A to Z

[johncorrigan]

Wow......you've been busy - 156 songs - I saw about 20 on Friday.

Have no idea how to synchronise the list with search but will try!

I have no idea either, Lat. In the end I gathered them all together in one place and then imported them into that list - it doesn't link to our A-Z directly and is more a gathering together of everybody's ideas over the last couple of hundred messages. Sorry if I'm repeating myself.

[Lat-Literal]

I have no idea either, Lat. In the end I gathered them all together in one place and then imported them into that list - it doesn't link to our A-Z directly and is more a gathering together of everybody's ideas over the last couple of hundred messages. Sorry if I'm repeating myself.

I'm still a little confused about how you did that list technically.

But I listened to it for an hour and a half last night, every song was enjoyabl and of a very high quality.

It isn't really a replica of the links here. Much more imaginative.

[Globaltruth]

I'm still a little confused about how you did that list technically.

But I listened to it for an hour and a half last night, every song was enjoyabl and of a very high quality.

It isn't really a replica of the links here. Much more imaginative.

I've been listening to it too, quite a lot of old faves, so far one stinker - The Rose and The Nightingale and a few more that aren't really WM A-Z - e.g. Neville Brothers, Lotte Lenya, Grover Washington, Amy Winehouse; more of a 'recently discussed' type job. Hardly surprising given JC's previous explanatory post.
So on that basis, Derek Gripper and Julia Easterlin/Vieux Farka Toure added! Feel free to delete if you don't agree, mind you, if you do I shall play 'Stalin wasn't stalling' and think of you...

[Lat-Literal]

I've been listening to it too, quite a lot of old faves, so far one stinker - The Rose and The Nightingale and a few more that aren't really WM A-Z - e.g. Neville Brothers, Lotte Lenya, Grover Washington, Amy Winehouse; more of a 'recently discussed' type job. Hardly surprising given JC's previous explanatory post.
So on that basis, Derek Gripper and Julia Easterlin/Vieux Farka Toure added! Feel free to delete if you don't agree, mind you, if you do I shall play 'Stalin wasn't stalling' and think of you...

Well, I can't add to it because I have the list and then when I go to search all the list greys out.

It's very, very frustrating but obviously there is still some way of doing it and you have found it.

[johncorrigan]

I've been listening to it too, quite a lot of old faves, so far one stinker - The Rose and The Nightingale and a few more that aren't really WM A-Z - e.g. Neville Brothers, Lotte Lenya, Grover Washington, Amy Winehouse; more of a 'recently discussed' type job. Hardly surprising given JC's previous explanatory post.
So on that basis, Derek Gripper and Julia Easterlin/Vieux Farka Toure added! Feel free to delete if you don't agree, mind you, if you do I shall play 'Stalin wasn't stalling' and think of you...

I also made no editorial decisions during the trawl, Global...or very few anyway. So I'm happy to make removals - I had Neville's in because of New Orleans. Happy to remove Rose Nightingale and the others and I'm fine that anything is included which constitutes being part of the A-Z, or even not. I mean kora's in there plenty so DG gets in (actually he's the father of the half sister of the son of the friend of mine, I've had it clarified by Mrs JC). I hope you don't require me as a reason for listening to 'Stalin wasn't Stallin'' either. I could listen to it anytime.

Well, I can't add to it because I have the list and then when I go to search all the list greys out.

It's very, very frustrating but obviously there is still some way of doing it and you have found it.

I've sent you a link through spotty via the messages so you may have a link that way which might be more productive, Lat. I hope so. I'll send it again and see if you pick it up from there.

[Lat-Literal]

I've sent you a link through spotty via the messages so you may have a link that way which might be more productive, Lat. I hope so. I'll send it again and see if you pick it up from there.

Thanks JC but I can't even find "Messages".

Think I will need to try to log in separately and see what happens.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks JC but I can't even find "Messages".

Think I will need to try to log in separately and see what happens.

On my spotify page, on the top right there's a bell and beside it an icon that looks like an old computer screen (or something). Run your cursor over it and it says 'messages' - at least, that's what mine does Lat. That might get you in there. There's probably a pile of tunes in there from me!

[Lat-Literal]

On my spotify page, on the top right there's a bell and beside it an icon that looks like an old computer screen (or something). Run your cursor over it and it says 'messages' - at least, that's what mine does Lat. That might get you in there. There's probably a pile of tunes in there from me!

Well, I've found that one - bottom left of the page - with two messages, one from GT a month ago and your latest.

The link, though, just takes me back to the same sort of situation. I will have to try to log in again.

......no, whichever way I try it, I can only play it - not add to it!

[Globaltruth]

Don't delete anything JC (well, maybe that stinker). I love the DG connection - maybe we should have a separate playlist and thread of Tenuous Connections? I sat in a coach with Una Stubbs once - wonder if she's recorded much WM? It was a train coach not a landau.

Lat - we need to get you back into the swing of Spotify. Some Q's:
1 are you still using the same ID? Or more than 1 ID?
2 is your version of Spotify the latest? If not it should be
3 what platform are you accessing it on - if a Windows PC what version of Windows?
Here's a quote from a Spotify help forum about this very problem:
"
If it's still not working though, try it in the desktop app, either by changing the URl to "open.spotify.com" rather than "play.spotify.com" in the address bar, or head into the web player settings and change links to open automatically in the desktop app."
Depending on how you fire up Spotify that may or may not make sense

[Lat-Literal]

Don't delete anything JC (well, maybe that stinker). I love the DG connection - maybe we should have a separate playlist and thread of Tenuous Connections? I sat in a coach with Una Stubbs once - wonder if she's recorded much WM? It was a train coach not a landau.

Lat - we need to get you back into the swing of Spotify. Some Q's:
1 are you still using the same ID? Or more than 1 ID?
2 is your version of Spotify the latest? If not it should be
3 what platform are you accessing it on - if a Windows PC what version of Windows?
Here's a quote from a Spotify help forum about this very problem:
"
If it's still not working though, try it in the desktop app, either by changing the URl to "open.spotify.com" rather than "play.spotify.com" in the address bar, or head into the web player settings and change links to open automatically in the desktop app."
Depending on how you fire up Spotify that may or may not make sense

When I joined the forum in August, it was the first thing I did on a new pc. The old pc had finally stopped working and I couldn't/still can't access it. I think I managed at that time to bring Spotify up on the new computer but it was a muddled period generally and I am not very technical. There was a hint that it wasn't quite working as it should do and possibly because historically my Spotify account was/is linked to the old computer. I decided to focus on what I could do - ie forums and other things - and to postpone what I couldn't do - get Spotify to work and it was probably then I let the Spotify subscription lapse. It may have been only about two months before I renewed my subscription to Spotify monthly. I am not sure whether I downloaded Spotify again to do it or just kept what I had done in the August. It is showing that I am fully paid up and I can play JC's playlist.

But there are odd things about the layout. I get masses of headings about "would I want to join Spotify?". There is a tiny worded bit which says log in. And then when I log in it's nearly all about details of the account, Spotify's community etc but there is one part that says "your music" or something similar. And then I have to keep recalling my playlists including our collaborative ones. Each time I'm thinking "but where is the bit where I can download/stream?". Admittedly, there is a "search" facility but I type in "Okinawa" or even "Ry Cooder and Okinawa" and I can play that song but not download it, let alone add it to any list including my ones. Because whatever list is on the screen - and it's JC's A to Z - it is greyed out as soon as the search facility is used. Also, none of the vertical lines move horizontally. I am on Windows 8 and the old computer was XP. I'm using the same ID as before and think it is the latest version. The one on the old computer may not have been. But it sounded to me as if JC was also having some system problems? So is it just me? That isn't a criticism of JC but I'm just wondering if some of the problems are occurring because of changes introduced by Spotify for the mobile phone and i-pad market etc?

[Lat-Literal]

.....ah, something has happened this morning.

If I do search and click on Cooder's Okinawa I have found if I right click with the mouse it gives me the option to "send to JC's list". That's an improvement. What I can't do is add songs with JC's list showing on the screen. I'm sure that before I could have a list on the screen and add, being able to see what was on the list already. Is this a general change?

[Globaltruth]

Yes, Spotify have created a bit of a monster - they have subtlely different versions for all the platforms you mention, different versions with not quite the same functionality, the user interface is very unclear due to a bizarre habit of putting dark grey on black and expecting people to spot almost invisible slider bars. However we've made an investment of time (and money in it) and I wouldn't fancy trying to move the WM sub-forum works to another platform for a whole host of reasons. So we're a bit stuck.

What I'm still not clear about (because I haven't asked you, not because you havent told me) is how you start Spotify up.

Starting up from a web browser = bad, seems impossible to use.

Starting up from the Spotify app = good. You should be able to download the app ok in Windows 8 - maybe you have...? If so, then you should check for and apply any updates, then try logging out and in again.

Apologies for hijacking the thread for this discussion but ho hum...

PS, just seen your post - no, that isn't a general change, you can still add from to the list whilst seeing the list. Maybe just a navigation issue then? Somewhere you need to click on Playlists..

[Lat-Literal]

Yes, Spotify have created a bit of a monster - they have subtlely different versions for all the platforms you mention, different versions with not quite the same functionality, the user interface is very unclear due to a bizarre habit of putting dark grey on black and expecting people to spot almost invisible slider bars. However we've made an investment of time (and money in it) and I wouldn't fancy trying to move the WM sub-forum works to another platform for a whole host of reasons. So we're a bit stuck.

What I'm still not clear about (because I haven't asked you, not because you havent told me) is how you start Spotify up.

Starting up from a web browser = bad, seems impossible to use.

Starting up from the Spotify app = good. You should be able to download the app ok in Windows 8 - maybe you have...? If so, then you should check for and apply any updates, then try logging out and in again.

Apologies for hijacking the thread for this discussion but ho hum...

PS, just seen your post - no, that isn't a general change, you can still add from to the list whilst seeing the list. Maybe just a navigation issue then? Somewhere you need to click on Playlists..

OK - thanks. Totally agree on the dark grey point. It's crazy.

I will go back to it shortly. Sometimes if I leave it an hour or two there is new technological inspiration as has just occurred so I could get it back step by step in that way. Never quite know where I am launching anything from with Windows 8. Sometimes I seem to be on Bing and sometimes Google. Sometimes I am at desktop and sometimes I am further on. Seems random to me. I can understand why the Windows system that is increasing in sales at a rate only second to 10 is extraordinarily second-hand XP even with no patches.

[Lat-Literal]

.......I seem to have got the Spotify working again.

It sticks quite a lot and does strange things but I have managed to put in some new selections linked to Short List B.