On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Dan wrote: > Anyone using Spotify?
It seems to have just opened up to everybody; that or I finally got my invite. So I'm using it as of about 5 minutes ago. > What's your experience? It seems okay, although lacking in certain genres (or releases from certain record companies, perhaps). Bigger artists like Gillain Welch are notably absent, but a local, small, independent artist has all of their releases uploaded. <snip> > Searching for an artist can take up to two minutes. Yea, two minutes. > Network idle. App just sitting there idle waiting for data to come back from > their service. Hmm... haven't seen this. > Sorting the resulting list can take up to 30 secs. You'd think I'd asked > Eudora to sort a mailbox with 32,000 entries in it. Nah. This list just has > 24 entries. Or this. So far my sort requests have been pretty instantaneous. I even tried sorting results for one artist while listening to another. > Resizing a column ... It doesn't keep up with the mouse cursor, then when you > let go, it SPODs for many seconds. My column resizes have actually been snappy, too. Not quite as good as what I'd get in a Finder window, but not anything noticeably slow. > Every page has a black or dark gray background, and their font sizes are so > small they end up being gray instead of white text. Gray text on a gray > background ----- Unreadable. And there seems to be no way to increase the > font sizes or kill the backgrounds! I think that the other problems you've mentioned may have been a difference between releases. I don't know if they've had an update since they released the "okay, all you Americans, I guess we'll let all of you into the party" version, but it seems like it. Otherwise it's a network/computer difference. The background/contrast issue remains in the release I have. I don't find a huge problem with it, but perhaps that's because I have youthful eyes. I can see how this is gripe-worthy, and I do think they should allow users to alter the colors so they can actually see what they are doing on the client. > Tried the Help section... quite a few pages gave me 404s. I'll admit, I didn't go look at the Help section. That could still be an issue. > Guess I should say something nice about it... The music, once it starts to > play, sounds pretty good. No drop outs or anything. And it's only using 8 > to 10% of my CPU. Perhaps my increased performance is related to the fact that mine is taking up at least 2% more of my CPU. I doubt that 2% has anything to do with anything, but that's a difference. I'm hovering around 12% CPU usage. > Oh, I get it. Spotify is an ad for iTunes! What I wonder about Spotify is how it works for artist commission, actually. Because I'm listening to a bunch of music for free, with a few in-house ads here and there, but I don't plan on actually paying for the application or the service. iTunes does seem to be better for artists, because even though Apple takes a big chunk, it just seems like the artist would be getting a bigger chunk of change. Plus, I can listen to my iTunes library if my Internet goes out or if I'm someplace without Internet, which is a too often true scenario in Southeastern Ohio. Isaac -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
