I just read about this. Apparently some kind of streaming iTunes looking service with rights to all the majors cleared. Could be interesting? If nothing else just to see it fail miserably...
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 08:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
trying this now. blatant rip of itunes design-wise but looks better in many ways. all i really want to do with it is listen to whole albums easily and it seems to let you do that very well (i haven't heard the ads yet tho).
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
20 second xbox ad came in after 5 songs. not bad really.
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
needs last.fm support asap
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
the ads don't bother me that much either, haven't noticed if 5 songs is always the limit? in any case it's 5 songs of any length, and you can listen to "In C" for example straight through which is cool.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love it!
I think there is progress towards spotify scrobbling happening here:
http://www.last.fm/group/Scrobble+for+Spotify
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
carsmile sent this link: http://code.google.com/p/scrobblify/
scrobbles perfectly
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
for Windows maybe!
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah this looks terrific, I like how easy it makes it to dip into artists with huge discographies.
Although I haven't actually listened yet, just been browsing so far.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
i am so in love with this thing <3
― king lame (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
some artist tag crapness tho
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
the radio is fun for discovering things totally insane and cheesy
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh wow the quality is actually pretty good.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
The radio thing is indeed cool. I'm trying to get it to find me some techno from the 50s.
the quality is good, the range not so much, but this could well prove useful.
― country matters, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Presumably the range will increase as they agree deals with more record companies? It seems fine for major label stuff and a quick search for eg Kompakt pulls up a lot.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
does it pass the melt banana test?
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
the range seems identical to what's on 7digital (and therefore itunes i think). eg they have trina's first and third albums but inexplicably not her second or fourth. i dunno how much use i'll have for spotify but kudos for how well it works, the quality of the tracks etc - the tags need ironing out but i'm sure they'll do this in time.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
actually it'll be most useful for stuff like the goldfrapp album this year - i didn't really expect to love it but i wanted to hear it, so obv i wouldn't buy it but couldn't be arsed blagging it. that's a ton of consumer laziness in there.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh god i should've said i was american! fuck. could've got access to all the hip-hop and r&b which never makes it over to this godforsaken, miserable island.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Do they have a license for the US now? I don't think they did a couple of weeks ago...
Four MB albums, Deano: Teeny Shiny, Bambi's Dilemma, Charlie and Scratch or Stitch.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
does not work in australia yet
― Suggesteban Buttez (jabba hands), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
Just searched for The Recession and that shows up in its entirety, and it hasn't been released here at all right?
It's really good for the one-album playback when you've no idea if you'll like it or not and can't be arsed downloading.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah i'm basically going through albums i've been wondering about checking out but didn't have the hd space for.
― king lame (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
no the recession was released here, but the label didn't bother telling the pr - she only realised when she looked on amazon and found it had been there for a fortnight
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
"80s funk house disco" radio suggests Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers!
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
> Four MB albums, Deano
thanks. we don't have any, amazon.co.uk mp3 store has scratch n stitch and a couple of tracks from compilations, emusic had a lot... all these people seem to be getting their info from the same places though, they all make the same mistakes (search for broadcast on amazon - details are about duophonic / warp broadcast but the listed albums aren't)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 December 2008 09:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
One detail I like: when it gets to the end of what I've queued up, it just continues with the current album without me needing to ask it to. (I suppose I can see how someone might not like this, though.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Finally got round to sorting scrobbling for this (there's a windows messenger box ticked by default in the last.fm client that somehow stops Scrobblify from working). So far I'm really liking Spotify - handy for hearng stuff you randomly think on that you haven't got in your library or for legal trying before you buy. The adverts don't annoy me in the slightest.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 22:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
fails Boredoms test :(
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
anyone got a spotfiy INVITE?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
If not, try the "oooh ask me please!" option on the website ("Get started" -> email in "Not invited?" field). Took about five days for me, was surprised to get it at all actually.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
jordan, webmail me an email address to send an invite to.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
didn't get asked for an invite here, just got straight in
― stet, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is amazing! You type in what you want to listen to, and then you are listening to it. all this needs is to work on an iphone, and then i'll buy an iphone, and then i will have achieved bliss.
― Slumpman, Sunday, 7 December 2008 12:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
Mine appears to have made it through an album without giving me any adverts. Maybe they've bumped me up to a pro account without realising it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 December 2008 14:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
you can now scrobble to last.fm from within spotify (it's in 'preferences')
― braveclub, Sunday, 21 December 2008 12:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
That's handy, saves me running that scrobblify thing at the same time.
Spotify lists 'The Prodigy' as 'Prodigy' and makes last.fm think this guy sings Smack My Bitch Up and Out of Space
― dj onimotian (onimo), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
can someone please send me an invite?
thanks!!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Er....
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
Think there's still a waiting list though.
<3 this service btw.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
Got in straight away with the link I posted.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Aha they've obviously opened it up!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Downside is loads more ads (I've heard two during the same album), but you can hear them coming after a while and tune out. Still great.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.
Please!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
If i hear gareth jones from cardiff reciting pi again i'll scream
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
(advert)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
And I'm not buying that White Lies record either.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
At least it doesn't scrobble the adverts
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
jonathan from spotify sounds remarkably like Michael Vaughan
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apple probably has a patent on counting playlist times
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 27 April 2013 17:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Some kind of weird mashup in the app now, mixing the current and prior search, so I have Top Tracks and Artist Bio for Television, but albums by Charley Patton.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2013 17:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
And now some Russian group called Television in Cyrillic alphabet, but I guess that can't be helped.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2013 17:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
> How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.
ha, ha. (i laugh to hide the pain). at work we do something similar and i've written the equiv playlist code. playlists are in one table, the tracks belonging to those playlists are in another. total time belongs to playlist, individual track times belong to the playlist tracks. keeping the two in sync during inserts and deletes is a pain. also, the track list is paged, fetched and displayed 10 or 25 or whatever at a time, you don't get all of them at once because there can be up to 9999 tracks in a playlist. so you can't just add them up...
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2013 19:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
otm. men die about a little spoonful messing up their television playlist times.
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2013 19:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 April 2013 19:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
^^^ driving me crazy totally.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
it has made me mad for months now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
Super weak that the desktop app doesn't sync with mobile over USB. Each device syncing up through the internet seems like a waste of bandwidth, not to mention time.
― shaane, Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
I just subscribed to iTunes Match -- until Spotify makes it easier somehow to determine what tracks on your hard drive aren't available on Spotify, it's not going to be the über-library it can be.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/14/4331110/google-lands-universal-music-sony-for-spotify-competitor
― markers, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
Dammit! The hack to keep old spotify working doesn't work anymore. Now I'm stuck with the new version like the rest of you saps.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
Kinda weak that the new iOS app doesn't allow you to play with the order of tunes within playlists.― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:45 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:45 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just install the 'Spotify for iOS 4' app.
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
i can see myself jumping ship to google's service even if the functionality/coverage are no better than spotify's because i'd expect them to have better catalogging - spotify's database/tagging/etc is just so messy even on some more popular artists
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
yes
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah, the Spotify update really does seem to have come at the worst time - this is assuming that many users are finding it as unwieldy and laggy as I am, which doesn't seem unreasonable given the attempts to prevent updates to the new software - but if someone could offer me a similar service right now for the same price minus the lag then I'd bite their hand off tbh
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
the google service has a 30 day free trial right now (if you supply a credit card) but there doesn't seem to be an iphone app, so it's kinda useless for me.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
i just wish the fuckers would bring back playlist durations. every new update (ie every frigging second day) makes me hope it will appear, but no
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
Google play's streaming service is greatat the moment once you've uploaded your catalogue to the cloud, so if they manage to seamlessly integrate that with the non-owned streaming music then I'm there.
― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
If I save a playlist for offline, does the track stream if data is available, or does it play the offline stored version?
Asking because battery life seems to drain quickly even if using offline playlists.
― calstars, Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
I think the best cloud-based service that let's you upload your own files (and has a player that you can stream them from remotely) is from Amazon. Especially if you have more than 20,000 music files, which I do. Their limit is 250,000 songs and it's $25 for a year. The initial upload takes a crazy long time, but it's worth it. I just use that + Spotify.
― Position Position, Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
The key with the new Google thing from my end is whether UMG properties on there will be watermarked (aka audibly distorted) like they are on Spotify, itunes, emusic etc. If UMG stuff on Googlify is unwatermarked, they've got my money.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
why would they watermark on one service but not the other?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
i am def assuming they'll be watermarked. But there could be a ghost of a chance google was all, yo how about hooking us up with the uncut shit in exchange for some sweet ass private user info?
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
I use Spotify mostly on my desktop pc, but love using my ipad as a remote. The bugger is, I use the remoteless app for it, but it's absolutely shite. Crashes almost every time. Does anyone have any experience with other apps to do it this way?
I don't think the Spotify app can sync with your desktop and be used as a remote, can it?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
They're posting number of plays now? It's slowing it down something fierce.
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 May 2013 00:56 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
the client is fucked up
― markers, Thursday, 23 May 2013 00:56 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
I've read the payout for spotify is something like .5 cents per stream, anyone know if that's accurate?
― anonanon, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:31 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Less iirc, but it also differs based on whether the stream was a free user or a subscriber and whether you're a highly visited artist or a barely visited one.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:36 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
to the artist or the record company? if the artist, that actually sounds high to me. an artist would normally get what from a CD sale, $1? they'd get that from 2 plays of a 10-track album on Spotify.
― eris bueller (lukas), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:37 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
it'd be 20 plays, that's half a cent not 5 cents
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:42 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
but
― eris bueller (lukas), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:43 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
I see. Now that top 10 songs on artists pages include # of plays I'm trying to figure out the level of revenue that is being generated.
For example, icona pop - I love it has 27 million plays, and if it were half a cent per play that'd be about $130,000.
― anonanon, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:45 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:43 (1 week ago) Permalink
okay.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
desktop app now takes about 20 seconds to open on current version of OS X
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Spectrum, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:43 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― folsom country prism (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:59 (1 week ago) Permalink
idgi
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
every four songs or so there's a 50% chance Spotify will play an ad for !!!!ADVANCE AUTO PARTS!!!!
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:09 (1 week ago) Permalink
Spotify has been opening quickly for the past few weeks now
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
xpost okay. i've had a paid account more or less since spotify came to the us so that was over my head
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:31 (1 week ago) Permalink
I know some of you get on your tall box and pull the ol' "you get what you pay for" routine with us degenerate cheapskates. That's cool. I grew up listening to commercial radio, even worked for a few stations over the course of about 20 years. I don't mind ads breaking up the flow. Usually my cue to push my chair back and go to the rest room. I'd rather pay Spotify for their service by listening to their commercials, giving their salesguys a few extra ears when signing contracts with accounts, but that's me.
But that said, goddamm, you'd think they could sell more than two fucking ads.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:34 (1 week ago) Permalink
dude go for it! i was rewinding lala for multiple plays when i was hustling.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 01:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
after Ver Floyd bite, who will be the biggest bands to hold out? Led Zep and the Beatles natch. who else? there's Oasis, Peter Gabriel.. any other big or biggish guns?
― piscesx, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:10 (6 days ago) Permalink
oh OK so there's also Eagles, Zappa, Metallica..
― piscesx, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:12 (6 days ago) Permalink
Metallica are on Spotify as is Zappa
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:14 (6 days ago) Permalink
Crimson.
― folsom country prism (Jon Lewis), Friday, 14 June 2013 18:30 (6 days ago) Permalink
What is up with "Discover" view? Why can't I get it to appear in the sidebar?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:33 (6 days ago) Permalink
https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/apps/discover-tab/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:34 (6 days ago) Permalink
Peter Gabriel's there -- in Aus, any way
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Saturday, 15 June 2013 09:23 (5 days ago) Permalink