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Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:54 ]
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Nope. I can subscribe to your stuff, but that's it.
Author:  pupil [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:09 ]
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errrrrrrrrrrr... I've no idea then?
Author:  pupil [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:43 ]
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Well, the new features are nice, it'll be cool to easily suggest tracks to friends and stuff, that's really useful. Local files/Gracenote integration is a good idea but they need to improve how local files are played through spotify as, atm, you can't play your locally stored albums in their correct track order, it just plays their tracks alphabetically, which is useless. Hopefully they'll add his soon.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:46 ]
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pupil wrote:
atm, you can't play your locally stored albums in their correct track order, it just plays their tracks alphabetically, which is useless. Hopefully they'll add his soon.

You can, but only straight after you import them (ie, when they're in the "this is what you've imported" list) :S
Author:  Malabelm [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:47 ]
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pupil wrote:
...you can't play your locally stored albums in their correct track order, it just plays their tracks alphabetically, which is useless.


Wow, it's like Guitar Hero.

I'm assuming I can't take advantage of any of these social features without a Facebook account?
Author:  pupil [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:00 ]
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Grim... wrote:
pupil wrote:
atm, you can't play your locally stored albums in their correct track order, it just plays their tracks alphabetically, which is useless. Hopefully they'll add his soon.

You can, but only straight after you import them (ie, when they're in the "this is what you've imported" list) :S

I must have missed that?!
Malabar Front wrote:
pupil wrote:
...you can't play your locally stored albums in their correct track order, it just plays their tracks alphabetically, which is useless.


Wow, it's like Guitar Hero.

I'm assuming I can't take advantage of any of these social features without a Facebook account?

No, that just links spotify to your facebook and auto-imports your friends who have also done the same, nothing more really. It's just a quicker way of adding mates. You can do all of the social stuff without facebook, no probs.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:01 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
I'm assuming I can't take advantage of any of these social features without a Facebook account?

Nah, just search for spotify:user:[USERNAME] to find the stuff you want.
Author:  Malabelm [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:08 ]
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pupil wrote:
Malabar Front wrote:
I'm assuming I can't take advantage of any of these social features without a Facebook account?

No, that just links spotify to your facebook and auto-imports your friends who have also done the same, nothing more really. It's just a quicker way of adding mates. You can do all of the social stuff without facebook, no probs.


Ah, good, I'll have a play around. Ta.
Author:  Runcle [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 13:28 ]
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My username is Runcle if anyone wants to add me.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 13:32 ]
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"User Runcle has not enabled Spotify social."
Author:  Runcle [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 13:32 ]
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I bloody have.
Author:  Malabelm [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 13:37 ]
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Grim... wrote:
"User Runcle has not enabled Spotify social."


It says that on all of your profiles for me.

edit: no it doesn't, but it takes a minute or two to actually bother checking.
Author:  pupil [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 14:09 ]
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Grim... wrote:
"User Runcle has not enabled Spotify social."


Something's knackered with your Spotify, Grim..., I just added Runcle no problem.
Author:  Malabelm [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 14:17 ]
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pupil wrote:
Grim... wrote:
"User Runcle has not enabled Spotify social."


Something's knackered with your Spotify, Grim..., I just added Runcle no problem.


I've added Grim... fine. So, erm, inconclusive.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 14:35 ]
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I've added him now.
Author:  Squirt [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 15:20 ]
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A sort of vague "click on the 'you might like this' link" session has inadvertently lead me into some horrific never-ending loop of "Kidz Sing the Hits!" albums. I never realised they made so many. No matter what your favourite song is, some one has taken a bunch of eleven year olds and stripped it of any passion and emotion.
Author:  WTB [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 15:31 ]
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I'm Jonarob. My girlfriend has completely fucked up my "most played" lists with Laura Marling and Disney songs, though. And you can't reset it.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 15:42 ]
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Yeah yeah yeah.
Author:  WTB [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 15:57 ]
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:'(
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 15:58 ]
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My crazy Spotify can't even find a Jonarob. I'll try again next week.
Author:  Squirt [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 16:00 ]
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I'm going to leave a bunch of cool songs on repeat overnight before I add anyone so that I don't look like that nerd that I really am.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 21:44 ]
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A few years back I was involved with a proper full time radio station. One of the things I used to look after was a 3 hour show on Sunday afternoons that played non-stop music from the 60's, 70's and 80's.

The problem was that it had become abit bland, so I took it over and ensured the computer had lots of good tunes to pick from. Good listening for a Sunday afternoon with some tunes you wouldn't hear anywhere else on the commercial dial.

Yesterday I found my old Selector log that listed all the songs. So I knocked together a Spotify playlist using some of them:

http://open.spotify.com/user/chinnyhill ... ibV85Un8h3

Annoyingly Spotify doesn't always have the correct versions of songs but it's not a bad list. Sounded better on-air with the production and processing natch.
Author:  Derek The Halls [ Sat May 01, 2010 9:04 ]
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I can find Jonarob. Grim.. hasn't enabled social features according to my search.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue May 04, 2010 14:21 ]
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I surely have.
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 14:24 ]
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Try jonarob without a capital J, that should work! Or even better:

http://open.spotify.com/user/jonarob
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 14:25 ]
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Also, I've left Spotify playing one of my playlists for three days solid now in an attempt to knock the rubbish-y songs out of my most played list, and it hasn't changed. Either it's broken, or my girlfriend really listens to a lot of fucking Disney songs.
Author:  Squirt [ Tue May 04, 2010 14:25 ]
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Doesn't Spotify work on some p2p thingy under the hood? Changes ti users might need to "propogate" or something.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue May 04, 2010 15:43 ]
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Posting on another forum revelaed some other Spotify-esque sites that are apparently 'better'.

One of them was called (I think) 'Grooveshark', and tehre was another too that I forget the name of.

What is the perceived Beex wisdom on that?
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 15:45 ]
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"Better" or not, it's like saying a Zune is better than an iPod, or Linux is better than Windows. It may well have more functionality or whatever, but the masses have latched onto this one and therefore you're best sticking with it because you're going to be compatible with more people and able to make the most out of it because everyone else is using it as well.
Author:  Wullie [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:41 ]
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Fuck the masses. I might be on my own here, but I tend to listen to music for myself & find the best way to make the most out of it is to stick it right up inside my ear-holes regardless of what other folk are doing.
Author:  markg [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:43 ]
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True, however I tend to discover music through others so there is something to be said for a thing that lets me hear what people who have similar tastes are listening to. But since we're talking about free services you can just use them all anyway.
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:44 ]
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Well in that case just go back to your mp3 player and downloading whatever albums you want :P The whole point of Spotify is the social "share with people" side of it. I mean, obviously there's the instant streaming, but it's playlists and stuff that really makes it.
Author:  Wullie [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:54 ]
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I liked the old days better when you'd get a phonecall saying "Mate, you have to come over & listen to this!" (it still happens, it's just much rarer these days) & walking into a record shop to be greeted by one of the assistants who's found something they think you'll like never gets dull.

Sharing music via online shite's much less fun & despite what they say it's much less sociable.
Author:  markg [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:57 ]
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I fear that isn't the online world so much as just getting old. I mean you tend to spend more time hanging out with friends and listening to music when you're a kid. Apart from the record shop thing, obviously.
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 16:57 ]
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Neither of those scenarios have ever happened to me, though.
Author:  Wullie [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:06 ]
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markg wrote:
I fear that isn't the online world so much as just getting old. I mean you tend to spend more time hanging out with friends and listening to music when you're a kid. Apart from the record shop thing, obviously.
Aye, but a large proportion of my pals are anoraks/DJs, musicians & music lovers. As I said it still happens, but due to work/relationships/kids/other it's more infrequent.

Spotify's a crap substitute, even email's a bit more personal.


@Jonarob, you've never lived :D
Author:  Squirt [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:08 ]
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@jonarob - you've never hung about with friends?
Author:  WTB [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:09 ]
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My friends are all morons, musically. I discovered everything I like on my own using the internets, TV and the press.
Author:  markg [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:11 ]
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I actually discovered a good proportion of the music I like through skateboard videos, still do really.
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:15 ]
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Hey Jonarob! You'll like this
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Winkies in your face.
Author:  Wullie [ Tue May 04, 2010 17:24 ]
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markg wrote:
I actually discovered a good proportion of the music I like through skateboard videos, still do really.
That's a good point actually, Panic/Blueprint's "A Mixed Media" still has one of my favourite soundtracks. Although my favourite bit of music to ever appear in skate/bmx videos is still this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRb7-gOsXE It even made an amazingly dull Volcom pool skating video enjoyable for a few minutes :DD
Author:  MrChris [ Tue May 04, 2010 22:48 ]
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Jesus fuck! If you mute the ads, it pauses them! Even if the mute is the whole PC! Cunts! CUNTS!
Author:  Grim... [ Tue May 04, 2010 22:55 ]
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Well, isn't that fair enough? Why shouldn't you listen to them if it helps keep the service free?
Although I don't know how annoying they are, in fairness, as I pay happily pay 30p a day for the best music service on the Internet*.

*I should get commission ;)
Author:  MrChris [ Tue May 04, 2010 22:56 ]
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Well, the alternative is I just take the headphones out. Plus, they know we don't listen to the fucking things, so forcing a pause on it if you mute does fuck all - if I'm going to mute the to avoid them, I'm not the sort of person to listen to the fucking things if I have to keep the volume on. They're wasting everyone's time.
Author:  tossrStu [ Wed May 12, 2010 18:12 ]
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Just got the update today so I've been through and added as many of yers as it would let me -- I'm stuaa on there.
Author:  Scarysheep3000 [ Thu May 13, 2010 20:40 ]
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Add me, dudes! (scarysheep)

It seems to have added jonarob and Grim... via Facebook. So that's good.

I do subscribe but it's not to avoid the ads - it's so I can use it on the "go" on my phone. Best thing ever.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri May 14, 2010 23:49 ]
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Hooray!

BeexMrChris, as it happens.
Author:  GovernmentYard [ Sat May 15, 2010 2:19 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
they know we don't listen to the fucking things


They're either for something totally incongruous to what you're enjoying - pop idol shite amidst Bach (which utterly fucks it) or they're the same "Hi, this is person who should never be allowed to voice an ad from Spotify to talk about something you've just started to ignore" thing every three songs for the full two hours I'm listening to tunes.

I'd welcome and pay attention to the adds as an essential part of the free service were it not for their repetitive/inappropriateness. As it stands I use the thing less as a result, which makes me less likely to subscribe. Even then, subscribing wouldn't prevent it playing the first three seconds then buffering for five minutes even when things like torrents and youtube are running fine.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat May 15, 2010 7:48 ]
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Hmm. I don't hear the adds so I can't comment, but the speed at which it can play music is voodoo - even across a 3G network. I've never known it stop to buffer before.
Author:  Hearthly [ Sat May 15, 2010 12:52 ]
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Latest awesome use for Spotify for me, iPhone jukebox in the kitchen via the Spotify iPhone app.

I like to do a bit of cooking at the weekend and therefore spend a few hours in the kitchen, and one must have tunes whilst one cooks. We've got an old AIWA midi hi-fi system in there (twin tape, radio, 3-CD changer, you remember the type of thing), which up to now I've manually fed CDs into, which is a total fucking pain in the arse as it's sat on top of the fridge-freezer. It was bad enough with the old fridge-freezer (quite high up you see), but we got a new fridge-freezer a few weeks ago which is comfortably taller than me, so changing the CDs now is a 'stand on a chair' sort of arrangement - hence I always just end up listening to the same CDs as I can't be arsed to change them.

The hi-fi has an AUX-in via two phono sockets so I was toying with the idea of getting a netbook or cheap laptop to connect up via a 3.5mm jack to two phono plugs, to stream music either from the NAS or Spotify.

However, it then occurred to me that I already have Spotify in iPhone form, and of course the iPhone has a 3.5mm socket on it, so I dug out an old lead from a box I've never fully unpacked since we moved here over three years ago, and connected the iPhone up.

Et voila! Pretty much all the music in the world is just a couple of taps away, the iPhone uses the wireless in the house so response is really quick, never had any problems with stuttering or buffering - just excellent tunes aplenty as I cook. It uses all my same favourites and playlists from the desktop app (I guess all that stuff is out in the 'cloud'), sound quality is excellent (indiscernible from a CD), and no more faffing about with CDs.

It's actually easier and more convenient than streaming from the NAS would be, and I don't have to have a netbook or laptop in the kitchen either.

For the money, Spotify Premium is absolutely a total no-brainer in my book - wouldn't be without it now.
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