Spotify - anyone heard of it?

really getting tired of locating and re-setting the "please don't start this program when I start my computer" setting. I mean resetting that is just rude.

forilz

"Enjoy a relaxing evening."

Thanks Spotify, I will. Just after my 2 minutes hate, when I am ready for peaceable recreation.

my desktop app won't boot up anymore :/

the ultimate flag post from glenn

Spotify Support is another really good thing for which I can take absolutely no credit. They can fix you.

The Android version is better than the it's in that the hamburger gives you the full menu. Including search. So you don't have to go all the way back.

*ios

I'm not sure how to report this, but Suicide's second album has a track mix-up. Track 5, "Touch Me," has the audio for track 6, "Harlem," and vice-versa: http://open.spotify.com/album/4X26FOEhz57Q7y6xKF9MrO

"Spotify is like a villainous cabal of major labels. The business is built from the ground up as a way to circumvent the idea of paying their artists."

http://pitchfork.com/news/61661-joanna-newsom-spotify-is-the-banana-of-the-music-industry-it-just-gives-off-a-fume/

new username up for grabs with that link headline...someone should snap that up.

original interview:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-joanna-newsom-spotify-villainous-cabal-garbage-system-20151015-story.html

http://wiki.godvillegame.com/images/thumb/b/bf/Banana_Head.jpg/175px-Banana_Head.jpg

related issue re songwriting royalties
http://www.wsj.com/articles/songwriters-lose-out-on-royalties-1444864895

i'd have a lot more sympathy for spotify's "look we gave billions to Rights Holders, whaddyawant" stance if they were more transparent about their relationship with certain Rights Holders. you can't claim you're pro-artist & that the majors are the swindlers while in a collusive relationship with the majors.

http://assets0.thefourohfive.com/data/6920/feature/Gaz-Coombes-April-2012.jpg?1337666628

spotify just decides not to connect like 30% of the time for me now, regardless what device i'm using. endless spinning circles.

Whats w nv imagebombing every thread

Gaz Coombes

Yes i know who it is who cares

Gaaaaz Coooooooombes

Are you okay?

Gz Cmbs

gaz coombes?

Gaz. Coombes.

Gaz it.

Pretty damning to be compared to a nutritious, healthy food.

Also is she shaming crust punks here? Dumpster diving is an excellent way to reduce waste.

overripe bananas have a lot of use.

in simile, for example

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/ripe-banana-old-mushy-ugly-but-so-sweet-and-great-for-dessert-yes_n_5715925.html

These all look pretty good.

that link is stinkin up the thread

Noticed this change on Spotify UK, Biography on Artist profiles has been replaced with About

new meta information on Spotify artist profiles on the spotify Windows desktop app: About

the number of monthly listeners (for popular artists you can see their current global ranking, e.g Chvrches are ranked 214th)

Where people listen - top 5 cities

Discovered on: lists the top 5 current playlists where the artist was discovered on. Useful feature for discovering playlists.

About tab is great, I didn't realise, for example, how popular Dave Edmunds is in Sweden

lol, just went to check that and it's twue, it's twue. Just listened to "I Hear You Knocking" and now "Girls Talk."

Pretty much every artist I click on is most popular in London - are there just more people using Spotify there than anywhere else?

geographical population stats, bigger population, larger user base, therefore more likely to dominate top lists.

Yes, these are based on straight counts, not anything fancy.

Glenn,

Couple questions maybe you can shine some light on...

Any chance of adding AllMusic album reviews, in addition to artist profiles?
Any chance of adding user reviews and comments to tracks/artists/albums (either generated from within Spotify or from an external source like AllMusic?) This will probably be controversial but I often find it difficult to find discussion of a certain track, for example.

No, sorry, I don't have any insight on those.

(I'm not personally a big fan of attaching discussions to individual pieces of music like that. I think discussions work better at a higher level...)

http://thetrichordist.com/2015/10/20/spotify-has-apparently-failed-to-license-account-and-pay-on-more-than-150-cracker-and-camper-van-beethoven-songs/

Well it seems like they'll have to pay those twenty five bucks in royalties to them then.

lol

http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/spotify_pulls_thousands_of_victory_records_songs_in_light_of_legal_dispute

in light of an ongoing legal dispute with Victory Records, Spotify has pulled thousands of the label’s songs from their service.

According to a press release from Victory, 53,000,000 streams were identified with no publishing royalties being paid by Spotify. These were originally noted by Audiam, a digital distribution company that monitors services to make certain that publishers are receiving their due payments. In Victory’s case, their publishing company, Another Victory, has allegedly not been receiving proper monetary compensation.

... Bands who have had material removed from Spotify include A Day To Remember, Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights and many others.

According to Billboard, the unaccounted 53,000,000 streams total nearly $23,000 in unpaid revenue.

a music writer's entire yearly salary

ouch

I haven't heard anything about this case internally, but everything on Spotify comes TO us from a licensor. We're not ripping CDs or uploading our own files or anything like that. We don't have to "find" the owners of a recording. So almost certainly this is a dispute between licensors, or purported licensors.

The thing about knowing who to pay is specifically about songwriting royalties, which are 1/6 (by law) of what we pay. The other 5/6 goes to the licensor of the recordings. So the issue here is probably not that Spotify isn't paying for these songs, but that we're paying somebody who claimed to own the rights but actually doesn't...

$23,000 probably wouldn't even cover the legal fees

Victory Records is the worst label ever

Oh, I see, the whole Victory story is just about the publishing royalties. This is a part that's way more complicated with streaming than it was with physical media. Tower Records didn't have to pay songwriters and recording artists separately, they bought the CDs from the record company, and the record company was responsible for paying both the recording artists and the songwriters. I don't know the history of how the streaming royalty flows came to be different in this way.

this billboard piece more or less explains how it got to this way with separate publishing royalties. it's a somewhat garbled story but it makes it clear there's at least a little bit of blame on pretty much every side of this.