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tomsem · 11-17-2016, 02:07 AM

Spotify does have a web player: play.spotify.com

I may need to use that on my Windows Phone: it is on the 'insider' slow track for Windows updates and the latest one broke Spotify app. Just says 'Loading...' and repeats every 20-30 seconds ad infinitum and does not ever reach ready-to-play state. Could not figure out how to report it to Spotify.

Also Spotify (US) does not have ECM Records in its catalog (neither does Amazon Music). My favorite jazz label of all time. Fortunately I've trained a couple of my Pandora channels for when I need an ECM infusion. Apart from that it has transformed my music consumption entirely, much as ebooks did for reading. Never going back.

Ironically it was the Spotify app for Windows Phone that alerted me to the fact that ECM was not available. The 'show all content' option was in ON position, I was really excited to suddenly see all the ECM titles I wasn't finding on the iOS/Android apps, only to discover they were 'not available'. Hope they work out a deal to stream it.

It baffles me why Amazon has no 'Amazon Music' app for older Fire devices.

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tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,979 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Spotify does have a web player: play.spotify.com I may need to use that on my Windows Phone: it is on the 'insider' slow track for Windows updates and the latest one broke Spotify app. Just says 'Loading...' and repeats every 20-30 seconds ad infinitum and does not ever reach ready-to-play state. Could not figure out how to report it to Spotify. Also Spotify (US) does not have ECM Records in its catalog (neither does Amazon Music). My favorite jazz label of all time. Fortunately I've trained a couple of my Pandora channels for when I need an ECM infusion. Apart from that it has transformed my music consumption entirely, much as ebooks did for reading. Never going back. Ironically it was the Spotify app for Windows Phone that alerted me to the fact that ECM was not available. The 'show all content' option was in ON position, I was really excited to suddenly see all the ECM titles I wasn't finding on the iOS/Android apps, only to discover they were 'not available'. Hope they work out a deal to stream it. It baffles me why Amazon has no 'Amazon Music' app for older Fire devices. Last edited by tomsem; 11-17-2016 at 02:10 AM.