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aVirulence replied on November 23, 2009 14:11 to the question "Why am I missing the new Weezer album?" in Spotify:

Hmm. And now it's there! Great!

aVirulence asked a question in Spotify on November 21, 2009 10:26:

Manual installation package Spotify Mobile for Android not up to date?

The version of Spotify Mobile for Android that is downloadable from m.spotify.com is not up-to-date. The app wants an upgrade. I guess an upgrade is coming to the mobile website soon?

aVirulence replied to "Why am I missing the new Weezer album?", but it was removed. see the change log

aVirulence asked a question in Spotify on November 20, 2009 15:14:

Why am I missing the new Weezer album?

Shouldn't the Weezer Album Ratitude be available in all territories? It's absent in The Netherlands, but I'm sure the album is already in stores here.

aVirulence replied on June 17, 2009 12:00 to the question "Disappearing albums and a full catalog" in Spotify:

Andres: Thank you very much for your answer. I'm also a bit puzzled by the fact that they changed that. It might be the case that they mistakingly released it here before the official Dutch release.

Well, let's not start a discussion about how ridiculous it is in a time of digital music to put one territory before the other, or to threat the territories different.. :-)

aVirulence asked a question in Spotify on June 17, 2009 09:44:

Disappearing albums and a full catalog

Is there some place where one can find the full catalog of Albums/Songs available including the countries a release is available? It would be nice as well to know to whom one should complain when a release has disappeared. Is it the record company? One example: the newest Taking Back Sunday album has disappeared in The Netherlands (see: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/179818/...) after a week or so.

So to summarize, to whom should we complain and can we find the entire catalog including country access?

aVirulence replied on April 14, 2009 18:54 to the question "what format are sportify tracks?" in Spotify:

Ogg Vorbis, but you cannot copy them anywhere. Spotify is a streaming media service.

aVirulence asked a question in Spotify on April 14, 2009 12:10:

Terms of Use of libspotify problems

Can you clarify the following parts of the Terms of Use for libspotify?

(1) "Approved Device does not include any mobile wireless handset or any other internet-enabled device that is designed to be handheld."

This would mean that it's not possible to develop for Linux, since most of the software written for Linux would be able to work on a Mobile Internet Device, or other mobile devices.

(2) "The Application Key must be embedded in your Application, including in all updates and revisions thereto, in a secure manner not accessible by third parties."

Would this mean that it's not possible to create open source programs with this library? I mean, if the source code is available, the API key will be exposed.

aVirulence started following the idea "Offline Spotify" in Spotify.

aVirulence started following the problem "Why does spotify stop fetching songs after just one song?" in Spotify.

aVirulence started following the problem "Why does spotify stop fetching songs after just one song?" in Spotify.

A comment on the question "Missing Brand New album (2007)" in Spotify:

digithed: I'm guessing that this is a different situation. Haven't the physical albums already been sold to the stores that stock them? I'm guessing yes, so that would mean that the actual sale has already taken place. I'm not totally sure though. – aVirulence, on April 08, 2009 11:43

A comment on the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

Oh and it's not allowed to create a client that can be put on a mobile devices (handhelds). Well that's nice. That excludes a LOT of clients then. I mean, most of the Linux clients will be able to run on Linux-based Mobile Internet Devices. I'm guessing this is due to a licensing issues (?). However, it still limits a lot of possible applications.. – aVirulence, on April 07, 2009 18:26

aVirulence replied on April 07, 2009 18:11 to the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

Wow: "The Application Key must be embedded in your Application, including in all updates and revisions thereto, in a secure manner not accessible by third parties." Taken from the Terms of use.

This would mean the application would have to be at least partly closed-source. This sucks...

Furthermore: "Spotify reserves the right in its sole discretion to revoke your Application Key for any reason or no reason, without notice, and to block access to the API and Service by the Application, without any liability to you or your users."

For no reason? Great, that's a great incentive for application developers to create a nice application..

A comment on the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

One more thing: you can get a key on this page: http://developer.spotify.com/en/libsp... :-) – aVirulence, on April 07, 2009 18:00

aVirulence replied on April 07, 2009 17:57 to the question "Missing Brand New album (2007)" in Spotify:

From Andres' reply on the Kate Bush topic: "A total guess but it's possible that she's changed labels or digital distributors so services have to take the music down until they get the new rights."

Brand New formed their own label a while ago. However, won't the albums that are out already still be owned/distributed by Universal?

A comment on the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

Jonasl: That's strange. I'm guess that Spotify will not like it if apps would rip the streams. Don't you think that they would prohibit that? That would mean that they would have at least some control over the GUI or interface otherwise. I guess that audio ads would be a viable alternative that is not easy to circumvent.. – aVirulence, on April 07, 2009 17:54

aVirulence replied on April 07, 2009 17:21 to the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

Another thing: why is it that the platform is only available for users that have a premium subscription?

aVirulence replied on April 07, 2009 16:23 to the update "Spotify opens its doors to developers" in Spotify:

Well, first of all, congratulations. I guess this is an important step for the company. I really hope that this will lead to a lot of interesting applications. I'm however really curious why you concluded that providing a closed-source solution is the best plan.

A comment on the question "Missing Brand New album (2007)" in Spotify:

Does this mean that this album should have been available for all countries? Or just in the UK? I registered last week, so I don't know if it has ever been available in The Netherlands. I was wondering: do you pay the artist/label on a per-play basis or do you pay them a fixed amount for making their albums available. If the former is the case, I don't see why they shouldn't release their albums to all countries. (Sorry for going a bit off-topic here.) – aVirulence, on April 07, 2009 13:35