Spotify - anyone heard of it?

One page article on Spotify ion the NME today.

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Spotify has managed to go downhill in the space of a week.

What's with all the cupcake icons on that (mostly) Metallica thread?

Real shame about the paring down of the catalogue.

Here's a source of more playlists, if you're hungry:

http://www.spotyshare.com/

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>

There's actually adverts for Spotify on Spotify now!

energy saving trust issued a takedown notice

Energy Savings Trust ad, featuring the dulcet tones of Hugh Dennis.

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'.

The Guardian Tech article about Spotify today unluckily uses King Crimson tracks as a demonstration of what's on it.

TS: "unluckily" vs "a bit stupidly"

"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

http://www.geocities.com/magickal_dreamz/CryingEagle.jpg

"we understand you are an American, and we can't service you"

It's good they're so understanding.

is this open to uk folks without an invite still?

nope. invite needed. or payment.

https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

(worked last time I looked)

ooooh.
i just got an invite and thought that was the only way in.
excellent news, and apologies for the mistake.

Heh, that's the FOURTH time that link has been posted on this thread!

"Skipping 136 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all."

so much gold hidden within i guess

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'

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.

That looks awesome, Jamie. Out of interest: which version of Temptation is that? Alternate 12" ... yew wot?

(I guess that might become clearer when I listen to it, but still.)

Yeah, I hadn't heard it before either. I think it was on http://www.discogs.com/New-Order-1981-1982/release/61596, which I've been trying to track down a copy of for ages.

But now we have it in all its glory!

Although that whole EP is on the bonus disc of the CD reissue of Movement, apparently.

Hang on, I've just skipped through it now. Umm: isn't it just the original 12"? (Which, yes, is the one on what I'd call Factus 8, ie the thing you linked to above.)

I think the problem with Temptation is everyone thinks the re-recorded 1987/Substance version is the original, which it just ain't. That's yet another of my problems with those remasters/collector's versions: they're pathetically short on descriptive detail. Which, when you're dealing with anally retentive Factory fucks like myself, is a bad thing.

I think the problem with Temptation is everyone thinks the re-recorded 1987/Substance version is the original, which it just ain't.

(I was one of those ignorant people till a couple of years ago.)

I did a snow-themed playlist: http://tinyurl.com/spotifysnow

(Fully road-tested, hand-sequenced and quality-controlled. I didn't JUST type "snow" into the search box, honest...)

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I'm going to spend the next two hours listening to all the New Order bonus discs on Spotify.

I was one of those ignorant people till a couple of years ago

Oh, man, I was confused to fuck about that back in the day. I got Substance for Christmas when I was 13 (1988, I guess) and I think it was buying the 7" at a record fair a couple of years later that a) made me think fuck, WHAT? This is a totally different song! and b) turned me into a not-very-good Factory completist.

I probably have more versions of Temptation, scattered across vinyl/CD/compilations/bootlegs/etc than any other song, which is why I was -- for a glorious second -- incredibly excited by the notion of an as-yet-unheard one!

Listening to your mix now. It's superb. Thanks for sharing.

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That looks great, too, Mike. Should we start a separate thread for sharing and talking about playlists?

that woud be a great idea. and keep this one for bashing and other updates

please guys, send me an invite!

thanks.

https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

Fifth time this link has been posted ...

(I can't see why you'd need an invitation code when everyone else using that link is getting in fine!)

Any luck, then?

I have an invite if you have no luck with that link, kaiser

What's the deal then - is everything on Spotify clean-versions?
I'm trying to listen to Juvenile and probably only 1/10 of the words are getting through

Oh, yeh: it's run by a fundamentalist Christian sect who don't believe in swearing, premarital relations or cheese. Sorry, thought everyone knew that.

fuck that noise!

Now playing: Straight Outta Communion

Has anyone else found the wrong songs playing yet? I've had one or two, the most recent being Alien Sex Fiend turning out to be the Mission
http://open.spotify.com/track/1XflNRUaUHrfYDkwMG0tIT

This album goes screwy about halfway through meaning you have to click on track 8 to hear track 7, track 9 to hear track 8, etc. and all your last.fm scrobbling is fucked up.

I can't find a feedback mechanism to correct tags.

This album, even

http://open.spotify.com/album/0LjK4Y0vtEUOKnbIzQlmi7

I wanted to listen to Wire's 154 the other day (yes despite having it on cd) but it only came up as the 3cd set, and then it would only play the songs in order - even clicking play on the first track on 154 would play Practice makes perfect, but the tags were showing correctly. Weird.

of course instead of getting the cd out I listened to something else altogether.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/reporting_bad_meta_data

For now, the best way to get metadata changes into Spotify is to look up the album on Musicbrainz and fix the problem or add the album if it doesn't already exist. Eventually, the fixes will end up in Spotify.

Musicbrainz has that album with 15 tracks while Spotify lists 13 with tracks 7 and 15 missing.

I can't see any way to "fix" this as the Musicbrainz listing is correct - meaning the only way to get Spotify to play the correct tracks is to delete track 7 from Musicbrainz or wait until Spotify add the missing tracks.

Surprisingly I am on this now, and it is playing GO SAILOR indiepop with good sound quality, and I think it might even be scrobbling to lastfm. ... yes it is !!

idjut boys most recent 'death before distemper' mix is up there as a 67min long (advert free so far) track, impressive