Not the common playlists you might usually find. I have compiled 2 main playlists with some Synthpop, New Wave and Alternatives of the 80s and 90s.
80s Flashback Alternatives:
90s Flashback Alternatives:
Flashback Alternatives Spotify Playlists
May 9th, 2013 by OZ | No Comments | Filed in Media, Miscellaneous
Spotify does not play track links from Facebook [Solved]
May 7th, 2012 by OZ | 1 Comment | Filed in Networking, TechnologyI never had a chance to figure out why I couldn’t play tracks from Facebook or Spotify Play Button at home. After further research I found out that my DD-WRT flashed router had the “Deny DNS Rebinding” option enabled. Spotify needs to resolve *.spotilocal.com to 127.0.0.1.
In order to resolve it, I added this command to the DD-WRT startup options:
sed -i ‘s/stop-dns-rebind//g’ /tmp/dnsmasq.conf
killall dnsmasq
dnsmasq –conf-file=/tmp/dnsmasq.conf
Everything is good now, fortunately.
Tags: DD-WRT, dns rebinding, DNSmasq, facebook, Spotify
Latest release of Spotify for Android
April 25th, 2012 by OZ | No Comments | Filed in Media, SocialSpotify has a preview release for Android downloadable from their website. I have been using it for a few days now and I am pretty happy with the enhancements.
Annoying bugs/issues that I experienced with the previous release, now fixed:
- App Crashing every time a song was added to a playlist.
- Gap between songs that made continuous mixes terrible to listen to.
- No ”similar artists” feature.
Official List of enhancements:
- Totally new app with full support for Android 4.0
- Top-to-bottom redesign
- All-new slide-out navigation
- Even more social – check out friends’ profile pages and playlists on the go
- Artist imagery in high resolution
- Related artist view – available for the first time on mobile
- ‘Extreme’ sound quality setting for 320kbps listening
- So much faster
Features that will be added to the final release:
- Last.fm scrobblling
- Folder support
You can download the preview version here.
Enjoy!
Source: Spotify blog. 
Tags: Android, gap-less, Latest release, Spotify
Having Spotify playing through two devices simultaneously with one premium account [mobile]
December 26th, 2011 by OZ | No Comments | Filed in Media, SocialI was a little disappointed at first when I learned that I could not have more than 1 mobile device playing songs via Spotify, just the way I can do with Netflix. There are instances where my son wants to listen at home while I want to do the same at work. He is too young to have his own account and it is not worth paying another $10/month for just having him play whenever he wants to, in my opinion.
Luckily, there is a way to work it around. Offline playlists. But you need to follow additional steps:
- Enable the playlists of your choice for offline sync. Wait until they are all synched up (I recommend it as an overnight task).
- Once all synced up, fire up Spotify.
- Go to preferences, select “Offline mode”
- Play your favorite music.
- The other device can now stream from the cloud without disrupting your session.
I have not tried it with 3 or 4 devices, but the process should be similar. Spotify Premium supports up to 3 devices in offline mode (and the PC or laptop being the fourth in “Online” mode).
Tags: 2 devices, 3 devices, 4 devices, simultaneous playback, Spotify
How to Recover a Spotify Playlist
December 23rd, 2011 by OZ | No Comments | Filed in MediaI love Spotify. in fact I use it on a daily basis. My wife and son use it every now an then, mostly through an Android Smartphone.
Lately, I’ve been hit with a flaw that Spotify needs to address: deleted playlists. Granted, they happened maybe because my son inadvertently deleted them. The fact is, once you delete a playlist, all songs are gone.
There is a way to get it back if you use Spotify on more than 1 PC or laptop:
- Locate the desktop or laptop that is currently offline that has been synchronized with Spotify previously.
- If it’s in sleep mode or hibernating force shut/down and restart by deleting restoration data. If you do not perform so, Spotify might fire up right after the device resumes and resync all playlists, removing the deleted one.
- After restarting disable all network connectivity. Wireless and/or wired.
- Open Spotify. It will do so in offline mode.
- Create a brand new playlist.
- Locate the playlist that was deleted.
- Copy all the contents to the new playlist you just created.
- Enable network connectivity.
- You will see that the deleted Playlist will disappear.
- Rename the newly created playlist with the name the deleted one had.
There are other ways to restore playlists but unfortunately didn’t apply to me as I have around 50 of them. Not easy to spot the file name of the missing playlist.
Lesson learned: I will always keep more than 1 device synchronized to Spotify.
Tags: deleted playlist, recorver playlist, Spotify, undo delete playlist