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pedro asked a question in Spotify on October 21, 2009 15:13:

Is anyone from Spotify still answering questions?

It seems that lately the number of questions which get an answer from Spotify --that used to be Andres-- has dropped down significantly. Can we expect that our questions and concerns are addressed?

pedro asked a question in Spotify on October 19, 2009 14:07:

Only a song available in spotify:album:23P6MSOrY8axAsJ4wyc7I??

According to today's update, there's a new album by Adriana Calcanhotto under her alias Adriana Partimpim, spotify:album:23P6MSOrY8axAsJ4wyc7I , but it seems only a song has been made available. Could you confirm this, please? Any idea if the rest of the album would be made available any time soon?

Thanks,

Pedro

pedro started following the question "How to sort playlists?" in Spotify.

pedro shared an idea in Spotify on October 12, 2009 21:58:

Clickable song titles

Wouldn't be a nice feature being able to click in a song title --as you do with albums or artists-- and get all the covers of that song?

pedro replied on October 01, 2009 16:11 to the update "Spotify goes offline" in Spotify:

Great! Will the songs be stored indefinitely locally? What happens when a song/album/artist opts out from Spotify and has songs stored in local playlists?

pedro reported a problem in Spotify on September 18, 2009 17:23:

Bob Dylan comings and goings. Highway 61 available for one day, then gone!!

Bob Dylan again. This week, the album Highway 61 Revisited was available for a couple of days --and I'm being generous. Please, stop this. If you can't guarantee having the album up for a significant number of months, it's better if you don't make it available at all.

Things like this only creates frustration and irritation.

pedro started following the idea "hey! lets make it multi-tab!! :D:D:D" in Spotify.

pedro asked a question in Spotify on September 16, 2009 18:46:

Buy Premium and listen everywhere. Great, but...

Isn't that yet another evidence of the absurdity of geographical restrictions? I live in Spain and can't listen to some music available in Sweden, but if I 'buy' Premium there and 'move' indefinitely to Spain, then all is fine.

pedro replied on September 03, 2009 15:47 to the question "¿Can I buy a premium account in Spain and use it for a long period in Italy?" in Spotify:

Is it that so? I thought that we were limited to 14 days of use outside the country from which we subscribed.

pedro reported a problem in Spotify on August 05, 2009 16:41:

What I signed for

In the light of the recent Dylan's albums dissappearance --not to mention others in the recent past--, as a Premium customer I'd like to know exactly what I signed for. I love Spotify, but the removals are more than annoying. So, I want to know if labels and artists have the right to remove albums and tracks from Spotify as they wish --which is what it seems right now-- or rather you have streaming rights from a significant period of time.

Not that long ago, Spotify officially stated something along the lines that no more removals were foreseen in the future and the catalog would only grow from then on. This is not being the case.

I do expect an answer. Thanks in advance.

pedro replied on August 05, 2009 13:01 to the question "Where the hell did Bob Dylan go???" in Spotify:

This is too bad. Spotify guys, when you sign a contract, don't you get the licence for a significant period of time, that is, several years? This is very, very, very annoying and frustrating.

pedro replied on August 05, 2009 13:01 to the question "Where has the Bob Dylan catalogue gone?" in Spotify:

This is too bad. Spotify guys, when you sign a contract, don't you get the licence for a significant period of time, that is, several years? This is very, very, very annoying and frustrating.

pedro started following the question "Where has the Bob Dylan catalogue gone?" in Spotify.

pedro started following the question "Where the hell did Bob Dylan go???" in Spotify.

pedro replied on July 22, 2009 11:02 to the question "Magic to have the world ́s juke box streamed into one ́s living room with super sound but.." in Spotify:

HI, Richard. If you want an audiophile setup, you might want to consider getting a USB DAC. Basically, it's a device that connects to your computer via a USB port and to your amp via cable audio. It gets the digital output from the computer and transform it into analog to feed the amp.

I'm using an iRoc from Ultrafitimes and am very happy about it. It's connected to a Vaio Laptop, Audiolab 8000S and Castle Severn II.

There's plenty of info about high-end PC Audio in places like Audiogon forums.

pedro replied on July 21, 2009 11:55 to the question "Where have many Belle and Sebastian's album in Spain gone?" in Spotify:

That's too bad. Are they gone only in Spain?

I'd happily double or triple my premium fee to get rid of geographical zone issues.

Thanks for the answer and the checking, Andres.

pedro asked a question in Spotify on July 21, 2009 10:13:

Where have many Belle and Sebastian's album in Spain gone?

Some Belle and Sebastian's songs from the album 'If you're feeling sinister' in my playlist are gone. Also, the message error you get is wrong.

It's good that you publish the Google Doc with the new updates, but you should also publish the removals. It's very frustrating losing songs and I can't see why you don't get it right the first time around.

A comment on the problem "Search problems" in Spotify:

Andres, if you search 'psychedelic' and immediately after you sort by album, there's no scrolling and you don't get those albums. – pedro, on July 21, 2009 10:06

pedro reported a problem in Spotify on July 20, 2009 16:20:

Search problems

Why when you search for 'psychedelic' these two albums don't appear in the results?

Psychedelic high - spotify:album:asdfasd
Psychedelic high 2 - spotify:album:60Iyshu6AfHiVyWRzxO45N

pedro replied on June 25, 2009 15:51 to the update "Bumping up the bitrate" in Spotify:

Great! Let's hope lossless is somewhere down the road and not too far.

Could you please point us to some 320 kbs/s tracks to play around?