Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Couple of Grouper albums added

Nice, everything I've heard on Type is good. Also Morr and Monika stuff added for yer early 00s indietronica needs.

I like old time music too

vinyl, tapes, CDs - I like them all!

but maybe a happy way of seeing it is:
we appreciate them all more, now we have spotify, etc

I use spotify a lot, and iPod, and also enjoy the other things above (and even radio), maybe more than ever in a way

maybe it's All Good?

New PJ Harvey album is on there. I'd have thought record companies would wait a few months before giving new releases to Spotify, but no.

may not be legit

Jeez. I was listening to Iggy Pop's The Idiot on Spotify earlier. It was inturrupted halfway through by Iggy trying to sell me car insurance. Fuuuuck.

rofl

He's not selling you insurance, he's selling you time!

The latest way to try make you subscribe - Preview streams of new albums.
If you're a premium user you can listen to the new Lady Sovereign on Spotify before official release date.

I definitely shall be staying on the free one :)

Is there an ILM playlist?

There's this spotify:user:raw_patrick:playlist:76IpHss348rO3mn7O15nU8

Do you know what really annoys me? You start Spotify, and think ah, I'll listen to an album. So you find, and it click play. After a couple of songs you think, I know what'll sound good after this album's finished, so you queue something else but because you didn't queue the first album you selected, it starts playing the second album after the current song's finished, and the your queue is full of the original artist's entire collection, which you can't delete or anything, (and because my monitor's a bit fucked these non-queued tracks are practically invisible). Am I just being really stupid? Is not queueing the first thing you listen to that much of a crime that I have to be punished in this way? Yeah, I should remember because I do this every day, but still. Maybe I should complain on their blog.

Also, Spotify not doing so well over here (so far at least) http://xrrf.blogspot.com/search/label/easter%20track%20smackdown

i just either wait until an albums finished then look for another or add albums to a playlist

MoHoBishOpi were utter bollocks. So any service that doesnt have them gets a +

iggy selling insurance advert on. ugh

He's selling time!

Hmm, I've had it pause randomly on occasion in the past, which I assumed to be a memory problem at my end, but now it's playing back and it sounds like a scratched cd, just jumping about loads. Anyone else noticed this?

Yeh: I think it's a problem at peak times. There's some chat about it on the Get Satisfaction forums, if I remember rightly ... put it this way, I think it's 99.9% agreed to be a problem at their end.

I assume subscribers get priority.

I'm not so sure about that. There seemed to be a very egalitarian cluelessness when we were moaning at them about the OS X/scrobbling thing.

Anyone else not really bothered by the ads because they remind you a bit of listening to the car radio in GTA?

no,but ive never played GTA

anyone got any good playlists?

have you seen the spotify playlist thread?

well yeah but I dont know if any of those were of interest to me. The posters on this thread I'd say know my taste better so could recommend stuff.

I might make a funk playlist that everyone can add to, but there's no Funkadelic on it!

funk playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/79tiumovObNXLsJMy6fzJm

hey pfunkboy

good news! spotify have added some music by artists you've told us you love.

click on any of the titles to play in spotify (we're afraid some releases may not be available in your country yet though).
Growing

* All The Way (album)
* Lateral (album)
* The Social Club No 8 (single)

Earth

* Pentastar: In the Style of Demons (album)
* Phase III: Thrones and Dominions (album)

happy listening :)

from freshspotify

What annoys me so far: tagging of classical music. They're not alone in this, it just seems crazy that after XY years of tagged digital music the only universal model still seems to be artist + track title + album title. This means that some things are tagged with the composer as the artist, while others (the majority?) are tagged with the actual musician(s) performing, which is somewhat unhelpful when only browsing for stuff.

This is true for many music services btw, and most don't even seem to try to address this problem. Emusic is an exception I guess.

Or is there a workaround I'm missing?

I don't think so.

"especially in the bedroom"

it's fun looking for pre-1920s techno on this thing

like that 'mechanical music hall' comp?

The new jingle is irritating. Also: what's it reminding me of/lifted from?

I went to a party recently and instead of DJs or hosts' own music collection being made available to soundtrack the getting drunk/good times, they just propped their laptop on a shelf, launched Spotify

After a while it got a bit stoopid with people cutting playing tracks short instead of queing them.

Still it's got enough to rock the house for an extended period

IIRC the new jingle sounds like the opening of "Diamonds and Pearls" by Prince.

Also annoyed about classical music tagging - especially on the radio part, which does not seem to allow scope for classical listening at all! Music didn' just suddenly t begin in the 20th century, guys...

Speaking of the radio: I like lots of 70s music, but the tags on the radio thing just suck... way too broad. Whatever configuration I try it just sounds like I'm getting the latest Ariel Pink album... I think they need some kind of Pandora tech, or at least a blacklist option (- "nooo, not Chicago AGAIN!")

IIRC the new jingle sounds like the opening of "Diamonds and Pearls" by Prince

It's similar -- I queued up D&P and, by sheer luck, managed to get the jingle right before it -- but not identical ... it puts me in mind of some mildly cheesy, breezy seventies Americana, but maybe that's just the sign of a really good jingle.

The whole of Earache's back catalogue has been uploaded today! I'm currently listening to Heartwork by Carcass!

For some reason, I used to be able to follow direct links from ILX into the Spotify music, but now they're saying that because I'm in the US, I'm blocked. WTF? Was I just hitting accidental backdoors before?

I'm not sure, I've always been blocked from the ILX links.

i need spotify rehab, my soul is being destroyed

New Isis on spotify and an old Ulver album added

Anything else new added?

Nothing too exciting in today's spreadsheet, but there is this: http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/904190/Spotify-challenges-iTunes-unlimited-downloads/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

£10 a month for unlimited downloads. Hmm.

Realizing that once you can access this anywhere anytime anyway, whether it's stored on your own device or not is of little importance? (Actually, in this case it's a cost to download it, since it takes diskspace.)

This argument obv only works when seeing the user in isolation, since filesharing between users is what the conventional extra cost for download is about anyway. Or, it also works if everyone uses eg Spotify, since then filesharing is pointless, you just share links and playlists instead.

OK one final advantage of downloading to device: insurance for when the Net collapses.

(Also, I haven't followed thread too closely, what is this spreadsheet you mention?)

Every few days they post a link to a googledoc on their blog with the latest additions to the catalogue. http://www.spotify.com/blog/

The other big advantage of downloading is being able to put it on a portable player though - mobile spotify seems to be on the way but I'm unlikely to be getting anything to take advantage of that for a while. My 1GB iRiver is fine for my needs and I've only just figured out how to get wap on my 4 year old mobile phone.

My first thought was 'I think £10 a month is a fair price to save me the bother of ripping my collection (started in February, currently stalled somewhere around the Chameleons), as long as the quality's good enough'. But at the moment I seem to only be listening to music through Spotify, getting my girlfriend's laptop out and plugging it into the stereo when I actually have cds and records sitting there. This is probably more to do with last.fm nerdiness though.

The £10 a month for d/ls claim is bullshit btw.

ha, ok! saves worrying about that. (I've just noticed the writer of that piece has the same name as me. Just a coincidence.)

The other big advantage of downloading is being able to put it on a portable player though

Yeah, I was kinda projecting into the future when Spotify(-likes) are installed on everyone's phone anyway. (Feels somewhat inevitable to me.)

Thanks for blog/spreadsheet answer!