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
All the majors have signed up in europe, though. I suppose it's whether the US ones are far-sighted enough.
It's also notable that most of the big digital music holdout bands aren't represented- no Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 23 January 2009 09:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
Every Stones album is there though, yay!
Another thing I've noticed is that the service avoids any queueing problems, as you occasionally get on, say, last.fm.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 23 January 2009 10:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Last.fm is screwed unless they can come up with something as wide ranging as this.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 23 January 2009 10:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
The DJ Khaled selection is spotty and Denim aren't on there either.
I do like the way that you get to see all the crummy compilation albums that bands appear on. If you pick someone like The Sweet it takes about 5 mins to scroll through them all.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 January 2009 10:49 (4 years 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 (1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago) Permalink
yes
― UTW, USA, ILX LIFER (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:24 (1 week 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 week 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 days 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 (3 days ago) Permalink