Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Ours finally died so we went with Sonos

Sonos. He'll need something to control it -- an iPhone or Android phone, iPod Touch, computer -- but it's super easy to set up and use. They make self-contained speakers as well as boxes that you can hook into an existing stereo system. I've been really happy with mine.

I just have my computer close to my stereo and run a cord out of the headphone jack that has RCA cables on the other ends. I plug them into the "VCR" channel on my receiver because it's not being used.

had a dream last night that the RIAA or some similar institution shut spotify down. there were so many songs that i couldn't summon on command anymore, i felt a profound sense of loss.

it's gonna be okay treeship

i would feel a sense of relief at that
a couple of weeks ago spotify choice anxiety was driving me irl insane

i find that half the time I don't even finish whole tracks on there bc i need to switch to the next thing i thought of, it's just not good for my brain.

that's the internet in general for me.

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-Band-Is-Making-Money-On-Spotify-By-Streaming-5335449.php

Michigan-based rock trio Vulfpeck recently released a 10-track album on Spotify to help fund its tour, Digiday reports.

But here's the thing: the entire "Sleepify" album is pure silence. The idea is for fans to stream the album while they're sleeping. Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long, all of the Sleepify tracks are at least 30 seconds of silence.

Vulfpeck also thinks it can make enough money to not have to charge anything at the door. One listen to a Vulpeck song on Spotify gets the band half a cent. If a single person listens to the album on repeat during a 7-hour sleep session, Vulpeck has calculated that it could earn $4 per person.

"It's a clever stunt," a Spotify spokesperson told Business Insider via email. "Not much more to say than that."

This is not the first time someone has tried to game Spotify. Back in January, we found out that Matt Farley made $23,000 last year from posting songs to Spotify and iTunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvncV79LXk

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long

this isn't true, idgi

I pulled out my 128 gb iPod and am enjoying it so much more than spotify. Call it choice anxiety I guess.

There are still songs in my own collection that I haven't fully digested. I don't need 10 million more.

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long

this isn't true, idgi
― ogmor, Friday, March 21, 2014

maybe if it's silence? so that they can't release a 6,000 track album and make $30 per play?

this is a waste of energy and bandwidth

Spotify bitcoin mining is kinda next level honestly

because it's real coin

is there any reason why Hounds of Love isn't on US spotify when the other kate bush records all are? was it on a different label or something?

it's the spotify omission that bothers me the most since it's my favorite record and there's no obvious reason for it not to be there.

Spotify bitcoin mining is kinda next level honestly

the karaoke version / cover version maestros have been at this game a long time. i'd love to see a documentary about these people. i imagine them commanding a dank basement of studio musicians, like some kind of gulag, churning out sound-a-likes for the price of a bowl of soup. add on some SEO wizardry courtesy an underpaid high-school wunderkind and some of these cover versions actually make the top 40 singles chart.

you don't even need SEO wizardry. you cover "drunk in love," you call it "drunk in love," and you're done. you will get a shitload of hits in spotify and lots of other places.

in fact, someone should cover that entire beyonce album and put it on spotify. goldmine. unless 10 other people already have.

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long, all of the Sleepify tracks are at least 30 seconds of silence.

They may be confused with last.fm - if the track is under 30 seconds it won't appear in your last.fm listening stats.

don't know if it's true or not, but what they're saying isn't that you can't put a shorter track on spotify, but rather that it has to be at least that long to register as an official play. if you only listen to a song for 29 seconds, spotify won't pay the artist their .00000000002 cents.

yeah, that makes sense

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/happy-single/id821081024

Do any UK ilxors know why "The Man Machine" has disappeared from Spotify? Are Kraftwerk removing their LPs?

This is kind of interesting:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2014/mar/27/uk-most-popular-music-city-by-city-spotify-interactive

ha, the geographical distribution for robin thicke

mind you, the geographical distribution for alt-j is nothing to be proud of :(

noodle vague caning the bruno mars again

The wacky jugglers of Brighton are probably caning the Alt-J album.

fucking posh english edinburgh uni students!

So Spotify had a major facelift. The iOS app is very different. It looks good but I'm finding it a bit baffling. Don't really get some of the changes.

i think it's meant to echo the look of the newly facelifted ios, lotsa circles

i still have the old shit! (mac)

c'mon

my ipad's getting jack shit

I'm confused about offline lists now. Some of the songs have a green arrow and some don't but they all play offline.

What's the deal with the new Your Music stuff? How do you get to it in the app?

When I click the volume icon it comes up with a thing about playing music on all devices with Connect. What does that mean?

New iPhone interface seems like an improvement to me: photos for the playlists, ability to tell where you are playing a track from. Still don't know how to see the actual play queue.

Fucking piece of shit is already constantly crashing on me.

which platform?

iOS.

yeah.

No photos for my old ipod touch as far as I can tell. :'(

couple years ago i signed up for a free spotify premium something or other and in the process somehow my previously deleted facebook account was reactivated. i don't like when technology makes me feel like an asshole.

really like the facelift. also they added a 'new releases' section which was missing for a long time.

It's rolling out to all users in stages, so if you don't have the new Your Music stuff yet, don't panic. You'll get it soon.

I think it's pretty nice, too. I'm nominally biased, since I now work for Spotify, but I had nothing to do with this set of changes.

I listen to the Spotify mobile app for hours every day, I think it's a great service overall. But the app drives me bazonkers. Slow start up time, and then once it starts up, it's unresponsive. I taptaptaptaptap but nothing registers. Then it finally plays but sometimes hangs up in between tracks. Just won't go to the next track unless I manually skip to it. Then it crashes out of the blue and I have to restart the whole process. Maybe it's the way I have my playlists organized, or the number of songs I have, or something specific to me, but it sucks. And I'm tired of being a beta tester for a buggy app.

Crashed 4 times in the last 20 minutes. Title and artwork sometimes stops updating when skipping tracks. Rage rising.

meanwhile..

http://davidbyrne.com/how-will-the-wolf-survive-can-musicians-make-a-living-in-the-streaming-era

Jeff what platform are you on?

iOS