yea it changed they are no longer there
― marcos, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
looks like Beatles 1, red album, blue album, past masters and the core original albums. no BBC or Anthologys yet. also no Mono? weird.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
xp mark g thanks!
― niels, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
spotify mysteriously uninstalled itself from my mac
― akm, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
No Domino Records either, I think.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
I think I would jump ship for whatever service got the full Tzadik catalog.
― Mister, would you please help my brony? (WilliamC), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Streaming has ended for me. I hope this is ok for my fans. It's not because of the money, although my share (like all the other artists) was dramatically reduced by bad deals made without my consent. It's about sound quality. I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution. I don't feel right allowing this to be sold to my fans. It's bad for my music. For me, It's about making and distributing music people can really hear and feel. I stand for that. When the quality is back, I'll give it another look. Never say never.
Streaming is the worst audio in history. If you want it, you got it. It's here to stay. Your choice. Copy my songs if you want to. That's free. Your choice. All my music, my life's work, is what I am preserving the way I want it to be. It's already started. My music is being removed from all streaming services. It's not good enough to sell or rent. Make streaming sound good and I will be back.
- Bernard Shakey
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
i thought spotify was playing music on Ogg Vorbis format at 320Kbps? or at least for premium? personally speaking i can't hear the difference between a FLAC and 320.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
in another quote neil said that it was worse sound quality than AM radio so i mean...also neil is an insane person fwiw
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
neil you can hook nicer speakers up to your laptop man
― home organ, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
once you go PONO you can't go back
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
I think Spotify on its higher quality settings sounds pretty good, no idea what he's talking about tbh.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
And I'm one of those people that complains about the shitty cymbal sound in mp3's.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah like i said 1) he's still trying to sell a competing device & service and 2) dude's blasted his ears w/crazy horse for decades
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Laptops are the worst computing in history.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
domino was there as recently as this week in the us, as my billion ffs listens can testify
― maura, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
Whoops, must have been thinking of some other label. My bad.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
solo john, paul, george, ringo all there too (last time i checked, paul was and george wasn't)
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution.
Has he just heard kids playing music through their phones on the bus and thinks that's what streaming is?
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
He's like the coffee shop that won't make my latte with skim milk because they think it is the worst quality in the history of milk or any other form of dairy.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Except they also won't believe you that not all milk is skim milk.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 24 December 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
xp or that they are the only one with the whole milk toblerone
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 24 December 2015 04:47 (eight years ago) link
I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution.
This is how I feel about Beatles remasters too.
― miss me belial (crüt), Thursday, 24 December 2015 06:04 (eight years ago) link
I had a bunch of Prince albums saved back when his catalog was online, now they are still on my list but when I click to open them they're empty :(
I wonder if there's a plan to add the Beatles anthologies to Spotify?
― musically, Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
Look, the Beatles stuff is showing plays of <1000 right now. So stop reading this thread, go to Spotify, and let's get You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) to #1 asap.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Ha, believe it or not, that is exactly what I did just before clicking on this thread and reading your post.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Played that tune on Spotify, to clarify.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)?
See, I told you all Spotify's sorting methods were fucked up.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
xp Yea I was kinda hoping I could hear "Not Guilty" or "Leave My Kitten Alone." Guess not.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Yup, I was hoping to hear the "Sugarplum Fairy" version of "A Day In Life."
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
the weirdo xmas fanclub collages woulda been cool today but they were never commercially released in any form so i wouldn't expect that out of nowhere.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
It's insane they haven't released those.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
counterpoint: streaming does suck actually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― COOMBES (mattresslessness), Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
The artist bio for the Beatles is pretty wonderful at the moment. I hope people are taking screen shots. Apparently Mark Ronson is a big fan of their chart-topping sin-gles. Tom Petty liked them too.
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 December 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
I'll never forget the time when Skrillex said, "The Beatles sin-gles, and this is irrefutably true, invented everything I take for granted."
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 December 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
Lol.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link
Kevin Howlett, I'm glad you were chosen to introduce the world to the Beat-les on this moment-ous occasion.
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 December 2015 01:09 (eight years ago) link
I think we can all agree with Kevin Howlett that Tom Petty summed the Beatles up best, "We grew up with the Beatles and grew up trusting them. They could have chosen to do anything, and they chose to do good, which is a great example for the rest of us." I'm going to spend Christmas eve thinking about those words, and I hope you will too.
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 December 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
marianas trench deep
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 December 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
B-b-but what did Bobby Gillespie say about them?
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
"The six new songs in the film and the number one 'Hello, Goodbye' completed a momen-tous year of recording. Three more tracks from 1967 remained unreleased until they were heard in the movie Yellow Submarine premiered in 1968. The film's imaginative animation evoked the 'psychedelic' spirit of Sgt. Pepper to reveal the triumph of Love over Evil."
It's like you're in an office thinking, "who should write about the Beatles to introduce them to the huge new Spotify audience on this momentous occasion when the biggest band in the history of rock and roll makes their catalog available for streaming?" Greil Marcus. Nah, he'd just go on about the Futurist Manifesto. Thomas Pynchon? Nah, he'd never write liner notes. Hey wait, what about Kevin Howlett!
― dlp9001, Friday, 25 December 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
Ha exactly. I was considering posting "Who wrote that? Mark Lewisohn? Richie Unterberger?"
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
"Perfect 10s
Did you know that 6 Beatles albums scored 10s at Pitchfork?
Now you can hear why on Spotify"
anyway, 1 YKMN play here, what a jam
― niels, Friday, 25 December 2015 10:05 (eight years ago) link
so uh for christmas I bought a year's worth of spotify for my mother and (according to her, on the phone, this may well be inaccurate) it's telling her that it expires tomorrow, anyone experienced this?
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard any reports of that, but customer support can fix it, whatever the issue...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
fair enough, will check if it ends up turning into a pumpkin tomorrow
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
I hear you couldn't find Spotify anywhere after Y2K hit.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 05:28 (eight years ago) link
I've listened to "You Know My Name" 3 times in the past few days but it wasn't enough to help it into the Top 10.
Here are the top 10 Beatles tracks on Spotify, according to global data:
1. "Come Together"2. "Let It Be"3. "Hey Jude"4. "Love Me Do"5. "Yesterday"6. "Here Comes the Sun"7. "Help!"8. "All You Need Is Love"9. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"10. "Twist and Shout"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 07:22 (eight years ago) link
We blew it on You Know My Name. Moving on, I'm writing customer support to see if they can find a fourteen year old girl who might be able to write a better essay about the Beatles. I hear they can fix any issue...
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link