Wow. Grooveshark is brilliant.

It even has The Rainbow Children.

How does it exist? What's the model here? Ah, who cares. Free music for all!

Someone explain to me why there is still region locking on these services.

And why is it a good thing for them to block/stagger releases in this day and age? That's what I don't get. assuming that there's some % of money changing hands, surely it's better to have something available everywhere? Surely it doesn't cost them any more, if a song/album is sitting on one of these services and viewable to allow a person to access it.

I don't understand the motivation. There may have been reasons in the past, with physical media that meant it was better business to stagger things, but this is instant, if the m oney changes hands due to people playing/adding to their collection, then why not just let more people access it?

I'm clearly missing something.

dunno.

Why can't I drop the cd I just ripped to win media player into spotify?

Yup, there you go.



WMA is still the default format.

You may have saved the day again, mod.

Meanwhile: I fucking HATE the layout of spotify, HATE IT. It's fucking bastardised itunes, and itunes can suck my fucking didick.

How are people managing their music, and organising things? I feel like I'm going to have to faff about and manage things and create playlists just so I can have an artist and/or an album in the one spot. This itunes list lark can fuck off, and it doesn't even seem to have the big icon/cover option.

huh? It's a poor man's itunes, layout wise, and itunes itself is fucking horrid!

I really want one of these services to tick every box, tbh. At the moment, I'd take rdio's layout and functionality over Spotify every day of the week, but the gaps in the collection and not being able to add stuff from my pc/cds is gonna sway things and force my hand.

The problem is you want something to do everything. Not obviously a problem in itself, but Spotify isn't a Music Library manager - it has (very basic) functionality in place for you to be able to do that, but obviously it's major strength is in its online library.

You might just have to face facts that:

a) It's not for you and try something else.
b) Accept it for what it is and live with it.

Me either.

Here's my view of my '2012' folder:

You could even get more anal than that and make folders in that folder

This is my rdio page. The albums are in there as albums. Nice big Pic. You can search by artist, which gives you the second screen there, you can filter by recently added, which is awesome, and you can see what people have recently added or are listening to lots. With one right click on the album icon, you can do all your adding or taking off and syncing to phones.

And if you really really want playlists, you can make them too, and add others.

I may just be being pedantic and wanting things just so, and I'm not trying to begrudge anyone else finding spotty serviceable, I just find it strange that more people aren't finding it's layout frustrating. It may just be what you're used to , I guess.

After you find an album in spotify you right click its name, save to playlist and it'll default the playlist to be that album by that artist, so although it isn't ideal, it's certainly not awful. Then on my phone I manually select which 'playlists' are online/offline etc.

A bonus with this method is you can edit playlist titles/tracks and details yourself, so you can fully remove bonus tracks, demos etc

It could be better, but I've been using it for over 3 years now, and it just works for me.

The using it for 3+ years thing is probably the crux of the matter

Tempy wrote:

The using it for 3+ years thing is probably the crux of the matter

Probably quite important. I looked at Face's picture and just thought 'ugh! messy!'

Olimite wrote:

Tempy wrote:

The using it for 3+ years thing is probably the crux of the matter

Probably quite important. I looked at Face's picture and just thought 'ugh! messy!'

It's totally not, as they've done a good job of, when you hover over any of the album covers, having all your options right there. But I can see what you mean looking at the pics static in my post. Again, it'll partly be a case of having used it for a yearish.