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A comment on the question "Album Search again / VA" in Spotify:

Oh, I agree that it is not really very user-friendly. I just wanted to tell you how you could get the results now if you wanted them. – mzl, on December 01, 2009 15:32

mzl started following the idea "iPod touch/iPhone remote app" in Spotify.

mzl started following the question "How about using the iPhone App as a Remote?" in Spotify.

mzl started following the question "Remote application" in Spotify.

mzl started following the idea "Mac remote for Spotify" in Spotify.

mzl started following the idea "REMOTE APPLICATION FOR IPHONE" in Spotify.

mzl started following the idea "Apple Remote Support?" in Spotify.

mzl started following the problem "Top album list of Sweden not available in Sweden" in Spotify.

mzl replied on December 01, 2009 13:12 to the question "Album Search again / VA" in Spotify:

To get all the results, you need to scroll down before you sort the albums. Every time you get to the bottom of the list, new results will be loaded. After that, you can sort the list in any way you like.

I do agree that it would be nice to view albums when you search, and not just individual tracks.

mzl replied on November 30, 2009 21:57 to the question "Is the free version available in Thailand?" in Spotify:

No, it is not available in Thailand (see http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/#a...).

mzl replied on November 30, 2009 09:29 to the question "Strange problem of the invisible program" in Spotify:

See for example: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/to...

mzl started following the idea "manual offline mode on desktop" in Spotify.

mzl replied on November 29, 2009 00:44 to the idea "Spotify in ipod nano?" in Spotify:

Unfortunately, Apple doesn't allow third-party apps on iPod nanos.

mzl started following the problem "The Knife is not Knife" in Spotify.

mzl replied on November 28, 2009 08:46 to the question "Playlist sorting / undo sorting" in Spotify:

Either you click in the artist column twice more (once to reverse sort, once to remove sorting), or click on the first, unnamed
column.

mzl started following the question "Spotify installer failure? Solved!" in Spotify.

mzl replied on November 27, 2009 13:24 to the question "hur säger man upp spotify" in Spotify:

The mail you got when you started paying has instructions :)

If the mail is gone and lost, do as follows: go to spotify.com and log in. See under My Account -> Subscription.

A comment on the question "Can't enter Japanese on mobile app!" in Spotify:

Ahh, too bad that pasting doesn't work. Just an idea. Hope it will work out for you. – mzl, on November 27, 2009 12:43

A comment on the idea "Uncompressed" in Spotify:

First of all, the effects of normalization on the audio is probably more important than if the audio information is compressed or not. Also, the version of the CD used is very important (for an example, see some illustrative differences between different masterings).

There has been large previous threads on the particulars of the way Spotify plays sound. See for example http://www.getsatisfaction.com/spotif... and the linked blog post http://productionadvice.co.uk/wrong-a... for some good reading.

I would suggest you do some controlled encodings of your own (say, Ogg Vorbis -q5 to -q10) and run ABX tests against the source on your equipment too see what your ears limits are. Non-blind tests can't be trusted. I don't trust myself with these kind of things: I did blind tests myself to find where my own limit was when I don't have any pre-conceived notions clouding my mind. With Spotify, I'm happy and content listening to high-bitrate tracks with normalization turned on.

Happy listening! – mzl, on November 27, 2009 10:20

mzl started following the problem "metadata api, and link not found when using result data" in Spotify.