases of multiple bands with the same name sharing a page

^^this is annoying for me because one of my favorite fahey type guitar players is named glenn jones but he's in the database with another glenn jones who looks to have been a pop/R&B gospel singer from the late 80s/90s, which fucks up the recommendations engine

apparently my band's name from back in the mid 90s has been adopted by multiple bands since then, can I sue?

moodles u guys weren't the first band called nirvana, sorry mate

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