Spotify - anyone heard of it?

'kidbrooke village' is like a parody of those optimistic estate agent inventions

I think LJ, the Pinefox and myself are all within the catchment area for that but I'd imagine most of South London will get those ads.

Also, lol:

http://www.kidbrookekite.co.uk/2011/02/welcome-to-kidbrooke-village.html

Mmmm, villagey

ha, both those photos upthread are from nicohogg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/518770774_c3319da88b_b.jpg

he's def good at this

am v busy today, mebbe start a nicohogg/flaneur/london photography thread? dude is a hero

maybe they are super-localised and are all 'well nobody's gonna move from the Cator Estate to Kidbrooke Village amirite'

me : matt dc :: kbp : autumn almanac

Think someone should do a sitcom about MDC, ElJagz and The Pinefox sharing a flat in Kidbrooke Village.

there will be buckfast

I just heard my first advert for Kidbrooke Village.

It's for London. For everybody.

Good luck to them.

This also means that spotify is working on my computer for a change.

Think someone should do a sitcom about MDC, ElJagz and The Pinefox sharing a flat in Kidbrooke Village.

Addick Amongst The Lilywhites (Hat Trick Productions, 2011)

annie mac has one hell of an annoying voice

It's a ploy to make you pay the tenner....

I offered to pay spotify 'all the moneys..' to make Annie Mac go away.

they only take £10 per month to do this, which is reasonable...

This Friday I will be talking to the Key Account Manager and the Sales Directors of Spotify in Spain in case you want me to ask them anything in particular.

Could you ask them "HI HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT JOINING THE POLICE FORCE?????"

"Hi, I'm a copy of Davy Lately's classic Yellow Pages song hiding in one of the UK's thousands of independent record shops."

It's like Innocent Smoothies all over again.

That GoToMyMeeting ad on Spotify is unbearable as well. Just cheesy, clumsy, local radio level advertising.

Moka you could ask them; can they please sort all the faux/karaoke versions of songs somewhere away from the original versions? and why there are so damn many of them. i don't understand who on earth listens to such things.

also maybe ask if they are aware that Andy Williams' To You Sweetheart, Aloha has a bad case of fluff on it's needle. check it out! http://open.spotify.com/album/018i8iXSEKbGGJCyXW0XWj
fluff starts at track 3 and gets worse on subsequent tracks, rendering the whole thing inaudible by about halfway in. someone at WORD magazine spotted this first.

spotify is banned from our network @ work, so i can't check stuff, but my teenkid has it.
when i ventured into his lair last week, i noticed that he was listening to deadmau5, and in the listing for the latest album was a single track that consisted of a 47 minute mix of the whole album.
does such a track bypass the adverts, and if so, then surely spotify aren't going to be wanting such paractises when posting new albums ?

Ask why Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" still isn't on Spotify.

and why there are so damn many of them. i don't understand who on earth listens to such things.

Nobody sits down to listen to them.. Some people's kids like to have instrumental versions so they can practice singing along with the lyrics they downloaded and printed off...

Moka you could ask them; can they please sort all the faux/karaoke versions of songs somewhere away from the original versions? and why there are so damn many of them. i don't understand who on earth listens to such things.

I think this has to do with license availability. Sometimes it's very hard to pursue the rights to songs by well-known performers so I guess they just settle for cheap knock-offs from royalty-free music sites which respond more quickly and explicitly about their pricing.

I'll ask about fluff and errors on recordings (I'm very interested to know from where and how they get their songs... used to think they were user submitted?).

when i ventured into his lair last week, i noticed that he was listening to deadmau5, and in the listing for the latest album was a single track that consisted of a 47 minute mix of the whole album.
does such a track bypass the adverts, and if so, then surely spotify aren't going to be wanting such paractises when posting new albums ?

At least for now, the adverts are only played after the track finishes... having a 45 minute mix song is surely a problem to them. A big part of the conversation I'll be having with them will be about their business model and advertising. I will let you know any fun facts I can extract from them.

Moka, if you could please ask him how a company that has become so huge in a short space of time, contributing to the "this changes EVERYTHING" with regards to music consumerism etc., is not ashamed of itself for offering such a crappy, useless interface! Changing the order of playlists for one would be extremely useful, and doesn't seem like too much to ask for.

Also: a way to change incorrect spelling would be nice, since so much artist names and titles are wrong. It would also benefit them, because half of the online complaining about Spotify seems to be about this (and not without reason).

Yeah not too fond of the interface either, but as you said it's probably because they probably grew too fast too quick... I hope they will be releasing something better this year that they intend to enter the American market. I'll ask them about the possibilities of users correcting info and their plans in changing in interface.

Mmmm I think you can change the order of the playlists by moving them up and down in the left sidebar with your mouse.

better searching for albums too

yeah you can change the order of playlists i think

Moka, could you ask them if there's any plans to store your listening history a la Last.fm? Currently it only stores what you have when your session is open.

In addition can you ask why some artist albums have the odd track missing?

god yes that's annoying. you go to play an album but 1 or 2 tracks are sometimes missing, sometimes the missing tracks are available to buy via download.

On playlist ordering: oh shi... sorry, it is indeed possible (now).

i never spend much time with Spotify (even though I regularly use it for spinning single tracks that I can't be bother to download)

one thing I don't like is when you save an album in your favourites, it will display all the tracks. so if you have saved 10 albums in your favorites list, it is already a mess. bad for browsing, and it will not give you a sort of C:/albums in separate maps easy browsing experience, if you see what i mean

Subfolders, I endorse that idea Ludo :)

You can put playlists into subfolders now. Not on the mobile client tho, which is annoying.

Spotify mobile is p buggy but i use it every day and still think it's great.

someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but what is the point of doing a label search if you can still only browse some random top 50 results?

they need to fix album & label searches quick smart (and make it easier than what you need to do now as i cant even remember how to search for a label or an album)

how difficult can it be to have an option in the search box to search for albums or labels

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/03/whatever_happened_to_mobile_mu.html

You can put playlists into subfolders now.

ah, will try later. thanks. :)

One other thing if there's time, can they get the artist names sorted? Type in LFO or Suede for example you get all the material by artists who share that name, so instead of classic Warp techno you get a silky smooth boy band, or vice-versa.

Are they working on any Genius-style recommendation systems? the "radio" is hilariously useless, as is the what's new.

How does the itunes/winamp gracenote thing actually work? Does gracenote have massive list of songs that go well with each other? In which case it shouldn't be too hard to pop into spotify.(not that I could do it,but you know.)

Where have Popol Vuh gone???

;_;

Is there a 2011 collaborative playlist I'm missing out on?

Seem to remember posting this exact same question upthread last year.

This has been running a while. http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1VYiyGaPHrDzTWeovieeAL

weird and rubbish that spotify isn't yet available for blackberry. anyone know why this is and if it's set to change? as a result im thinking if getting this grooveshark thing instead. would anyone recommend it and how does it differ from spotify?

Moka, ask them about how serious they are about their social sharing side of the interface.

its really cumbersome and currently will only search Facebook contacts.

blokely.com? what?

There's some banner ad on Spotify that my virus checker keeps telling me is trying to load Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-1885.C, whatever that means.

Happy days, all of Underworld's albums are available at long last.

I see Dylan's gone too

I think he's been off for some time, apart from the dodgy out of copyright stuff.