Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i assume lots of both

no, there is no overlap whatsoever

BBC Radio 1 head of music to join Spotify UK
George Ergatoudis, "to lead curation strategy and content programming at streaming service" (Spotify UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/15/bbc-radio-1-spotify-uk-george-ergatoudis

yyyyyyep

Discover Weekly is the best recommendation engine of any kind that I've ever seen. I hear as many or more new-to-me tracks that I love every week as I ever did when I spent hours every day being an Internet Seeker. I suspect part of why it's so good is that I generated playlists comprising every track in my hard drive's music collection, so I'm feeding it a rich training set for my musical taste.

I highly recommend importing a playlist of your music collection in any case. I made a playlist in csv format of all 20000+ tracks on my hard drive in MediaMonkey, then converted it to spotify format in chunks at http://www.ivyishere.org/ , then pasted the results directly into Spotify. About 75% of the tracks were available on Spotify.

You made a Spotify playlist of 20000 songs?

I think they have a 10000 song max so I had to split it into two parts, but yes.

I know I could just use Plex or something to stream directly from my own home computer, but I did this instead for some reason.

for the person whose playlists were deleted, there is a playlist recover function if you log in on the spotify website.

Same reason we climb Everest. xp

I'm in awe of that, Dan. No way I'd do that, but nice to know it could happen.

idk who came up with this http://spotify-starwars.com/

https://news.spotify.com/au/2015/12/16/mixed-by-us-tuned-by-you-get-your-party-started-with-with-our-perfectly-mixed-playlists/

Neat! What does "rolling out" mean, I wonder? I don't see this in my iPhone app.

yeah thats pretty rad

how do you access spotify party...is it a genre or a new tab or what

it took about 6-7 weeks after they announced they were "rolling out" discover weekly that i got it (and idk if putting in a help ticket w/ spotify sped it up) so who knows when everyone will be able to access this. soon though i hope...

“When it comes to throwing parties you simply have to have the right playlists – or everyone will leave,” says Diplo.

Got this this morning. Not to hate, but this one is not as cool as I had hoped. Songs aren't really mixed, just cross-faded. Most of the music is pretty mainstream.

I feel like at some point Spotify should make some kind of open API, so that apps can authenticate with a user's credentials, and then use the music however. The DJay app does this already.

I would love for people to be able to upload and share fully-mixed sets on Spotify. Maybe some kind of rev-share for the DJs? This might encourage discovery of more underground dance music, etc.

Most of the music is pretty mainstream.

― schwantz, Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:32 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a party playlist, what did you expect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZ1O0YhY5Q

Not my kind of party, I guess.

Yes, this is a resolutely and intentionally mainstream feature. The transitions in the built sets are beat-matched, though, not just cross-faded...

I guess so, but not the kind of fader-riding DJing that I expected.

Diplo Made It

strong rumors that beatles are coming to streaming on xmas

chrismas eve, yes

Nice

damn, new version loads fast as hell! right on

i mean, launches fast as hell

Just verified this. Indeed.

are you talkin about desktop or mobile

desktop

any ideas abt what's the best free distributor for uploading your own music to Spotify etc.? there's loads to choose from, looking for something pretty... minimal, open-sourcy...

examples:
http://www.tunecore.com/
https://www.recordunion.com/
http://members.cdbaby.com/

My main criterion for a distributor was that it be free to me, since I don't expect my music to make money. So I've been using OneRPM, and it's been fine.

If you don't mind spending a little bit, I know other people who like distrokid.

Sounds good, thanks! (I dont expect to profit either so free is nice)

(My cumulative total royalties are steadily approaching $1.00. Just give another few months.)

Hehe...

Beatles thing true btw http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/beatles-back-catalogue-music-streaming-spotify-apple-music

HEYYY I was just having an intense listen to Chris Bell's "I Am The Cosmos (Deluxe)" album and after the fifth track it stopped playing and Spotify says the album does not exist. Did it get unlicensed in mid-listen? I hate the cloud.

So now that the Beatles are streaming, who's left?

Drag City
Neil Young
Prince

If DC signed an exclusive deal with a service I would probably switch. They seem pretty stubborn and undifferentiated in their anti-streaming stance tho.

anyone happen to know the legalities of uploadeing a parody track to Spotify?

Peter Gabriel solo stuff isn't on there

I respect Drag City's position honestly

As little as I care about listening to the Beatles myself, I'm sort of happy that I can now play them for my kids without some sort of oldfangled musical disc aparatus.

Um, I think Neil Young and Prince are on Spotify in the US btw -- are you in the UK?

anyone happen to know the legalities of uploadeing a parody track to Spotify?

― niels, Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are loads of "cover" versions, i.e. with band names that are sooooo similar to the real name, I believe actual Parody tracks are covered by the Free Speech regulations.

xp they are not on Spotify in the US (well, there are a few terrible Geffen-era NY records)

Unless it changed recently, I am sure that I have listened to a bunch of classic Neil Young and Prince records on Spotify.

prince used to be on there but not for like a year now iirc