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― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Monday, 2 March 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Check out all the jazz on spotify. Plenty of Blue Note RVG editions
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone else get the "oops someone stole all our password hashes" email?
I can't get into the Spotify website to change my password - there's probably a rush on.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes got it too.
― Snowballing, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
no
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Spotify user,Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromiseour protocols. After investigating we concluded that this grouphad gained access to information that could allow testing of avery large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered andfixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unawarethat anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.Along with passwords, registration information such as your emailaddress,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receiptdetails were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are notstored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handledby a secure 3rd party provider.If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,we strongly suggest that you change your password and stronglyencourage you to change your passwords for any other serviceswhere you use the same password.When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator ofthe password strength to help you choose a good one. To changeyour password please visit your profile page on our website.https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/For the technically minded amongst you, the information that mayhave been exposed when our protocols were compromised is thepassword hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and theyhave never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but thecombination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering ofour encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders accessto individual hashes.The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable tooffline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individualusers, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, therehas been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete userdatabase has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it waspossible to access the password hashes of individual users hadyou reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew theusername.We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in orderto prevent anything like this from happening again.Regards,The Spotify Team
Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromiseour protocols. After investigating we concluded that this grouphad gained access to information that could allow testing of avery large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered andfixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unawarethat anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.
Along with passwords, registration information such as your emailaddress,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receiptdetails were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are notstored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handledby a secure 3rd party provider.
If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,we strongly suggest that you change your password and stronglyencourage you to change your passwords for any other serviceswhere you use the same password.
When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator ofthe password strength to help you choose a good one. To changeyour password please visit your profile page on our website.
https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/
For the technically minded amongst you, the information that mayhave been exposed when our protocols were compromised is thepassword hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and theyhave never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but thecombination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering ofour encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders accessto individual hashes.
The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable tooffline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individualusers, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, therehas been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete userdatabase has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it waspossible to access the password hashes of individual users hadyou reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew theusername.
We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in orderto prevent anything like this from happening again.
Regards,The Spotify Team
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I went in and changed my password anyway
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Sometimes there are benefits to being a slightly late adopter, I guess.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I would hereby like to register a hearty "fuck you" to The Script, and their corporate shill Jo Wiley.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Until they fix the Mac-client-not-scrobbling bug -- which has been discussed at length on the Get Satisfaction forums; apparently it'll be sorted in the next upgrade, whenever that'll be -- I'm not using Spotify. Missing out on the adverts cheers me slightly, at least.
― Atoms are "balls" (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
oh are there no ads on the mac version? I haven't encountered any yet although I keep thinking after every song I listen to that I'm going to be hit with an ad for the new Kings of Leon album or something totally unrelated to whatever I'm listening to.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Grimly means he's not using it as a result of scrobbling probs, so he's not subjected to the ads.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
^ Er, yes, exactly.
― Atoms are "balls" (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm refusing to listen to music played in shops or on builder's radios until they sort out the scrobbling problems.
― Mylene Cockfarmer (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
A principled stand.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry, yeah, I just got my first ever ad (kings of leon as predicted), but it took about 20 songs for it to happen.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
xxpost
Well, in fairness: "Oh, yeh, this is fixed now ... er, sorry, we can't be arsed rolling the thing out yet, though" (which is effectively what they're saying) is a bit of a cunty attitude -- especially from a company who force updates on their users whether they want them or not.
― Atoms are "balls" (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye they should say "Oh, yeh, this is fixed now ... er, sorry, we can't be arsed rolling the thing out yet, though, to be fair, free fucking music all day every day grimly wtf do you want for nothing eh eh?"
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty good bargaining tho: Give us some money or we'll keep hitting you with Script, Glasvegas and KoL adverts.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"Oh, yeh, this is fixed now ... er, sorry, we can't be arsed rolling the thing out yet, though, to be fair, free fucking music all day every day grimly wtf do you want for nothing eh eh?"
Umm. Sorry, but "it's free" != "excuse for shit customer service". Many, many services work on a similar "free" model these days (which probably won't last); when you've got 100-odd people saying, politely: "This isn't working properly, can you fix it?" and you're basically told: "Aye, it's fixed, but fuck off, you're not important enough for us to bother rolling it out" ... well, you might think that's reasonable, but I'm not so sure.
Also: if I was paying for it, I'd be in the same boat. <- Shittest argument ever, but hey :)
― Atoms are "balls" (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
boycott spotify!
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you not use it then?
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i do but im getting bored of it. It's fine for well known music on major labels but if they dont expand to get more obscure stuff im gonna end up never using it.
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I can see that. At the moment there's more than enough major label stuff to keep me happy though!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
The huge selection of Blue Note Jazz is what's keeping me on it. Hopefully they will license stuff from some of the independent labels i like (southern lord,hydrahead etc)
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Recommend some of said jazz. As you say, the dearth of alternative labels is bad, although recent additions of Domino and Warp are a step in the right direction.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
wel the usual suspects of miles davis, john coltrane, sun ra, charles mingus are all up there along with Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Pharaoh Sanders,sonny rollins, alice coltrane, lonnie liston smith etc
plus pretty much all the Blue Note roster. Grant green, lee morgan, lou donaldson,wayne shorter , donald byrd, joe henderson, hank mobley, babyface willete to name a few.
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Spotify really needs a browse by genre and artists by alphabetical order list
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
also browse by labels
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice one, thanks Herman, will start digging!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i expect you to keep us up-to-date with your jazz listening on the last fm thread!
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Get on Spotify and play thishttp://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e349/e349382wo3n.jpghttp://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxfoxqygldde
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Now!
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
;)
hehe neil jumps to it
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"Root Down and Get It" is great, and familiar from the Beastie Boys track of the similar name.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i knew someone would say that
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 12 March 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
So predictable!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 12 March 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
can i ask somebody to mailme an invite? ta.
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Do they not play adverts during the weekend then? I played three full albums and some assorted tracks on Spotify this w/end and never once had an ad inturrupting.
― DavidM, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost. I didn't think you needed an invite anymore. If you need one, I'll mail one to you.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
tried quickly to get on last night, seemed to need one. appreciate it.
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Mail me your address and I'll get it sorted then.
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Done!
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 March 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
cheers.
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost - Yes, VERY few ads over the weekend. 'Twas bliss.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
New ILM Spring collabo playlist.
― Mylene Cockfarmer (Raw Patrick), Monday, 16 March 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is this zarif pish?
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Zarif supporting Chris Brown in January. Perhaps the least effective arena support I've ever seen. Cheered to the rafters when she announced "And this is my last number"...
Good to see the 2020 label on Spotify, especially the superb Greg Wilson label comp from last year - highly recommended:
http://open.spotify.com/album/70IMqk0XAaeYWnyHcrhB63
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
26 Klaus Schulze and 16 Popol Vuh albums added today, any recommendations on which ones to try first?
― Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link