Spotify

Dean wrote: from the interwebs via a 30 second search: "Re: Easy way to play a full album   If you search for an artist and then click on their name to go to the artists page, their music will be displayed as albums. You can double click any track to start playback or click on an album name if you only want to see that album.  If you have tracks already in a playlist, you can view the album page by clicking the album name in the track row." I believe you have to deactivate Spotify's shuffle mode first if you want to maintain track-order

I think it works that way on a computer, but on a mobile device, unless you pay for Spotify, you can only listen in shuffle mode.

condor wrote: Also, I seem to find spotify harder to use than youtube. Anyone else?

YouTube is hard to use? Find a video you want to watch, click on the Play button.

The main evil of Spotify and other streaming services is the deals the major labels forced through for their catalogs to be available on that system. Spotify pays out 70% of the income to the royalty holders, but divided on percentage of total plays rather than what the individual subscriber plays. Which means that the thousands of free subscribers listening to Beyonce and Lady Gaga results on payments from paid subscribers going towards the royalty owners of those artists rather than the music the paid subscribers actually listen to. There is a call from the music community to alter those terms, so that the payments of each subscriber should go towards the music they are actually listening to, as that would make the system a whole lot better.

A second evil is the contracts for the artists signed to labels, where many suffer the fate of digital royalty payouts treated in the same manner as physical royalty payouts, with fixed percentages deducted for pressing, distribution etc. To state this second aspect in a simplistic manner, any artists reading feel free to fill in all the bloody details of this particular evil...

The physical format is going from being the main product to becoming the niche product. That is a revolution that won't be stopped, for better and for worse. This is the case for music, gaming, movies, books, comics, magazines and newspapers. The gaming world have shown that this is a good future is the system is good enough - I can't recall seeing too many articles about the evil of Steam, to put it that way, nor have I seen all that many lamenting the decline of the physical gaming products.

Right now I have 110.356 songs on my Spotify. All of them are represented here on PA.