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Anyone looking forward to Spotify launching tomorrow on TiVo?.

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Yes l am as having Spotify as a app on Tivo will give us a extra added option.

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Must admit will get plenty of use here.Noticed from other countries versions ive seen on youtube on the playlists there are no album covers just a grey disc.Was hoping they might have snuck the app in today ready for tomorrow.

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I already subscribe to Spotify and access the app on my Android Phone, iMac and iPad so will possible try the TiVo app although I don't really need to use it.

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Just up at parents and there is a spotify app in the music folder in apps , is it not working yet ?

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l will have to check my apps as when l checked earlier there was nothing there.

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I have the app but cannot use it till i get a premium account :(

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Yes l have just checked and its on there.

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mine too now has the app but i dont have a premium account

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Its there but i cant remember my username and password. :mad:

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Works very well.
Any idea if and when a search option will be added?.

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Its taken me at least half an hour to log in and when i actually do what happens.....my bloody box reboots it self.:mad::mad::mad:

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I love it,fantastic UI compared to the version on my media player. Just listening to something on my playlist. Well done Virgin Media.

Maybe we should start a 'What I'm Listening To On Spotify On My Tivo' thread. LOL

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Working well here, looks nice. Only problems from my point of view are no artwork for my existing playlist tracks and, more importantly, no shuffle.

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Love how quickly the music starts - it's actually quicker than on my PC I think

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Now it working looks brill..yes a shuffle would be nice also not having to log in all the time when you come out of it.:)

You dont have to log in all the time it does it for you ..nice.

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Logged in once, had a quick play. Couldn't find a box to search for artists/songs/albums. Exited app. Went to log back in, doesn't save password.... Typed in again and box crashed :(

Rebooted and this time it recognised me (no login required) however box crashed again :(

Visually it looks ok, and presuming there is somewhere you can search then it will be ok as an app, however I can't ever really see me favouring it over sonos if I want to listen to music:cool:

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There isn't a search....yet

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Seems to have settled down. Definitely a big step in the right direction UI and function wise compared to some of the earlier apps. Search will improve it further but you can at least make playlists on your portable device or desktop and they will be playable from the TiVo

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So its to come we hope ????:shrug:

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no search but ive managed to get all the glee albums up for example and play songs from there and you can star them, im not a premium member so i have no idea why i can play tracks

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Out of interest. If I have the premium license can I use it on a friends TiVo when I am around there?

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just tried it works great thanks VM :)

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managed to make a few tracks as a star and can log into and see the tracks on my phone. Also album art is there when in full screen but seems its only on certian albums, ive managed to play MJ, The jackson 5, glee and rhianna

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Yup

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No search?? Hmmm

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also been able to log into my account on phone, search and play for songs that i dont have starred and and them and play them. have spotify forgotton that that servie is premium? have they forgot to turn the proctection on? oh well idont care works great so far on tivo and phone

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found out why, been on site and it says "Subscription status
You are registered for Spotify Premium until 2011-11-30. After this period your account will become a Spotify Free account unless you choose to renew your subscription."

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Might be working away in the background, but been using Spotify for a while, have over 1600 tracks starred, but only 300 odd appearing on my stared list on TiVo. Hope shuffle gets added soon too.

Great start though.

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Same here have various foo fighters and elo tracks they are on my blackberry but not tivo hope its a glitch and they are working on it.Same applies to my elo and foo fighter albums on my phone but not tivo but my iron maiden ones are.

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All my large playlists max out at 300 tracks it seems, hardly ideal

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No search and no shuffle!

Do the people who designed it use a music streaming service?

I have a freebie account that I would have upgraded to Premium for a while to check it out on Tivo, but lack of the above, puts me off.

Have they got the 'Artist Radio' function on Tivo?

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The lack of a search function on pretty much any app that uses a database is unforgivable. It's a fundamental feature, and if you leave it out you obviously flunked several classes on how to be a software developer.

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Just has 'Whats New' and your playlists. Basic but nice to play it via the TV.

Tip:
If your user name has an underscore character in it, like mine, then you can't log in using the Tivo remote as the '0_' button toggles between '0' and space. I thought I was doomed but then the Tivo Commander app came to the rescue with its keyboard input that had the necessary character.

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The symbols are on the '1' button on the TiVo remote, not the '0'

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Much easier to navigate this with a USB keyboard. Especially for weird character access on user/pass combos.

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Im sure i heard somwhere search will be added eventualy.

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Brilliant app.. really smart looking too :)

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Underscore isn't

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Yes it is. I checked

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Always been interested in Spotify but never taken the plunge. More intertested now with the Tivo app. Does spotify have a minumu sub? Or can i try the prem sub for a month and cancel if i dont like it?

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You can try for a month and downgrade if you want, even to the Free one. You can only use the VM TiVo Spotify App with the Premium one though.

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Thanks, i filled the VM forum online to upgrade from XL (20mb) to XL (30mb) which is required and pay £30 for the new router.
I was told an email and letter would be sent to confirm prices changes. And was pleasantly surprised to find a £1.50 reduction pm.
So a 10mb upgrade, spotify for 6mnths all for £30 and £1.50 less pm month!

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Sadly you do get the Super Hub though, and that has been derided quite a lot since release, more so than the TiVo. Some people were rebooting theirs several times a day in order to keep a working internet connection... maybe they've fixed all that now but I very much doubt it!

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The superhub now has modem mode so can connect your own router now.

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That feature finally made it out of beta, eh? Took 'em long enough.

It's still awful as a router though. Makes you wonder why VM bothered.

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I was rebooting my dlink twice a day anyhow. So nothing new there from Virgin!

First 24hrs.... No reboots and looks good!! Fingers crossed

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Strange. My ex-VM D-Link DIR-615 D2 is pretty stable when running DD-WRT, only needs rebooting once a week and that's usually due to a signal fault on VM's end which has knocked the cable modem offline and ruined the DHCP forwarding of the WAN IP.

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This sort of thing seems to be me to be really impressive to have arrived on VM's Tivo, although it's strange to not have shuffle and search... a bit half baked compared to Spotify apps on everything else.

I wonder if VM are routing all Spotify traffic over the internet, or if they've got a dedicated route given the amount of traffic they might expect it'll generate?

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Anyone know if there are any plans for the spotify app to contain a "random" function?

This is a massive inconvenience when you have large playlists that play the same songs everytime.

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Got to say the spotify app is terrible.

Takes me about 4 mins to scroll to the end of my playlists!

Disappointed

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Spotify free with a subscription to The Times.

http://spotify.thetimes.co.uk/201402...direct_v1.html