Spotify - A world of music.

[Xuri]

To those of you looking for music recommendation on Spotify: Check out some of the various "spotify playlist"-sites out there.

Speaking of which - f13 collaborative playlist, anyone? =P

[Jobu]

You can "Star" an album or a track and it will appear in the list under downloads, which can be enabled for offline play, if that is what you mean?

I wish there were a second way to do that. I'd like my "Starred" music to be the singles and tracks I really like that is mixed from my local and online libraries. A "best of" so to speak. I also want just a dumping ground to put whatever I please into it. After writing that out and reading it back, it seems obvious that I can probably get it to work that way. I'm really just stuck in thinking of organizing things like I have been in iTunes for 7 years I guess.

[trias_e]

I use grooveshark currently.  I like grooveshark.  Is this better, and why?

[ezrast]

Yea, I'm finding this lacking. Seems to be great if you know exactly what you want to listen to but I don't. Definitely needs recommendations or even the ability to look at a certain genre. Maybe I'm just missing something here.

It's not trying to be Last.fm or Pandora; it's just a giant collection of music that you can stream whenever you want. It's like Grooveshark with better organization, tagging, and interface, or Limewire with no download times and legal, or iTunes but you don't have to pay anything. I'm not sure what there is not to get.

So are you guys actually getting into the beta, or is everyone using non-US/premium accounts?

[Sky]

I got my invite today.

[K9]

I use grooveshark currently.  I like grooveshark.  Is this better, and why?

It is more organised. I haven't really used grooveshark enough to give a fair comparison, but switching to grooveshark after spotify was a pain since all the searches gave me an utter mess.

[Sky]

I've been listening to some classical guitar pieces. It's amazing how many poorly interpreted pieces there are in professional (or at least retail) release. I even found several with recording errors, hell I have more stringent restrictions on what I'll release for the two people here who give a shit to listen.

Ok, not really. But I wouldn't charge for stuff recorded with mistakes, especially in the first ten seconds! Re-do man, re-do. http://open.spotify.com/album/7MJWXy5I8plN5PXvO80rU3 Capricho, for instance.

[Morfiend]

I got in the beta (limited release?) thing. So far its really nice, except it insists on listing some of my albums funky, and then when I use its feature to correct the metadata, it just fucks them up more.

Its only a few albums, but it really makes my OCD freak out. This is coming from a person who wont add single songs, only whole albums to my library due to organization.

[Sky]

My fiancee used to only import individual songs.

She has since mended her heathen ways and imports everything then filters it with playlists, like civilized folk.

[Hawkbit]

Just got into a free account.  Holy crap I've found some really obscure stuff from my youth.  Some stuff only sold in the mid 90s in small batches out of Toledo, Ohio...  why and how the heck did it get into their library?

[ezrast]

Existing accounts can be switched to USA residency no problem, so my old account that I made with a UK proxy is now useable again. Yay!

In unrelated news, I now have a beta invitation I don't need if someone wants it - doesn't appear to be linked to my email or anything.

[01101010]

Just got into a free account.  Holy crap I've found some really obscure stuff from my youth.  Some stuff only sold in the mid 90s in small batches out of Toledo, Ohio...  why and how the heck did it get into their library?

My buddy was spouting off about how he loves Spotify because it works on his phone AND ^^^ this. This guy is heavy into Eastern European death metal and he is finding shit he has never read about or heard. Now that bastard has me curious.

[HaemishM]

Existing accounts can be switched to USA residency no problem, so my old account that I made with a UK proxy is now useable again. Yay!

In unrelated news, I now have a beta invitation I don't need if someone wants it - doesn't appear to be linked to my email or anything.

I could use an invite, see what all the hubbub is about.

[Sky]

Just sign up, you should get invited pretty quick.

[Engels]

So, maybe I need a premium account or something, but I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get search results to play one after another.

Say I do a search for some obscure band, and 20 songs appear. How do I just get all of those playing one after another? I kept on having to click on each specific song, or skip tracks to make it jump to the next.

[jth]

So, maybe I need a premium account or something, but I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get search results to play one after another.

Say I do a search for some obscure band, and 20 songs appear. How do I just get all of those playing one after another? I kept on having to click on each specific song, or skip tracks to make it jump to the next.

They do for me, maybe the US version is different somehow? Not that I've ever done that before, usually it's a better idea to click on either the band or the album name and then play, or create (or add to) a playlist.

[jth]

Btw it seems I have accumulated 40 invites, so if someone needs one of those, pm me your email.

[Engels]

So, maybe I need a premium account or something, but I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get search results to play one after another.

Say I do a search for some obscure band, and 20 songs appear. How do I just get all of those playing one after another? I kept on having to click on each specific song, or skip tracks to make it jump to the next.

They do for me, maybe the US version is different somehow? Not that I've ever done that before, usually it's a better idea to click on either the band or the album name and then play, or create (or add to) a playlist.

I'll try that thanks.

[MuffinMan]

So, maybe I need a premium account or something, but I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get search results to play one after another.

Say I do a search for some obscure band, and 20 songs appear. How do I just get all of those playing one after another? I kept on having to click on each specific song, or skip tracks to make it jump to the next.

Select the songs you want by either shift+clicking or ctrl+clicking. Right click, queue. Is that what you're looking for?

[HaemishM]

Got the invite, signed up and holy damn this thing is awesome. I didn't expect I'd find a use for it, but my wife and I are considering going premium just to use the Android app.

[Merusk]

Is there a way to delete songs you don't want from the random queue?  I never thought I'd find something less user-friendly than iTunes, but this software is getting there.

I'm also puzzled by the way it will have the link for an artist or album for 6-7 songs in an album, but then the next 2-3 - from the same rip - won't have a link. 

Also annoying are the artist pages themselves.  I don't know who's maintaining them or how it works, but seeing the exact same album listed 4-5 times with different years is obnoxious.

[jakonovski]

My account seems to have generated a buttload of invitations. PM me if you want one.

[Tarami]

I got a load of invites too if anyone's interested.