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― djmartian, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
current routine to start spotify desktop
1. Start Spotify2. Stop Spotify 3. Open task manager4. Kill Spotify processes 5. Start Spotify
― who writes compassionately about poor people for the Guardian (onimo), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
Cool feature
― Jeff, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
charmingly temperamental program
― Treeship, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
Weird, the txt files are in the folder, read-only, but after maybe 5 minutes the Spotify_new application will reappear, along with the real .sig file.
Check that the files don't have an actual .txt extension; they have to be Spotify_new.exe and Spotify_new.exe.sig.
To check this, you might need to change your view settings to display file name extensions, as this generally doesn't happen by default in Windows.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
Same on Mac btw, i had to remove the txt extension from the terminal.
― Siegbran, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, they don't have the txt extension. No one else seems to have this issue, and the instructions are pretty simple, I'm kind of baffled.
― JoeStork, Monday, 27 April 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
spotify made you, man. get to the safe house.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Weird, I haven't had any of the problems being discussed here. I'm on an i7 with a ton of RAM, though.
― brimstead, Monday, 27 April 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I also used onimo's startup procedure for awhile, but I discovered that the desktop app eventually sorts itself out if you wait a few minutes. It is hilarious that it starts up immediately after you kill all of the processes, though. Feels like there's a bottleneck in the data center for whatever info spotify gathers on startup, but it just gives up on gathering it if you just kill it once?
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
The instructions don't spell this out, but you need to download and install the program, but not then run it, then do the two text files, and THEN run the newly intalled SPotify for the first time.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
I have been on Spotify Unlimited (£5 a month) for years and recently upgraded to Premium (£10 a month) to try it out on my phone. It was useless, so now I want to go back to Unlimited, but I can only see ways to cancel the subscription completely. Is the Unlimited subscription still available?
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
nope
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
Oh well, good opportunity to try something else.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
ha, I can only use my phone right now because my laptop's DAC is so awful
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 May 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
Only disadvantage of using the old, working, un-upgraded version of Spotify is it's from the era when the program couldn't count beyond 59 minutes of playlist without giving up and rounding to the nearest hour.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
Apple allegedly trying to kill Spotify's free tier:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotify-streaming
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Lots of cursing at spotify this morning as I try and access my local files in the Mac desktop app. Evidently 64,000 songs just grinds it to a halt.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/05/06/most-popular-keys-on-spotify/c, g and d major coming out on top
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
to me bach, arise liszt, b minor must rally
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 May 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
streaming video, eh?
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/596748233008816128
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeesh
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
"you mean like an electron probability cloud surrounding a hydrogen nucleus, son?""no, not that kind of cloud, mom!"
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
moms don't get it!
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 8 May 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Moms: pretty damn dumb
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
wonder if any moms work at Spotify
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
no no no. it couldn't be true!
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
moms belong at the particle accelerator, doing fundamental work. typical moms!
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/business/media/as-spotify-expands-revenue-rises-and-losses-deepen.html?_r=0
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 9 May 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
what did the deleted tweet say?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
ah never mind, i found it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
It would be nice to have an editable Notes column in a playlist. The notes would reside in a local file of the user who created the playlist, not part of the Spotify db, which I'm sure is already loads of fun to manage. Would be handy for poll result playlists -- "732/9/2" or whatever.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
love how this thread is half discussion of what it takes to keep a billion-dollar industry-gamechanger, and half "you know what would make my experience as a 99% percentile music nerd more enjoyable?" fantasies/requests.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
not denying we have an eager ear re: user experience, but i think we need to acknowledge that "scourer of ESP-disk discographies" is NOT the person the company is trying to build the company around
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
maybe they could build the company around users who have personal music libraries that they want to run through the same UI as the rest of what Spotify offers. i can't believe that's too small a demographic
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
honestly when you're competing with apple and google for Everyone That Listens To Music, "people with personal music libraries" is small ball.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
xpost that used to be a feature, right?
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
the idea is to get your ass ON the cloud, not make it easier to stay off it
maybe they could make an artisanal reverb for Todd Glass to use w/ a live drummer at parties
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
and just to reaffirm, I am a 99th percentile music nerd, I have a music library etc. Obv I'd love a user experience designed for my pleasure. I just also realize that making playlist crazy explorers of obscurities happy is soooooooo low on the priority level of this battle of the gods we're getting into with Beats and Google Play
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
no way everyone has a music library - even if it's just a folder of accumulated top 40 singles xxxp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
probably lots of spotify users have a taylor swift album on their hard drive
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
accept your insignificance
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
key difference between a music library and a taylor swift album dumped onto a hard drive is whether they'd care if it were gone in 5 years
― katherine, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
key difference in my mind is OOP material unavailable on the cloud
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
xp not really, I kiss goodbye to my digital library every now and then, ocd is not a necessary part of loving music, yr old mp3 player dies while you weep in the rain
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
somebody who feels genuinely qualified, teach me on this: is there any credible school of thought to suggest that streaming is going back into the bottle? i.e. what would have to happen for the vast majority of catalogue to disappear from easy and reasonably cheap access in 2035? Because i kinda feel like keeping a copy of whitesnake's slip of the tongue album as an mp3 is unnecessary; that shit is gonna be part and parcel of whatever universal uses to digitally distribute as long as the model remains viable and then it'll transfer to whatever the next model is.
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
is there any credible school of thought to suggest that streaming is going back into the bottle? i.e. what would have to happen for the vast majority of catalogue to disappear from easy and reasonably cheap access in 2035?
-- forksclovetofu
as a mass, no. but it's credible -- and my guess would be it's getting more credible the way that people are vying for "exclusives" of material that is both imperfectly exclusive and easy to dead forever -- that SOME of the catalogue would disappear from easy or reasonably cheap access, or for that matter any access, in 2035. how much? nobody knows! there's no way to know!
― katherine, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
or in other words: whitesnake's slip of the tongue? probably gonna be fine. that album you love that you found on the internet somewhere that hasn't made it to spotify and only printed 500 CDs because everything's digital now? probably want to back it up.
― katherine, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link