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It's a bit embarrassing that someone whipped that up and there's still no support for playing FLAC when it comes to local files.
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Whoa Spotiamp is awesome, thanks for posting.
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Dec 20, 2013 23:44
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How come sometimes songs will randomly become unavailable? Eg I've been listening to the new Deafheaven album for weeks now and all of a sudden nearly half the tracks have blanked out: Is it unlikely they'll ever return?
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Jan 15, 2014 15:22
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I gave up trying to figure it out. Some songs disappeared off Maxinquaye one day, so I figured it was over sampling rights, but the next thing I noticed was a couple random Rakes songs disappeared which don't have any samples, though one of them was "The Light From Your Mac" so I thought "Maybe Apple is mad?" Now I just don't even try and guess. Weirder things happen too, like how there are two identical Labradford albums, one properly called "Fixed::Context" and the other one, recently added, called "Fixed : Content". It's all a bit mad.
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Jan 16, 2014 09:06
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I've noticed that its mostly songs that are 10+ minutes that randomly disappear. At least with Deafheaven thats the case and i've seen it with other albums before.
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Jan 16, 2014 10:10
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When the latest Sleigh Bells came out, about half the tracks disappeared the day after release, then came back a couple of days later. They also used to have about half of Clutch's discography, but it's been slowly disappearing. I saw Blast Tyrant come and go at least twice. I assume this kind of thing is all due to record label licensing deals, but it could be technical issues. No one outside Spotify really knows, because they just randomly remove and add tracks with no notice.
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Jan 16, 2014 22:31
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I noticed no one here has mentioned Fidelify: http://www.fidelify.net/ It's a bit buggy, but makes a noticeable difference when paired with ASIO4All.
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Jan 16, 2014 22:37
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And just like that the Deafhaven album is fully restored... 
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Jan 17, 2014 18:46
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All of Black Sabbath's discography from the Ozzy era is on Spotify now. Just thought you guys should know.
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Friends Are Evil posted:All of Black Sabbath's discography from the Ozzy era is on Spotify now. gently caress yes, thanks! Now there are really no gaping holes in the catalog for me. I own all the Beatles albums I would want so those can be added locally. Same with Tool. And AC/DC is one of my least favorite bands so that's not a hard hit. Things will get interesting in the next few months with Beats Music coming out. I'm satisfied with Spotify, but they'll have to crank out new features if they want to stay ahead. Beats, who bought out MOG a while back, will be shutting down MOG in April. MOG users won't be able to transfer playlists to Beats so Spotify has a chance there to make a grab for audience. I'm not saying playlists can be transferred to Spotify, but maybe they can attract them in another way. Beats will likely capture a large audience from their headphone sales. I imagine they'll be (if not already) bundling streaming plans with headphone purchases. I ride the train to work most days and it's just amazing how many pairs of their headphones you see on any given day. I'd wager many of them aren't aware of any streaming music options aside from Youtube. They will be soon.
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Jan 22, 2014 12:46
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me your dad posted:gently caress yes, thanks! Now there are really no gaping holes in the catalog for me. I own all the Beatles albums I would want so those can be added locally. Same with Tool. And AC/DC is one of my least favorite bands so that's not a hard hit. I love that Spotify are adding more stuff but the locally adding thing is a pain when using a mobile device. This is where Google Play shines.
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Jan 22, 2014 12:51
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Tychtrip posted:I love that Spotify are adding more stuff but the locally adding thing is a pain when using a mobile device. This is where Google Play shines. I really hope Spotify is aware of this gap in their service and looking into something like that.
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Jan 23, 2014 09:27
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jpotts posted:I noticed no one here has mentioned Fidelify: http://www.fidelify.net/ Really cool find, thank you for this.
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Eight Is Legend posted:I really hope Spotify is aware of this gap in their service and looking into something like that. It's easy to add local stuff for me. 
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Jan 23, 2014 14:36
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Giving paid subscribers like a GB or five of space they can use to upload local tracks that aren't on Spotify to the cloud and play on any of their devices would be fantastic. I could upload all my Beatles and King Crimson and random indie bands that just aren't on Spotify yet and basically have 0 gaps between being at home and being anywhere else.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:32
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I thought that a few weeks ago, but I'm sure they would run into some issues somewhere legally. I don't know why I think that, I just do.
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Jan 23, 2014 21:03
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Another Person posted:I thought that a few weeks ago, but I'm sure they would run into some issues somewhere legally. I don't know why I think that, I just do. Google already does that so
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Jan 23, 2014 21:12
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Kaboobi posted:Giving paid subscribers like a GB or five of space they can use to upload local tracks that aren't on Spotify to the cloud and play on any of their devices would be fantastic. If you don't physically carry the first 10 King Crimson albums on your person at all times you aren't a real music fan, in my opinion.
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Jan 23, 2014 23:30
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Earwicker posted:If you don't physically carry the first 10 King Crimson albums on your person at all times you aren't a real music fan, in my opinion. What's wrong with Thrak? Being able to stream from the cloud with Google Play is nice but uploading to it is slow and it tends to break on my not-great tags. Fixing them takes forever because of the slow upload. Can't win.
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Jan 24, 2014 02:34
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Spotify newb here. Is there a way to check the bit rate of a song/album? I've got the premium version and the quality sounds very good, just wondering what the actual bit rate is.
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Jan 24, 2014 22:10
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caiman posted:Spotify newb here. Is there a way to check the bit rate of a song/album? I've got the premium version and the quality sounds very good, just wondering what the actual bit rate is. Answers here: https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/What-bitrate-does-Spotify-use-for-streaming quote:Spotify uses 3 quality ratings for streaming, all in the Ogg Vorbis format. "Extreme"
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me your dad posted:Answers here: https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/What-bitrate-does-Spotify-use-for-streaming Thanks. So does that mean I'm always hearing it at 320kbps, regardless of connection speed, signal strength, etc?
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Jan 24, 2014 23:05
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You have to go to the preferences window and select "high quality streaming"
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I know this is a Spotify thread but somebody was recently hyping up Rdio to me. When I asked how the library compares to Spotify, they weren't really sure. Does anyone here have a lot of experience with both and could give a quick compare and contrast? I'm more concerned with the breadth of catalogue than misc features.
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thathonkey posted:I know this is a Spotify thread but somebody was recently hyping up Rdio to me. When I asked how the library compares to Spotify, they weren't really sure. Does anyone here have a lot of experience with both and could give a quick compare and contrast? I'm more concerned with the breadth of catalogue than misc features. Rdio doesn't have a desktop program and I find their library isn't as large. The UI they have is nice though.
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thathonkey posted:I know this is a Spotify thread but somebody was recently hyping up Rdio to me. When I asked how the library compares to Spotify, they weren't really sure. Does anyone here have a lot of experience with both and could give a quick compare and contrast? I'm more concerned with the breadth of catalogue than misc features. Library is a tiny bit smaller, although, having used Rdio the last 8 months and recently switched back to Spotify, i haven't really noticed anything missing. But my taste dont really extend beyond the year 1989 so that might be a factor in it. Their Collections function, mobile app and general UI is a whole lot better, although Spotify is better in allowing you to actually find new music, thanks to apps and such. There is a desktop program, despite what the previous poster said.
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Tried Rdio out briefly, I like the Collections thing and the mobile ap looks nicer. Buuut, I searched for a few bands and one was missing entirely, another had only the latest album, and the last was missing a couple eps. So yeah I guess the library is smaller for like, less popular more recent bands? This is based on like, a couple minutes of searching though and may not hold true for someone else's bullshit indie bands.
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Spotify does have more exposure and a (slightly -- Rdio's really improved in the last year) larger library, but Rdio's UI and mobile app continue to be so much better than I just can't switch.
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me your dad posted:Answers here: https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/What-bitrate-does-Spotify-use-for-streaming It's so disappointing that they're still clinging to integer bitrates for conveying quality; I understand why they do it, but it's really aggravating because it just persists stupid beliefs about lossy audio encoding
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het posted:It's so disappointing that they're still clinging to integer bitrates for conveying quality; I understand why they do it, but it's really aggravating because it just persists stupid beliefs about lossy audio encoding Care to elaborate on this?
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me your dad posted:Care to elaborate on this? Would he ever!
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Sidebar: Let us take advantage of the social nature of Spotify and share some choice playlists: Jazzy stuff, Hip-Hop stuff, and the best goddamn 80's throwback playlist I've ever seen.
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Jan 27, 2014 12:00
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Someone maintains a very comprehensive playlist of all the music used in Breaking Bad. I'm sure there's lots of other great "fan soundtrack" lists.
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Jan 27, 2014 16:30
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I spent too much time making this: http://open.spotify.com/user/monochromed/playlist/2ONhggmIwDUVAoE1if3hJq
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Kaboobi posted:I spent too much time making this: http://open.spotify.com/user/monochromed/playlist/2ONhggmIwDUVAoE1if3hJq
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Kaboobi posted:I spent too much time making this: http://open.spotify.com/user/monochromed/playlist/2ONhggmIwDUVAoE1if3hJq You are my hero
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I was thinking about jumping over to Beats Music for a second there, but then I realize to it isn't as cool as Spotify is. In other news, the browse tab is back and I couldn't be more happier.
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Kaboobi posted:I spent too much time making this: http://open.spotify.com/user/monochromed/playlist/2ONhggmIwDUVAoE1if3hJq We're terrible people for doing this. THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CONTAINED
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me your dad posted:Care to elaborate on this? Don't get me wrong, I realize it's difficult to actually get the subtlety across, I'm just sick of talking to people who express mp3 encoding quality in terms of 128/160/192/256/320 Earwicker posted:Would he ever!
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het posted:Everyone gets stuck on these perceptions of bitrates from like 10 years ago where they always refer to Average Bitrate or Constant Bitrate when anyone doing this seriously should be using VBR profiles (and I assume spotify is doing so behind the scenes but "-q 3" is less meaningful to people than "~160kbps") I still have no idea what you're talking about but that's fine. As long as the number is bigger I am satisfied. What's better than 320? Will we see 460!? I'd like to see Spotify introduce a feature that would let you see how big (file size) a playlist is if it's in offline mode. I suppose I can dig into my file system in Android once it's synched to my phone but I'd much rather know before hand. I guess I could also roughly calculate it based on its bitrate (eek!) and length. me your dad fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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