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The Vinyl Adventure
13-05-2010, 13:29
having been clever enough to sign up to spotify in the early days i today upgraded to premium... Happy days!
i have my mates from facebook on there but is there a way i can see people on heres playlists?
Well, you can add me, lrwebb is my username.
No, my playlists are far too shameful! ;)
Actually, I didn't even know you could share by username, no I'll do a bit of housekeeping and let you know - I have an "AoS Recommended" wher I plonk stuff recommended from here - maybe we could do something more formal? Any Ideas?
The Vinyl Adventure
13-05-2010, 19:50
oo ooo ooo like a club... aos spotify club... coool
im finding a lot funny right now.. sorry
...
type for eg spotify:user:[irwebb] into the search box, that shows you the user. from there you can then add them to you list of freinds...
unfortunately lee hasn't activated spotify "social" so it doesn't work for him
The Grand Wazoo
13-05-2010, 19:55
I don't use playlists! But that does sound like a bit of a plan for finding new stuff.
The Vinyl Adventure
13-05-2010, 19:57
yeah, it sounds like a bloody good idea! people could make playlists for all the aos people to see ... id be very much up for that... dan jennings has some playlists im sure hed be happy sharing too!!
just adding albums as playlists would be good for me to mooch through too...
i love the bloody internet sometimes, what a fantastic way to share music with each other!!
The Vinyl Adventure
13-05-2010, 20:01
dish these usernames them people ... mines
hamish_gill
so type
spotify:user:[hamish_gill]
in the search box and add away
Cool - found you Hamish - I'm alex_steel1969
...and you Lee - funnily enough I was going to work on some chillout and new music playlists so I will be able to share with everyone too. Nice!
dave2010
13-05-2010, 22:44
Try dave2010uk.
Can we do the same with Napster and Classical.com? Any others? I'll share mine - though hope it doesn't cause any security problems.
Also, can we mark the playlists as private or public, or are they all treated equally?
Re Spotify you've probably all found how to access URLs - e.g http://open.spotify.com/track/3mgwaTx4S5xI6FnxljIUTA (right click - Windows - on track or playlist then select appropriate Copy) - or maybe spotify:track:2XE4lTa2PjUIdXqpyyI134 , and set them up to work with Firefox or another browser. There's a snag which maybe not everyone will find. The obvious thing is to set the browser to open Spotify when the link is accessed, but it turns out there are 2 Spotify files. It's not quite obvious which one to use - but if you get it wrong, try the other one, which should work.
Ah, you don't need the bracket things
The Vinyl Adventure
14-05-2010, 09:21
doesnt seem to make any difference with or with out them for me... but i guess
spotify:user:hamish_gill
is easier....
i was being a pleb, despite knowing you are lee r webb i was typing irwebb ... :doh:
It didn't work for me with the brackets, either, and it won't let me add dave2010uk - Dave - yes, you can choose which playlists you do or don't share.
dave2010
14-05-2010, 19:57
Can anyone see this one on Spotify - http://open.spotify.com/user/dave2010uk/playlist/3a2xBkHjFJ923oXbggWxen
Maybe this would help - spotify:user:dave2010uk:playlist:3a2xBkHjFJ923oXbg gWxen
Control over sharing seems a bit haphazard. Not sure whether I really need to turn it on/off.
Let's get Spotify working first, then turn attention to other sites.
If you can see that one, post and let us know what you heard. Were you able to acces any other playlists off the site?
BWS
I can see (and play) that playlist, but that's all - if I try and add you, you very briefly appear in "People" but quickly disappear again!
you very briefly appear in "People" but quickly disappear again!
I could really use a feature like that in real life! :lolsign:
Primalsea
15-05-2010, 06:16
Hopefully you don't disappear too quickly mike.
Primalsea
15-05-2010, 06:22
I haven't published my profile yet - pirmalsea - but found yours Hamish. I didn't even realise you could do such a thing. I must admit though I dont use Spotify much, only really when I'm away for work.
The Vinyl Adventure
15-05-2010, 08:35
Up until recently I had a napster subsrciption that I only used in the office, but spotify seems much more usefull
I read that they are introducing a feature that recognises flac files on your computer within the player which gives me hope that they will one day introduce flac streaming.
They are also introducing a feature that "completes" your music collection. So if you have single tracks by an artist it creates the album around that track using streaming... Or something like that...
With premium on my iPhone I can listen to anything where I have signal too. I was walking down the road streaming music the other day ... And the quality was actually ok!
It's great in the house - where ever I have an iPod dock I can stream spotify... And the quality is fine through all the iPod systems I have...
The Grand Wazoo
15-05-2010, 08:49
I guess I'd better start putting some things into playlists - not really sure how you organise them. I've just bunged a few things in & all I get is one list without album titles etc as headings.
The user name is ChungasRevenge by the way. I managed to find Alex, Hamish & Lee OK - nice to see Alex still has all those festive 50's there!
This is a great idea my user name is baron103
dave2010
18-05-2010, 10:19
Looks like you have to put:
spotify:user:YourUserName
into the search box to locate people, or to use Facebook.
Users may have to enable their playlists in their Profile - which of course they can find by the same process as above.
It's a case of RTFM - if you can find it.
See https://www.spotify.com/uk/help/faq/social/#why-dont-i-have-any-friends-in-my-people-list and look for
How do I import my Facebook friends? and
Why don't I have any friends in my People list?
AFAIK all my playlists on Spotify are public.
dave2010
18-05-2010, 10:34
Just tried to update one of my playlists, and move some pieces from one to another. The original tracks are no longer available. Does this happen often?
Is it due to licensing arrangements, or if a CD goes out of print?
I know that some tracks/albums are not on due to the artists or the recording companies, but I'd have thought if they put them up in the first place they'd want to leave them there.
Pity!
dave2010
19-05-2010, 15:58
For info - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/05/spotify_please_pay.html
Spotify has announced new services which are cheaper than Premium. May suit some people.
Hmmm i've been very tempted recently so I think I might go for the £5 a month one!
Wouldnt use it on my mobile as I dont have unlimited internet and the battery on the HTC is pretty bad as it is :(
dave2010
19-05-2010, 19:27
Hmmm i've been very tempted recently so I think I might go for the £5 a month one!
Wouldnt use it on my mobile as I dont have unlimited internet and the battery on the HTC is pretty bad as it is :(Seems reasonable.
I wonder if a lighter alternative for mobile users would be sky songs - http://songs.sky.com/ I'm sure I saw a page which indicated that uses 48 kbps AAC encoding, which will sound pretty rubbish over good equipment, but for mobile users who want to economise on download/streaming might do the trick. Prices are comparable - around £5.
The Vinyl Adventure
20-05-2010, 10:08
Seems reasonable.
I wonder if a lighter alternative for mobile users would be sky songs - http://songs.sky.com/ I'm sure I saw a page which indicated that uses 48 kbps AAC encoding, which will sound pretty rubbish over good equipment, but for mobile users who want to economise on download/streaming might do the trick. Prices are comparable - around £5.
i think spotify must automatically adjust the streaming rate on my iphone as some times it does sound a bit crap...
data rates dont matter though iphone contracts have free internet
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