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
wtf 2 adverts in a row (the 2nd was for that White Lies album)
See what I mean about them? The Killers meet Editors big wowz!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
can i get a spotify invite
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.Please!― kaiser, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmarkcan i get a spotify invite― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:03 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
― kaiser, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:03 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
Have any of you actually tried the link posted? Quite a few of my friends in the UK have used the link and joined today. Maybe it doesn't work in other countries...
\o.0/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm in the US and that link asks for one of two things:
1)an invite code
or
2)your email address so they can notify you when it goes "public"
I wonder what their excuse is. Don't they want more people to hear their stupid ads?
― I am a vampire, therefore I take garlic pills (Bimble), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
is it UK only?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
mr bimble check your email
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'm in the US and unless something changed in the last few days, we can't use spotify and all the workarounds have been blocked
― miss precious perfect (musically), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I selected this a couple of weeks ago, and got an invite from them within the same day. May not be the case now, of course.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 23 January 2009 06:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I really liked using ctrl+f to quickly locate songs titles within long lists of artists, or to quickly filter out unofficial "re-recordings." And now one of the recent updates has disabled the filter option. (It's still an option under the "edit" tab, but it's been grayed so that it can't be selected.)
Also I'm still bummed about the lack of accuracy in my "top lists."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
mac version borked again today
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah this up and exploded on me today, had to reinstall from scratch
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:10 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Same here. Didn't reinstall though.
― pplains, Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:14 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
i wish i hadn't! It's reloading all my local files and that's like a near terabyte of music and it can't get it down.searching for anything makes this fucking program freeze like a deer in headlights
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:16 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
artists not on spotify: isotope 217 for some reason. Seems like other thrill jockey stuff is on there.
lol i noticed this
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2013 06:30 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
not sure why artists are making so much more from streaming in some countries than in the US and UK
Well in Sweden the takeup of Spotify is just huge. 70% of the population uses it. If 70% of the UK used Spotify I imagine Uk artists would be doing much better out of it as well.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:13 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
goddamn, the new icon for the desktop app is very ugly.
― eris bueller (lukas), Saturday, 20 April 2013 21:18 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
And they've increased the font size on playlists, which greatly reduces the number of tracks that you can view at the same time. Yet the font sizes elsewhere remain the same. Visually, it's becoming such an ungainly cludge.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 21 April 2013 08:19 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
so what finally worked for this was to disengage all my own music from the service so now i have to use both itunes AND spotify, way to go new version
― H-E-double-s1ockisticks (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:43 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
and everytime i start itunes, spotify crashes ten minutes later!
Conspiracy
― Jeff, Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:55 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Something new that I rate positively: you get a notification when there's a new release for an artist you follow. Just found out about the Josephine Foster Recordstoreday album!
― supermassive pot hole (seandalai), Monday, 22 April 2013 00:39 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Spotify used to tell you the running time, in minutes, for a playlist at the top of the playlist. doesn't seem to do that anymore, am i not looking in the right place?
― some dude, Saturday, 27 April 2013 13:22 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
they seem to have dumped that feature in one of the updates awhile back--hopefully because they're working on a more precise one. Seems silly for a service with an emphasis on playlists to lack a time measurement.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 27 April 2013 13:51 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
How long could it take to make a more precise one? There are numbers, you count them up.
― scintilla (seandalai), Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:31 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^ driving me crazy totally.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it has made me mad for months now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:54 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (3 weeks 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 (4 days 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 (4 days 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 (4 days 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 (4 days ago) Permalink
yes
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:24 (4 days 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 (4 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days 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 (3 days ago) Permalink