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Songbird +Spotify is all I need
Team up with Spotify and get then to fix an add-on for Songbird and you'll have the ultimate music player.
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Here is it :
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons...
Not a big deal, tell me how I can make it better :)
By the way Get Satisfaction really need to put pages on topics, it's painful scrolling and scrolling...
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So right guys, I'm gonna try and do summit about this now! I've been talking to a friend of mine about developing a really simple proof-of-concept thing. Potentiall called Songify because I think someone's already taken Spotbird! :P
Basically, it will be a small media pane with a box to search your libary for an artist. It will then filter your library for that artist and compare the list of tracks and albums with a list from a metadata service (probably musicbrainz?) It will then compile a list of tracks which are on the Musicbrainz list but not in the local library. It will then search spotify for these tracks/albums and where it finds them, generate a link to them in spotify.
So, this does not control spotify or really integrate it, but it will be progress and we can build on it.. Let me know what you think!
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I've been trying to gather as much information about Spotify as possible the last couple of days (since I can't actually use it yet over here in the US), and the recent lifehacker article kinda topped it for me. Spotify does need Songbird.
One of my biggest obsessions I've had the last couple of years has been with the idea of cloud computing. It am fascinated, captivated, and just plain entertained by every article I read on the subject. (Hence why I am obsessed and consumed with all things Google and Songbird-*Play the Web*).
Right now, there are plenty of limitations to cloud computing - one including Spotify is the access to "your music" when you're not connected to the internet. The only way this could be resolved is if they let you cache your entire collection on your computer/device or if there was free and open access to the internet everywhere in the world (hehe). We're still a long way away from reaching the full potential of cloud computing.
Personally, I could never be able to use Spotify as my one and only standalone media player, I find it very unlikely for Spotify's catalog to ever offer the full range of music I listen too such as all the independent labels or even my friend's bands. And I can see Spotify making the mistake of trying to be an actual "media player"(by definition, in todays standards) by simply adding the ability to add ones own music into Spotify(or adding other "media player-like" features). A Songbird add-on would be a perfect addition for Spotify. I know Songbird has THE GREATEST potential out of every single software/web application out there (that's why I'm on these forums so much). And I really wish other people/companies could realize that too :-)
I’m all Songbird FTW!
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Cool, well, I said this:
Hi there Spotify crew,
I wasn't sure if this was the right place to contact but I thought you might be able to help me. I'm involved with an open source media player called Songbird (www.getsongbrid.com). It's developed by a company called Pioneers Of The Inevitable as well as the community of users. I'm not an employee of POTI and as such this email is particularly unofficial. Songbird is based on some Mozilla code and supports add-ons in a similar fashion to Firefox which makes it a surprisingly interesting venture and quite an exciting community to be involved with. Anyway, I'm not trying to sell it to you, that's not my point. I'm sure if you're interested you'll check it out. Recently some of use have been discussing the fact that we love spotify and the access to music it provides but that it is frustrating to have to be running two music players at the same time - one for music you have (songbird) and the other for music you don't (spotify). We talked about some ideas for integrating spotify in to songbird in this thread here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t... .
Now I suppose my question to you is this: would you ever consider allowing another program to effectively act as a client for spotify? Presumably you need to ensure that your revenue streams remain intact and therefore you would have to ensure that any development exposed the user to the same amount of advertising, audio or visual. Alternatively you could create spotify clients for other software and release them to premium account holders and charge a subscription fee.
Many people have expressed interest in paying for a spotify client for use within songbird; I'm sure it would be relatively easy to code one as an add-on and police its use. I may not be the best person to liaise with if you are interested in any of this; I would probably point you in the direction of laura@songbirdnest.com who will know exactly who you should talk to.
I hope even if it is not an idea you had previously contemplated or it is not immediately feasible that you will discuss it internally and ponder if you think it could ever work. We would very much like to hear your thoughts if you've got a few minutes to get back to us; you could reply to me or to Laura or in the thread on Get Satisfaction if you have an account!
Many thanks for your time and consideration,
Tim Saunders
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So I was thinking, how awesome would it be if you could use Spotify as the lower media pain - then, when you search for an artist in your songbird, a plug-in looks at what you have in your library and then provides you with material by that artist which you currently lack via Spotify.
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Quite interesting graph I generated @ wakoopa, wouldn't you agree?
I strongly recommend those of you that isn't fortunate enough to use Songbird within their country to use a different IP, set point it to an European country, preferably one of the Scandinavian countries that is.
Once you've experienced Spotify for quite some time, you'll begin to miss your bird. So you switch back to SB again but now there's something missing...
Songbird and Spotify are meant to be. Even if we're just talking some kind of remote-control-addon from inside Songbird, that would be great.
Think about how many new users who'd be willing to try Songbird out considering the great deal of users Spotify already has.
I’m <3 SB
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Inappropriate?This is exactly what I was thinking too. Spotify + Songbird = Total awesomeness! Spotify has almost instant music search as well as a rather large amount of music spread over most genres. Make this happen and there will only be one true media player that plays the web.
I'd love to hear some thoughts from other songbird users who have tried spotify!
I’m excited & hopeful!
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Bumping this thread, since I assume it hasn't been noticed enough. This would really be a killer combination!
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Spotify isn't available in the United States so thats probably why there aren't a lot of people that haven't used/heard of it :) sorry.
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Inappropriate?yeah, It's a shame it's not available in US, but since I live in Sweden and have been running Spotify for a couple of months now I know for sure that Spotify has an enormous potential.
I really hope you people over there will get the chance to use this peice of software, and then you'll realize that songbird needs Spotify just as much as the other way around.
Since songbird is already providing streaming possibillities, why not pair up with the sweetest source of it's kind when it becomes possible! I really, really hope that this someday will come true...
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Inappropriate?HOAAAAAA!!!
that's exactly what I thought when I started to use Spotify some days ago!
That would be terrific! Amazing!!
I hope that someday I can see it becoming real!
I encourage the team to try something about doing this!! I'll be very very grateful!! :D
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Where in the world are you located? Because Spotify isn't available everywhere, therefore US can't try it out yet without special modifications.
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I'm from spain :)
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Inappropriate?Ah! I didn't realise spotify wasn't available in the US. No wonder it doesn't get more press (I'm from UK). Well I suppose that explains it - media control laws in US are almost certainly tighter.
It would be freaking awesome if Songbird could implement Spotify-like functionality, but I do understand Songbird needs to work on a model that is legal throughout the world. Damn.
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Inappropriate?Yeah, to the one who was nice enough to send me an invitation:
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Inappropriate?Quite interesting graph I generated @ wakoopa, wouldn't you agree?
I strongly recommend those of you that isn't fortunate enough to use Songbird within their country to use a different IP, set point it to an European country, preferably one of the Scandinavian countries that is.
Once you've experienced Spotify for quite some time, you'll begin to miss your bird. So you switch back to SB again but now there's something missing...
Songbird and Spotify are meant to be. Even if we're just talking some kind of remote-control-addon from inside Songbird, that would be great.
Think about how many new users who'd be willing to try Songbird out considering the great deal of users Spotify already has.
I’m <3 SB
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Inappropriate?http://despotify.se/
Spotify gateway implemented to support a HTTP REST API. The idea is to have the gateway running in the background and keep logged in sessions to Spotify alive. The frontend (HTTP) part can easily be implemented by making your favorite web scripting language talk to the backend over a socket.
Spotify only allow access from despotify using premium accounts.
I signed up for premium just to use spotify native instead of using WINE
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Inappropriate?This would be the most awesome idea ever. The updated last.fm app really works well but it'd be good for Songbird to integrate spotify before people migrate over to it
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Inappropriate?Spotify's new open API goes live. Who will develop the first add-on for songbird?
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damn you beat me to it ;-)
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Inappropriate?I saw that too ! But to use the Spotify API the developer need to buy a premium account to have a key.
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Inappropriate?Well, We'll have a whip round for you if you'll write it ;)
Um, can I add my general love for this idea? Fanks.
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Inappropriate?So I was thinking, how awesome would it be if you could use Spotify as the lower media pain - then, when you search for an artist in your songbird, a plug-in looks at what you have in your library and then provides you with material by that artist which you currently lack via Spotify.
I’m dreaming
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Pane, not pain! :P Pain is what you feel when you get hurt.
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ah yeah...if only I could spell...
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Inappropriate?@GeekShadow;
It's a shame one have to buy a Premium pass, but I guess most ppl will have one soon anyway, although I'm still using a free account :-P
Took a quick look at Wakoopa just to discover that the Vs. ranking between Spotify and Songbird now is:
Spotify #179
Songbird #276
Which indicates a possible drop in users for Sb while Spotify basically has the same rank as before. ( Sonbird has more than twice as many registered users at wakoopa )
Worth to notice is that Spotify is The 8th most popular player on Windows
while Songbird is the The 4th most popular audio/video manager on Mac OS X.
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Inappropriate?Spotify in Songbird? Eh, if it's only possible with premium accounts it could be a good reason to buy one!
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Inappropriate?If this worked, i would throw money at it. Presumably they wouldn't allow it what with losing ad revenues - I don't know if there could be a work around where by it still played you the same number of ads and everyone was happy?
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Inappropriate?Is this in the works at all or is it just some talk? I'd totally buy a premium account for this!
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also i was thinking about last.fm intergration (spotify already has and so does songbird i'm sure that's not a problem.) but to be able to edit the artist and title before submitting it to last.fm.
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This is definitely still in the discussion phase dtay. :0)
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Yay!!! Discuss away!
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Hey Tim, sorry if I misled you. I meant it is in discussion here, in this thread.
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oh! Ah well, better than nowt I suppose :) Thanks for putting me straight!
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Inappropriate?to combine spotify with a media player would be awesome. your own catalogue supplemented by the streaming of spotifys..wow
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Inappropriate?Yea.... This would be totally awesome, songbird interface and spotify interface are more or less same, so users won't get lost in the front end. But, I could guess there is lot of back end work involved, But It will be totally worth the effort.
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Inappropriate?This is totally the best combo:-
I use both Songbird and Spotify already, in fact other than iTunes (for ripping CDs) these are my sole media players and I love them!!!
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No one is working on this to my knowledge and I don't believe it's even logged in Bugzilla as a feature suggestion yet.
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I'll file a bug and hopefully get some buzz going!
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Inappropriate?It's bug 17153
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...1 Comment Add a comment
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nice one :)
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I think you should do it. It can't hurt. I think they'll need to see the benefits of it first. Of course it'd help Songbird, but what could it do for them?
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@Tim; Have someone contacted Spotify yet?
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Not as far as I'm aware. Cool, well I'll send them a link and let's see what happens... :)
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Right, I sent them an e-mail...
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Inappropriate?I just found this: http://spotifitunes.philnash.co.uk/
Pretty cool and imo this points towards that a songbird add-on isn't completely out of the question, even though this particular service doesn't resemble the one we want for songbird very much.
I’m interested to hear about Spotifys emailaswer...
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Tim wrote a great letter, maybe we should post it here TIm, what do you think? It was definitely worthy of some sort of reply.
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Inappropriate?Cool, well, I said this:
Hi there Spotify crew,
I wasn't sure if this was the right place to contact but I thought you might be able to help me. I'm involved with an open source media player called Songbird (www.getsongbrid.com). It's developed by a company called Pioneers Of The Inevitable as well as the community of users. I'm not an employee of POTI and as such this email is particularly unofficial. Songbird is based on some Mozilla code and supports add-ons in a similar fashion to Firefox which makes it a surprisingly interesting venture and quite an exciting community to be involved with. Anyway, I'm not trying to sell it to you, that's not my point. I'm sure if you're interested you'll check it out. Recently some of use have been discussing the fact that we love spotify and the access to music it provides but that it is frustrating to have to be running two music players at the same time - one for music you have (songbird) and the other for music you don't (spotify). We talked about some ideas for integrating spotify in to songbird in this thread here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t... .
Now I suppose my question to you is this: would you ever consider allowing another program to effectively act as a client for spotify? Presumably you need to ensure that your revenue streams remain intact and therefore you would have to ensure that any development exposed the user to the same amount of advertising, audio or visual. Alternatively you could create spotify clients for other software and release them to premium account holders and charge a subscription fee.
Many people have expressed interest in paying for a spotify client for use within songbird; I'm sure it would be relatively easy to code one as an add-on and police its use. I may not be the best person to liaise with if you are interested in any of this; I would probably point you in the direction of laura@songbirdnest.com who will know exactly who you should talk to.
I hope even if it is not an idea you had previously contemplated or it is not immediately feasible that you will discuss it internally and ponder if you think it could ever work. We would very much like to hear your thoughts if you've got a few minutes to get back to us; you could reply to me or to Laura or in the thread on Get Satisfaction if you have an account!
Many thanks for your time and consideration,
Tim Saunders
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Very well written I must say! Now let's hope they find it intriguing.
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Why thank you kind sir! I can phrase better than I can code anyway... And yes, i hope they do :)
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where were you when i was writing my papers this semester!?
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Failing my own degree thank you very much! hahaha :P
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I've read through this thread and I'm curious..
You did notice they have an open API called libspotify, didn't you?
Docs are available at http://developer.spotify.com/en/libsp...
Only runs on Linux/x86 right now but there's an open source reimplementation of the API in the works at http://github.com/noahwilliamsson/ope...
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Inappropriate?Any contact between Spotify and the nest/Tim yet?10 Comments Add a comment
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Nada. Zilch. Nothing. I imagine I'm too small a fish for them to bother with me. Maybe if Rob Lord sent them a email they'd listen. Or Maybe Steve Jobs/Ballmer...
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Maybe we should give them some more time before bringing the big boys ;-)
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yeah let's do it! :)
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you guys are such good bumpers!
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Aww thanks! ...what does that mean!?
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Euh... Is that cool to be good bumpers? lol I'm French, and I dunno what it means ;-)
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you know, like a "bump" to keep the conversation going...sorry, i'm not all that witty or funny. sigh.
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oh but you are. Don't sigh, you're American and they're always shiny and smiley all of the time, right?
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Thank you Laura, I learned something new! And I find you quite funny indeed.
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Inappropriate?Yep, I definitely would like to be able to use spotify with my songbird! It would be fair for premium user to get it, and for free user it wouldn't be more difficult to play an ad every X spotify ads played in Songbird I guess... I don't wanna become a premium user right now as I spend more time on my songbird than on spotify...
I’m sad that I always have to switch spotify/songbird
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Inappropriate?Yep, I definitely would like to be able to use spotify with my songbird! It would be fair for premium user to get it, and for free user it wouldn't be more difficult to play an ad every X spotify ads played in Songbird I guess... I don't wanna become a premium user right now as I spend more time on my songbird than on spotify...
I’m sad that I always have to switch spotify/songbird
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Inappropriate?Earlier today I browsed some songbird art and found this. Considering Last.fm nowadays require a subscription to even listen to tracks, especially through Songbird, which has become kind of a hot potato, I recon that
whenif Spotify decides that the nest is the way to go Last.fm will be left behind. Merely serving it's intentional purpose by scraping the leftovers from sb+spotify by collecting playcounts and statistics.
No harsh feelings Last.fm, but we might have found an extremely powerful substitute here.
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You don't require a subscription to listen to tracks, you need one to listen to songs on *their radio*. You know that, but other people may not.
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I haven't read all the details, but I'm ceartain that listening to Last.fm radio through Songbird since their new API isn't allowed to stream radio to non-subscribers is impossible for me.
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Inappropriate?i think that the issue will revolve around the encryption and caching. Spotify caches tracks on to your harddrive and (if you let it) allows other people to stream them from you p2p stylee without your knowing it. So if another program was going to manage all this, it would have to have access to the encryption process. This is kinda unlikely for something open source like Songbird - it would make piracy waaay to easy. I'm sure plenty of people are working on craking Spotify but I'm betting they won't make it any easier by releasing the code.
I think that the best we'd get would be a songbird client that controlled spotify whilst it ran in the background and dealt with the backend stuff. Which, in fairness, I would setlle for!2 Comments Add a comment
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@Tim; Don't know if you've heard of it, but there is something called Toastify for windows users.
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Speaking about cache, I recommend you guys to check your cache folder. I removed 2.5 GBs of files a week ago.
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Inappropriate?I've been trying to gather as much information about Spotify as possible the last couple of days (since I can't actually use it yet over here in the US), and the recent lifehacker article kinda topped it for me. Spotify does need Songbird.
One of my biggest obsessions I've had the last couple of years has been with the idea of cloud computing. It am fascinated, captivated, and just plain entertained by every article I read on the subject. (Hence why I am obsessed and consumed with all things Google and Songbird-*Play the Web*).
Right now, there are plenty of limitations to cloud computing - one including Spotify is the access to "your music" when you're not connected to the internet. The only way this could be resolved is if they let you cache your entire collection on your computer/device or if there was free and open access to the internet everywhere in the world (hehe). We're still a long way away from reaching the full potential of cloud computing.
Personally, I could never be able to use Spotify as my one and only standalone media player, I find it very unlikely for Spotify's catalog to ever offer the full range of music I listen too such as all the independent labels or even my friend's bands. And I can see Spotify making the mistake of trying to be an actual "media player"(by definition, in todays standards) by simply adding the ability to add ones own music into Spotify(or adding other "media player-like" features). A Songbird add-on would be a perfect addition for Spotify. I know Songbird has THE GREATEST potential out of every single software/web application out there (that's why I'm on these forums so much). And I really wish other people/companies could realize that too :-)
I’m all Songbird FTW!
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That was a really interesting article. I love reading about cloud computer stuff too. The greatest hour and twenty minutes of my life was watching the Google Wave developer preview video (in case you've never seen it: click click). I can't wait until the basic media player features are coded and done for Songbird, so maybe the team will be able to work on more innovative web and social features. For example, I thought it was neat when that article said that in Spotify you could share playlists with friends, and even make them collaborative, like a Google doc. I posted a topic once with ideas on sharing music, playlists, and web links with friends in Songbird, and I think that those sort of things could really change what music programs are capable of. Like you said, it could sort of mix web media with local media and allow you do share them in the same ways. I bet the social streaming add-on is still getting worked on and will evolve into this. Watching these things unfold is just too exciting.
Maybe one day Songbird could even make an open web community, sort of like an open last.fm, where people could have profiles, view their listening history, have music blogs, make their own stations... Maybe they could even get deals with labels like last.fm and spotify and allow people to stream and share music that's not in their library. -
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I saw that article too - clearly all RSSed straight to my google reader :P I've just migrated everything to google - you might have to teach me some g-fu. It's not perfect yet but I've got some greasemonkey stuff going down and it's working quite nicely with the reader/mail/calendar thingys all in harmony. Big step for me though - I was an avid supporter of thunderbird, feel like i betrayed it a bit! If only they'd hurry up and release 3.0 already.
Anyway, I digress. I couldn't believe that lifehacker had only just covered spotify - I mean, the tech savvy guys here have been using it for months and months and now nearly everyone I know at uni has it on thier laptops. Not like LH to be so far behind the times - but then I remembered that the yanks don't have it yet - except for those who can be bothered with some ninja proxy skillz. Kinda like a role reversal of us over here with proxy-fu going on to get Hulu...! (which we're meant to be getting for proper come september maybe?)
So yeah, spotify is useful but it's no 'Media Player'. It's usefulness is increased massively by integrating scrobbling to Last.fm which was a swift addition after everyone clamoured for it. For me that makes it almost a media player - in that stuff that i listen to on spotify goes on to my account and if I ever acquire those tracks (often i'll ebay the album if i like stuff i've been sent spotify links to) then Nick's VI addon dls playcounts to my bird and it all works nicely.
Oh that's another useful bit of spotify, you can copy links to a track, album or artist from the right click context menu: http://open.spotify.com/track/5xAutUC... for instance is a link to Doctor Pressure by Mylo. Now people post links to tracks on facebook (using a smallifier) and use them in their status/witty banter etc. Great way of sharing music easily though, I've discovered lots of new stuff that way. If songbird user profiles ever happen and we have our own little network it would be mint for that sorta stuff.
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o man. you dont got hulu yet! dang.
i tried the proxy workaround sometime last year for spotify and it failed miserably :( ... maybe ill start googleing for another proxy hack to see if i can get it up and running...
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You could try this. Works like a charm (no need for invite, instructions in swedish but I recon you'll manage by looking at the pictures for the most part), and you should be able to use the account you create as normal, only thing is you'll have to log in on the spotify honepage through a valid proxy once every two weeks to prevent them from ban your account.
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ironically thats the proxy i tried the last time i did this :( And i just found out that they're blocking all UK proxies..so thats why it's failing :(( Then Tried some Polish ones - also failed.. so i don't know it there blocking them all now or not (I have a feeling they are :(((...).. I got Proxify.com (coincidence?) and evadefilters.com to go through... but its sending me to the invites page, so im not sure if that means they are are just proxy-ing me back through the US (a.k.a. useless) or i just actually need an invite??
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wonder if it would work if I register an acc for you and send you the client?
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huh. wow. that actually sounds a lot easier.. i wonder if it would, that would be cool! :-D
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Let's try that then shall we? I'll send you a mail asap today :-D
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Inappropriate?Me and all my mates agree this would be awesome, but maybe until we can have proper integration with spotify someone should create an addon that will allow us to screach and browse through the spotify music database (using the songbird search bar) and remotely play them using songbird with spotify in the tray. That way all the people at spotify would have 2 do is give is an online search engine that searches through spotify songs, has a side panel with all the songs already on your account and has the track names linked with the spotify uri links that send the song address 2 spotify and make it play (like one ones you can copy if u right click on a song in spotify) Then the addon just has 2 create the association if spotify links 2 spotify, a search tool that seaches the online spotify database (which the people at spotify would have to make as i said above) and lets u play pause and stop spotify remotely and displays the current track spotify's playing. This would be easy enough because the latest version of foxytunes (a firefox addon can already control most media players both songbird and spotify included) so it would just be case of adapting some that code into songbirds controls using the addon. Hope this is clear becuase it;s rather hard 2 explain. Foxytunes can be downloaded here: http://p.yimg.com/mf/firefox/FoxyTune...
just tring 2 help,
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(a huge mozilla and spotify fan!)
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I agree with your points. I think the hard thing we're finding is someone to actually do the coding. The Songbird staff all seem to be busy actually making songbird, so I think we need to coax our coding friends to do this.
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Fisrtly, @hellocatfood, I love your name.
Secondly, @Wollac, I think that this is probably the best we're gonna get - I mean, sb controlling spotify which is running the background, seeing as i doubt we will get access to the innards of spotify itself, where as we could use their API. Would have to work the same with adverts though - how does foxy tunes deal with those? I mean, when you get to them, if you switch player and go to something else and then switch back, is it still on ads until you listen to them through? because spotify wont be happy about anything that kills their ads, clearly. I'm a fan of foxytunes in general - I went on at them to integrate songbird and w00t! they did :) so I shall go and have a play and see what happens :) -
Inappropriate?So right guys, I'm gonna try and do summit about this now! I've been talking to a friend of mine about developing a really simple proof-of-concept thing. Potentiall called Songify because I think someone's already taken Spotbird! :P
Basically, it will be a small media pane with a box to search your libary for an artist. It will then filter your library for that artist and compare the list of tracks and albums with a list from a metadata service (probably musicbrainz?) It will then compile a list of tracks which are on the Musicbrainz list but not in the local library. It will then search spotify for these tracks/albums and where it finds them, generate a link to them in spotify.
So, this does not control spotify or really integrate it, but it will be progress and we can build on it.. Let me know what you think!
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YEE-HA! Now we're talking! This sounds sweet :-D
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Check you out, taking matters into your own hands...nice!
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Nice Tim!
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(btw may I propose the name Birdify?)
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and it's gonna take forever becuase I have zero skillz and my firend (who actually has skillz) has never used songbird. So We'll be learning from each other... Anyways, dont' hold your breath but i'll see what i can do :)
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If you need help with libspotify API details, feel free to join #despotify on EFNet (efnet.xs4all.nl, irc.swepipe.se, ..). There's people with experience with despotify, libspotify and libopenspotify (crossplatform libspotify).
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Inappropriate?Here is the twitter account of Spotify CEO : http://twitter.com/eldsjal (Daniel Ek)
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SPAM ATTACK!
But seriously, I think we should send Tim's letter one more time, perhaps to an other spotify contact, and with all of our signatures if they didn't take the first one seriously enough? -
I sent mine to partners@spotify.com and hear nothing...But yeah, if we can find an actuall address, I'd be up for that
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Inappropriate?Yo! So i tweeted at the dude and got one back:
@eldsjal - there's talk on the #songbird forum about spotify integration. http://gsfn.us/t/129p emailed partners but no reply- can you help?
@sauntimo send an email to ehn at spotify dot com with specific questions esp if its about libspotify
So, I don't actually know about libspotify but other dudes in this thread seem to - is it worth some knowledgable other dudes / POTI guys writing the dude an email?
I’m happy he got back to me :)
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Inappropriate?Morning! Just found a reply to the e-mail I sent, as follows:
Hi Tim,
great to hear that you like Spotify and think of new ways of using it!
So far we have only released a library called Libspotify. It is for personal
use only so it's not quite what you need for an integration.
We are considering ways of offering more APIs to developers, nothing
concrete yet though.
I suggest you keep an eye on our blog at www.spotify.com/blog for
announcements about new features.
Keep up the good work,
-Göran
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Göran Sander
Business Development
Spotify
Check out the latest news at http://blog.spotify.com
goran@spotify.com
+46-733-779 779
Skype: goran.sander
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gorsan
http://www.xing.com/profile/Goeran_Sa...
I’m worthy of a two paragraph email - so that's something!
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If it were built as a plugin wouldn't that be for personal use?
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AWESOME :D
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Inappropriate?Here is it :
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons...
Not a big deal, tell me how I can make it better :)
By the way Get Satisfaction really need to put pages on topics, it's painful scrolling and scrolling...
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You work very fast!
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***Hello Rockstar***
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Inappropriate?HEY WELL DONE!!! WOW U SURE KNOW UR STUFF AND GET STUFF DONE FAST!!! However i hav an issue, (ands it's not a critisim but a point) u see currecntly linux users run spotify under wine or crossover as spotify advise until they make one native 2 linux. So naturllay the code of this addon doesn't work with linux and windows spotify so could u consider making a sperate linux version and also setting this addon 2 not comabtable with linux so ithers don't install it and then think it dosen;t work. also does this work on both mac and windows? coz if not then the do the same thing as i said 4 linux! KK 2 end on a postive though this is a really d start well done :)
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sorry i just noticed all my mistakes!! i havn't been able 2 sleep for over 48 hours and i'm on a netbook with a small keyboard in the dark so i am making more then normal! it won't let me edit so here is more like what it should hav said: HEY WELL DONE!!! WOW U SURE KNOW UR STUFF AND GET STUFF DONE FAST!!! However i hav an issue, (ands it's not a critisim but a point i feel u should know) you see currently linux users run spotify under wine or crossover as spotify advise until they make a version native to linux. So naturally the code of this addon doesn't work with linux so could you consider making a sperate linux version? and also can u set this addon 2 not show up as compatable with linux so others don't install it and then find it dosen't work. Oh and does this work on both mac and windows? because if not then then plz also do the same thing as i said 4 linux! KK 2 end on a postive though this is a really good start well done :)
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cool, keep it up :)
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Can you try this (Opening spotify URIs from browsers) : http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/wine/
It should work with Songbird :)
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I have never noticed the URI instructions before so i had never done this even in firefox, i followed all the instructions and something weird is happening because it didn't work (i was doing firefox first) then i tried the terminal stuff again and still it would not work so i tried searching 4 the file 2 have a look and see what was wrong and i could not find it! at first i thought it was not there and that was why it was not working then i saw the adress and realised it was hidden, then when i found it i realised something else, i had not read the commands properly because it was pointing the spoify through wine and i use crossover and don't even hav wine installed! so then i re did the teminal commands 2 change it 2 point the spotify in crossover. But it still didn't work so i put it bk 2 wine installed wine and installed spotify on wine! Still no luck! what the hell was happening! Then i tried 2 make my own shell script in mouspad and set it as the default for firefox to use for spotify links! when i the tried it it seemed promising becuase spotify launched! But then nothing else happend (Bummer) so i realised it would not work without arguments. so then i copied the arguments across from the one generated by the commands spotify give you. Neither pointing the script 2 the crossover or wine spotify (with the correct agruments) worked it was didnt do anything! then i thought maybe there was something wrong with my firefox profile so i tried it in songbird! it did exacly the same thing! so i opened up both my script and the generatated one (which were different now because i had been experimenting in mine and failing!) i then copied the arguments again tried it and it worked!!!! then i copied my script into the generate one and tried that one and although they were identical it didn't work! so i set both firefox ans songbird to use my script for spotify links and now they both work! yay! (it it sends it 2 my crossover one) so yes it does work with songbird as well as firefox and i don't know why i was having troubles but if u r able to get firefox working with URI links ur set! (just add the same bit's into the about:config of songbird as you did with firefox and they will also work with songbird!) it maybe i had problems because i'm running a lite copy of linux - Linpus linux lite) hopefully no one else will have problems with the script the terminal commands creates but i can say that yes songbird will work with spotify URI's! :) jeez that was hard work!
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Inappropriate?Is not working on Linux :s, the install option when I try to install the addon is not activated, any idea?
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don't bother trying 2 install the addon by geekshadow on linux at the moment as the currecnt version won't work with linux yet anway. Geekshadow said he is working on a linux version but u gotta understand it will take a while because linux doesn't have spotify native yet!
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Inappropriate?Why have this thread been marked as "Implemented"? With all do respect to Geekshadows excellent work, I still think we're pretty far from the original Idea, no?
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Fair enough Lenny. Not sure if you noticed but I toggled it back and forth twice yesterday...What I really need is a middle ground between "under consideration" and "implemented". But that's an issue for Get Satisfaction...
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ya there needs to be an implemented by an awesome community member choice...
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get thor to sort it out, the man can do anything!
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agreed! amy's not too shabby either... ;-)
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definitely....but I couldn't remember her name - sorry Amy! How can you compete with a Norse god?
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@Laura; Oh, we need "under implementation" then :-D
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Inappropriate?I have found something that maybe be very helful to search spotify in songbird and also enable us 2 control spotify i'll post as soon as i hav more info!
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DAMN it did work in the way i thought it did! However it could be useful 4 geekshadows work as it basicly does what geekshadows one does but for firefox and once u have set up the uri's in firefox it works on linux 2! @Geekshdow look here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... and also here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... (they r basicly the same addon but they both do a similar thing 2 what ur adon 4 songbird does and as it works on linux u may wanna give it a try. It uses code like this 2 search for the selection 2 spotify: javascript:location='spotify:search:artist:'+'"'+window.content.getSelection()+'"' (just thought it MAY help)
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Inappropriate?I stumbled upon a nifty little link this morning.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Lenny, I contact the author of SpotifyFM to see if he can provide an API to provides albums links :)
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Have you recived any answers yet?
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Have you recived any answers yet?
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Inappropriate?GeekShadow thanks for a great addon but we are still far from what we want to achieve i think that we should have a sort of petition of everyone who wants this to happen and email that to spotify and they might make more of a move to making this happen but until l then keep up the good work everyone1 Comment Add a comment
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Inappropriate?The premium version is worth it if someone can integrate Spotify into Songbird like the native client.
I don't want to use Spotify with Wine on Linux because I want to use a remote control app with iPhone.
1. Full integration in Songbird with Spotify using their library for premium users
2. Songbird remote control app
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Awesomeness!
I’m waiting.
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