There was a website that would show you a random book on Amazon - it turns out that most of their stock is either erotic literature or print-on-demand hard copies of Wikipedia articles.
― the first cologne based on a sea-captain based celebrity (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it was not the best way to stock my library
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
= karaoke versions and tracks from sound fx albums in the spotify equivalent
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
So far Forgotify has given me a bunch of great 1970s Middle Eastern pop, some Bollywood soundtracks, off-brand classical recordings and some random self-released earnest singer-songwriters. Every now and then it says the track it was about to play has now been played by someone, but would I like to hear it anyway.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
So nobody cares about Pacemaker? I can't wait to check it out!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
downloaded; it's kinda neat
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
The thing about getting a track on forgotify which it seems too strange that noone has played: Some albums are on Spotify twice over or more -- could be because of various editions, or availability in various markets, or due to simple error. It is conceivable that one instance of such an album gets all the plays (e.g. if there's a tagging error in the other one).
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
messed around with it a little today, it doesn't do much pro DJ type shit if you're used to Traktor or whatever (I can't really figure out cueing or get it to auto-sync very good) but just to have a simple app to crossfade between two tracks off of Spotify is pretty great (especially for free)
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, hopefully:1. Pacemaker gets some improvements2. Spotify opens up to other vendors (Traktor for example)
― schwantz, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
after some more playing around I figured out you can at least move the start cue but it's hard to put it right on a beat. without having a good starting point it seems impossible to get it to sync right, unless there's something I'm missing. like you hit "sync" and it just immediately starts playing the other track, they will be the same tempo but if you're just starting from some random spot it's not gonna match up right.
still, it's kind of a cool app, I do like it
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
funnily enough this will only work on iOS 7 and Traktor DJ will only work on iOS 6 haha
I grabbed Traktor DJ for iPad the day they had it up for free but I never used it.
if they integrated spotify with Traktor Pro for desktop that would be pretty killer.
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
er, not desktop ... laptop ... non-iPad. you know what I mean.
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Before this, I figured that something in Spotify's contracts prevented them from allowing "performance" apps (like DJ software), but I guess not. Hopefully this is just the start.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
the only restriction in Pacemaker is that you can record your set inside Pacemaker (mix and record at the same time) if you're using mp3's but if you use Spotify tracks the record button is disabled. supposedly because of some copyright thing.
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Traktor works fine on iOS 7 iirc?
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
oh does it? I guess they updated. they sent out an email saying not to update to 7 and never said anything more about it. (I went ahead and upgraded since I really only use it on my laptop anyway.)
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
I mean, if it still didn't work this many months in, they'd be having some serious issues
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Guys remind me is there still a way to see the total time of your playlists?
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I see a tiny little figure in the top right of the playlist screen, above the switch for making "available offline"
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140223/22200926326/musicians-increasingly-realizing-that-streaming-services-are-actually-really-good-thing.shtml
― schwantz, Monday, 24 February 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for that article, interesting read. Sounds like the key is to lose a label that will suck most of the money before you see it (duh!) and get hugely popular in Scandinavia.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 February 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link
interesting read, sure, though i'm not sure two musicians writing pro-spotify articles means that musicians in general are "increasingly realizing" anything. it would have been just as easy to find two or three or twenty or thirty pro-spotify articles by musicians three or four years ago.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 24 February 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
I think it will be interesting if streaming gets really popular in the US to see if the money actually starts rolling in for people.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
it is really popular, it's just mostly those darn millenials on youtube
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
I think I've seen AT&T plugging their new download and streaming service Beats Music with TV ads. Subscriptions are $14.99/month for a family and $9.99 for an individual.
― timellison, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
it's a service with a deal with at&t. it's $9.99 each per if you are not a customer of at&t. there's a thread
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
Annoyingly, just as I was getting into the surprisingly good Matt Berry albums, they've vanished from spotify
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:23 (ten years ago) link
Glenn can explain what it means of course
http://blog.echonest.com/post/78749300941/the-echo-nest-joins-spotify
― Scooby Doom (۩), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
It may be a little while before I can actually explain anything beyond the fact that on your first day you get green headphones and a t-shirt, but yes, Spotify just bought The Echo Nest, where I work!
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I didn't realize you work there! I love me some data mining.
― have a nice blood (mh), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
I feel honored to have been a part of the Echo Nest experience since the beginning, and I wish you and your coworkers the best of luck as you embark on your incredible journey with Spotify!
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
If this could somehow lead to that insane genre map you produced becoming accessible as a Spotify app with all the relevant linking, well that'd be pretty much the best thing ever.
― I don't believe in the beauty standards (Windsor Davies), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
yep. fix it please.
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
The soundrop app (works with spotify or deezer) now has an Official 80s Underground/Indie room for all you old goths and noise rockers etchttp://open.soundrop.fm/s/80sunderground
Web version that uses youtube - http://play.soundrop.fm/s/XRp57NhZKZr7ZEGH
Onimo * others come play some of your faves!
― Scooby Doom (۩), Monday, 10 March 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
http://f.cl.ly/items/2O0O1B452m2x0N3s0r0Q/ClouDrop%2013%20Mar%202014%2016%3A21%3A14.png
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 March 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
yes please
― PONOPONOPONO (seandalai), Thursday, 13 March 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Grr. I promise I will try to get these fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they are "fixed", and that Spotify is paid to push those artists?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
No, that's not it.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
I love how for so many artists who I want to hear an 80s pop song by I get some re-recorded 2000s version of it and can't find the original. namely The Jets's "Make it Real" or Benny Mardones "Into the Night"...
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Jets "Make It Real": http://open.spotify.com/track/3sasIFIs1FUbB9gp03JUtsBenny Mardones "Into the Night": http://open.spotify.com/track/0rhyBUAgNXwdyvGVXSrLzc
These sound like the right versions. All I did was search on "jets make it real" or "benny mardones into the night", and these were the first results in both cases...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
nope, it's a decent reproduction, but that is definitely not the original version of "Make It Real". This is the original, and you can tell it's different as she uses slightly different inflections in the chorus, plus the keyboards are slightly different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOfSl2CFbY
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
that is the orig (1980) Mardones version tho, maybe I missed it several months ago or they added it in. when I last tried it was always a newer 2000s version.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I buy that they're slightly different versions of that Jets song, but I think the one I linked is also from the original era, not a later re-recording. Album vs single mix, maybe? The actual Jets albums appear to just not be available on any of the commercial online services. Not iTunes, and not anything the Echo Nest tracks. Everybody only has comps.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
possible. the guitar solo though sounds a bit like a modern reproduction, but I can't place the era.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
mardones records a new version of 'into the night' every few years to mark the passage of the years, a real time demonstration of 'i keep getting older but they stay the same age'
― balls, Friday, 14 March 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
hah yeah that too
― Neanderthal, Friday, 14 March 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
that jets track is DEFINITELY a re-recording. Pretty much everything on K-Tel on Spotify, except for the occasional '60s indie thing, is a re-recording.
the original is available on a 20th century masters comp from Geffen, though. Helps to look at the label on these things.
― da croupier, Friday, 14 March 2014 05:21 (ten years ago) link
the k-tel stuff apparently was recorded in 1998 - their wikipedia's pretty straightforward about it
― da croupier, Friday, 14 March 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
fyi glenn i'd also avoid recommending tracks from goldenlane records and deadline music - all re-recording compilation pushers
― da croupier, Friday, 14 March 2014 05:30 (ten years ago) link