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nicolasso asked a question in Spotify on August 05, 2009 12:30:

Where the hell did Bob Dylan go???

Like, yesterday, you could listen to hundreds and hundreds of Bob Dylan songs. But today - they're all gone! What happened? Are they coming back? I understand these things happen when artists change distributors or things like that, but the thought of warner/universal/whoever owns the rights to his songs, has sold of the entire back catalogue seems far fetched.

Please advice!

nicolasso replied on July 30, 2009 16:41 to the question "Download Partner asks me to pay them?" in Spotify:

yes, you have to pay 7 digital to download the songs as mp3. listening to the tracks through spotify is free, if you want to save them to your local hard drive it will cost you.

nicolasso asked a question in Spotify on June 26, 2009 11:59:

Tomas Ledin is ruining my apartment. :-/

Hej på er.
Kan ni försöka att göra någonting åt reklamspotten för Tomas Ledins nya skiva som går med jämna mellanrum? Den är EXTREMT hög i ljudvolym. Att alla reklamspottar är lite högre än musiken har jag vant mig vid, men just den är helt vansinnig. Mina fönster vibrerar (!!!) när den spelas.

Glad sommar.

nicolasso replied on April 07, 2009 13:38 to the question "Kate Bush's albums" in Spotify:

i listened to the album 'hounds of love' (spotify:album:4UOnE6LMjfONDMf3xJqDNi) just a couple of days ago, but now it's all red listed and unavailable. which is kinda sucky. but if several other music services have removed kate bush material as well, i guess it's not up to you guys.

nicolasso replied on March 29, 2009 14:01 to the question "Why have many songs "Album Version" after the song title?" in Spotify:

yeah, what's up with? it's all over the place, it's quite unnecessary and it looks a little messy. is this something you're applying to the whole music library, or is it merely a bug?

nicolasso started following the question "Why have many songs "Album Version" after the song title?" in Spotify.

nicolasso replied on March 19, 2009 23:22 to the question "Invitation - "spotify free not available in your country"" in Spotify:

i think spotify premium is available in the u.s, though.

nicolasso replied on March 18, 2009 18:30 to the problem "Pausing commercials on mute" in Spotify:

yeah, it really sucks when people try to make money out of something they've invested millions in. pay for the premium service, or stop whining.

A comment on the idea "Please normalize whole albums, not tracks." in Spotify:

sorry, but normalization is NOT audio compression. that's why it's called normalization, and not compression. two completely different things.

"Normalization is a special type of amplification. The idea here is to uniformly alter the entire audio file such that the loudest peak in the file is at maximum volume (or else something slightly below that). That is, the entire file is amplified by the same amount to get the highest peak at maximum volume." (http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/Aud...)

a compressor works both ways, both lowering peaks and amplifying parts that are quieter. – nicolasso, on March 13, 2009 17:31

A comment on the idea "Please normalize whole albums, not tracks." in Spotify:

well, normalization is just an added effect, made for boosting the sound as much possible. you set it at one level, and it gets the job done. also remember that a major part of the original dynamics are already gone, due to the compressed ogg vorbis-format in which the tracks are streamed in. i personally prefer to have it switched off. seems pointless to add normalization to an album if you are keen to preserve it's dynamics. – nicolasso, on March 13, 2009 16:57

nicolasso marked one of torarnv's replies in Spotify as useful. torarnv replied to the idea "Please normalize whole albums, not tracks.".

A comment on the idea "Please normalize whole albums, not tracks." in Spotify:

you are correct sir. perhaps 'badly mastered' wasn't accurate. however, it is not up to spotify to level out entire albums. – nicolasso, on March 13, 2009 15:23

nicolasso replied on March 13, 2009 13:50 to the idea "Please normalize whole albums, not tracks." in Spotify:

uhm, if an album shifts in volume from one track to another, it's probably badly mastered in the first place. spotify can't change this in any way - it's up to the record label/artist to master the record properly, this making all of it's tracks to have an equal level of sound all the way through.

mastering is some tough sh*t, trust me on this.

nicolasso reported a problem in Spotify on March 11, 2009 10:35:

what's up with monica zetterlund?

what's up with these tracks?

http://open.spotify.com/track/7ICgvZr...
http://open.spotify.com/track/1ILDN7o...
http://open.spotify.com/track/1rJTeIg...
http://open.spotify.com/track/3IRqaVE...
http://open.spotify.com/track/2YWTEph...
http://open.spotify.com/track/3IRqaVE...

they're crazy! i thought it was my computer, but every other track works. funny thing is that it's the same songs, but on different albums. KNÄPPT.

nicolasso replied on February 01, 2009 22:12 to the question "Why has Luciano Berio disappeared from Spotify?" in Spotify:

you are an obvious stock answer. meatballs.

nicolasso replied on January 21, 2009 12:45 to the question "Windows Mobile client for Spotify?" in Spotify:

i'm using a 3g-connection om my lappie, and it's working out just fine. can't see what the difference would be on a 3g-phone. as some of you may have noticed, spotify is looking for developers for the s60 and winmobile (i think) platforms. give it another six months or so, maybe less. patience.

nicolasso replied on January 07, 2009 16:34 to the question "Lily Allen -> Connection problem" in Spotify:

i have the exact same problem, but with little joy - don't watch me dancing (spotify:track:2cTDnY1tKaaBMFpGFg9RWs). after twelve seconds, it stops, and the "there is a problem with the connection to spotify"-message appears. every other song works fine. what's up with that?

nicolasso replied on December 22, 2008 22:26 to the praise "Volume" in Spotify:

yeah, what fix?

nicolasso replied on December 02, 2008 17:24 to the question "I'm a premium member!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in Spotify:

ja sluta med det!!!!!!!

nicolasso asked a question in Spotify on December 01, 2008 18:30:

had premium, now it's free - why?

i had a spotify premium account. checked my subscription status a while ago, and it was supposed to continue (and me continuing paying 99:-/month). but today it suddenly switched to a free account, AND i think you withdrew money from me (not sure though). what gives? i want it premium. do you have to pay manually at the end of each month?

my username is nicolasso.

EDIT: i just bought another month a few moments ago. just thought you should know. and, as it clearly says now, "You have got an active premium subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew and your credit card will be charged 1 month of premium subscription at 2009-01-01 unless you cancel recurrent payments". i didn't cancel anything the last time.