THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Cerveza mas fina on January 10, 2013, 05:16:51 PM
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I looked for perturbator but hes not on it. There seems to be some hiphop though.
Whats the advantage over stuff like grooveshark?
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100000x yes. It's soooo fucking worth it, especialy the mobile app. Just type what you want and bam its there. And you can lead the discographies of the bands they dont have on it also. I dont use any other service because I like having a base app whem in on my home pc instead of a web interface. That's the only downside of Spotify, there isn't really a "web app" but the executable and mobile apps are great (atleast on iphone)
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Yeah I got the iphone app.
How broad is the collection?
How does the offline stuff work?
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perturbator are all about bandcamp.
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I've been using Spotify for many years and I like it. There is still plenty of music missing, but it's perfect for listening at work.
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Yeah I got the iphone app.
How broad is the collection?
How does the offline stuff work?
you basically make playlists, then select "Offline Mode" and it downloads them and you can play them whenever. The US connection seems pretty broad, just none of the obvious (although they added Metalica a month ago) and the sorting is kinda bad
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spotify is absolutely the one service I have no problems paying for each month. I use it all the fucking time, all day at work. It has most everything I want to listen to.
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I also pay for the monthly service.
It's actually stopped me pirating music,I love the offline feature which means I can have all my playlists with me.
Awesome stuff.
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so from what i understand the service is basically like paying a monthly fee to have someone pirate all your music for you?
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so from what i understand the service is basically like paying a monthly fee to have someone pirate all your music for you?
No you can listen to spotify for free on your comp. But if you want access to albums and shit anywhere in the form of spotify premium you have to pay. It is like netflix. A legal alternative to getting awesome content. You pay and get instant access to thousands of classic albums and many NEW albums on release.
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you only get 128kbps MP3s with Free, and ads. If you pay you get unlimited streaming no ads and 320 kbps. You also get to use the mobile app. It's worth it. I just rationale it by the fact that I used to buy a CD or a record a month for the same price it costs.
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absolutely worth it
use it all day errday
haven't launched iTunes in months
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How do i convert things i liked on the radio to a new playlist?
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I usually just right click the album art and add it to a new playlist. I think that should work.
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How do i convert things i liked on the radio to a new playlist?
Using the star function works best imho
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I haven't used itunes in a year because of spotify.
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getting an android and realizing that i can finally go back to the old drag-n-drop method for mp3s was like being born again
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Absolutely worth it. Can't remember the last time I see iTunes or pirated music.
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I used it a lot in the USA, but am unable to access it from Japan. I could pay for premium, but the 12,000 songs in my iTunes library is preventing me from giving a fuck.
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I use it in Japan. You should have signed up for the Premium service while you were there, Chrono. If you'd installed the app on the machine you use here, you'd be able to use it fine. Then you can keep the subscription active with gift cards from the US
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If you want to use it now, sign up for a free vpn, install the app (including the godly mobile ones) and have someone in the US send you a gift code.
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a good vpn is unblock-us but I don't know if that will force you to using europes Spotify (which is a bit better anyways than the US one). theres a free trial, try it out
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Aye. I signed up for a premium account back in the US and didn't run into any problems streaming and saving-for-offline-play (phone & iPad) during my visit home.
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Haven't pirated music in a year
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does Japanese Spotify have J-artists?
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there is no Japanese spotify - best bet is Sony's service(s) (which are a confusing mess according to a mutual friend of ours who works with them)
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I pay monthly, it is godly combined with my Sonos Play:5.
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I only listen to two Japanese bands and they're both on Spotify although some albums are missing.
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If you want to use it now, sign up for a free vpn, install the app (including the godly mobile ones) and have someone in the US send you a gift code.
Yeah, I'm signed up, but the app is telling me something about my locale not matching my listed one. I guess I'll have to solve it; I am made of free time right now, so why not?
Thanks!
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I haven't bought a song in YEARS. I think maybe since high school or something. Or University.
That said I havent pirated music in years either.
But this has me thinking that it could be so hassle free I might pay for it.
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there is no Japanese spotify - best bet is Sony's service(s) (which are a confusing mess according to a mutual friend of ours who works with them)
Par for the course with Sony it seems.
I love these services. I don't use Spotify, but another service. I'm done owning music. With this, Netflix and the occasional Amazon/iTunes rental, no more plastic discs cluttering up the place.
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Could you have 2 people on 1 spotify account?
there is no Japanese spotify - best bet is Sony's service(s) (which are a confusing mess according to a mutual friend of ours who works with them)
Par for the course with Sony it seems.
I love these services. I don't use Spotify, but another service. I'm done owning music. With this, Netflix and the occasional Amazon/iTunes rental, no more plastic discs cluttering up the place.
PSN+ soon :drool
future is subscribtion based entertainment.
If youre done with it you unsubcribe.
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I would sign up if they didn't make me use Facebook login
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you dont have to ???
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It used to require facebook integration which is why I've never signed up. Now that it doesn't I'm going to give it a shot
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I love the facebook integration for what it's worth. It's nice and easy to share songs and playlists to firends etc. Also being able to see what firends are listening to is cool.
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I only wish they'd fix some of the local library functionality on the desktop application so I could use it as my singular player. Having to switch between applications because the player is overriding my tags, tagging songs incorrectly and sorting them out of order is incredibly obnoxious. Until that happens, I won't pay for it.
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I only use the free desktop version, don't mind the ads, get a lot of enjoyment out of it. If I were the type to carry around a bunch of music with me I'd probably pay.
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There is a cheap ass premium version that I use that only lets you stream unlimited music from non-mobile devices.
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I like it for checking out albums, although I don't feel like paying for something where the artists themselves get barely any proftit.
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It's weird how spotify has almost every radiohead album but you can only get Vitamin String Quartets version of In Rainbows. Also, almost no Boards of Canada library to speak of. Fuck this service!
No actually it's pretty cool. Thanks for the rec Evilbore.
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Hows the offline stuff work? I mainly listen to music at work but I don't want to be streaming stuff all the time and killing our network.
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i installed it today and it doesnt seem very good at finding new music for me. like i can't search a few tag words to find stuff? maybe i missed something.
is nice to be able to listen to albums from bands i never bothered to pirate.
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no you can't search for tags just artist name / album name / song name/ playlist name
if you want to discover music I reccomend going onto
http://sharemyplaylists.com/
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i installed it today and it doesnt seem very good at finding new music for me. like i can't search a few tag words to find stuff? maybe i missed something.
yea it seems like you basically need to either go by the "similar artists" category or start paying attention to what other people on your friends list are listening to in order to find new music. It's not like the AMG database where they classify by genre and mood.
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download some of the apps also. I use Filtr, Digster, Pitchfork Soundrop
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go by the "similar artists" category or start paying attention to what other people on your friends list are listening to in order to find new music.
nobody i know listens to the same music i like :fbm
so how good is their selection beyond the big names? I mean I can find Pantera, Iced Earth, Opeth, Mastodon, and stuff like that but what if I'm looking for new progressive instrumental heavy metal with jazz influences? seems poor for anything but big known stuff.
or is that the point of the service all together.
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bandcamp seems more suited for my purposes.
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anything on bandcamp / reverb nation usually is auto added to spotify I think
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anything on bandcamp / reverb nation usually is auto added to spotify I think
doesnt seem like it. few of the things i've been listening to aren't there. Intervals, Temple, Gru... Widek is there.
And on Widek there's a track where Halcyon is featured but the Halcyon on Spotify isn't the right one lol.
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You can install apps like Moodagent for that, or use the built in Pandora clone. Use that apps tab, people, it's gold.
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anything on bandcamp / reverb nation usually is auto added to spotify I think
doesnt seem like it. few of the things i've been listening to aren't there. Intervals, Temple, Gru... Widek is there.
And on Widek there's a track where Halcyon is featured but the Halcyon on Spotify isn't the right one lol.
weird. The selection on Spotify can be irratic.
http://thebestoftheworstofspotify.blogspot.com/
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seems poor for anything but big known stuff.
or is that the point of the service all together.
I guess it kinda is. The library seems kind of focused on present stuff, too regardless of how popular it was in the past. If they have stuff from the 60s for instance its "best of" additions published in the last few years.
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fistful maybe it's just the particular kind of music you listen to. Mostly underground metal right? I'm pretty sure I've read that Spotify has always been shit with metal. I've been able to find pretty much everything from the music blogs I visit (GvB, cokemachineglow, fuck, even eric p's blog).
Although I was always bummed that they never had the Weeknd's shit until the trilogy was released.
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oh it's most definitely the kind of music i listen to. it seems to be fine for the major bands that everyone knows about but like i mentioned earlier, it seems to be poor unless you specifically know what you're looking for.
then again what I am currently looking for is pretty obscure.
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i installed it today and it doesnt seem very good at finding new music for me. like i can't search a few tag words to find stuff? maybe i missed something.
is nice to be able to listen to albums from bands i never bothered to pirate.
Are you using the band's radio station? It seemed similar to Pandora to me, when I was using the service.
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What kind of underground metal? I think related artists and label search e.g. "label:relapse" is a pretty good way of finding new music. Another way is befriending people with similar taste and then occasionally glance at the friend feed.
Pandora had a better search algorithm, but on the other hand their catalog was really limited.
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Can you add people who you aren't friends with on facebook? I don't think anyone here is my friend on facebook but I'd like to see the music you're all listening to.
Still trying to work out the most efficient way of using this, I feel like I'm doing it wrong
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Sure, you can use "spotify:user:[username]" from the Spotify client. You can also add people from playlist searches.
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I pay for the yearly subscription for Pandora for higher quality streaming and no ads. I use the app on my desktop and the app on my phone in my car as the radio. My sub ends next month though so I'll check out Spotify. I just like how Pandora does the whole genre/artist mix-up stations.
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Can you add people who you aren't friends with on facebook? I don't think anyone here is my friend on facebook but I'd like to see the music you're all listening to.
Still trying to work out the most efficient way of using this, I feel like I'm doing it wrong
Yeah I added MAF from his 2012 best of play list. I dunno if they see that though
Really glad for this thread. I use spodify all the time now and it got me back into the new music scene, which I've been out of for years
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I've been paying for Spotify for about 6 months now. Use it a fair bit, but I have no idea how you could give up on iTunes/your physical music collection. In conjunction though I find it very good though it's music coverage oft feels pretty sparse and I turn to piracy/iTunes and if I like something I'll always try and get a better quality file from the interwebs (is the library you see in the EU/Australasia different to the States?).
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I've been paying for Spotify for about 6 months now. Use it a fair bit, but I have no idea how you could give up on iTunes/your physical music collection. In conjunction though I find it very good though it's music coverage oft feels pretty sparse and I turn to piracy/iTunes and if I like something I'll always try and get a better quality file from the interwebs (is the library you see in the EU/Australasia different to the States?).
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At this point, I haven't had a physical music collection for over 10 years.
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yeah, staggering...i had a huge physical collection but never touch what remains of it. I can't see any reason why playing tracks in Spotify is quantifiably different from playing them in iTunes. I have literally nothing in my iTunes library but podcasts and iOS apps
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I don't have much of a physical music collection either but my flatmates have a heap of records and I've been starting to invest in decent HiFi gear so I'm definitely keen to expand that. And yeah, I'd say ~half of the artists I look for on Spotify don't show up or have a meagre collection of singles and remixes.
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oh yeah, they barely have anything, i mean i did a search for Ike Quebec the other day and they only had 41 albums
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I have a ton of vinyl (about 200 records) but as far as new music releases I can't REMEMBER the last time something I wanted to listen to wasn't on Spotify ... granted I'm not into super indie hip-hop/black metal/what have you scenes, but for anything with a publisher and most things without it's fine. there are 20 million tracks!
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honestly i don't give a shit about crossing hipster shit off my list. if i don't find something specific i'm looking for I just listen to something else. 'new' music to me is any music I haven't heard, whether it comes from the 15th century or 1920
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tldr; yes I pay for Spotify and think it's worth it. I find it sometimes doesn't have stuff I'm looking for, like earlier today I wanted to listen to The Field; pretty popular edm I thought, but no dice unless I want 4 tracks off an album that I don't really like. I think I'll start uploading when I find stuff like this though so eventually most holes will be patched as more people use the service (unless they get shut down).
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you can't access tracks people add to their own libraries, unless i am missing something very badly. I can't even access tracks I have added to Spotify on one machine on another machine - they're not in the cloud at all. Has something changed?
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Nope, that's still the case. I have a large collection of mp3s that I can only listen to from home.
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get a Bitcasa account - i have like 350gb of mp3 up there (which, crazily, i should share with this entire board with a single click)
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Is it free? I'm a bit of a cheap ass.
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free up to 10gb which is basically worthless vs Google etc. The 'infinite' feature is pay-only, $50 with code 'BETATHANKS'
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I already have a Dropbox account with 10 GB which is great for text documents. At that price I'd rather set up a server myself.
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Knock yourself out
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WP8 client for Spotify is out :hyper
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I hope they release a new client for Windows 8. Their current one is a bit unstable.
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The WP8 one is a bit buggy. Trying to get some tracks downloaded for offline play and I cant tell if it's working.
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SO you're supposed to be able to sync local music to your phone through this? Ok so i figure i'll give that a try.
first of all it takes like 5 hours to sync which is dumb.
second you dont hook your device to your pc, you connect it to the same wifi network.
second after it syncs there doesnt appear to be anyway to access that music
like, you have to manually create playlists out of all the music? for it to show up in the app? really?
it doesnt have the ability to parse through the ID3 tags to figure out artist/album/song? like every other music playing app that has ever exists does?
in half the time i just manually dragged and dropped shit to my phones sd card and the built in app magically knows the music and allows me to play it without creating playlists.
what an awful, convoluted, worthless feature.
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What are you doing? Syncing music you already have to the Spotify app?
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yeah. you add music to the spotify local client and then use the client to sync it to the mobile app. i figured i would give it a try since keeping everything in one managed app on my phone would be pretty easy.
NOPE
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Yeah, sounds like a hassle. I don't bother with my local files anymore.
I stream everything and offline sync my favorite playlists.
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I only use Spotify for music I don't own. It's not very good for your current library.
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It used to be really fast for searching through my local library of mp3s, but it turned shitty a while back.
Edit: I've had issues with MediaMonkey and foobar2000 in the past. Installing MusicBee right now to see if that's better. Apparently, I have 50,000 music files. I should try to trim it down a bit.
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Ive been using and paying for like 2 months now. Found so much new music. Great app and worth the money.