Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

on a bright morning it's playing DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN!

aargh fuck the energy saving trust, makes me want to put my heating on at full blast with all my windows open!

1) Energy Saving Trust
2) Spotify
3) Arlington Road

Any others?

directgov.org possibly the least annoying.

DEC gaza appeal

- which confused me 'cause DEC sounds a bit like BBC.

White Lies had an advert when their rec was new.

And Lady Gaga too for a second.

U2 have a banner ad up just now, slightly ominously.

There was a while near the beginning where the only advert they were running was for Madagascar. 'I Like To Move It Move It', though great, is particularly obtrusive popping up two thirds of the way through a Sibelius symphony.

Arlington Road

Revolutionary Road?

If so: nope, I've heard nothing else. This business model worries me enormously.

There was that tax returns advert, but that's over now. They could start warning people about next year's maybe.

i hate the advert with the whistling guy so much

the only way they could do worse is if they got tiny from tile it all to do one(Grimly and Onimo might understand that one)

^ Think that's before my time north of the Border?

But FUCK YES, I hate whistling Direct Gov guy. He's just been on, actually. And I winced.

grimly its been around for 10 years at least but still on. I guess you dont have parents who listen to clyde 2 and you will avoid clyde1 on a saturday as you hate football.

Got it in one. Er, two :)

i dont mind whistling, its just that whistling with the teeth thing of that advert i hate. ugh. still not getting a tenner a month tho from me. i'll just not use it if it continues haha

This site seems useful.

For now, the co-founders are putting their own money into the company.

Can't accuse The Grauniad of being first with news here, but that's an interesting little line.

The guys behind it still seem to be basing the business model on the pay-for side of things, when it seems to me the free thing is what makes it.

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http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/spotify-why-it’s-been-so-successful-and-what-it-needs-to-do-next/

1. Key point not made clear by that article: Spotify allows me to listen to full-length albums with one click. Last.fm doesn't have anything remotely like as many full-length albums; also (and this might be a browser thing, but hey) it often gets pissy when a track finishes and require me to pop back to the requisite window before it starts playing the next one. Also: browser-based anything can suck dick for a whole heap of reasons.

2. Key point totally misunderstood by that article: mobile Spotify would rule so fucking hard that I'd shell out a goodly whack of cash for it.

yeah, if it's not a killer app already, mobile functionality would definitively make it so.

"Make it so!"

http://rodtsentrum.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jean-luc-picard.gif

I have to say, despite my moans and gripes above, it really has been a revelation, both for old music and new. I sincerely, sincerely hope it doesn't fuck up :)

Me too. Almost seems to good to be true TBH, despite some reservations.