Spotify - anyone heard of it?

does this have collaborative playlists yn

― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

y - right-click on a playlist and select "collaborative playlist" then share/send the playlist link to anyone who wants to contribute.

The mobile version + unlimited data package has genuinely changed my life all over again. I tend to listen to much more music on the move and I'm discovering so much already. Killing my phone battery though.

Is a Spotify membership a set length contract or can you cancel at any time?

You can cancel at any time.

Lol spotify

Well that didn't take long.

ty onimo

This. Selection is crap and interface/search is either broken or functional but hopelessly obscured and convoluted. But people sending you tracks/playlists - YES PLEASE FOREVER.

otm expect i got no problem w/ the selection. the playback design feels songbird-like in some very bad respects (is there a common-sense 'now-playing' queue i'm not seeing or are they really trying to foist a new playlist-only paradigm on people??) but the playlist sharing is as fluid as any service i've come across, like it wasn't even a feature i paid attention to but it may be the only reason i keep messing w/ it, fantastic. other than that sound quality doesn't seem to be there on mobile, compared to rhapsody at least, i could be wrong though.

(is there a common-sense 'now-playing' queue i'm not seeing

it's on the left menu, under "play-queue"

ok i guess i don't have it (windows version?). i know how to queue stuff but even then the way random search results, playlists, etc. get dumped to/overwrite what's there already is maddening. and there's only so much you can do under the hood, i get claustraphobic; must...customize...

can a brother rearrange a column, somthing?

i have the windows version too. Are you sure you don't have it? on the left side of the screen, the second item on the list, beneath "what's new" and above "Inbox".

oh yeah i got play queue it just doesn't act the way it should i mean.

so how does playlist sharing work for songs that aren't on spotify

www.muxtape.com

Does that still exist?

so how does playlist sharing work for songs that aren't on spotify

they just show up gray or are removed from the list depending on whether people have "display unplayable tracks" checked

if it's gray and you have the track, you can import it as a local file

they only have the clean version of "get ur freak on," SHUT THE WHOLE THING DOWN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Simpson

so how does playlist sharing work for songs that aren't on spotify

Does Spotify upload my local files to its servers ?

No. Local files that you have imported into Spotify are not uploaded from your computer.

You can share local music in the same way that you can with streaming music. However, the music will only be played if it can be matched with music that can be played by the other users that you shared with. That is, if the music is available as impoprted local music on their computer, or if it can be found in the Spotify streaming catalogue.

pretty weak, and i'm not talking about the typo!

Ok, they just fixed the bug in the iPhone app that made it crash during new playlist creation, which was my biggest complaint.

Cool thing: when you creat a playlist on your home computer, it instantly turns up on your iPhone, without restarting the program or anything.

doc pemberton, inventor of coca-cola, is not a welcome guest in the middle of beethoven's 7th symphony

hello this is john maus, please listen to my new album on spotify

Yep, finally paying for my subscription. If only to keep shit like Amos Lee interrupting my Black Flag listening from ever happening again.

hello this is john maus, please listen to my new album on spotify

― markers, Monday, August 8, 2011 11:47 P

Fuck you spotify for inserting some Jack Johnson-alike in the middle of Bad Brains.

oh man the worst ad is the one w/ the dude who starts by saying PSST or something like that

guarantee you some ppl are going to be at their desks doing work and listening to music but not really paying attention to it, and they're going to flip out when that comes on

happily enjoying my $5 a month ad-free account, been listening to Otis Redding all afternoon.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/08/10/kicking-and-streaming-why-indies-tolerate-spotifys-minuscule-royalties/#more-52994

Ian Mackaye and others express their views re Spotify royalty payments

But guess what royalties Dischord Records gets from streaming services like Spotify? “They’re negligible,” says Ian MacKaye, the D.C. label’s co-owner and public face. Although specific deals are confidential, Spotify tallies its royalty payments in fractions of a cent per stream—meaning a label might only make a few dollars, even if tens of thousands users play “Waiting Room.”

i wonder what counts as a "play" for royalty purposes.

rifftrafft NICK SYLVESTER
interesting fact: for 2617 streams on spotify last month, @mrdreamnyc made $15.83. if they had been itunes downloads? $1837.90.

interesting *strokes chin*

That's not a relevant comparison, though.

An equivalent of an album selling 100,000 copies would mean over one million streams if everyone only listened to the album one time.

sure, but do the rest of the math and it still doesn't look good. a million streams at a half cent each is only $5000. Whereas a 50 cent royalty on 100,000 album sales is $50,000. And clearly a lot of smaller artists aren't getting anywhere near a half cent. $15 for 2600 streams is like if the artist sold a single copy of an album and that person listened to it over 150 times which is pretty unlikely.

Let's say it's only a quarter of a cent - $2500 for a million streams. Again, that's the equivalent of 100,000 listeners hearing the album one time. If, over the course of time, those listeners average ten listens, that's 25K from only 100,000 listeners.

vs. 100,000 albums sales which would have made double or even quadruple that amount of money for the artist. Calculated based on your example of a 10 song album listened to 10 times, that works out to a 2.5 cent royalty per album sold.

oops, I mean 25 cents

25 cents for artist and label, seemingly. It will be interesting to see how labels deal with the percentage of that paid to artists.

yeah, labels get a chunk of that plus then the majors all own a piece of spotify itself so they win either way.

Whoever uploaded Young Gunz "Can't Stop Won't Stop" fucked up.

"fancy a beer?"

"wha? Fan Ci Dabeer?"

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/08/11/indies-drop-spotify-and-spotify-responds/#more-53078

Maybe I should hold off before ponying up for a subscription, I don't want to pay in time for a bunch of labels to start jumping ship. I was afraid this was too good to be true.

Nice to see a Del Cielo reference though, loved those girls.

Hardly an avalanche of withdrawals though, is it? In the UK, indie representation is very high, and this goes right through to self-releases.

(One of the more notable non-participating labels here is Ministry Of Sound, so I am denied the opportunity to savour Example and Wretch 32... but I can live with that...)

I guess Century Media just feels more like a big deal to me because I listen to a lot of metal, which was already an underrepresented genre on Spotify.

If any of you guys in the US needs an invite, I apparently have a couple.

No Royal Trux or Hagerty, just sayin

Noticed the Royal Trux, Hagerty, and RTX problem yesterday. Hopefully they'll get on that.

it's a big, serious problem, yes. Someone tell them