Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

Spotify is set to offer offline versions of its playlists to PC users as well as those on mobile phones. Apparently.

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.

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.

Signed up last week. Just started getting ads today, but they're not so bad...yet.

Interesting bit of comment about Spotify DRM and mobile data usage.

hahaha did anyone else get the advert for 2666 yet?

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

Using Dan Black AND Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip to advertise Oxfam is kind of making me want to pipebomb my local charity shop.

can't hear you, too busy committing my body to corporate science

This is good - http://spotifitunes.com

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!

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/

'Love vs Money' finally on this

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.

I kept getting some error message earlier where i had to restart spotify

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.

Anyone heard this? http://open.spotify.com/album/7MHKYRlQH5GD2DFPSHKIEv

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z4SK4HEJL._SS500_.jpg

hahaha http://open.spotify.com/album/2kFgh4JSmUjqNSm1mkvcbK
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CJ-XpM1xL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kickin-Hitlers-Butt-Anti-Fascist-1940-1944/dp/B000NDDU60/ref=pd_sim_m_h__5

http://open.spotify.com/album/4LRTQPGnZuVjaZ40okBYNT
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EwVnPVDdL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diabolical-Hoodoo-Vintage-Hellfire-1920-1952/dp/B0002IPZI2/ref=pd_sim_m_h__2

http://open.spotify.com/album/3Awtoiuz3rT7up9wDgXucr
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R7R6FCTBL._SS500_.jpg
http://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

http://open.spotify.com/album/2CfMlq0DebXeJClBI8XQv9
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GPASBHJZL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Junkers-Jivers-Coke-Fiends-1926-1952/dp/B0007WL7DK/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__img_c

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5129Z8FH0CL._SS500_.jpg

the whole series is on spotify

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZY2CYYPGL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WKTCM49DL._SS500_.jpg

Here is a list of the entire series http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/label/Buzzola/a/Buzzola

18 vintage songs about sex. Track Listing of songs: Ride Daddy Ride; I Want a Bowlegged Woman; It Ain't the Meat It's the Motion; You Put It in, I'll Take It Out; Sweet Honey Hole; Doodle Hole; Poon Tang; Let Me Roll Your Lemon; Good Jelly Blues; It Must Be Jelly 'Cos You Know Jam Don't Shake; I Had to Give up Gym; Mule Get up in the Alley; Let Me Ride in Your Little Automobile; Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods; Move Your Hand Baby; Sit Right on It; She Kept on Sittin' on It All the Time; Hucklebuck Baby;

that is filthy for 2009 nevermind 1927-53

Is nobody else here getting the CD-like skipping (not like buffering..) on every track played via Spotify 3,4 or 5 times each now?

Not me. I had it a few times months ago but not recently. Must only be certain albums?

only if I've suddenly become the unluckiest picker of spotify albums ever.

am dual booting and pretty sure I've been getting this on both XP and Win7 so suspect it's something to do with the last upgrade (I get the "offline" pause above too, although it usually clears, but takes a good minute to snap into online mode)

this sounds great too
http://www.trikont.com/basics/cgi-tdb/basics.prg?session=5b68bfcf4ad26f46_240695

Yeah I've been getting that fndgo. Think they are just messing with it to encourage people to pay up tbh.

Do those rekkids sound as cool as they look?

yes!

I do like that Hitler and Hell track.

I listened to Space Guitar & Deathray Boogie - Vintage Science Fiction Songs 1926-1952 CD, Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952. and I'm listening to Kickin' Hitler's Butt: Vintage Anti-Fascist Songs 1940-1944 which has woody guthrie,leadbelly etc on it.

I'll give the Deathray Boogie a go before bedtime then :)

what did you think?

for the last few months i have used spotify excuslively to check out jazz music that i need to hear before i buy : mile davis, stan kenton, wayne shorter etc.
so why is it today when i log in the list of artists that spotify thinks i may like is : soft cell, the lilac time, squeeze, the beautiful south, orange juice, and the blue mile !?

"doodle hole"?

Science Fiction one was v. interesting. It was not anything like what I normally listen to, so I can't say if it is good or not but I certainly enjoyed it and wouldn't mind hearing more like it. Internet age kind of sucks trying to hear everything I actually want to, and not in a cuntish 'oh yeah, i once listened to 5 minutes of that so i can have an opinion on it because i'm a massive prick' kind of way. (That said internet age keeping my listening habits cheap, so <3.)

Sam complains about spotify adverts #43: Never, never ever, never ever never ever gonna be scared by a movie called TRIANGLE. Even if you do say it in that LOUD AND SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY BUT KIND OF SILLY voice. TRIANGLE. It is an instrument even more useless than cowbell.

Your mind would be blown if you ever saw the early 80s BBC soap Triangle.

Just added:

Kraftwerk

* Autobahn (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* Computer World (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* Radio-Activity (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* Techno Pop (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* The Man Machine (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* The Mix (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* Tour De France (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)
* Trans Europe Express (2009 Digital Remaster) (album)

wwwowwww

!!!!!!!

(on a non Kraftwerk note just discovered a shitload of Moondog and some Tom Lehrer on there too, that's the afternoon's playlist sorted)

As I said on a revived Kraftwerk thread, they all have horrible covers. Listening to The Mix, and they sound great, though!

...although it's not actually mixed, which is something of an error. I'm going to give Tour De France a try instead.

I think the cover of 'The Mix' is an improvement and I would really like TEE if I'd never seen the original sleeve. The new Man Machine sleeve is appaling.

otm x3