Acts that are not on Spotify

xp i feel you Johnny; that's exactly what stoked my interest. really great doc that.

There are only 3 Shalamar tracks up:(

Shalamar is the bomb. I am thinking of getting premium soon, but would fork over even more if I could have better selection plus less re-recorded crap.

I upgraded to whatever the ad-free status is a while back and haven't regretted it. Thinking of stepping up to the one that allows mobile device streaming because I just got an iphone. Road trips will no longer involve burning a lot of mp3 cds!

Shakey, they have like almost everything already so I don't get "not going to be able to sustain it."

Loads of Shalamar in the UK...

Frank Zappa

Really wishing he had ANYTHING on there right now.

selecter's 'celebrate the bullet' is not on spotify to my annoyance right now

I was wondering if the Zappa catalog coming out on Universal would mean it would end up on Spotify too.

^^ Exactly what I'm hoping.

Would be nice, but I suspect that the Zappa family will never let that happen

So there's no way to upload music onto spotify's server?

No but you can link it to your hard drive and mix your personal collection with Spotify's...in your own home / office. I think the titles still show up in published playlists, just as "not available".

can you also link songs from your hard drive on the mobile version, on any of the plans (free/premium/superpluspremiumlultrawhatever)?

where's the fun in that if no one else can listen to it?

Well, your online friends can see your home cooked favorites on a playlist, or you can have a party / guests etc. and mix your own music in.

Ergonomically, it IS frustrating, though.

Mad God, if you have songs on your phone you probably could, but I have a Blackberry so I dunno.

can you also link songs from your hard drive on the mobile version, on any of the plans (free/premium/superpluspremiumlultrawhatever)?

Spotify integration means I only use iTunes to add files and burn CDs. It's almost never used as a player any more. Ugh, horrible bloaty thing.

same here

I think the titles still show up in published playlists, just as "not available".

Might depend on the settings of the person who's looking at it. There's a check box for "show unplayable tracks."

To that end, the thing about Spotify that is frustrating is less "artists" that aren't on Spotify, but *tracks*. For instance, I was putting together a monster Can list for a road trip -- and while all their albums were on there, all the long epics from those records ("Yoo Doo Right," "Bel Air," "Chain Reaction," "Cutaway," "Pinch") weren't.

That makes no sense at all. It seems the only thing more complicated than airplane ticket pricing is music licensing.

Lots of jazz records are ruined on Spotify the same way.
But it is weird how selective that is.

yeah I don't get how that happens. Maybe one particular musician who appears on the tracks will not grant rights and that causes individual tracks to be stripped out?

Just realized there's no Cap'n Jazz on spotify... On the bright side all the Polvo albums are up!

yeah I don't get how that happens. Maybe one particular musician who appears on the tracks will not grant rights and that causes individual tracks to be stripped out?

I think it just comes down to lengths, Spotify just doesn't like long tracks for whatever reason. I was listening to some early Allman Brothers and the albums were on there, but the long epic jams weren't.

I don't think that's it.

nah that can't be it!

Being away from my record collection for the past 2 months I've only had Spotify to keep me warm at night. The lack of Coil is killing me.

mid-period (post green, pre buckingham) fleetwood mac

nah that can't be it!

I'm not arguing that it definitely is, but I really am struggling to figure out why 7 tracks out of 8 on the same album work, but the 8th won't. They are share the same songwriting credits, so that theory of a sole holdout doesn't wash either. The only reason I brought up the song lengths thing is because whenever I come across an album missing only one or two tracks, its consistently when the songs in question are more than 10 minutes in length.

The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.

wait, so, even if you pay for a subscription the long tracks aren't on there? i figured it was just something for free accounts. mog has all the long tracks.

It can't be song length... the re-issue of Dopesmoker is up there and its a 60+ minute track;

I haven't tested this theory but is it the tracks that are only available on itunes if you buy the full album? Seems like it could be a default setting from some distributors that no-one's changed.

The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.

Only "Me, Myself & I"... THANKS SPOTIFY.

I have a vague recollection that the no-long-tracks issue was specific to (or most common with) Universal-related albums?

https://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/long_songs_are_missing

longest track i can think of on a commercial CD from recent(ish) times is Goldie's Mother from Saturnz Return which clocks in at 71 minutes and 53 seconds.
it's present and correct on Spotify uk.

They might be trying to negotiate for higher per-stream payments for long tracks? Would make sense.

Cannot find proper version of Freda Payne's "Band of Gold"

Holland, Dozier, and Holland still own the Invictus catalog. Looks like the last thing to come out were some artist comp CDs in 1996.

What about the Chairmen of the Board comp in the early 2000's?

Yeah, [urlhttp://www.amazon.com/Best-Chairmen-Board-Ten/dp/B0000641A8/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342895778&sr=1-3&keywords=chairmen+of+the+board]this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."

Yeah, this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."

OK. That comp is not on Spotify either, although "Give Me Just A Little More Time" is because it was on some soundtrack.

(Of course nobody said that comp was on Spotify)

Yeah, it's not on iTunes either.

Cannot find me no muslamic ray guns on Spotify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPD8qHhtVU

Placebo!

Not that ILM cares, but the Eagles.