Spotify - anyone heard of it?

20 (of the 25) country #1's of 2008

Loving the ILX collaborative playlist...
http://troubled-diva.com/spotify-ilx-playlist.gif

This works perfectly for me now. Wonderful! Am too busy weeping (once again) at the eternal fucking shitness of Microsoft Excel to explore it much further, mind. Hurrah, though.

I added that ghost cauldron track : D

who put up the letta mbulu? was really feeling that earlier

Letta Mbulu was one of mine.

It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.

this is starting to piss me off too. on the pazz & jop playlist above for instance the gaslight anthem track is an acoustic version and pink's so what is some hi-nrg dance remix. don't think the compiler intended it that way. i keep coming across stuff in live versions (biz markie's just a friend) or sixties tracks that sound that they were rerecorded by one or more of their original members somewhere in the eighties (the bobby fuller four's i fought the law).

How can you add to it?

spotify videogames playlist

omfg

I've corrected the Pink. There's no other version of the Gaslight Anthem track, though...

This is amazing. AMAZING. Although I will now only be buying records that aren't on it, so business-model-wise maybe not the best idea.

I can see the playlists - how would one add to one if one wanted too?

If it's a collaborative playlist (like the ILX one above) just drag and drop the track onto it.

loving this. wishing it included videos and more better data tho.

would be cool if you could see who added what to playlists too, and maybe a SUGGEST BAN system...

Top of my wishlist: a recommendation engine; social networking features.

I quite like being able to add stuff anonymously to the ILX playlist. It removes the pressure to impress.

Two adverts in one album so far, and both for something called the Energy Saving Trust, so can't complain, really. I like that there is a little graphic showing you how much of the ad is left, so you could mute the ads quite easily.

Some sort of friends list where you can access all their playlists (or ones they choose to share) seems like a no-brainer for them to add. And that's just for starters.

If, like me, you tend to hop around tracks before they've finished you never hear an advert.

Love the Sir John Betjeman track someone added. Didn't even realise he recorded an album, will check out the rest later.

Looks like King Crimson were removed on request: http://www.dgmlive.com/forum.htm?entry=13308

Same goes for KC on YouTube: http://www.dgmlive.com/forum.htm

I suspect that Spotify didn't just randomly upload KC material without permission. I would guess they asked Universal or Warner's or whowever can we upload your companies back catalogue and they said sure, then individual artists got wind of it and complained.

Luddites.

Top of my wishlist: a recommendation engine; social networking features.

I quite like the fact that there aren't social networking features, but I'm sure they'll appear soon.

I wish I knew how vinyl only straight-up unauthorised re-edit stuff like this ended up on there.

There's some info here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/where_is_the_catalogue_on_spotify_really_sourced_from

The-Dream is listed as D:Ream *roll eyes*

Things can only get better.

yeah, def needs better data, an equalizer and a suggest ban system

suggest ban any song you hear and dislike

def. finding this is perfect music you want to listen to but don't want to clutter up a harddrive w/. whole bob dylan back catalogue, all the wu-tang my ears can eat? yes pls

i like this.
however, on villalobos : fizheuer zieheuer (part 2), there is vinyl noise.
i've never heard the cd version so could it be that the original has crackles etc ?

See link posted above - some of this stuff is being sourced from vinyl rips.

i saw that after i posted, sorry mike.
tis a great application though.
i really hope this is legit, makes people money, and doesn't get shut down.
the catalogue is bursting with stuff i enjoy.

The Pitchfork 500: #1 - 1977-1979.

Weekly updated UK Top 40 and US R&B/Rap 40 playlists here.

And to possibly save Mike some work, here's someone else's playlist for the whole Pitchfork 500

am I missing something here?

catalouge seems very bitty to me so far or maybe it's just what I'm searching for...

Is this the kind of thing where I'm better searching for other peoples playlists? or it's meant to be like last.fm with full tracks?

hmm, it's probably because I used a UK invite isn't it? No Kompakt, no Melt-Banana.. not much of anything so far to be honest so not really much use

(anyone got a US invite? :( )

oh wait shi-

I searched for kompakt the other day and it returned loads of results... today I get 2?!

five hits for superpitcher now, when there were tons (30?) the other day

All the Gescom's disappeared.

And all the Autechre! ffs.

But the one I put on a playlist still plays...

Thomas Brinkmann is gone, too.

oh well

yeah the development here isn't very promising.

Fucking hell, you're not wrong. This is moving in completely the wrong direction.

I suspect they're probably taking down loads of stuff, possibly because the original sources were private collections and now they're having to clean up their act and get proper permissions. A year ago, when the site was a tiny Sweden-only start-up, they even had Beatles stuff on there.

However, it's inconsistent. I noticed yesterday that if you follow the "Home" link and view the "most popular" lists, Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" (both the track and the album) were displayed in red, meaning "no longer available" - and if you clicked the link, a message came up saying "not available in the UK". However, you could still search for "coldplay viva la vida" and play the results just fine. (Can't check this out now, as the s/w isn't installed on this machine.)

Also, d'you suppose that they've negotiated reprint rights with AMG for the biog blurbs?

On the evidence so far, I very much doubt it.

Still, this answers the question lots of people have been asking me when I've been bunging them invites: "How does the business/rights model work?" Answer: badly.