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Adam Spiers replied on November 12, 2009 00:50 to the idea "Android app?" in reQall:

Me too :-) Although hopefully this website lets reQall employees see the full list of people who have clicked "I like this idea" - would be kind of dumb if we all had to send "me too" replies :)

Adam Spiers replied on November 04, 2009 11:40 to the question "How do I change the frequency of syncing?" in Xmarks:

I'm pretty amazed this isn't configurable. Xmarks makes my firefox almost unusable when it's syncing, so every 15 minutes is way too often.

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A comment on the idea "Mass Edits of Tags and Bookmarks would be REALLY helpful" in Delicious:

Britta, neither of those lets you mass delete tags. A google search reveals lots of people annoyed by the inability to easily delete tags in bulk. – Adam Spiers, on October 18, 2009 22:41

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Adam Spiers replied on September 25, 2009 13:30 to the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

Marcus are you using wine/Linux? If so see my solution above. If not, you must have a different issue to me.

A comment on the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

Hooray! I stumbled across the solution for me:

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/to...

Changing winecfg > Audio > DirectSound > Hardware Acceleration to Emulation results in the sound quality going from awful to excellent! Sorry Spotify for casting doubts over the quality of your service! – Adam Spiers, on September 25, 2009 13:29

A comment on the question "Stream quality sometimes dramatically drops in linux" in Spotify:

Thanks ricarrod, this transformed the sound quality from awful to great for me! – Adam Spiers, on September 25, 2009 13:28

Adam Spiers marked one of ricarrod's replies in Spotify as useful. ricarrod replied to the question "Stream quality sometimes dramatically drops in linux".

A comment on the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

Definitely not a problem with my sound equipment. For example, I bought the 192kbps MP3 version of this track from 7digital:

spotify:track:37sIATjMjD6R9otmqRzdaj

and the difference in quality between the MP3 playback and Spotify's playback is as clear as night and day - the former sounds great and the latter sounds awful. In the first few seconds of the track on Spotify, high frequency artefacts and quality loss are extremely noticeable. The same high frequency artefacts (not sure how to describe them other than tinny) are clearly audible in the first 10 seconds of spotify:track:13LMeyy5nz3phzWokSIToh mentioned above and in fact the majority of Spotify tracks I have listened to. It's more noticeable when there is more space in the music or when it's quieter. – Adam Spiers, on September 25, 2009 11:27

A comment on the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

I disabled that several days ago... – Adam Spiers, on September 25, 2009 10:34

A comment on the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

Thanks but I tried it and am still definitely hearing noticeable artefacts from low bit rate on at least two of the tracks. It's most obvious on the quieter ones, for example spotify:track:13LMeyy5nz3phzWokSIToh – Adam Spiers, on September 25, 2009 10:34

Adam Spiers replied on September 25, 2009 01:00 to the question ""Enable high bitrate" does not change the quality on the songs." in Spotify:

I signed up for the premium service specifically to avoid the awful sound quality at the lower bitrates; however even though when I logged out and in again after subscribing the ads have correctly disappeared, the sound quality is still definitely at the lower bitrate for *every* track I play, even ones I have never listened to before, so it cannot be a caching issue. My client definitely has the high bitrate option enabled.

This is extremely disappointing - I have not got what I paid for.

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Adam Spiers reported a problem in Suunto on December 15, 2008 17:42:

Suunto Training Manager is poorly maintained

Updates to the Suunto Training Manager (STrM) are few and far between, and there are many serious problems with the software which are basically being ignored (read the Suunto forums to see many examples of this). This is a crying shame, because the actual watches are great.