https://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/08/26/spotify-premium-uk-magical-mercury-prize-competition/
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
so if i sign up in the uk, will it still work when i head back to the usa?
― akaky akakievich, Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
No...I'm a UK subscriber, and I couldn't get it to work when I visited the US earlier this month.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it should work if you're a premium subscriber:
When I try to login it says that my current country does not match my profile?When you login Spotify checks the internet protocol (IP) address that you use to connect to the internet and compares it to the country you set in your profile when you registered. If they do not match and you are away from your home country more than 14 days you will not be able to log in. If you have moved we suggest you change the country in your profile, as long as you have moved to one of our other launch countries. If you travel extensively you can purchase a premium subscription for unlimited travel. In some cases this error can occur by mistake if you use Spotify at work as many companies route their traffic through other countries therefore you appear to be abroad. If you’re at work and have this problem you can solve it by logging in to your Spotify account at home once and awhile.
― joe, Sunday, 30 August 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It worked for me in France last month.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 August 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh great, just what we needed, a talk to frank advert with the sound of someone puking.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
talk to frank advert every 2 songs now. 6 tracks played 3 bloody adverts.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
and again 2 tracks later (a couple of them were 2 adverts btw)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Re "Premium indistinguishable from CD"... having just plugged the laptop into the REALLY GOOD hi-fi, I take it all back. Limitations duly exposed.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I found the ads easily annoying enough to warrant spending £10 a month. £10! That's nothing. Or maybe I'm hopelessly out of touch with Breadline Britain.
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
If you've got the stereo cranked those ads are very, very off-putting..
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
these ads are much more regular than they used to be. really annoying. which is exactly how they should be if they're going to persuade me to pony up a tenner a month.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
When we introduced the sharing feature, a lot of you requested a simple way of sharing the music you are listening to on Twitter. With Spotify 0.3.19, you can.
http://www.spotify.com/wp-content/uploads/share-to-twitter.png
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pansentient.com/2009/08/spotify-fm-new-last-fm-mashup/
There are several mashup apps that help you find new releases on Spotify based on your listening habits scrobbled to Last.fm (here’s the complete list). The newest and possibly the best yet is Spotify.fm from developer Frank Quist. Spotify.fm includes several unique features you won’t find elsewhere, such as an RSS feed and the ability to search new releases based on both your Last.fm username or genre. Spotify.fm lists the most recent releases (going back 6 months) from your favourite artists. Enter your Last.fm username to display a list sorted by date released on Spotify then by artist:
Spotify.fm lists the most recent releases (going back 6 months) from your favourite artists. Enter your Last.fm username to display a list sorted by date released on Spotify then by artist:
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.frankquist.nl/spotifyfm/
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
spotify is proving kind of a boon in the workplace.
― thomp, Friday, 4 September 2009 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link
What gives? I see that "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Technical Ecstasy" and "Never Say Die" among others have suddenly disappared from the Sabs page. A temporary blip?! The beginning of the end?!
p.s. Technical Ecstacy = Criminally Underrated. Don't let the cover put you off!
― The Sunburned Hand of Manfredd Man (Rombald), Saturday, 5 September 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They added 45,000 albums in August so I don't think a couple of Sabbath albums disappearing is the beginning of the end, and there are still about 15 Sabbath albums available.
I like the Technical Ecstacy cover!
― Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! (onimo), Sunday, 6 September 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
They're deliberately making those adds worse and worse to get you to pay for the thing aren't they? Might be getting near some sort of tipping point for me here anyhow.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I thoroughly enjoy those brilliant adverts.
― the cunt from the hilarious "spotify" adverts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
C*nt!
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually by "enjoy" I mean "would like to stab the star in the throat".
― the cunt from the hilarious "spotify" adverts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Noodle Vague voiced "Whitey" in those adverts.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 6 September 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe Apple will just buy it
Stevem OTM. I'm starting the rumour that Apple announces the Spotify app on Wednesday and it'll come bundled on the new iPods. And the small print will say something about Apple taking a stake in the company.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 6 September 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe not (I am dum):
Today we’re really excited to announce that Spotify is available to our premium subscribers for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android platforms. The Spotify app is downloadable in both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market.We’ve worked hard to bring you the same great Spotify experience you’re already familiar with to your phone. The mobile apps will allow you to take the entire Spotify catalogue and put it in your pocket. You can use our ‘offline mode’ to make playlists available at all times, even when no connection is available, perfect for that ride on the tube or long flight across the Atlantic.
We’ve worked hard to bring you the same great Spotify experience you’re already familiar with to your phone. The mobile apps will allow you to take the entire Spotify catalogue and put it in your pocket. You can use our ‘offline mode’ to make playlists available at all times, even when no connection is available, perfect for that ride on the tube or long flight across the Atlantic.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 6 September 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't tried downloading anything to the phone yet, but it takes about five seconds to start playing a song when streaming it over T-Mobile 3G and there's none of that buffering like in the Last.fm mobile player.
Using the Android version, by the way.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 6 September 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Spotify is set to offer offline versions of its playlists to PC users as well as those on mobile phones. Apparently.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 7 September 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
not 100 per cent sure that blog is interpreting the t&cs correctly: spotify has always cached songs to speed up the streaming (you're also uploading tracks to other users, peer-to-peer style). so it might just mean you can use spotify on up to three machines as a premium user.
― joe, Monday, 7 September 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Huge update today with another 189,000 tracks added. Skimmed through the google doc http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tuLYLenoNqBWfhds8qaoXDg&output=html, Jeepster's back catalogue is up with Belle and Sebastian up to full strength, The deluxe editions of Radiohead's last EMI albums are up. What looks moist interesting is a lot of vintage stuff from 'The Orchard' including Brylcreemed Boys & Beehived Birds (Part 1), Bollywood - Before the Slumdog Millionaire Years, Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly In The Commonwealth and African Folk Music of the 1920s.
― Old Man of Hoy-ho Silver Lining (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Signed up last week. Just started getting ads today, but they're not so bad...yet.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting bit of comment about Spotify DRM and mobile data usage.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha did anyone else get the advert for 2666 yet?
― thomp, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only listened to the first cd, but that Virginia Rocks! History of Rockabilly is nigh-on flawless. Quite wonderful.
http://open.spotify.com/album/27c6YY7NTdr1aJpHf2SdL4
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Using Dan Black AND Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip to advertise Oxfam is kind of making me want to pipebomb my local charity shop.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
can't hear you, too busy committing my body to corporate science
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This is good - http://spotifitunes.com
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I rather like this — 'R&B from Doo-Wop to Hip-Hop': http://open.spotify.com/album/4he7R24eqd1EbF9kegiAK8
Bonus — guaranteed to annoy absolutely everyone in the average office at some point!
― thomp, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this will be the carrot which makes me sign up for a premium subscription, http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/10/01/spotify-goes-offline/
― Terminator Eggs (Billy Dods), Friday, 2 October 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
'Love vs Money' finally on this
― modescalator (blueski), Friday, 2 October 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i keep getting this shit when i load it up even though i am connected to the internet
http://burythehammer.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/alan1.jpg?w=510&h=382
and songs keep just stopping halfway through for no reason. if it weren't so free and easy, i'd be starting to really get fucked off with spotify.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 10 October 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I kept getting some error message earlier where i had to restart spotify
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
There's been a lot of this kind of shit reported on the Spotify forums ... the Mac client had become unusable for some, and painfully slow to log on for others, but I know Linux and Windows users have been getting grief too. In fairness to Spotify, I think they've fixed the Mac issues: their customer service is actually exceptional, but obviously it requires everyone who's having problems to actually let them know.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 11 October 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone heard this? http://open.spotify.com/album/7MHKYRlQH5GD2DFPSHKIEv
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z4SK4HEJL._SS500_.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha http://open.spotify.com/album/2kFgh4JSmUjqNSm1mkvcbKhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CJ-XpM1xL._SS500_.jpghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Kickin-Hitlers-Butt-Anti-Fascist-1940-1944/dp/B000NDDU60/ref=pd_sim_m_h__5
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/4LRTQPGnZuVjaZ40okBYNThttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EwVnPVDdL._SS500_.jpghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Diabolical-Hoodoo-Vintage-Hellfire-1920-1952/dp/B0002IPZI2/ref=pd_sim_m_h__2
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/3Awtoiuz3rT7up9wDgXucrhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R7R6FCTBL._SS500_.jpghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00019FWEO/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p15_i4?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=06VFC68M04MRRVZXSFFE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/2CfMlq0DebXeJClBI8XQv9http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GPASBHJZL._SS500_.jpghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Junkers-Jivers-Coke-Fiends-1926-1952/dp/B0007WL7DK/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__img_c
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5129Z8FH0CL._SS500_.jpg
the whole series is on spotify
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZY2CYYPGL._SS500_.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link