Spotify - anyone heard of it?

1st gripe is down to the day pass no longer existing

no we did this the other saturday, 8th may i think, so it was still available at that time

I did it that day too - it's been scrapped since, as discussed upthread.

http://www.spotify.com/int/get-spotify/day-pass/

Day pass is no longer available!
We recommend Spotify Premium or Spotify Unlimited instead.

Wanted to have a listen to a new release album today and it's greyed out with This is a Spotify Premium exclusive. It will later be made available in Spotify Free message. Considering I've paid for a Spotify Unlimited pass this month this irks me - wonder if it's yet another Sign of Things To Come.

Hey, since when did the iPhone app start scrobbling to last.fm? I've just noticed that you can now switch this on via the settings. ALL MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE.

Oh, and the latest version of the iPhone app now has multi-tasking, if you've upgraded to iOS4.

^ so awesome. Also works with the headphone buttons, the lock-screen double-tap controls and the swipe-left-on-switcher-bar controls.

Think Farnborough fucking airshow and The Boy Who Trapped The Sun might have finally made me crack and move to Unlimited. Still worried I'll move from Free to Open if I cancel payments. Anyone done that yet?

is this true? spotify works in USA now?

http://twitter.com/KellyeSue/status/19081467285

this person has protected their tweets

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT spotify works in the US now!!!!! My life just got 30% better.

hang on what

WELCOME

Uhhh, it doesn't though?

okay i asked KellyeSue how it's working and all I got was:

" I don't know how it's working.I just did an update, and then it started working again.I'm terrified it's going to stop working."

I thought you were in the UK? afaik if you use it in the uk, you can use it for 2 weeks abroad.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok any nerds know of a good proxy i can use to get spotify here in the land of the free?

nevermind, why would i want to circumvent the very laws that protect my freedom

for unlocking my UK account I use ivacy, since most of proxies I used to use stopped working and I wanted to have something reliable, bought 20GB of transfer for 13$ which is enough for me and my friends to have an eternity of unlocked spotify

this Lynx advert = please die, now

rip 'histoire de melody nelson'

I have gotten myself on the free version for a while, and that is sufficient for me, just to check out stuff I am curious about and whatever. Still stick to CDs for actual listening to fave music.

And I still wonder if Spotify will last, as in, will they actually make enough people want to pay for this to keep it going?

Serge Gainsbourg was driven from the interent solely by the awful doggerel of Sky Sports adverts.

God I want this in the USA!!

awful doggerel of Sky Sports adverts.

p sure these are actually done by spotify to force you to get a pay-scubscriptch

rip 'veedon fleece'

I bet more stuff disappears once it opens in the USA.

I miss the Sutopia ads. :(

'there you are in your perfectly nice little car' -- what a horribly formed advert

Someone in Dylan's team has a sense of humour as the only CBS albums available are Empire Burlesque, Down In The Groove and Under a Red Sky.

"We've tried a number of times but have been unable to renew your Spotify subscription. Unfortunately, this means that we're no longer able to continue your Spotify subscription."

Yeah well I had to cancel my credit card because of fraud, maybe if you'd emailed me earlier I could have rectified for you.

Like Friendster, it is probably doomed in the long run.

Agreed. It's a great way to check out new stuff I haven't heard right now, but I cannot see them making enough money to keep going.

No idea how they work out "related artists" but alongside Kraftwerk they have "Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, New Order, Radiohead, David Bowie, Morrissey, Talking Heads and Various Artists" :/

I get a couple of them but there's a dozen other's I'd put before that lot - wonder if it's a record company/marketing thing - like they'd rather I was tempted to buy something by an established popular artist than go off listening to Klaus Schulze all night.

or fans of "The Model" probably likeed those other bands as well

I was under the impression it was based on what users listened to, so spotify listeners to Kraftwerk listen to PSB, Grace Jones, New Order etc rather than Klaus Schulze, Neu, Amon Duul etc

I read somewhere that is how they decide it, yes.
Klaus Schultze is somewhat more "ambient" than Kraftwerk as well, so I don't know if they are that much more musically related to him than to, say, Pet Shop Boys or New Order

Btw. this thread is just a little over two years old, and the thread topic title already looks extremely old. :)

I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.

Brasso? They not really doing much in the way of 'profiling' their user base, are they?

It's some sort of screen wipe thing, not the stuff you'd use for polishing your knobs.

You'd think the knob polishers would sue.

Is there some sort of "off-line-spotifylookup", as I have it at home, am not going to install it at work, but would like to look up things?

It's usually decided by popularity, most music sites base suggestions on that. I'm sure it's not intentional, but it gives the impression you're sharing space with a bunch of teenagers just discovering 80s music. If you are the cold-blooded mature sort who favors Kraftwerk one would assume you have already embraced or rejected Morrissey or Talking Heads.

Yeah that's a massive problem with all recommendation systems - you used to get things like "You bought a Beatles album - check out these other 10 Beatles albums!" on Amazon but it's a bit better now. People are looking at how to predict diverse and unexpected recommendations but it's not a mature art yet.

I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:25 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Twice in the space of 10mins, never buying any of their fucking products...

pay the tenner a month (if you have an iphone)

Or invest in a minidisc recorder and edit the ads out.

You're going to need a hell of a sales pitch to get me to 'invest' in any more minidisc shite.

The group’s revenues for 2009 were £11.32 million, but its cost of sales was £18.82 million, plus distribution costs of £608,711 and administrative expenses of £8.29 million.

The result: an operating loss of £16.4 million for 2009 as a whole, and a net loss after taxation of £16.66 million