Anyone use Spotify Premium?

[John Yester]

Your offline are just that. They are Cached on the device for not connection needed. Think of it as a iPod .....

If you open it once a week the playlists will update if you follow certain ones, weekly, top hits, etc. But Anyone you created and added yourself will not disappear or go away.

 

[anon(9721108)]

Your offline are just that. They are Cached on the device for not connection needed. Think of it as a iPod .....

If you open it once a week the playlists will update if you follow certain ones, weekly, top hits, etc. But Anyone you created and added yourself will not disappear or go away.

Never had an iPod . But yeah the songs I downloaded again from my playlists are playing successfully in the car.

I like how I can also save songs to a playlist from a radio station

 

[John Yester]

I follow a lot of ever changing playlists so once a week they change, but I may have liked some songs from the previous week. Example I follow the discover weekly. Well it will change once a week. So I don't miss the songs i liked, I have a custom playlist called discover. I add songs once a week to it and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. But I will never lose them as my list doesn't not refresh.

Also you have to keep the app open and screen awake for it to download new content or restoring playlists. Normally if I wipe my device I have to restore 3000 songs for offline use.

 

[anon(9721108)]

How long do you have to trip the toggle between Online and Offline every 6 days and also where do you normally leave it?

If a few seconds enough for it to register that it was Online?

 

[libra89]

Well I did some reading and Spotify requires us to GO ONLINE at least once every month to keep the playlists that were downloaded (from what I can tell)

I have only had Spotify Premium for 2 weeks and only the last week I started the downloading to play in the car.

So ya I will just do do it every 6 days and see what happens.

And I will see if I can play the DL songs in the car today..

It isn't totally related to your post but the thing you have in your car looks cool. Where does it connect? I'm considering something like it for my car, since it is around the same age as yours.

 

[anon(9721108)]

It isn't totally related to your post but the thing you have in your car looks cool. Where does it connect? I'm considering something like it for my car, since it is around the same age as yours.

No problem. A friend gave me a Blackberry visor mount Bluetooth speaker and I was suprised it could be used with my iPhone. Model VM-605. There are others like the Jabra visor mount speakers and another friend has one of those as well.

I just go to FM radio on the car, then press the FM button on the visor mounted speaker and it will say something like "go to 88.5 FM," once you do, open Spotify up on the iPhone and click a song, that's it. All of your car speakers are now connected to the Spotify app. Some bass and treble adjustment is necessary as it can sound a little "tinny" in my car but I can get sounding pretty good.

 

[anon(9721108)]

It isn't totally related to your post but the thing you have in your car looks cool. Where does it connect? I'm considering something like it for my car, since it is around the same age as yours.

Side note: someone else I know has a 2013 Toyota tundra truck and he has an iPhone 6, that vehicle has built-in Bluetooth as all new cars do now I'm sure, he hits one button on the steering wheel and it automatically connects to his iPhone and its seamless. He doesn't even have to go into his pocket and play with his iPhone to set it up on the app or anything. Come to think of it I think he just uses the iTunes songs that he bought from Apple to clarify, he doesn't use Spotify. There's no lag it's just instant music and he can use his steering wheel controls to go to the next song. To be honest I haven't even tried that on mine yet I'm not sure if it works with Spotify, I usually just set mine to a longer playlist and let it run so I don't have to mess with the phone when I'm driving.

 

[John Yester]

Well... You can change the setting that it only syncs via Wifi vs cellular, So just do it once a week at home. If it updates then it will use your WiFi and not you data.

 

[libra89]

No problem. A friend gave me a Blackberry visor mount Bluetooth speaker and I was suprised it could be used with my iPhone. Model VM-605. There are others like the Jabra visor mount speakers and another friend has one of those as well.

I just go to FM radio on the car, then press the FM button on the visor mounted speaker and it will say something like "go to 88.5 FM," once you do, open Spotify up on the iPhone and click a song, that's it. All of your car speakers are now connected to the Spotify app. Some bass and treble adjustment is necessary as it can sound a little "tinny" in my car but I can get sounding pretty good.

You are awesome for this, thanks! I'm going to look into it. I'm guessing that you adjust the bass and treble on your iPhone?

Side note: someone else I know has a 2013 Toyota tundra truck and he has an iPhone 6, that vehicle has built-in Bluetooth as all new cars do now I'm sure, he hits one button on the steering wheel and it automatically connects to his iPhone and its seamless. He doesn't even have to go into his pocket and play with his iPhone to set it up on the app or anything. Come to think of it I think he just uses the iTunes songs that he bought from Apple to clarify, he doesn't use Spotify. There's no lag it's just instant music and he can use his steering wheel controls to go to the next song. To be honest I haven't even tried that on mine yet I'm not sure if it works with Spotify, I usually just set mine to a longer playlist and let it run so I don't have to mess with the phone when I'm driving.

That sounds awesome.

 

[anon(9721108)]

No the bass and treble has to be adjusted on your car stereo settings. I mean I guess you could try different equalizers in the Spotify app itself but I just do it on the car. Come to think of that yeah I should try that in the Spotify app there's different equalizer settings and try that instead of trying to adjust the car settings all the time. Ha ha as soon as I turn Spotify off and go back to regular radio the sound blows my ears so yeah might be worth it.

 

[anon(9721108)]

Well... You can change the setting that it only syncs via Wifi vs cellular, So just do it once a week at home. If it updates then it will use your WiFi and not you data.

I actually have everything for cellular turned off for Spotify. I just don't want to be surprised with data useage when I take the 3 1/2 hour drive to my hometown.

I'm not sure about that setting but here are some of my settings the way I have it, and by the way I have no idea what CrossFade means.....

 

[John Yester]

New songs will stay in pending until you are on wifi and then they will download. Only thing that will play is your downloaded song. Radio can use data though.

Crossfade is just that. What ever time you have it set to. When song A is finishing it will fade into the next track.

 

[anon(9721108)]

Absolutely loving the Spotify app, the only issue now is there's one playlist that I cannot UNdownload to save some storage space. It is also a playlist I don't want to play in the car anymore so I do not need it Downloaded.

I was able to undownload several other playlists so not sure why this one is stubborn, but it's not a major issue or anything.

My Spotify app was 1GB to 500mb's now after cleaning it up.

 

[mumfoau]

I used it for a while but now I'm all Apple Music, all the time.

 

[anon(9721108)]

I used it for a while but now I'm all Apple Music, all the time.

I never committed to that because you have to enter a credit card number, but my buddy uses it and he loves it.

I like Spotify because I can get it added to my regular cell plan through Rogers if I want to at the end of six months I don't have to enter any credit card numbers on the Internet.

I have bought a fair share of songs through iTunes though.

 

[mark-d]

As a DJ my music library runs to gigabytes and as I have Plex set up and all my music imported into Plex I can stream it anywhere meaning I have no need for Spotify free or Premium.

I have a free account I use to share what's hot playlists on my website but I don't use it to listen to music. And as for a premium account I don't see the point in paying to stream music I already own through an app I already own too.

 

[anon(9721108)]

As a DJ my music library runs to gigabytes and as I have Plex set up and all my music imported into Plex I can stream it anywhere meaning I have no need for Spotify free or Premium.

I have a free account I use to share what's hot playlists on my website but I don't use it to listen to music. And as for a premium account I don't see the point in paying to stream music I already own through an app I already own too.

I wish I was a DJ, they get a lot of…….Cool stuff haha

 

[mark-d]

I wish I was a DJ, they get a lot of…….Cool stuff haha

In the old days I used to get records and CDs through the post. These days it's downloads.

I do miss spending hours in the local record centre listening to the latest white labels picking out songs I thought were good and would work well for me but that's the advancement of technology I guess

 

[anon(9721108)]

In the old days I used to get records and CDs through the post. These days it's downloads.

I do miss spending hours in the local record centre listening to the latest white labels picking out songs I thought were good and would work well for me but that's the advancement of technology I guess

I bet you're talking about Colombia house, my buddy used to get hundreds of cassettes from there! There is still ONE place left in my city that sells a lot of Vinyl, cassettes and CD's. They actually do pretty well.

I have a question, I heard that they never really stopped making Vinyl completely because DJ's were always able to get discs to spin but they seemed to have ended it to the general public. But SUPPOSEDLY Vinyl could have always been ordered in the last 20 years, but people didn't know about it?

 

[mark-d]

I bet you're talking about Colombia house, my buddy used to get hundreds of cassettes from there! There is still ONE place left in my city that sells a lot of Vinyl, cassettes and CD's. They actually do pretty well.

I have a question, I heard that they never really stopped making Vinyl completely because DJ's were always able to get discs to spin but they seemed to have ended it to the general public. But SUPPOSEDLY Vinyl could have always been ordered in the last 20 years, but people didn't know about it?

Here in the U.K. you've never not been able to get vinyl. True it disappeared from main stream view and for a time was available only in specialist shops but it's enjoying a real resurgence right now.

Lots of DJs now will either use laptops and controllers or CDJs now which gives vinyl like control of CDs but vinyl is still available. People say vinyl provides a deeper, warmer sound than the compressed digital audio that's in MP3 files.