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A comment on the idea "Spotify AppleScript dictionary?" in Spotify:

Have you tried Growl?
http://growl.info/ – Xavier Grehant, on November 01, 2009 17:03

Xavier Grehant replied on November 01, 2009 11:44 to the problem "Pausing commercials on mute" in Spotify:

I agree with you Dude. Ads don't work when they're annoying anyway. I think Spotify should concentrate on making ads friendly rather than hostile. I guess it's a general fact that if advertisers really analyze the outcome of their campaigns, they'll learn to be friendly.

Xavier Grehant marked one of pablos93's replies in Spotify as useful. pablos93 replied to the idea "Shazam-like: listen and catch up on the beat.".

Xavier Grehant shared an idea in Spotify on August 08, 2009 11:49:

World map of songs currently playing with Spotify

How about generating a world map of songs currently playing with Spotify, e.g. using inputs from Google latitude if available, IP addresses and user registered addresses.

Xavier Grehant replied on August 08, 2009 11:31 to the idea "Shazam-like: listen and catch up on the beat." in Spotify:

Yet another app: spotify could ask you if you like the song played near you. That would improve the accuracy of popularity ratings to include the opinion of truly random people who did not look for the song or knew it before.

Xavier Grehant replied on August 08, 2009 11:28 to the idea "Shazam-like: listen and catch up on the beat." in Spotify:

Another app is that spotify would keep daily playlists with all songs that were played near you in the day.

Xavier Grehant shared an idea in Spotify on July 30, 2009 14:38:

Shazam-like: listen and catch up on the beat.

I'd love it if you guys had a module like Apple's Shazam, that recognizes music that the microphone captures.

Say someone near you is listening to something you like. You click, Spotify listens, identifies the song, finds out at which point of the song she is, and catches up on the beat.

Can you imagine a song spreading through a whole building...

I'm especially excited about the consensus algorithm for the case where everybody is listening to one another ;-D

Xavier Grehant replied on June 12, 2009 22:08 to the question "Will Spotify have a Visualizer mode?" in Spotify:

Chris, if you don't mind sparing 30 bucks you can use G-Force Platinum. I haven't tried Platinum so I don't guarantee anything. But they say with the standalone capability you can visualize any audio source. I guess you just have to select to visualize "line-in" or "microphone" when Spotify is playing.
http://www.soundspectrum.com/g-force/...
Before buying you can try their free plugin for iTunes. In my opinion, these guys rule!

Xavier Grehant replied on June 08, 2009 01:43 to the update "Merge Topics and Get Rid of Duplicates" in Get Satisfaction:

Arn't users better placed to branch/merge topics?

As a user when I'm going to post I check first if the topic exists. I might find several relevant topics. I might comment on one of them but I would prefer my comment to be visible on all of them. I'd do something like a merge.

I'm reading a post. It gives me an idea. I hesitate to write the idea as a comment because it is kind of related but I don't want to interrupt the mainstream conversation. I'd do something like a branch.

Links might be interesting. Say, after a comment you can check : "Detach and link" (would start a new topic and link it) or "Link to other topics". Whatever *link* means...

In fact the whole thing could be a directed graph of single contributions... In fact that's relevant to every forum.

Xavier Grehant replied on June 08, 2009 00:58 to the idea "Adding support for tabs in the browser screen." in Spotify:

That's an issue from not having a web-based interface. You'll have to write a browser ;-)

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Xavier Grehant replied on June 08, 2009 00:27 to the idea "Make the ads fit the customers taste" in Spotify:

Behavioral Targeting

Xavier Grehant replied on June 08, 2009 00:07 to the idea "Feature Request: Fade Out/In & Pause" in Spotify:

I totally agree. It's surpising this feature is not there yet. The abrupt stop sounds cheap. It contrasts with the high quality of the rest of the platform.

Is there any reason for not having fade in/out at resuming/pausing?

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Xavier Grehant replied on June 07, 2009 23:55 to the question "Will Spotify have a Visualizer mode?" in Spotify:

Meanwhile you might want to use a standalone music visualizer. There's a few options for PCs but surprisingly I never found a free one for Mac.

Xavier Grehant replied on June 02, 2009 13:41 to the idea "Commercial DJ Spotify version" in Spotify:

How about including a DJ deck in the free version (or, say, maybe premium) for DJ'ing at home? Then, in addition to saving playlists, you could save and share your own mixes, and get famous as an amateur DJ on Spotify...
Of course saving a mix would not involve actually recording it. It is *only* a matter of saving the beat, the fading, and the offset for every tune in the mix.
I would love to see that in Spotify.

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