Spotify: What are you waiting for?

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het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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Earwicker posted:

There are still a lot of invite left through here:

http://www.facebook.com/Sprite#!/Sprite/posts/10150191406714159

A lot.

BTW guys, here's really no need to do the individual invites thing until this runs out. This is how I got my invite and it worked like a charm.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2011 04:50

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:56

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strokevictim posted:

Been hit by this issue the past 2 days... anyone else?

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/_cant_play_the_current_track_loop_of_doom

"Can't play the current track" loop of DOOM
"Can't play the current track" keeps popping up when I should be getting advertisements"

Seems something is broken with the ads

Yeah I've run into that a lot lately, it's definitely been happening off and on since I started using Spotify though

# ¿ Aug 22, 2011 21:48

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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The link for immediate free invites is in the OP, stop posting invite codes.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2011 04:30

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Ryen Deckard posted:

Every single one of these has been used, thanks for posting saying "I've taken this" guys!

Thanks for reading the OP with an invite generator!

# ¿ Sep 1, 2011 06:22

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Drifter287 posted:

Wish granted?

This is working pretty well, thanks!

# ¿ Sep 7, 2011 23:54

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Earwicker posted:

Also, I've noticed lately that the ads are all just ads for the paid version of Spotify, rather than the ads for playlists and new albums from various bands and such. Which of course means that they are having big problems selling their ads.

I was just noticing today that I heard way more ads for artists (including a couple new ones), hopefully that's a good sign for their ad sales.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 23:40

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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None of them should be really given credit as being groundbreaking though (well, Grooveshark should be given credit for having a groundbreakingly stupid business concept to start with and then turning it around to something less stupid), the technical issues aren't really that big a deal compared to the issues of licensing (and it seems like that's still a constant battle)

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 16:27

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sweek0 posted:

The new preview version is great and I love being able to see what my friends are listening to right there in the app and I can listen to it as well. The next step would be to have a 'listen along with a friend' feature so I just hear whatever they choose to play.

What they really need (and I'm guessing someone is probably working on this as a Spotify App because it's pretty obvious) is something akin to turntable.fm, I would kill for that.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2011 17:22

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Charlie Mopps posted:

I think the Soundrop app is supposed to become that.

Yeah, I'd noticed it though currently it's just like "listen to a playlist", right?

# ¿ Dec 15, 2011 18:01

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Project Lithium posted:

I'm really not opposed to paying the 10 dollars a month for the unlimited service or whatever it's called

Cool, sounds like you should pay for it rather than begging for (almost certainly illicit) ways of getting free service?

edit: also it looks like this is your first post since 2010. I don't think the forum really needs people who just come here to beg for poo poo, so gently caress off.

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# ¿ Jan 27, 2012 21:48

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FreelanceSocialist posted:

Crossfading and gapless playback have just been added to Spotify.

Nice, the gaps have been kind of bugging me of late

# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 21:42

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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So I tried the free month of premium offer so I could check out the iPhone app, but when I try playing an album, it just hangs after playing one track. It says it's starting the next but nothing happens and I have to go forward and back to get it to start playing again. Do other people have this problem?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 20:52

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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Obviously nobody here knows and the answer is "probably not", since it's sort of in their interest to drive people to trending stuff or new features even if some people don't want that.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2012 23:54

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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That's not really surprising to me, syncing the iPod via USB is sort of a separate animal from in-app-data syncing, I thought.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2012 03:51

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Sqeetschy posted:

So, I just accidentally a way to log into any Spotify account without a password... big deal?

I would recommend taking some screenshots to prove it and reporting it to Spotify support.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 01:57

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Another Person posted:

Apart from the already posted issues with the new update, I also think that the new update's artist page is hellishly ugly. Their sudden jump from dark grey's to a bright dirty white is nothing if not jarring, especially since both shades are on screen at the same time, stressing the ugly combo. It looked nicer in the muted, dark colours.

I'm always reluctant to trash a new interface right away because people tend to react negatively to things they're unfamiliar with, but I have to agree that having the middle pane be light and the outer panes be dark seems just like an unquestionably bad decision. I don't really mind the top tracks thing and I definitely like the vertical ordering of related artists much better than the old way (though I wish it listed more).

# ¿ Mar 11, 2013 20:40

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Shifty Pony posted:

I also reported some serious artist fragmentation (Margot & the Nuclear So and So's are spread across four different names because of the "&" and "and" being arbitrary)

I was pretty excited to find out that on the new �lafur Arnalds EP, he collaborates both with �lafur Arnalds and Arnalds, �lafur

# ¿ Mar 19, 2013 16:48

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invision posted:

Yeah I'm having this happen a whole lot right now. For instance, they deleted a lot of the Bon Iver discography. What the hell spotify?

Their licensing agreement probably expired for your region. I'm not sure why this happens so often, other than I guess Spotify doesn't have the leverage to lock up licensing rights for extended periods of time?

# ¿ Mar 30, 2013 23:24

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Superanos posted:

You can access both screens through the search bar regardless of feature rollout status.

Type spotify:app:home on the search bar and then press enter to get to What's New. For Discover, it's spotify:app:discover.

Good tip, thanks.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2013 21:12

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Friends Are Evil posted:

For what it's worth, my Discover app isn't half-bad. It's been recommending me a lot of Sacred Bones stuff and black metal.

It did, however, just recommend me Polvo because I listened to some harsh noise albums once. Polvo is not a band I'd describe as harsh noise at all. So there's that.

On multiple occasions it has recommended me Beth Ditto based on the fact that I listened to Florrie

# ¿ Jul 12, 2013 08:06

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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

"Extreme"

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

# ¿ Jan 26, 2014 11:27

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me your dad posted:

Care to elaborate on this?

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")

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!

Hush you!

# ¿ Jan 30, 2014 01:04

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Cmdr. Shepard posted:

I came across a spotify... anomaly?

https://play.spotify.com/album/5OP9ptLXSLPOWw1hsP8Umd

What the hell is this? I thought at first it might be a joke but just listen to this. I can't find anything on the interwebs about what it might be.

edit - I hope the link works. If not, look up an album entitled "fight" by "Love Is All", not to be confused with the actual band Love is All despite them being filed together by Spotify for some reason.

I mean, iTunes has the same thing so it doesn't seem Spotify-specific. I don't know the band either way so I dunno what's off about this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fight/id807369962

# ¿ Feb 17, 2014 05:05

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Earwicker posted:

I think the current moral is that a lot of us are enjoying it a lot less thanks to the recent update

Yeah, I mean I haven't been affected much by their interface changes, but it's obvious that Spotify has repeatedly disrupted their users' experience with little to no usability benefit. Like we'd see griping about changes no matter what, but Spotify really seems to go the extra mile in not actually providing what their customers want.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 23:58

het: Nov 14, 2002; A dark black past
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So I have no idea when this happened but it looks like Spotify finally added the ability to have separate artists with the same name? At first I thought they'd removed the italo disco Kano but there's separate pages for them and the grime MC Kano. Of course there's still a million tracks on house comps still attributed to the grime Kano, but at least it's a start

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 21:19

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Imapanda posted:

lol if some of you seriously listen to and care about having over 15000 songs. Pretty sure the average human brain cant even remember like 1000 songs unless you're some musical hobbiest genius.

I'm finding it difficult to put into words how deeply stupid this post is.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 19:52

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appropriatemetaphor posted:

I have the mac version and I have the import button. I'm .9.10.14.g578d350b though.

It's not uncommon for big services to roll out new updates to a random(ish) subset of users just to test for feedback before making it broadly available, I wouldn't be surprised if Spotify did the same thing.

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 17:56

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MMD3 posted:

If this is something people are still interested in we could work on getting it started again. I have all of them added in my account and haven't seen a ton of activity as far as additions lately... I suppose the thread being archived would definitely explain that

Yeah I mean feel free to restart that and link to the previous ones (except the lovely ones... :ninja:

)

# ¿ Nov 18, 2014 08:10

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