Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I think that chart is out of date. Here's an article with some more realistic royalty numbers. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/news/e3iecb83415cefdd2b0a43399437dff3e5f

For the interactive royalty rate, let?s use 0.75 cents per stream (it?s the midpoint of a typical range of 0.5 to 1.0 cents per stream)

Still not great, since obviously at the low end of that scale, a listener would have to play a track 200 times to equal one 99¢ iTunes download. But if streaming services caught on and royalty rates began to increase as subscriptions increased maybe it would work. And it would actually benefit artists whose music gets replayed frequently. It would also favor quantity, so people who are listening to full albums would actually be a more valuable audience than people who just listen to singles.

Well that Billboard article is from 2009, so I'm not sure its much more up to date, but an interesting read nonetheless. I'd be curious to see what Spotify's current real royalty rates are.

As far as I can see, pretty much everything by Of Montreal and Japandroids is available in the UK, so hopefully will be available in the US soon.

Curious to see what message you get with this, No Singles.

The tracklisting is there but the song titles are gray.. the disclaimer says "This album is not available in the United States."

You know this whole streaming thing is great but something I really love about Spotify is how the play-controls are located at the bottom. It's great especially for windows users (pun in 3...2...1: SO MUCH WIN) where all I have to do is minimize spotify to my taskbar, and if I want to skip a song it doesn't take a massive upheaval to go all the way to the top a la iTunes.

That's all I have to add for today.

Well that Billboard article is from 2009, so I'm not sure its much more up to date, but an interesting read nonetheless.

ah, true. although the numbers in the infographic only seem to date from a few months later. the problem is it seems like he got them from a blog post written by someone who got their music on spotify through cdbaby. so they don't necessarily reflect anything meaningful.

kel, you should get Windows 7; then you can skip a track without having to open the window

How the hell do I make a playlist? This shit's confusing the hell out of me.

Wait - I think I just got it. NM!

This is overwhelming!

what's your username--we can be spotify bros

uhhhhh enbb

lol

how do we become spotify bros and what does that mean?

i added you and now i can see playlists you publish.

in the searchbox type spotify:user:callalldestroyer

also we can share trax and stuff

Oh hey there you are!!

Yeah I have no idea what any of this is yet but woah those playlists are all pretty neat. Very v exciting imo.

i kinda hate they turned "spotify social" into spotify facebook basically

spotify:user:avilyn

andy! psyched to check out your playlists.

kel, you should get Windows 7; then you can skip a track without having to open the window

Yes, love being able to pause this so easily at work when the phone rings.

I've had to close and restart the program about four times in the last hour because it decides to stop playing whenever an ad comes up. Really annoying, not sure I'm ready to pull out my wallet until this is less buggy.

Maybe the bugs are mostly with the ads, though?

Splurged for a $5 run this weekend and haven't regretted a thing. No bugs to report at all.

I think they are ad-related, I've never seen any of these problems and I've been on the $5 plan from the beginning.

Can you search for playlist themes? Like if I'm interested in Ego Trip's 40 best singles of 1994 but I don't feel like downloading a torrent... Or Billboards top 100 singles of 1989 or something... I feel like people must have made these into spotify playlists by now.

If anyone uses the foxytunes firefox (or IE) extension it can control spotify from the status bar.

http://www.foxytunes.com/firefox/download/

I don't think you can search for playlists by keyword or genre on spotify. I think you'd have to go to somewhere like http://sharemyplaylists.com/ or http://www.sharedplaylists.com/ and do a search from there.

Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.

Never any problems with the premium

Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this seems like a huge flaw? they should also have a last.fm/netflix style recommendation system

Jon, I agree, the advertising isn't that annoying and I am still not clear on what goodies I will get if I up to the $5 plan.

When I get more money, though, the $10 plan will be cool, would love to listen on my Blackberry.

There is no Spotify for Blackberry afaik - only iPhone/Android.

this...is amazing

it really is

Oh, I had no idea, I thought one could listen on any phone. I'm sure in time you'll be able to get these services on any phone.

i can p much delete itunes and all of my mp3s?

not that i'm going to, but

i mean i'm sure there's stuff they don't have and all but wow. and it scrobbles to last.fm!

I wouldn't go that far, I've gotten burned a couple of times by random songs being unavailable (why the hell would every song on Brandy's Full Moon be available EXCEPT for the two singles everyone knows and likes????) (well I can guess why but still)

but yes, the impulse is strong

radiokeller

^add me

im finding a lot of stuff i wanna listen to is unavailable, im not whining, its free, but im definitely not giving up on itunes/mp3s yet

for example, how do they not have the wurzels combine harvester

i ask you

sez you have not enabled Spotify social, k3v!

(djperry1973)

lol nvr mind

wait lol where do i look to see if ppl have added me /noob

it's pretty amazing as long as you accept it for what it is. i mean $5 (?) a month is still a bargain, but i never expect to find anything spotify.

Just acquired a new phone and have 600 or so spotify offline tracks on it and none from itunes at the moment. pretty sure I'll add a few obscurish downloaded mixes but for now i'm quite happy. i would like to be able to browse through "my" tracks by artist/album etc but that's a minor price to pay for the convenience of wireless syncing.

god these commericals are so aggravating

wait lol where do i look to see if ppl have added me /noob

I'm not sure you can, actually! I think you have to enable Spotify social and then you can start adding ppl and browsing their playlists

I still think there is a punishment to be had for being able to listen to whatever you want without paying.

Well, supposedly in a few months some limits to the free hours per month are going to kick in.