Spotify: What are you waiting for?

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No More Drake > Spotify: What are you waiting for?

spincube: Jan 31, 2006; I spent so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.; Grimey Drawer

If you don't have a Premium account, you can still use the mobile app for wireless playlist syncing, but it won't let you play Spotify tracks. Only your local MP3 music.

# ? Aug 5, 2011 17:18

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 15, 2024 02:04

watchdog: Jun 20, 2001; We can't lose weight with you if you don't update your log!
��/

Mogador posted:

Sent!

Here are 2 more

dpusqFXzKt8uMRNP
cAxVcXVbWFPkqrGW

Reply which code you take etc etc.

Took cAxVcXVbWFPkqrGW

in as watchdog9000

Thanks for the invite!

# ? Aug 6, 2011 05:53

Simple Simon: Dec 29, 2008; "Good sir, would you fancy a Salmon tartar?"

Here are some invites!

degL7EwMwkGV2mt4
fwaNNRfSnxwGr7xS
eUCWqPgNspWz5C25
eVTKBKxSwY3ZRW59
be9UsJKKJPxuf7G9
aWb8PnkSHfpKrD5A

Have fun!

# ? Aug 6, 2011 07:22

tehsid: Dec 24, 2007; Nobility is sadly overrated.

Simple Simon posted:

Here are some invites!

aWb8PnkSHfpKrD5A

Have fun!

I pinched this one for myself.

Does anybody have a code I could give my girlfriend? I have an account, but she wants her own. If you could email me one, that would be great teh_sid AT hotmail DOT com

Thanks guys.

# ? Aug 7, 2011 04:56

Mogador: Nov 4, 2007

tehsid posted:

I pinched this one for myself.

Does anybody have a code I could give my girlfriend? I have an account, but she wants her own. If you could email me one, that would be great teh_sid AT hotmail DOT com

Thanks guys.

This email already got an invite, you cant use the same email twice

Pm me your gf's mailaddress (as im sure she does not want it to be public here) and ill hook her up with an invite.

# ? Aug 7, 2011 12:23

tehsid: Dec 24, 2007; Nobility is sadly overrated.

Mogador posted:

This email already got an invite, you cant use the same email twice
Pm me your gf's mailaddress (as im sure she does not want it to be public here) and ill hook her up with an invite.

Sent the PM mate. Thanks.

# ? Aug 7, 2011 12:46

Simple Simon: Dec 29, 2008; "Good sir, would you fancy a Salmon tartar?"

dKWfsKPsu6LJhaSL
aEyhUctWfE8nYSHF
cTcEPThN2afd4ZNd
aEktn6J9XkWxb6xK
erAExG9RZxBz86Wu

Here some more!
If anyone want a guarantee invite to someone, just give me the email and I'll send an invite to them.

# ? Aug 7, 2011 14:03

Gnarly Bae Jepsen: Jul 12, 2007; Manic Pixie Dick Girl

Simple Simon posted:

aEktn6J9XkWxb6xK

Took this one. Thanks!

# ? Aug 7, 2011 17:47

pork minstral: Apr 27, 2004; Into the Void

Simple Simon posted:

aEyhUctWfE8nYSHF

yoink

# ? Aug 8, 2011 03:45

stevesy: Aug 6, 2011; BYAAAAH

some invite codes:

code:

b2PXVuGBEJWd6gbC
a9JeMXeVwfUUdkCh
ag4RUr2ESF58gVWp
cbY9MgMe22yKHWC4
cyx5cJKunEy33m43

please tell which ones you use so others don't have to keep guessing.

# ? Aug 8, 2011 15:50

EatinCake: Oct 21, 2008

So Spotify only has music from the last five years right? Finding modern stuff, or music from people like Roy Orbison who have five million compilation cd's put out a year has been fine, but I don't see any albums made before like, 2006 on there.

If so, that's a pity. Still going to get a hell of a lot of mileage out of the service though.

# ? Aug 8, 2011 16:56

ANAmal.net: Mar 2, 2002; 100% digital native web developer

There are some weird holes in their catalog, probably due to labels and their licensing, and it does seem to skew towards the new releases, but for example they have all the Tom Waits albums, and every rap album since the early 80s that I've tried to find, so there are plenty of older albums in there.

# ? Aug 8, 2011 17:15

BJA: Apr 11, 2006; It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here
What better time than now

stevesy posted:

some invite codes:
code:
b2PXVuGBEJWd6gbC
please tell which ones you use so others don't have to keep guessing.

I used that one, thanks!

# ? Aug 8, 2011 17:29

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

EatinCake posted:

So Spotify only has music from the last five years right? Finding modern stuff, or music from people like Roy Orbison who have five million compilation cd's put out a year has been fine, but I don't see any albums made before like, 2006 on there.

If so, that's a pity. Still going to get a hell of a lot of mileage out of the service though.

What artists have you looked at? :confused:

They have like literally every single Beach Boys album, every Elvis Costello album, and I've rarely found an artist whose catalog they didn't fully carry (besides the Beatles, Bob Dylan, etc.). Sometimes older albums will be re-issue versions so you might have a 60's album dated to 1995 or something like that.

# ? Aug 8, 2011 21:19

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

So I'm sharing like 75 songs in my starred playlist or whatever, but my friends claim they can only see 20.

I read that this is because you can only share songs that are in their library? What a lovely service if that's the case...

# ? Aug 9, 2011 04:53

torjus: Nov 22, 2005; I want YOU to MSPaint!

ROLL D4MN TIDE posted:

I read that this is because you can only share songs that are in their library? What a lovely service if that's the case...

This is incorrect.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 07:22

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

torjus posted:

This is incorrect.

Any idea on what's happening then? It's maddening. I've tried re-adding stuff over and over again and I can never show all 75+ songs

# ? Aug 9, 2011 12:39

slowdave: Jun 18, 2008

You aren't trying to share stuff from your local files are you?

# ? Aug 9, 2011 14:29

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Pablo Gigante posted:

What artists have you looked at? They have like literally every single Beach Boys album, every Elvis Costello album, and I've rarely found an artist whose catalog they didn't fully carry (besides the Beatles, Bob Dylan, etc.). Sometimes older albums will be re-issue versions so you might have a 60's album dated to 1995 or something like that.

Yeah seriously, you can go back to the 1920s and 30s if you've got an itch. It's not everything that ever was, but the catalog is deep as holy hell.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 16:00

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

slowdave posted:

You aren't trying to share stuff from your local files are you?

Yes. That's what I meant. Supposedly you can only share songs that are in their cloud, which is apparently lacking...

# ? Aug 9, 2011 18:23

slowdave: Jun 18, 2008

ROLL D4MN TIDE posted:

Yes. That's what I meant. Supposedly you can only share songs that are in their cloud, which is apparently lacking...

The point of Spotify is not really sharing stuff from your own hard drive, though. You can sync songs to your phone but that's it.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 18:38

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

slowdave posted:

The point of Spotify is not really sharing stuff from your own hard drive, though. You can sync songs to your phone but that's it.

One of the main attractions is that you can share songs with your friends and form playlists for them to listen to...

Actually yea that's the biggest thing about Spotify :confused:

# ? Aug 9, 2011 18:40

phreaky: Nov 4, 2009; What I find more disturbing than a guy saying he's not going to buy a game is the set of comments by people who instantly project their own insecurities and assume the individual is white, male, and ironically, a bigot.

Here's an invite code for people. Post if you do take it.

e5JGMcCSTrH3JhAe

edit:taken

phreaky fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Aug 9, 2011

# ? Aug 9, 2011 19:49

slowdave: Jun 18, 2008

ROLL D4MN TIDE posted:

One of the main attractions is that you can share songs with your friends and form playlists for them to listen to...

Actually yea that's the biggest thing about Spotify

But it's not like Zune or whatever that you can use to share mp3s from your own hard drive, but a licensed 9 million song database you can use however you want. Or have they changed their modus operandi recently? :confused:

# ? Aug 9, 2011 20:04

inSTAALed: Feb 3, 2008; MOP

n'

SLOP

phreaky posted:

Here's an invite code for people. Post if you do take it.

e5JGMcCSTrH3JhAe

cheers

Somebody already took it without posting.

Just thought I would let you know.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 20:11

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

There are still a lot of invite left through here:

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

A lot.

The catalog is good though there are certainly big holes in it. There isn't a single King Crimson song on there but I can find 8 different versions of a Shostakovitch string quartet that I like. The jazz selection is pretty good.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 21:07

spincube: Jan 31, 2006; I spent so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.; Grimey Drawer

ROLL D4MN TIDE posted:

One of the main attractions is that you can share songs with your friends and form playlists for them to listen to...

Actually yea that's the biggest thing about Spotify

I'd imagine that there'd be all kinds of legal panic about allowing people to share their local MP3 music, even if it is within Spotify's walled garden.

# ? Aug 9, 2011 21:59

sellouts: Apr 23, 2003

spincube posted:

I'd imagine that there'd be all kinds of legal panic about allowing people to share their local MP3 music, even if it is within Spotify's walled garden.

They wouldn't begin to know where to pay producers/artists/side artists etc for every remix that someone shares from their local library

# ? Aug 9, 2011 22:08

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

But there are a lot of local files of non-remixes that aren't in their library... from popular bands like The Band or live versions of Pink Floyd, etc.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 00:05

CortezFantastic: Aug 10, 2003; I SEE DEMONS

Why can't I search for the Arcade Fire on Spotify mobile? It only brings up string covers and such.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 00:28

Admin Understudy: Apr 17, 2002; Captain Pope-tastic

I was really impressed for like the first week so I got a premium membership. But now I'm becoming less and less enthused with the amount of artists/albums I can't find on there. I think what bugs me more than an artist not being on completely is only a selective discography.

Like Animal Collective seems to have most everything except Sung Tongs.

Or only some of Dick's Picks.

I think I'd almost prefer everything or nothing, or at least something predictable like an artist's entire discography except their album they just released a week ago. Kind of like how Netflix seems to treat seasons of TV shows sometimes.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 00:40

Chinook: Apr 11, 2006; SHODAI

How do I remove the big facebook button from the right side of the desktop application? I use Facebook (begrudgingly) but I don't want it integrated. I'm considering making a dummy facebook account and linking it. Hopefully that at least minimizes that size of the big stupid "F" on the desktop app.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 05:03

Anachronist: Feb 13, 2009

Chinook posted:

How do I remove the big facebook button from the right side of the desktop application? I use Facebook (begrudgingly) but I don't want it integrated. I'm considering making a dummy facebook account and linking it. Hopefully that at least minimizes that size of the big stupid "F" on the desktop app.

If you click the [ and arrow icon, to the left of where it says people, the tab the F is on will hide itself.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 05:08

Chinook: Apr 11, 2006; SHODAI

Anachronist posted:

If you click the [ and arrow icon, to the left of where it says people, the tab the F is on will hide itself.

Durr, thanks. :downs:

I haven't listened to music for years, at least not like I did when I was a teen, and in college. I'm considering using Pandora for discovery (I really do like the songs I've been finding on there, and how it's done) and another service for actually making playlists and listening to stuff. There are so many options, and all of the stupid tech blogs have differing opinions (and information, frustratingly).

I have an Android phone, I'd like to be able to have music suggestions (similar to Pandora, I guess), and the ability to have shared playlists is really cool (Spotify). Also, high quality streaming to my desktop is a really important feature. Spotify supposedly gives you access to 320 kbps stuff with premium, which sounds good, but I gather that there are plenty of songs that don't have the best bitrates.

MOG, Rdio, and Spotify all seem like good choices, but I can't really say whether I'd like Rdio or MOG because they don't have a free option. :argh:

# ? Aug 10, 2011 05:13

Mogador: Nov 4, 2007

ROLL D4MN TIDE posted:

One of the main attractions is that you can share songs with your friends and form playlists for them to listen to...

Actually yea that's the biggest thing about Spotify

Not your own music you have on your harddrive, no, that was never spotifys intention.

# ? Aug 10, 2011 06:23

thrawn86: May 26, 2006; Sure, I got a secret. More than one...

Chinook posted:

Durr, thanks.

I haven't listened to music for years, at least not like I did when I was a teen, and in college. I'm considering using Pandora for discovery (I really do like the songs I've been finding on there, and how it's done) and another service for actually making playlists and listening to stuff. There are so many options, and all of the stupid tech blogs have differing opinions (and information, frustratingly).

I have an Android phone, I'd like to be able to have music suggestions (similar to Pandora, I guess), and the ability to have shared playlists is really cool (Spotify). Also, high quality streaming to my desktop is a really important feature. Spotify supposedly gives you access to 320 kbps stuff with premium, which sounds good, but I gather that there are plenty of songs that don't have the best bitrates.

MOG, Rdio, and Spotify all seem like good choices, but I can't really say whether I'd like Rdio or MOG because they don't have a free option.

Last.fm is a really good resource for discovery, especially if you use it long enough to have a good database built up.

# ? Aug 11, 2011 07:43

ionn: Jan 23, 2004; Din morsa.; Grimey Drawer

CortezFantastic posted:

Why can't I search for the Arcade Fire on Spotify mobile? It only brings up string covers and such.

That's just what happens if the music for some reason isn't available (usually the label/artist/rightsholder not wanting it there for whatever reason, sometimes smaller labels that just haven't gotten there yet). In those cases, you'll often find all kinds of crappy covers and karaoke versions ("as made famous by X") and no "real" stuff.

Edit: Also, regarding invites: If you request one via the web page (here or something), you'll usually get one pretty much right away. Here are a few anyway.

b2B2GhPZnd7aHff6 achShYwhfPRFPSPb bRt6wuBBsR4nPSNY dKnSrMtqnafCfhrt aTyuHJkNr4kDg4Hu d8VRtWLXJMuUYzg6 aJKPanwgH7YuPGW9 d7xGYxzgcbNhKZ5F a49bry7nsrBJD2Lk adcEa3LKfU43WkfS cYsnhVqLt5Y9ssgY fxU3WNUXw8GynAnL ck8F4dBAfKpesEZk exbT5VZEYeJs6Axq fuU68t9cSM4aYLAZ adhF9rH5q9Ms3hnr dpanEBM5m6p2xgNE

ionn fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Aug 11, 2011

# ? Aug 11, 2011 07:53

RedMagus: Nov 16, 2005; Male....Female...what does it matter? Power is beautiful, and I've got the power!; Grimey Drawer

I tried looking around SH/SC but couldn't find a thread:
Anyone having issues where Spotify will randomly lose all their locally sync'd files on their phone? I've had it happen twice so far and it's annoying to re-sync 10 gigs of music.

So far I've been enjoying all the suggested playlists and sharing music, and I may start just budgeting the $10 a month for music consisting how often I have my phones in.

# ? Aug 11, 2011 14:35

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

thrawn86 posted:

Last.fm is a really good resource for discovery, especially if you use it long enough to have a good database built up.

Seconding this - I have discovered a lot of great artists on last.fm through their recommended radio. Just plug in an artist you are already into and it will stream artists that other fans of that artist commonly listen to.

I generally like the idea of basing it on "People who listen to a lot of X also listen to a lot of Y" rather than Pandora's "music genome" thing.

I also like that you can easily sync up last.fm with Spotify.

# ? Aug 11, 2011 15:27

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 15, 2024 02:04

inSTAALed: Feb 3, 2008; MOP

n'

SLOP

ionn posted:

fuU68t9cSM4aYLAZ

Took this one. Thanks!

# ? Aug 11, 2011 15:28

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No More Drake > Spotify: What are you waiting for?

«‹›75 »