Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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Does anyone else prefer the Spotify web player? Or am I just weird?

i hate it

The web player sucks a bit but it's better than nothing (I can't run the desktop app at work boring story).

Songkick has some superclever people but I still don't know what it's for.

cant find any other bands with merch on spotify yet but it is quite a good idea I think. Spotify doesnt take a cut.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/21/beats-launches-beats-music-app/

i mean.... t-shirts? i mean, i realise merch blahblahblah, it just seems kind of desperate

probably a way of keeping artists onside, free merch advertising and they get to keep all the money

Songkick has some superclever people but I still don't know what it's for.

― the right stfu (seandalai), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:44 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? finding out when bands are playing?

this beats thing seems like a service for people too lazy to choose what to play or feel the need for famous people to tell them what is ok to listen to.

pitchfork dude makes a playlist then loads of "indie" kids listen to the exact same stuff.
same for any genre representative.

It will probably work too, short term at least . I think a lot of people love convenience.

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Beats Music is now available for iPhone on the App Store, after being originally announced back in October. The app is a very stylised adaption of a typical music streaming service app, with Beats heavily pushing the idea of customisation and curation to distance it from its many competitors.

For instance, there is a ‘Right now’ view that serves song recommendations based on what only can be described as a mad lib. The app asks you what you are doing, what you are feeling, who you are with and what kind of genre of music you want. It then makes an endless playlist supposedly based on these choices. Although this sounds cool, I’m not sure how much of the first three questions even affect the suggested playlist.

While the first three questions are abstract, the last is a direct question about genre preferences and the app seems to heavily rely on this last answer to construct its playlist.

I would like to see its recommendations mind you. Bound to be better than Spotify's

Songkick has some superclever people but I still don't know what it's for.

― the right stfu (seandalai), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:44 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? finding out when bands are playing?

― just sayin, Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does Songkick do this any better than last.fm?

The app asks you what you are doing - Someone answers "wanking"
what you are feeling, someone answers "my dick"
who you are with - they might be honest and say "with my 2 buddies but we're all straight honest"
and what kind of genre of music you want. "punk"
It then makes an endless playlist supposedly based on these choices. In this case all the Circle Jerks songs in the catalog.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5876954/beats-music-a-step-by-step-walk-through

The app asks you what you are doing - Burning a church
what you are feeling - misanthropy
who you are with - some crazy lunatics in corpsepaint
and what kind of genre of music you want - black metal

http://www.billboard.com/files/media/ios_onboarding-300.jpg http://www.billboard.com/files/media/ios_just_for_you-300.jpg
http://www.billboard.com/files/media/ios_highlights-300.jpg

http://www.billboard.com/files/media/ios_right_now-300.jpg
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it's like they know me

this beats thing seems like a service for people too lazy to choose what to play or feel the need for famous people to tell them what is ok to listen to.

funny, this concept reminds me of something... what is it?? oh yeah

http://theoptionspecialist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/6a00d8341c858253ef00e54f4f289d8833-640wi.jpeg

ahh you mean payola!

i mean the radio has been programming music by mood, time of day, etc, with famous people telling you what to listen to for years

re: payola i would be genuinely surprised if beats didn't have a mechanism in place for giving certain tunes a boost w/in their algorithms, explicitly in exchange for promo cash

i mean the radio has been programming music by mood, time of day, etc, with famous people telling you what to listen to for years - most american radio hasn't done this for years

radio is usually the same songs every 2 hours ime

I've been listening to the beats music app all day so far.
Impressions:
The recommendations thing seems to be pushing toward curated playlists. As far as I remember I've gotten:
The best of GZA, Intro to Ellen Allien, Warp Records: Essential Listening, Can Family (solo work from members of Can and related music)

The entire "describe your mood/atmosphere" feature hasn't done much for me yet, but it seems like they're working through some glitches at the moment. Weirdest thing so far is that I've found an album or two that's not supposed to be out for a while that's on there.

DETOX???!?!??!!

shhh

I think I'm cracking up. Convinced every song is playing just slightly too *fast* tonight. Wondering if it's a plot to increase advertising revenue by having it take less time to play a song.

iirc there were radio stations in the past who played songs a bit too fast, with the theory that it would sound subliminally "more exciting"

which in turn led to at least one group recording their songs slow, knowing it would be played on that station

i think maybe it was stiffed records who did this?? recorded everything slow in order for it to sound "right" on radio caroline or something?

that had to really fuck with people with perfect pitch

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Chipmunk_songbook.jpg

AL-VIN!!!!

ah documentation: my own post:

Robert Johnson....playin' too fast???

http://fifteenpercentfaster.tumblr.com/post/60849338910/welcome

dudes, somebody at my work rebooted spotify and everything has a sexy new look. like, really nice design. this was weeks ago. i'm stuck with same old spotify, at work and at home. wha happen?

sounds like they've been gradually rolling it out for a month or so -- still have the old version here

had the new version a few weeks now or more

oh over a month

Spotify - anyone heard of it?

http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/30/4-million-songs-on-spotify-have-never-been-played-ever-forgotify-is-about-to-change-that/

^ this sounds neat but it doesn't work for me :(

On the Media did a piece recently about a guy who records hundreds of (very basic) songs and puts them on Spotify. He makes a decent amount in streaming fees.

Also there's Pappa Razzi and the Photogs-- a guy singing idiotic songs about semi-famous people: "Bob Odenkirk, Everyone Loves You" "Ron Funches, You Are so Funny" "Zoe Saldana, I Respect You For Being Nice & Great" "Blair Underwood, You Are a Good Actor" etc.

I don't really like Spotify but Forgotify is really great

On the Media did a piece recently about a guy who records hundreds of (very basic) songs and puts them on Spotify. He makes a decent amount in streaming fees.

Also there's Pappa Razzi and the Photogs-- a guy singing idiotic songs about semi-famous people: "Bob Odenkirk, Everyone Loves You" "Ron Funches, You Are so Funny" "Zoe Saldana, I Respect You For Being Nice & Great" "Blair Underwood, You Are a Good Actor" etc.

― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:34 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, Wesley Willis would have done great in this day and age. :(

I wonder how much money Chief Kooffreh makes off Spotify

He's finally rich I bet.

Posted in the digital music collection thread, but it's worth re-posting I think: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/04/pacemaker-dj-app-with-spotify/

does anyone know how forgotify works? is it really all tracks that have never been played before?

According to the Forgotify site, yes. Load up Forgotify, see what never-heard-before song it randomly chooses (Maybe it uses a search algorithm and Spotify play stats to determine what is never-played), admire the cover, then play it (or don't)

OK, I've been using this for half an hour and it is now playing a track that I am almost certain I myself have played before

Maybe it takes a while to update the play statistic?

Forgetify has also given me a Mary J. Blidge track once

forgotify is still pretty great, regardless of whether these are tracks that have literally been played by zero people or not, some really fantastic stuff that I never would have found myself.

it kind of reminds me of the Random Shopper thing in that regard