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
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/ gets you straight in without an invite.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 07:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
I went in on that link above, no trouble at all. I'm in the UK tho - maybe there's a problem with the US, I dunno.
It's awesome, btw. Nearest thing to the "universal jukebox" I've seen for a long time.
― NotEnough, Friday, 23 January 2009 08:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think it's staggering. At least 95% of my track/artist searches to date have returned results. And I like the concept of shared playlists.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Spotify Premium is available in Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the UK. The Free version is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.
It amuses me to see the adverts briefly appear in last.fm (and permanently in your Spotify history).
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is impressive. There's a lot more weird, small stuff on than I thought there would be, thopugh also mystifying gaps too.
Someone should set up a shared ILX playlist for Jan (then we can move to Feb etc to stop it getting unwieldy). I'll do it tonight if no-one else does.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
Excellent idea. I was thinking of doing one for the Pazz & Jop Top 50 singles, and maybe the Rocktimists poll tracks as well. But it'll have to wait until tonight.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
Gaps spotted so far: no King Crimson, very little UK Funky, no Aeroplane mix of Grace Jones "Williams Blood" (although their mix of Friendly Fires "Paris" is on there). Remixes are generally well represented, though.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Remixes are generally well represented, though.
But not always listed as remixes, I've found. And they don't scrobble as remixes (sorry, I'll take that to the last.fm thread)
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
I also like the non-bloatiness: the software was running at around 14,000k on my home PC last night - so I could close iTunes for once, and benefit from the faster performance.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
I hope this thing a) goes global so the US can use it b) they make a mobile/iphone app c) ushers in a new era of music use.
I confidently predict big 4 will put a stop to it.
― NotEnough, Friday, 23 January 2009 09:51 (4 years 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