Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Huh, in mine I can just go to preferences and uncheck "Show what I listen to on Facebook" and it stays like that forever.

― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:36 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh dag, hadn't even thoguht of that -- my spotify preferences menu only has something that says "Share my activity on Spotify Social," no mention of Facebook though

what about doing this?

In Facebook, open the menu on the top right corner of the screen.

Choose Account Settings

Choose Apps from the menu on the left side of the screen

Remove Spotify.

oh sweet, thanks dude

can't share tracks with your friends that way tho

i'm a spotify user but i just looked at rdio and it actually looks like something that might be worth looking into a bit more

the fact that i can use it from a browser is p nice

i really try to avoid desktop software

and good music

hahaha

can't share tracks with your friends that way tho

― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:15 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

well, i don't share tracks w/ people on facebook, or do anything at all w/ my facebook account really -- a lot of my annoyance was that 'x is listening to x on spotify' had become the sum total of my facebook activity

apparently my wife was listening to the vines a lot last week. i assured her that there would never be an artist she'd listen to on spotify that i'd be too embarrassed to have show up on my fb, but this one def challenged that assertion.

lol

My Facebook friends probably think I listen to a ton of The Doors and Adam Ant due to my wife's time on Spotify

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120524rdio

Rdio Proposes an Insulting 'Artist Compensation Plan'...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
by paul

The problem is that artists are feeling slighted by streaming services, especially as major labels, fans, and investors reap the enormous benefits. Which plants the seeds for bigger content problems ahead.

Is this the solution? According to details reported by Billboard this morning, Rdio is proposing an 'artist compensation plan' that is essentially a modified referral program. So, if an artist refers a new subscriber, that artist receives $10 directly from Rdio, while other royalty payment structures remain the same. "Payments that would not be sent through record labels' accounting systems could be large enough to spur artists to take part in the program," the report states. "'The goal is to effectively match the economics of what an album sales would be,' says the source within Rdio."

Which basically means Rdio is saying the following to artists:

(1) Bring us a subscriber with a lifetime value that probably exceeds $120, and we'll pay you $10.

(2) We'll do you a favor: we won't pay this bounty through your record label.

(3) All other payments - ie, paltry royalties on your music - will remain the same.

(4) We get to say, 'we're more artist friendly than Spotify!'

Rdio did not respond to an inquiry for this article.

(1) Bring us a subscriber with a lifetime value that probably exceeds $120, and we'll pay you $10.

How does one dollar in twelve compare to what an artist gets from a label for selling a $12 album?

Oh wait that'll be Rdio subscriber rather than artist subscriber. So if your album listener is already a subscriber some other artist already got your $10.

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2012/05/31/spotify-transparency/

In Singapore, I interviewed Ken Parks, majordomo of Spotify’s U.S. operation. I told him I would ask tough questions. That I had to, everybody already thinks I’m on the Spotify payroll, I just couldn’t let him do a commercial. He said this was all cool.

And then didn’t answer a single question I had, certainly not any that probed into the inner workings of the service. Not that I was interrogating him. But why exactly did you have to sign in with Facebook? Ken said everybody liked that, he got no complaints. He did admit that search was flawed. But I still can’t understand why it works so well in iTunes and so poorly in Spotify.

...

But at the end of my "interview", Peter Jenner, original manager of Pink Floyd, thinker extraordinaire, stood and asked why there was no Spotify transparency, why artists could not see what they were getting paid.

Ken gave the usual response. That Spotify paid record companies and these entities accounted to artists, and if something got lost in translation, it was not Spotify’s fault.

Spotify has been releasing some really shitty updates to it's iOS app. I get so fucking tired of companies using the general population as goddamned beta testers.

yeah, the latest one that came out in the past couple days caused me lots of headaches. I'm going through the process of reinstalling from scratch and re-loading all of my offline files, which seems to be helping.

Im having to do that too. So slow syncing them all.

I don't really get why it is so slow to sync local files even when you have your device plugged into the omputer that houses all the source files.

*computer

Bigger issue I noticed was that the new update drops out if the internet connection changes, even if were listening to offline songs. That didn't happen in the previous update.

So I've been using this for a few weeks now. It seems to have the song I want to listen to about 1/3 of the time, and there really are a lot of ads. It's useful for listening to things I want to listen to once without bothering to obtain, but at least for me it's replacing the process of "type song title into YouTube," not the process of "getting music onto my hard drive."

It's useful for listening to things I want to listen to once without bothering to obtain

I finally caved and created a puppet Farcebook account so I could do the same. It's better to sit through two minutes of interrupting ads than to spend six or seven dollars on something from Half.com only to find out that I'm not crazy about it.

And I've already ended up buying a couple things because I used Spotify to preview and liked them that much. It's not perfect, but it works.

Spotify
Introducing radio you can save!

If you’re a Spotify Free user, you can now discover millions of songs on your iPhone and iPad for free. Just download the app and get ready to be blown away by a new radio experience in Spotify.

Download the free app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580?mt=8&usfb

OK, I'm putting this on my phone, but what is it?

im gonna hazard a guess and say its spotify radio for those who wont go premium to get spotify on their phone and they then hope you all go wait a min rather than radio id like to choose the songs i want i'll stump up £10/$10

or as It's known - Spotify Mobile For Cheap Bastards™

oh i see -- there's basically no situation in which i would listen to music on my phone so i guess i don't need this

OK, I'm putting this on my phone, but what is it?
there's basically no situation in which i would listen to music on my phone so i guess i don't need this

lol what did you think Spotify's app would do?

I just decided to go premium last night after finally getting a smartphone a few weeks ago. I don't know that I'll use it in my car every day (lots of hooking up cables and pushing of buttons), but if I'm headed out on the road or even just driving around town, having access to a zillion albums is MUY ATRACTIVO!

yeah I figured paying 10 EUR a month was definitely worth it seeing how much I'll be saving on impulsive purchases that I end up listening to once.

syncing playlists to multiple devices is one hundo percent worth the $ during wedding season.

driving around town listening to ilm playlists is just bonus.

i'm kinda new to this but it always looks a bit like cheating when creating single-album playlists and then making them available offline. Why would anyone then purchase the damn thing?

theyre saved in a proprietary format that requires a current subscription for playback?

This thread reads like my parents are posting.

The radio app has promise tho I'm not sold yet.

lol what did you think Spotify's app would do?

Excellent question! I didn't really think about it.

spotify is being a right bastard this morning with connectivity issues in the uk.

when will there be spotify for comix?

MDCU.

no herge or barks iirc

it's a start at least.

not on ipad it's not

dont have a premium account but have had spotify on for 2 hours and have not had a single ad

holiday weekend promotion?

Still figuring out the art of the playlist. Right now my playlists pretty much stick to one style of music. Making one out of a mix of styles takes a lot more work. I have one (unpublished" of all new wave albums I could find that I haven't heard enough...but I like mixing it up with old doo wop and soul...so now I have to combine playlists...making about three days of music.

I'm getting lazy about doing a queue and just put the playlist on.

Oh wait, I am a dummy. If you start playing your playlist, your queue will use that as a default. Then you can pick out other tracks and throw them in your queue.

Wow, their FAQ sucks, though. You have to learn by using it pretty much.

There's still a mix of things I like and things I hate, but the thing I like a lot lately is that when you thumbs-up a song on the reasonably interesting Spotify radio, it gets sent to a playlist of songs you've thumbs-upped. That's really cool. I didn't even realize it was happening at first. Probably should have read the instructions...

On the iPhone/iPad app, I'm forever being rolled back to what must be a months-old backup of my playlist directory (maybe it's even a year old). The app then re-loads all the updates that have been made since then. This can take several minutes, which is annoying, as none of the current offline playlists are present on the backup...

...apart from "Starred", which is always immediately available and fully up to date. N.B. "Starred" has become a favourite feature: its a tidy way of maintaining a rolling "A-list"/"heavy rotation" playlist.

Weird, that hasn't been an issue on the Android app and I'd have expected the iPhone one to be more advanced, unless Apple are being dicks about it which is entirely possible.