Spotify - anyone heard of it?

is it 1998 again? 8)

(i still use mine for recording gigs. but nothing else.)

i use mine for interviewing people. the sound quality is great and it's totally reliable.

also with Hi-MD you get hours and hours on a single disc.

Yeah, I did around 5 KW albums, and have space to spare.

Had to edit the ads out, but hey.

cheapskate

The Monkees' "Headquarters sessions" is unavailable by any other method.

I got fed up enough after hearing that ad for Brothers and the operapopstarsBritneySpears thing too many times that I paid for premium. I figure I use the thing enough, might as well give them some of my money..

But now my songs keep randomly stopping and starting again :(

BOOOOO

Search on the iPhone is dicking me around. Button takes ages to appear, then ages to find a result, then suddenly disappears again and drops me back to the playlists. 3G, five bars, it's always been fine before.

I've had the same thing this week, but only intermittently.

having the same problems, ledge. isn't streaming for me either.

all better now

got premium (tbh it's pretty sweet) for christmas. the streaming is definitely a bit choppier though, and it seems like it can't play consecutive tracks without a little skip between as well

songs are streaming right now very oddly: when they start at all, they're playing at double or triple speed, evidently by skipping every other 1/2 second, so that the songs are half as long. I was listening to Sheena Easton but it became intolerable; now I'm trying the Black Eyed Peas and "I Gotta Feeling" was absolute bizarre---just a big monotonous blur. "Boom Boom Pow" is a little better at this speed. Anyone get this effect?

haha so Chaka Khan's "Through The Fire" showed up on the home page and so I'm trying it at Spotify triple speed or whatever and the chorus sounds like the Kanye sample now! consider it auto-chipmunk, courtesy of Spotify.

> I was listening to Sheena Easton but it became intolerable

'became'?

nice

No streaming at all for me, again. Got through the first 8 tracks of Speak and Spell no problem, but it won't give me any Big Muff. Fnarr.

Ek talks America, iTunes, various things.

Anyone got a spare mflow invite?

http://www.mflow.com/

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article7016056.ece

lol it's put the Busted album under Cheap Trick.

Yeah, I saw that!

"Crashed the wedding" specifically.

Wonder if there's been a sudden surge in iTunes sales during the past six hours

This bullshit popping ads up in the scroll bar as you're clicking it to make you click them by accident is both disgusting and savage.

so far, my impression of mflow is that its not as good as spotify.... here's an articles explaining what it is:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100004722/twitter-meets-itunes-at-mflow/

As a user you can only preview 30 sec of tracks or buy to hear the whole track. You can recommend/flow tracks to others and they will be able to hear the whole song in order to make a buy decision.

I created two user profiles and mflowed about 10 entire albums from one to the other. Under the receipient profile, I only got given a selection of tracks from the albums I had flowed, rather than the whole album.

So, whilst mflow is not ad-supported like the free version of Spotify, its way more restrictive and doesn't let you dive into an album.

I got spare invites if anyone wants one, 'cos I;m not recruiting anyone in the near future.

Can't wait to try Spotify - if and when it comes to the US. Lala.com is lame with it's one-time stream per album deal.

want to get an invite for my ex - anybody got one?

want to get an invite for my ex - anybody got one?

Got one if you pm me.

pm'd - thanks!!

Friend of mine looking for an invite - anybody got one?

yah i do

altho can't do it now. unless you can invite from iphone app.

oh wait i can do it from the website

Dunno how it works tbh. Do I need to give you his email or something?

yup

Email sent :)

pal invited

Cheers

http://www.spotify.com/int/blog/archives/2010/04/27/the-next-generation/

April 27, 2010, 05:06

This morning we’re really excited to announce a major evolution of Spotify. Today we begin rolling out Spotify version 0.4.3 which includes the largest feature upgrade since our launch in late 2008.

To kick it off we’ve added a number of social features, centered on a fully editable Spotify music profile, with the ability to publish playlists, top artists and top tracks for public view. Discovering these profiles is simple as we’ve connected with Facebook so that you can instantly add your friends’ profiles.

As well as introducing a variety of new social features, Spotify is evolving into a total music management platform. We’ve added a ‘Library’ folder in the left side bar, enabling you to combine your own music library with ours.

stoked

canx i haz cheeze invite lemme know

And if yours isn't updating to the latest version, download it from

http://download.cnet.com/Spotify/3000-2141_4-10912348.html

does anyone pay for premium via paypal? They cant do re-ocurring charges via that can they? I might try it for a month but I dont wanna do it via CC incase i forget to cancel it.

ok i signed up, looks like it does charge you each month, didn't think they could do that with paypal, so im not too happy with that but I'm gonna give it a go, esp useful with all these listening clubs. Maybe I'll use Spotify more now I'm paying for it but i cant see me subscribing every month unless i do use it a lot.

New version is killer

Didn't realise they update the player, I'm still on 0.3.23 by the looks of it.

We’ve added a ‘Library’ folder in the left side bar, enabling you to combine your own music library with ours.

Lord, my prayers have been answered. <3333

This new version layout somehow reminds me of Napster. If only there was a way to chat to people on your friends list...

I wonder if the labels who own a huge chunk of spotify are enjoying scanning my library for leaked mp3s...

Doesnt work in the Yewessay.

if anyone has an invite messagemail me....ill buy u a toffee