Author Topic: Spotify. Worth the money? (Read 3770 times)

Huff · « **Reply #60 on:** February 07, 2013, 05:08:00 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on February 07, 2013, 04:55:29 AM

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

naff · « **Reply #61 on:** February 07, 2013, 05:48:00 PM »

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?).

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #62 on:** February 07, 2013, 07:01:25 PM »

Quote from: quietID on February 07, 2013, 05:48:00 PM

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?).

At this point, I haven't had a physical music collection for over 10 years.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #63 on:** February 07, 2013, 07:10:11 PM »

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

naff · « **Reply #64 on:** February 07, 2013, 07:23:52 PM »

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.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #65 on:** February 07, 2013, 07:43:58 PM »

oh yeah, they barely have anything, i mean i did a search for Ike Quebec the other day and they only had 41 albums

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #66 on:** February 07, 2013, 08:13:50 PM »

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!

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #67 on:** February 07, 2013, 08:18:48 PM »

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

naff · « **Reply #68 on:** February 07, 2013, 08:35:00 PM »

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).

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #69 on:** February 07, 2013, 08:49:38 PM »

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?

archnemesis · « **Reply #70 on:** February 08, 2013, 03:05:37 AM »

Nope, that's still the case. I have a large collection of mp3s that I can only listen to from home.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #71 on:** February 08, 2013, 03:11:30 AM »

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)

archnemesis · « **Reply #72 on:** February 08, 2013, 04:02:46 AM »

Is it free? I'm a bit of a cheap ass.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #73 on:** February 08, 2013, 04:13:19 AM »

free up to 10gb which is basically worthless vs Google etc. The 'infinite' feature is pay-only, $50 with code 'BETATHANKS'

archnemesis · « **Reply #74 on:** February 08, 2013, 04:16:10 AM »

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.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #75 on:** February 08, 2013, 04:46:45 AM »

Knock yourself out

pilonv1 · « **Reply #76 on:** February 09, 2013, 06:26:09 AM »

WP8 client for Spotify is out

archnemesis · « **Reply #77 on:** February 09, 2013, 07:01:24 AM »

I hope they release a new client for Windows 8. Their current one is a bit unstable.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #78 on:** February 09, 2013, 10:03:53 PM »

The WP8 one is a bit buggy. Trying to get some tracks downloaded for offline play and I cant tell if it's working.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #79 on:** May 08, 2013, 11:21:38 PM »

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.

Reb · « **Reply #80 on:** May 09, 2013, 06:09:51 AM »

What are you doing? Syncing music you already have to the Spotify app?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #81 on:** May 09, 2013, 06:26:22 AM »

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

Reb · « **Reply #82 on:** May 09, 2013, 06:42:48 AM »

Yeah, sounds like a hassle. I don't bother with my local files anymore.
I stream everything and offline sync my favorite playlists.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #83 on:** May 09, 2013, 11:14:00 AM »

I only use Spotify for music I don't own. It's not very good for your current library.

archnemesis · « **Reply #84 on:** May 09, 2013, 12:40:32 PM »

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.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #85 on:** May 09, 2013, 05:06:21 PM »

Ive been using and paying for like 2 months now. Found so much new music. Great app and worth the money.

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Author Topic: Spotify. Worth the money? (Read 3770 times)