Auto sucks - Last rant of 2008

I hate automatic settings.
Well not always, but very often. Especially now when I'm in Portugal.


Blogger.com show login (and something else) in Portugese. Too tired to change.

Apple think I live in United States. Can not change.

Google is stuck in .pt mode... i never want anything else but .com. Too annoyed to find out how to change.

Spotify removes songs for me, since I'm listening from Portugal and was registred in Sweden. Unnable to change back to Sweden now when I thought I was smart and changed my location to Portugal.

See you next year !

4 steps to success for Spotify

- Community

What I Like about Deezer is the community perspective of a gigantic record collection. When I am out of inspiration I want to see/listen what other peeps dig. I want to see that I'm not alone while searching for cool new songs. This is one reason that I often switch to VLC / ShoutCast, that I want new music that other people choose for me. (Shoutcast/Electro/DIGITAL IMPORTED is a fav.)

- DJ / Party functions

Spotify at it's best is at a party. (almost)unlimited number of songs for all tastes. Whats missing in a part is basic DJ functions such as beat-matching, cross fade between songs and maybe visual effects. When we have the unlimited jukebox, please skip the booring gaps and fade-outs that makes the dance floor fade :)

- Mobile version

I want it in my SonyEricsson. I want it in my iPod Touch. Then I will never leech another pirate song again.

- API

As a developer I get all kind of crazy ideas, how to integrate Spotify and music in new web services. Please give me a API to play around with. Please crowdsource the tech developent to us.

OMG - App Store is a hassle.

Well, I know i'm not the bleeding edge, since I upgraded my Nano to iPod Touch the other day. I really like the little thing which made my flight to Portugal a little easier (watching S05 of a popular TV show :)) But i can't help complaining about what Apple could done better with this gadget.

First: Sorting music.

I have alot of mp3 music that are coded in different ways, for example "Acoustic covers vol1" that have it's songs coded for each artist and song name. I want to play this "album" which is a nightmare since all the songs are in defferent artists and albums. Whan I ended up doing is, creating a playlist for each album that I transferred to the iPod. I remember the good ol days when I had a iRiver which could play a "folder" without any problems.

Second: Downloading from App Store.

Cool, I can add apps to my iPod! Let's browse and install a random (free) app just to try it out...Login! Huh? How do I create an account? For App Store? for Itunes? for Apple? where in my iPod can I create an account? No freakin where!

Okay, lets try do open up safari and go to Apple.com and create an account using the iPod. No luck, I get no confirmation e-mail and no success downloading from App Store using that account. So finally, let's open up my computer and go to iTunes, and try to create the account from there. Oh, I need to add additional information to my account. Woot, Credit Card number? Oh well, i trust Apple, so they can have it. But what now?! They think i live in the US?, no I'm from Sweden, currently staying in Portugal. So how do I change country...lets see.... NOWHERE! Aw crap, I give up.. might just be easier to jailbreak it and add apps that way...