But the one I put on a playlist still plays...
― talk me down off the (ledge), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Thomas Brinkmann is gone, too.
― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
oh well
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the development here isn't very promising.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking hell, you're not wrong. This is moving in completely the wrong direction.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, d'you suppose that they've negotiated reprint rights with AMG for the biog blurbs?
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
my gut instinct is that they've taken them off the search, as a preliminary measure, before taking the tracks out of the database entirely
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Judging by the recent developments I imagine open source, P2P alternative in 5…4…3…2…
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Availability certainly varies by country; my friend in Amsterdam found that about 50% of my "best of 2008" playlist was unavailable in the NL.
Perhaps they've signed agreements with the majors, but haven't sorted things out with a lot of the independents?
NB - some of the Spotify service already relies on P2P protocols, and I recall reading that one of the lead developers was previously working on Torrent services.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/why_do_songs_disapear
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
No Kompakt
kompakt total 6 is still there. you just can't find it with their search engine...
― Joris Stereo, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
lol Metallica fans
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
That response is from three months ago. I assume the songs disappearing this week are for different reasons.
― onimo, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Eh? No, I assume it's all part of the process of them updating their catalogue with "more" music and "adding" songs. Now, to me it looks suspiciously like that should be "less" and "removing", but hey! I'm not a thrusting young web 2.2b chancer, so what the fuck do I know?
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The Smiths have vanished... ah, I knew it was all too good to be true!
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
muxtape mk. viii
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Muxtape is relaunching as some kinda minimal MySpace.
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, and Spotify is relaunching as some kinda minimal Spotify.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-important-changes-to-the-spotify-music-catalogue/
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I retract my AMAZING, although it's still pretty good.
It also can't play albums as a continuous mix, which is terrible. I suppose it took itunes till version 7 or something to do that, but my CD player from 1991 has no trouble.
Aghrr Lady Gaga advert! Bring back the Energy Savings Trust.
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Energy Savings Trust ad, featuring the dulcet tones of Hugh Dennis.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the whole villalobos archive has now gone :(was my easiest/best/quickest/cheapest way to catch up on the mans history.oh well, i'm going to listen to sinatra at the sands instead.
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
This is pretty cool - runs perfectly in Wine on Linux!
― all my single lobsters put a ring on it (tpp), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
One page article on Spotify ion the NME today.
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
in
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Spotify has managed to go downhill in the space of a week.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
What's with all the cupcake icons on that (mostly) Metallica thread?
― Glow In The Dark (Bimble), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Real shame about the paring down of the catalogue.
Here's a source of more playlists, if you're hungry:
http://www.spotyshare.com/
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
In hindsight it would have been better to remove this in October when we launched publicly
Er, yes.
, we realize this now and apologize to you for not doing it sooner
<Non-committal, graceless noise>
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There's actually adverts for Spotify on Spotify now!
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
energy saving trust issued a takedown notice
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought it was posh, blonde fop Julian Rhind-Tutt doing the voiceover. Ironic, bearing in mind how badly he did on 'It's Not Easy Being Green'.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The Guardian Tech article about Spotify today unluckily uses King Crimson tracks as a demonstration of what's on it.
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
TS: "unluckily" vs "a bit stupidly"
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 29 January 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"we understand you are an American, and we can't service you"
first thing I see when I go to the website.
good luck spotify
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 29 January 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/magickal_dreamz/CryingEagle.jpg
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
It's good they're so understanding.
― onimo, Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
is this open to uk folks without an invite still?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 30 January 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
nope. invite needed. or payment.
― mark e, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
― Alba, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
(worked last time I looked)
― Alba, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
ooooh.i just got an invite and thought that was the only way in.excellent news, and apologies for the mistake.
― mark e, Friday, 30 January 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh, that's the FOURTH time that link has been posted on this thread!
― mike t-diva, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"Skipping 136 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all."
so much gold hidden within i guess
― mark e, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Things looking up, 10,000 new albums added today according to the blog. Qucik scan through the list, good lot of stuff from ACT, ECM, Touch and Mego. New albums from M Ward, Little Joy, Anthony & the Johnsons and just for Lex, Animal Collective. My pick though is Human League's 'Golden Hour of the Future'
― Shallow Gravy (Billy Dods), Monday, 2 February 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Doubt Beat
http://open.spotify.com/user/smarmy/playlist/33bRsp1Qk7kVL6Umf3vj82
This was a muxtape I was going to do just before it went down. There are a few things I couldn't find on Spotify, but I got most of it. All early 80s UK stuff.
― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That looks awesome, Jamie. Out of interest: which version of Temptation is that? Alternate 12" ... yew wot?
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link