(you haven't needed on for about a year... in the uk anyway)
― koogs, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
You do again since they started the iPhone thing. Webmail me yr email address DL if you still need.
― j.o.n.a, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Those Spotify ads are fascinating...there's one where a guy pronounces the "h" in "Sky HD" as, "haitch," which I find totally baffling. And why do so many ads have announcers speaking in really bad fake American accents?
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Pronouncing H as "haitch" is fairly common in England (maybe Britain in general as well).
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, I want this now. Where can I get an invite??
I just passed my remaining 13 (! -- they kept giving me more) to http://www.spotipartners.com/ ... they seem to be as good a source as any.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Don’t leave your invites unused. People are dying to get access to Spotify.
Blimey, I had no idea it was so serious.
― j.o.n.a, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't tried this out, but theres a deep url that looks like it will let you sign up without an invitehttps://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
― scout, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
got 25 invites
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
And why do so many ads have announcers speaking in really bad fake American accents?
This is a feature of many adverts on TV in Britain, especially done in that deep film trailer voice.
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that deep URL still works, so you still don't need an invite. As for premium bitrate, it sounds superb on iPhone + decent headphones - appreciably better than the miserly 192 that I've always used in iTunes. Not full CD quality, but not far off.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 13 November 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
can someone send me a spotify invite?
― geeta, Friday, 13 November 2009 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
people who say "haitch" are the most disgusting savages imo
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, how else do you pronounce H?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"aitch"
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
How do you spell Haitch?
"Haitch"
Yes, Haitch.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
geeta i'm not sure spotify is available on the orbiting techno spaceship you live in
o, sorry about the H at the start. Yeah, disgusting savages.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
invitation sent nonetheless
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that Nandos advert is a tad racist
― PaulTMA, Friday, 13 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
how does the Nandos advert go? I have premium so ad-free!!
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't got that one. I just keep getting the sodding Robbie Williams ads. You know, I *like* Robbie, but those ads are making me hate him. :-(
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure what it is about my spotify habits (recently, herbie hancock, esma redzepova, nels cline, ersen, evangelista, the open strings comp), but for some reason they keep trying to sell me sodding hard-fi.
that's hard-fi.
― m the g, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My new game is typing two unrelated words into the search box and listening to whatever it comes up with or suggests. Just found this amazing karaoke version of the Cheers theme tune by searching for 'space cheese'.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Hello spotify. Yes, I like Little Boots and I like Douglas Adams but I DO NOT LIKE THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHILIP GLASS OPERA THANK YOU.
Actually, a Philip Glass opera about Douglas Adams starring Little Boots would be just about the best thing in the universe.
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
would love a douglas adams ad. all i get is the malibu mishmash one. BE ONE OF THEM.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Except it's not really Douglas Adams, it's more like that "And Another Thing..." thing.
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Searching "space cheese" - several xposts
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f02efac6-d4ab-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Spotify has also played up the rates it can charge advertisers, saying that its ability to determine a listener's mood based on the beats per minute in the songs they are listening to has helped it achieve high click-through rates of as much as 6-7 per cent.
yeah right
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 21 November 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooooooooooool
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 November 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
now playing: Cat Stevens "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun"
― mdskltr (blueski), Saturday, 21 November 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
now playing: Rotterdam Terror Corps "Brutal Attack"
― mdskltr (blueski), Saturday, 21 November 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Still sometimes surprised by the extent of the catalogue on this: both Hugo Largo albums! sixty-nine and I by AR Kane! Even Euphoria by Insides = currently listening to Relentless for the first time in at least six years.
All it needs is for someone to script something that can detect the running time of a track and skip to the next one as it reaches the final second to defeat the advertising (every other track for me these days, pretty onerous).
― Bill A, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
All it needs is for someone to script something that can detect the running time of a track and skip to the next one as it reaches the final second to defeat the advertising
Or you could just buy a subscription ... :)
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
they really should've made it cheaper now to be fair
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
omg please stop with the malibu mishmash. or just give me another advert. i genuinely have heard nothing but BE ONE OF THEM in about a week and a half. it's got to the point where i'm using spotify less& less just not to hear that advert.
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
BE ONE OF THEM
i think i've learnt to block that one out - it's not as bad as the 3-Mobile-goes-Braveheart one
― my fave thing to do on the computer is what im doing right now (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
From Chrysalis Music on twitter :
1 million streams on #Spotify earns you $167? Not good.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.softpedia.com/news/1-Million-Streams-on-Spotify-Earn-You-167-127714.shtml
― nothing (onimo), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
>Or you could just buy a subscription ... :)
y'know, blueski otm - if it was even just a couple of quid cheaper then I would probably already be signed up, but on top of every other household bill I cannot justify it. I also don't think that £9.99 a month is value for money in this instance, which likely reveals me as a terrible skinflint.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
traditionally britishers haven't had to pay for what is effectively radio, so i can see there's some opposition there.
am not sure lady gaga can complain either. that's $167 from a brand new revenue stream, one that didn't exist this time last year and is 167 dollars more than she'd've got from people downlooting it. it's not like they had to press up another million copies and ship them out to record stores... 8)
(does seem awfully low though)
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
do they mean that's how much lady gaga got directly after taking into account everyone else's share (inc 'repaying' the label on initial investment or whatever)?
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure it's just the artist's share. how likely is it that the labels accepted low royalties in return for a share of ownership and neglected to think about their musicians' interests? hmm...
― joe, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I also don't think that £9.99 a month is value for money in this instance, which likely reveals me as a terrible skinflint
Ach, I was being a bit cheeky ... TBH, the only reason I've signed up is so I can use the mobile app (which I love). If I didn't have an iPhone, I think I'd still be enduring/moaning about the ads.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, if it worked with my mp3 player I think I'd be more into paying for it. But until then, I'll continue with my cheapjack last throes track skipping habits. As it is I only ever listen to it at work, so the radio comparison from koogs is spot on.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I know the lines have now blurred in this digital age such that data = product to most people...
But a solid tenner every month still feels extortionate for a rental service that still isn't quite there delivery wise, at least in comparison/addition to my monthly broadband bill.
That said, I don't suppose anybody on a premium subscription knows if the streaming is actually less buggy on it? I'd hope it'd somehow get a higher priority in the p2p end of things...
I still get intermittent skips (more like missing blocks getting joined together without the silence) on 2 different operating systems (XP & Win7), 2 different connections (home wireless and work broadband direct ethernet connection) and well, it's okay for free sure, but having serious trouble committing any further as it does spoil my enjoyment frequently.
― fndgo, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it does skip more now than it used to plus im not convinced they take care when ripping some albums either.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't experienced any skips, but the premium service often runs too slow - annoying pauses in the middle of tracks. It doesn't bother me too much though, as I mostly set currrent playlists to offline, so that they download overnight on the iPhone. No issues with value for money, as £10 a month is good value for unlimited high bitrate listening of multiple albums. A good 80% of all my listening is now via Spotify on iPhone, either on headphones or wired through the hi-fi. But I do miss scribbling.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
...that should have read "scrobbling". Damned auto-correct...
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah lots of pausing in tracks too
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link