Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Prompted to install a new version this morning. Still won't load my local files. C'mon Apple Music!!!

Does spotify publish a change log for these new versions? Would love to see the features they remove each time instead of just stumbling upon them and upping my rage randomly throughout the day.

Google music lets you manage (remove) downloads. Not sure if apple will allow this.

Apple will apparently not carry matador, rough trade, xl, 4AD on streaming for the moment
http://beggars.com/group/pressrelease/90/with-regards-to-apple-music

No Scott then :(

nah, Creed is on Wind-up

lool so no adele or jack white then, sweet deal for your customers apple

it is sort of nuts that they didn't get that shit worked out prior to launch... they've had years to discuss it!
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3043547/spotifys-new-look-signals-its-identity-shift

Apple Music advertising has prominently featured some artists signed to those labels, including FKA Twigs and Alabama Shakes

xpost wow. so bold.

i like the new green

it's spending 5,000,000 years dragging & dropping a song to a different place in a playlist that bothers me

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Is there a thread for this style of breathless brand-identity snake oil?

i think there was one that included the famous pepsi logo documents

If only they had curated 12 perfect colors for their marketing materials, I would have signed up for Spotify years ago!

http://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf

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Is there a thread for this style of breathless brand-identity snake oil?

― schwantz, Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really snake-oil oriented, but maybe worth a peek: Design Crimes: corporations ditching classic logos for newer logos that are duds

whoa that doc is insaneo

ha the old timey pepsi logo looks kinda black metalish

If there was an audio version, it would be read by Tom Cruise.

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/pepsigravitationalfield-090413113629-phpapp01/95/breathtaking-pepsi-27-728.jpg%3Fcb%3D1421229359

To count as a play, does it matter whether or not the song is saved for offline use?

In a vacation scenario in which you're offline for a week but listening to tracks -- and then you come home and go back online -- does the app upload all the usage information at that point?

things like that drive me absolutely kookuroo

Yes, offline listening gets logged offline and then reported when you next connect.

:D

http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/122071902085/to-apple-love-taylor

"we don't ask you for free iPhones"

truthbomb.jpg

she must be on a PAYG sim

lol

http://time.com/3929784/taylor-swift-apple-open-letter-eddy-cue/

Oh to be a fly on the wall of Apple's accounting department right now.

t swift running the music biz

17 hours!

Oh to be a fly on the wall of Apple's accounting department right now.

they won't care. this is a rounding error in their revenue and cash reserves. (which is why it was so shitty that they did it in the first place.)

This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt.

heh

good work Taylor!

I'm have OCD about storage space and my usage on my stupid phone. That's why it kills me that there's no way to clear the cache. No way to remove what you downloaded last week but decided you don't need this week. You're stuck with it until you delete and reinstall!

― calstars, Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:48 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait this can't be right -- you're telling me if you make an album available offline, it's there until you delete and reinstall Spotify and there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it?

also how fucked is it that you can't view album or track lengths in iOS, what the hell is this shit?

wish taylor had signed off that letter with a p.s., please stream at 320kbps

"or I'm going PONO only"

Stevie - yeah. That's my main sticking point with the app.

Apple backed off and will now pay royalties during trial period.

Those royalties go straight to music execs more or less, so yay

just me or is anyone else getting a FULL 30-second ad every time they play an official video on YouTube?

are they ratcheting it up?

just you i think. everyone else is running an ad blocker.

:(

can I also complain how iOS Spotify doesn't display full track titles if they're more than idk 25 characters or so? And I am still miffed about not displaying album or track lengths anywhere, despite them being displayed in the desktop app.

Why is Spotify's search function now so regularly terrible? I don't particularly care about how it deals with my offline library or whether or not I can star tracks, but I would like to be able to search for a globally famous artist without it just hanging there forever.

At this point in time they really should not be fucking up such basic stuff.

Apple Music launches in 15 minutes. Assuming you can upload your iOS at the time.

I want apple music reports from y'all.

My particular bent: I want to upload shit tons of my own library to it, including stuff that already exists in their official cloud but where I want to be able to listen to my own rips either because I prefer a prior remastering or because the official streaming versions are marred by universal music group watermarks. E.g. The steely dan catalog. Will I have to retag my versions as "steely dan jl" or some shit or will it just let me do this?

Also, will cached content be playable using apps like can opener which can see my phone's iTunes music library? I'm assuming not but it would be amazing if yes since can opener has customizable eq and crossfeed.

Also, can you upload your own library stuff from several computers (e.g. home MacBook, work PC)?

official streaming versions are marred by universal music group watermarks. E.g. The steely dan catalog

wait what is this? I have never heard of this

Should there be a dedicated thread for Apple music? This one feels dirty with all my spotify complaining.

Jon you should start a separate thread for the Universal watermarks, you have been a great source of info on that