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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
briskeby,

The way the app currently works is to store a cache of your Spotify play lists on your device. This improves the load time of the play lists as it by-passes the requirement to read them all from the Spotify server on each load. I think this is the most efficient approach, as most play lists will remain the same for long periods.

When you select a play list from your master list (the full Spotify list) it will add it will write it to a Playlists folder on your device (the cache). Then when you re-start the app only the cache will be displayed by default. The "refresh" button (top-right) is used to display the master list (as opposed to the cached list).

I could add an option to the next release that will load the Spotify master lists by default (there by ignoring the cache) if that would be of interest.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
Ok, thanks, this explains the behaviour. I have changed the order of my lists lately which also made it a bit more confusing.

So "refresh" actually means "show all lists from server". And then when I play a list from the "master list" it will be added/updated locally to the cache? That seems to be a good solution so you you don't have to add that option you mention if you ask me. It's actually a very good feature that you don't have to scroll all lists locally if you don't really want to...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
I have applied a patch for a bug that may have been preventing the play lists from displaying correctly. Please could you try refreshing your play lists again to see if this has resolved your issue?

Thanks,

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] XorXaX:
Yay! \o/

It's working! Great! Finally I can start using the program again :D

Thanks!

If I might ask, what was the problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Sure. The read buffer was overflowing for a large number of play lists. I have re-sized the buffer and set a maximum limit of 40 play lists.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ekendahl:
MySpot not working anymore with PocketPlayer?

Hi,

Since about over a week MySpot has not been working for me. I am using PocketPlayer. Is there anyone out there who this is working for? Reloading playlists and so on is working. PocketPlayer starts with the correct songs but none of them play. Also I am noticing a "turning weel" the first time I attempt to play a song in PocketPlayer. The second time I do not see it. If I then click next song I have the spinning weel once again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] XorXaX:
I have had numerous problems with usin mySpot with PocketPlayer, and the only solution I found was to stop using it and start using GSPlayer instead.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
I'm afraid the new streaming protocol used to access Spotify is no longer compatible with the current Pocket Player build. I will continue to test it with newer versions as they are released, but in the mean time I would recommend GSPlayer (free) or CorePlayer.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
I have some comments on the last version now:

* One small problem is that the very handy "Recent search" list is not updated with my latest searches. I also tried to restart but it did not help.

* It still seems like some artist/playlists just won't start while others work fine. I get "Service unavailable" no matter of how many times I try. But other artists or list starts without any problem. This problem remains even if I switch several times between working and non-working lists.

And then a few hours later suddenly one of these "problem" artists starts without any problem. It does not seem to be related to if the list has been played before or not. It is very random.

To me it seems very strange that there obviously is a difference depending on which artist I listen to, isn't it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ekendahl:
Thanks for the info! At least I know that it's not "me" so I don't have to try reconfiguring anything. I hope it gets working again since I made my choice and bought Pocketplayer. I like f.i. the abilty to crossfade between songs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
I will address this bug and fix it for the next version. Thanks for the heads up.

This suggests that there are data elements with the artists profile that are not being parsed correctly. If you continue to experience this issue can you let me know which artist(s) are causing the problem?

Thanks,

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ntollemache:
Thanks for 0.85

Just a big thanks from me for the most recent update.... works like a dream!

Offline playlists next please :)

Regards,

ntollemache
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
Unfortunately I don't think that this can explain the behavior fully. I have tested a bit more and now all of those artists that I could not start yesterday starts perfectly. I have noticed the same problem in the old version. Some artists and playlists (short or long) just won't start while others do. I few hours or days later they start without any problem.

Here are some of the artists which I tried which did not work "from scratch":

Erlend Oye, Eric Saade, Candlemass, White Lion....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
I have now tested a bit more. I have searched for a number of artists (some quite unknown bands) and today it all works very well! No problem at all. Now we can just hope that it stays this way and that there only was some temporarily instability yesterday and earlier...

Thanks for a great job!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ToddeSwe:
New mySpot user

Hi!

Got my Premium account tonight and guess if i was glad, but then mySpot did not work.

I can load and see my playlists, but when i try to get inside a playlist it says:

Spotify stream failed to initilised, the request could not be authorised

And when i can (sometime) get inside a playlist, it says i should check my internet connection :) nanoGroove works just fine with my settings.

And i use CorePlayer 1.3.6.

I have check CorePlayers fileassociasion and the ogg extension is active for CorePlayer. What more can i do? Or maybe that is not the problem here?

The myspot test worked out fine, so i guess it's not th coreplayers fault...

AND NOW it partly works! :confused:

I made a search on ABBA (i'm Swedish right :)), that i could play, then i tried my playlists. No go at all and the same message again.

Wow, just now i can play ONE song from one of my playlist :)

This spotify seems very unreliable compared to nanoGroove/GrooveShark...

Is it because of the heavy use compared to GrooveShark? Or ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
There seems to be a bug with play lists created recently, it is probably a new play list format that the app does not yet understand. I am working on a fix for it and I hope to have an update soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] plumblum:
Hello my first post :)

just wanted to say ty for a great program now i can finaly enjoy spotify where ever i go :D

i just seem to have a small problem some of the songs in my playlist are unplayable and i get the error code file not found http adress and theese letters FFFFFFF8

and this error just appears with some of my songs.

i have the sonyericsson x1 and running coreplayer 1.3.6

red that some others had the same problem just thaught i'd let you know.

/plumblum

p.s sry for the spelling english is not my native language
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
New playlists could be the explanation also for my problems. Old lists have always worked much better...

I have another suggestion to enhance the usability quite a lot. If you want to find a specific album by an artist you can search like this:

artist:ride album:"going blank again"

It is a bit annoying to write this on a mobile phone. Why not make two optional search fields for input:

Artist:

Album:

The program then adds the prefix artist: and/or album: to the final search string sent to the server. This would make it so much easier if you for example to search for an album name and NOT an artist and vice versa...

You might want to search for album "Hands" or "Storm" etc not the artists with the same name...

And I forgot, it would also be great with a field for instant track name search using the search option track: .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Nice idea. I'll add this for the next release!

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
If you experiencing problems playing a specific track please use the "Report track un-playable" link. For a play list track please first click the info (i) button next to the play list name, wait for it to load and then click the info (i) button next to the track(s) that you cannot play.

There should then be a link "Report track un-playable" that you can click to notify us that there is an issue. Please repeat this process for all tracks effected where appropriate.

Many thanks,

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jorgenbroms:
Brilliant

Just installed Myspot on my Sony Xperia and synched it with GSPlayer.

Checked my playlists and made somesearches and all I can say is: So far, so very good.

I wouldn't dream of camplaining of searches being a bit slow, since you guys have made a tremendous job with this.

Now, if you ever feel like putting the old Santa-suit on I, as many others, would love to see the offline playlist version become reality..:)

So far I'm all thumbs up!

Jörgen Bröms,

Sweden
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ToddeSwe:
Lucky me who did not pay for my Premium account then :) it was a price in a contest. :) Then i will be waiting for the next version. Keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
Today and yesterday the program has performed really well actually! No problems with playlists, new or old...

Many thanks again for a great program! Looking forward to the new version with the new search fields... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ToddeSwe:
Weird gfx's

Hi!

This is what i get sometimes when i enter one of my playlists:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Thuggie:
can you use a png version of the logo so we don't need to see the black color around it? :) it would look a lot better
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barbapappa_86:
Is there any app, or option in myspot so i can use my phone as a remote to spotify on my pc?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ToddeSwe:
Yes i seccond that :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Habu!:
GSPlayer vs CorePlayer vs WMP

Well some extensive testing with the files I have and I must say I am really disappointed with the coreplayer. The reason I bought it was for MySpot app, and there it works fine. But for video, try to code your stuff in WMV and run it in WMP, it had BY FAR the most smooth, crisp play-back and no out-of-sync issues with sound due to the poor perfomance of the Coreplayer, just my advice... Actually feel a bit robbed on this app after playing around with it, definately not worth the USD 25 they charged. For MySpot use the free alternative, had no issues with that one on my HD2.

A great app for coding your videos is DVD Decrypter, it is fast and you can pretty much set any format and size you want on the output file. Have kids playing with the DVDs and this is just the most useful app for managing your DVD library on the PC, and converting them if needed.

Posted this in another forum, I would strongly recommend the GSPlayer for MySpot and not dish out the money for the coreplayer!

/Habu!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Habu!:
MySpot icon

Not really complaining because this is probably the best app for the HD2 available. But the home screen icon is really ugly, any way you can change it to a higher quality one?

Thanks for the great work!

/Habu!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Habu!:
That solved my homepage issue... ;)

Thanks!

/Habu!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cfcmoon:
The new version works very well, no problems with my playlist !

A success.

Thanks a lot :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] danielcroth:
Pretty impressive software. It seems like old playlists are playable as lists in GSplayer, but not newer ones. Except for that, it work magically nice. Donation to come :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] briskeby:
Just an update. Now it's a week since I wrote my last very positive post to this forum. I have used the application quite a lot during this week, for example almost every day while driving 40 km to and from work, and I must say that I am still very impressed. It works almost perfect! I can't remember that I have had any "service unavailable..." etc which you got quite often with the previous versions. I use GSPlayer BTW.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Does this support offline playlists?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Not at the present time. When I get a chance I will take a look at how the Spotify app on the Android platform uses offline content and see if there is a way of using the same approach with this app.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Okey :/ Its very expencive for mobile internet every day, so it would be awesome with offline playlists.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] marioantonion:
Thanks for the application, it`s very good thumbs up!

The only feature I miss is offline syncronization :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ainatar:
Offline playing would be great, it would make the program perfect.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
I've reached the conclusion that an offline play list feature is a possibility, but that it would require quite a large effort to achieve. Therefore I have added a poll to this thread to canvas the opinion of releasing the feature as a paid for upgrade.

Please submit your vote at the top of page.

cheers,

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElNormano:
Hello everybody!

My first post on this great forum.

Im having some problem with mySpot 0.85b.. keep getting Invalid username and/or password no matter what i do, im 100% sure that i have typed it correctly and that it is a premium account.

HTC Touch Pro running Energy.RAPHAEL.21901.Sense2.1.Apr.25

with Raph_Radio_1.14.25.05.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Welcome to the forum :)

Do you have an special characters in your password? Have you made sure that you have entered capital and lower case characters where required?

Can you access the top lists successfully?

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] samot1972:
Internal player

Hi Fry

Thanks a lot for your work again. I think it's wonderful. I think that the ooffline playlist should be a great feature, but i think that to get a internal player should be very interesting to get an apliccation nearly identical to the official one.

Can you to study the way to work of the internal player of Android version in the same way taht you studied the offline playlist feature?

Thanks a lot for your effort

-samot
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElNormano:
Thank you Fry!

No special symbols in password.. only lower case letters.

But i have two _ in the username.

I can access the Top List.. but when i wanna play a song a window pops up and says:

Service unavailable.. can only play songs with premium.. make sure you typed username and password correctly.

have double and triple checked both but nogo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Have you recently upgraded to Spotify Premium? Does the search return any results? Has this application being working for you in older versions?

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElNormano:
I have been using premium for about 2 months.

When i do a search it says:

No tracks were found Invalid username and / or password

0.85b is the first version i have been using.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Have you been upgraded to the new desktop version of Spotify yet?

I am wondering if they have changed their authentication system.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElNormano:
Yes i did.. a couple of days ago.

If thats the case maybe more people will post the same error in the future.

I dont want too take more time from you just becouse one user (me) got a problem like this :D

But thank you for the fast replys and keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
OK, thanks for the heads up. As soon as my account is upgraded I will investigate the issue further.

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thazandril:
Just a little note I am suffering the same symptoms as ElNormano. However, I am so happy to see spotify being developed by someone for windows mobile, thank you for offering us the experience Fry! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] plumblum:
Hello again when i upgraded to the new client version all of my playlist dissappered except for one of them. (the boring one :P )

I am still able to do searches and play songs that way.

Perhaps this has something to do with the new functions?

cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ahis12:
Playlists unaccessible after Spotify desktop client upgrade to v0.4.3

Hi, I have the latest mySpot 0.85b installed (as well as my desktop client upgraded to v0.4.3). I have been previously able to access the Play lists, however now everytime when I try to use that feature from the mySpot interface, I get "Spotify Unavailable...."

Tracks through Top lists still work ok (however I am no longer able to use MortPlayer - doesn't understand the stream's url anymore, so I had to switch to GSPlayer)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jflegat:
Problems username and password spotify

I have the same symptoms as ElNormano

Username and password invalid.

:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
We're still stuck on version 0.3.23 (revision 65324) over here in the UK. Until we are upgraded I cannot investigate this problem.

Does anyone know where you can download a manual update for Spotify? Or do we have to wait for the auto-update to kick in?

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] torfahs:
you can download it from here

hxxp://download.cnet.com/Spotify/3000-2141_4-10912348.html?tag=bc
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Preed:
I also can't seem to log in with mySpot and get invalid user/pass.. My desktop Spotify client is 0.4.3.383.g278a6e51
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BaQu:
Hey ya. :)

I've installed your app on my TOUCH PRO 2 and so far I've had no luck playing music or anything.

First off yes I have a spotify premium account and fast speed 3.5G connection.

The problem:

No tracks were found

Invalid username and/or password

I triplechecked that I have the correct spotify username and pass in use so that can't be the problem.

The problem occurs when I either:

a) click on the playlists button (the spotify logo shows its loading something for a bit)

b) I click on artists button and choose an artist from the list

I am using the latest 0.85 version of myspot.

This problems seems to repeat with others so I'm assuming I'm not bringing much new to the table except one more hungry mouth to feed :)

The consept is great tho, and if it works it's highly appreciated. I'm having a hard time understanding spotify and their crew since WM was the first platform they announced that they will introduce a mobile version...Now it seems all others except WM have it.. sheesh. I bet apple is paying them to slow it down :'(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jazMi88:
I'm using the new version of Spotify and Myspot works great.

An easy way to access your playlists without login on to Myspot is to save them as playlists in GSplayer after loading them. That allows you to access them much faster and with no delay. You will not experience any connection problems that sometimes happen using Myspot. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oleros:
same problem here

new version of spotify, fresh install of myspot, invalid username..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] planty:
Just downloaded this today after going premium with Spotify. Brilliant App!! Works a treat (just like myPlayer does!)

Haven't gone to new Spotify version yet so not experiencing the problems indicated.

Finally can I put in my vote for next on your to-do? "Add LastFM scrobbling support" :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
I've just uploaded a new version of the server side code which should hopefully resolve the authentication issues that users (with the latest version of the Spotify client) have been experiencing.

Please let me know if any of you are still getting the invalid username / password message.

Cheers,

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BaQu:
YES! Thank you Fry!

Now the login details work now and I can actually play songs from my playlists and also by search..

I noticed something weird maybe you can explain this to me.. First off the first time I pressed the playlist it showed every single playlist I had (about 5). Now the second time I ran the program and clicked playlist it only showed 2 out of the 5... I clicked on the playlist refresh button on the top right and it now showed a couple more (still missing one)

After this I tried adding a new playlist on my computer to spotify to see if it will show the new playlist and even with a refresh it does not show this 6th playlist..

I have WM6.5, Touch Pro 2.

Using Myspot .85b

Also my playlists are made of single words no special marks as in:

Slow

Good

Trance

Freedom

etc...

On another note pressing any button/link/activation has some lag. I know it's not the actual spotify and not a computer but I have a 2Mb connection on my phone and pressing a button it takes maybe 10-15 seconds to react to it.. Any chance for any optimisation or is that unfixable?

Other than that thank you for taking the first steps in covering WM to the mobile spotify era. I will definately donate once you have a fully funtional software here ;) Thanks for a good program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bokbacken:
mySpot works but... my account is in use

Hi,

I got mySpot working, but have a little trouble with the network coverage.

The bad news for me is that right now I cant listen to Spotify on my computer, it says that my account is used somewhere else, how do I get mySpot logged out???

/Kent
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
Exiting the application should suffice (as well as any active media player app).

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] biogerm:
any way to bypass the premium account?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kiwi32:
I wonder that too !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Habu!:
Just pay

€10 is a small price to pay for what you get, you cheepos!

Just wish Spotify could get their act together and actually give us paying members with a WinMo what we deserve! Seriously pisses me off!

//Habu
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oleros:
playlists

Ater the server update I can log on and play files. But when I access my playlists it only finds one (out of four..). This is the only playlist I haven't changed (added, deleted songs) recently, are the lists unavailable while they are being updated?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FryWalker:
oleros,

The way the app currently works is to store a cache of your Spotify play lists on your device. This improves the load time of the play lists as it by-passes the requirement to read them all from the Spotify server on each load. I think this is the most efficient approach, as most play lists will remain the same for long periods.

When you select a play list from your master list (the full Spotify list) it will add it will write it to a Playlists folder on your device (the cache). Then when you re-start the app only the cache will be displayed by default. The "refresh" button (top-right) is used to display the entire master list (as opposed to the cached list).

-Fry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BaQu:
I get that but I'm having a problem that the new playlist I made prior to using MySpot doesn't show.

So I have had 4 playlists all together previously and they have all showed up.

A

B

C

D

now in spotify I made a new playlist E, and even when I delete the cache from my mobile and refresh the "master" list it will only show ABCD, without E.

Why?

EDIT: and now that I have edited playlist "B" by adding a few songs in there the following is showed in myspot:

A

C

D

So anything edited gets removed from myspot and I haven't figured a way to retrieve them since refresh doesn't help it.