Spotify - anyone heard of it?

...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

The new Autobahn one isn't too bad I suppose.

Cover connections:

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/images/covers09/08.2009/kraftwerk_radioactivity_300.jpg

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog/V/VA%20-%20Box%20Of%20Dub%20(Dub%20Step%20And%20Future%20Dub)/VA%20-%20Box%20Of%20Dub%20(Dub%20Step%20And%20Future%20Dub).jpg

Listening to Computer World and the drums on Numbers are absolutely immense. Really glad I took the plunge and signed up for a premium sub as the remasters are much, much better than I expected.

what's the advantage of having a premium sub with regards to the kraftwerk remasters?

Streams in 320kbps instead of 160 kbps. Same for all stuff I think, though some stuff will benefit more obviously.

... and if you've got an iPhone then you can download them for offline listening too. Am actually surprised at home much I'm looking forward to hearing these.

Er, at "how" much, obviously.

FEAR COMES IN WAVES: TRIANGLE

this makes me lol every time i hear it.

premium now offers offline listening? why this would be useful i really don't know but still

i would happily take a survey so spotify know how to accurately advertise to me. because if i, a non-driver, hear that fucking bad driving done by a lol child advert one more time i may go steal a car and run over some children. i use spotify to stop me 'stealing' music but at this rate, i may just have to go back to it. or find a job and buy records again.

Bob Dylan catalogue no longer on Spotify (or isn't on there as of right now) :(

Aye he pulled everything, this - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/aug/17/major-labels-spotify - implies that it was something to do with the labels making money as spotify shareholders without any of that revenue reaching the artists.

Oh god, that newly prominent 'Buy' button is going to prove dangerous.

Foetus

* (Not Adam) (single)
* Ache (album)
* Blow (album)
* Damp (album)
* Deaf (album)
* Flow (album)
* Limb (album)
* Male (album)
* Null / Void (album)
* Rife (album)

Just installed Spotify on my brand new iPhone. Did someone say that there wasn't an Artist search? Well actually, there is.

It all works very well - pretty fast, and a good high bitrate - although it looks like you can't add new playlists directly on the iPhone. The one aggravation is that the app doesn't seem to remember your previous searches - so if you break off halfway through an album, you've got to re-run the whole search to get back to where you were, unless you've already added the album to a pre-existing playlist.

(Oh, and there's no scrobbling of course.)

(Oh, and there's no scrobbling of course.)

You know, I'd idly wondered about this. I'm so glad I kicked the Last.fm habit before the Spotify mobile app appeared, because that would have driven me insane.

judas

New Grant Hart album http://open.spotify.com/album/5PBaS8oAyN58OphJkFSQGT

An email from them offering 6 months premium at £7.99 a month. They're weakening (although I bet they've introduced whatever's caused all the stuttering the last couple of days in order to help persuade me. You'd hope 'offline' wouldn't suffer those problems).

ARGH. CONSERVATIVE PARTY BROADCASTS INTERRUPTING KRAFTWERK ALBUMS?!?!?

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF

I thought these ads were supposed to be "appropriate" - WTF WTF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF

oh god that was awful.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Conservatives-Slam-Brown-In-New-Adverts-On-Digital-Music-Service-Spotify/Article/200910315410147?lpos=Politics_Second_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_9&lid=ARTICLE_15410147_Conservatives_Slam_Brown_In_New_Adverts_On_Digital_Music_Service_Spotify

FEH FEH A SKEEVE TO THEM

You're bloody right I don't want to hear Tory propaganda when I'm trying to enjoy music. I feel unclean.

Spotify deserve to lose listeners for this. No way am i giving money for a subscription now to them when they accept money from the evil scum that is the tory party. Fuck Spotify.

£5 subs now though!

That £2 subsidy is thanks to the Tories. Do you really wanna go there? ;-)

when spotify spouts tory propaganda pish they get zero money from me.

Suddenly glad this hasn't reached America yet. I couldn't stomach paying for Sarah Palin ads between my songs.

(You don't get the ads if you pay. But if they're getting money from the Conservatives, they dont' need mine.)

This suddenly makes me glad I only ever get adverts where motorcyclists die every 2 songs.

when spotify spouts tory propaganda pish they get zero money from me

Oh, come on. They're the Tories, not the BNP -- which, I accept, would be a very different matter. And it's hardly "spouting propaganda pish": hellfire, if broadcasters/websites/print publications only took ads from companies or organisations they explicitly supported, the world would be a very different place. You might think it'd be a better one, and I'm not going to argue -- but that's advertising-supported business models for you.

Either way, I think it's a little Spartist to have a pop at a business for accepting money from the fucking Conservatives, cock-ends though they might be ;)

otm

Downloading plsylists for offline use on the iPhone is pretty slow. Also you have to be a) using the app, b) connected to wi-fi and c) plugged into the mains (for more than a few downloads). Best solution is to open the app at bedtime and let it run overnight.

Yeah seriously if you're not going to consume any media that has ads for the Tories then you're pretty much going to have to move to another country for the next year.

It might actually drive me to pay for a subscription though.

Also I've found myself mostly using Spotify for classical music and DJ mix albums and ads in general are beyond intrusive in either case.

VLAH. just got Toried again. I turned the sound off until it was done.

AGAIN! two in one album is surely excessive.

OK, it's just started making me reccomendations. I didn't know it was going to do that.

I was expecting them to be totally off (as iTunes ones usually are and last.fm ones often are) but it just suggested me Nitin Sawhney and that is completely OTM.

[freshspotify] new music for you on spotify!

Depeche Mode

* Ohrwürmer (album)

Eh?

Ohrwurm = earworm (ie catchy song) in German, I think? Probably some compilation thing for .de market?

I've just my first ever actually *appropriate* spotify ad!

For Miike Snow, who I don't actually like - but at least they're even remotely in the right sort of ... area.

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).
Redd Kross

* Third Eye (album)
Scott Walker

* Humble Beginnings - The Early Years (compilation)

Jesu

* Opiate Sun EP (ep)

happy listening :)

from freshspotify

I'm listening to bluegrass. How likely is it that I'm going to be receptive to an ad for GTA: Chinatown Wars? (Rated T for Teen.)

does the take that singstar ad really start w/ "THE GREATEST DAY OF YR LIFE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED". I was lol-ing so hard I wasn't sure if I heard it correctly.

can any premium types tell me just HOW much better the 320 is than the 160. i can't bear the sound quality in Spotify much as i love the service. is it loads better? their own forum has frankly been no help.

I can't hear the difference at all, but I do a terrifying amount of my listening on crappy built-in iMac speakers, so I'm no use. I signed up for premium simply so I could use the iPhone app.

tell me just HOW much better the 320 is than the 160

twice as good ;) roughly the same quality as the m4as you can buy on itunes plus

Okay, I want this now. Where can I get an invite??

(you haven't needed on for about a year... in the uk anyway)