Shawn Posted August 4, 2011 Report Posted August 4, 2011 I've mainly just been using it to sample things, I don't think I've listened to an entire album yet. Just using the free service thus far, maybe if I get an iPad or something I'll get the premium version, for now I'm fine with free and a few commercials now and again. Quote
GA Russell Posted August 4, 2011 Report Posted August 4, 2011 Shawn, if you pay for the premium service, does it work like Napster, where you have to renew every month and key it into your mp3 player? Quote
Shawn Posted August 4, 2011 Report Posted August 4, 2011 Shawn, if you pay for the premium service, does it work like Napster, where you have to renew every month and key it into your mp3 player? Probably, for the "offline listening" stuff...interesting new terminology for downloading there. But I think the primary selling points are streaming on mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, etc) and the increased audio quality that you get with the premium tier. All enticing but not necessary for me at this stage. Quote
GA Russell Posted August 8, 2011 Report Posted August 8, 2011 spotify: Joe Henderson - In 'n Out Mort Sahl - The Next President Quote
Tom 1960 Posted August 9, 2011 Report Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) Spotify: Edited August 9, 2011 by Tom 1960 Quote
GA Russell Posted August 9, 2011 Report Posted August 9, 2011 spotify: Joe Henderson - Page One Quote
GA Russell Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 spotify: Joe Henderson - Inner Urge Quote
GA Russell Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 spotify: The Best of Wayne Shorter Quote
GA Russell Posted August 11, 2011 Report Posted August 11, 2011 spotify: Lee Morgan - Cornbread Quote
GA Russell Posted August 12, 2011 Report Posted August 12, 2011 spotify: Manfred Mann - Down the Road Apiece Quote
GA Russell Posted August 15, 2011 Report Posted August 15, 2011 spotify: Soft Machine - Alive and Well - Recorded in Paris Quote
GA Russell Posted August 16, 2011 Report Posted August 16, 2011 spotify: Victor Feldman with Tom Scott - Seven Steps to Heaven (Thumbs up!) Quote
Big Wheel Posted August 22, 2011 Report Posted August 22, 2011 (edited) Spotify users: have you ever noticed flakiness in Spotify's database? I noticed that last night a bunch of stuff on Tzadik just disappeared from Spotify, including the Electric Masada release At the Mountains of Madness, which I had been really enjoying. (Can anyone else find this record in Spotify now? My first guess was that I had been hitting some sort of play limit, but that doesn't seem to be the case as some of the things that had disappeared were titles I hadn't listened to yet.) Ordinarily I would just believe the worst - that Zorn or someone else at Tzadik decided to pull the plug on some of their stuff from Spotify. But I feel like a couple of weeks ago I saw something similar happen with the Masada Taipei release, and then it reappeared. And it seems odd for a tech company to mess around with things on a Saturday, unless the pull had been programmed beforehand. So I'm wondering if this is potentially just technical gremlins and there's hope of this material reappearing soon. Edited August 22, 2011 by Big Wheel Quote
Shawn Posted August 22, 2011 Report Posted August 22, 2011 The only Jethro Tull album I've never heard or owned...now I'm kind of wondering why, I still don't like the title track, but the rest of the album sounds great so far. Re: techinical issues on Spotify. Something must have been going on last night because it wouldn't play songs back to back, it would play 1 song and then give an error message. But you could then doubleclick on the next track and it would play, but again stop once that song was over. Irritating, but it's working fine today. Quote
Big Wheel Posted August 22, 2011 Report Posted August 22, 2011 The only Jethro Tull album I've never heard or owned...now I'm kind of wondering why, I still don't like the title track, but the rest of the album sounds great so far. Re: techinical issues on Spotify. Something must have been going on last night because it wouldn't play songs back to back, it would play 1 song and then give an error message. But you could then doubleclick on the next track and it would play, but again stop once that song was over. Irritating, but it's working fine today. I'm also having that problem and it hasn't really gone away for me, either. It appears to be related to the Spotify in-house ads that you can't prevent from playing. I was able to work around the bug a bit by moving songs ahead of the ads in the play queue, but eventually got too lazy to keep doing that. Quote
Shawn Posted August 22, 2011 Report Posted August 22, 2011 Yeah, I just noticed it's still happening. It's probably attempting to trigger the ads and then fails and stops. Hopefully they'll get it fixed. Quote
GA Russell Posted August 23, 2011 Report Posted August 23, 2011 spotify: Victor Feldman - His Own Sweet Way Shelly Manne - 2-3-4In yesterday's Celia Rivenbark column she mentions spotify as being the greatest thing on earth except bacon! Quote
Shawn Posted August 23, 2011 Report Posted August 23, 2011 Spotify definitely comes in handy for social gatherings, especially when your company doesn't listen to the same type of music you own. I had some neighbors over this weekend and they like electronic music...I have none...but they found all the stuff they liked. I'm using it to either check out albums I've never heard...or revisit things I like but listen to so infrequently that I couldn't justify actually owning them. Quote
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