Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I just read about this. Apparently some kind of streaming iTunes looking service with rights to all the majors cleared. Could be interesting? If nothing else just to see it fail miserably...

trying this now. blatant rip of itunes design-wise but looks better in many ways. all i really want to do with it is listen to whole albums easily and it seems to let you do that very well (i haven't heard the ads yet tho).

20 second xbox ad came in after 5 songs. not bad really.

needs last.fm support asap

the ads don't bother me that much either, haven't noticed if 5 songs is always the limit? in any case it's 5 songs of any length, and you can listen to "In C" for example straight through which is cool.

I love it!

I think there is progress towards spotify scrobbling happening here:

http://www.last.fm/group/Scrobble+for+Spotify

carsmile sent this link: http://code.google.com/p/scrobblify/

scrobbles perfectly

for Windows maybe!

Yeah this looks terrific, I like how easy it makes it to dip into artists with huge discographies.

Although I haven't actually listened yet, just been browsing so far.

i am so in love with this thing <3

some artist tag crapness tho

the radio is fun for discovering things totally insane and cheesy

Oh wow the quality is actually pretty good.

The radio thing is indeed cool. I'm trying to get it to find me some techno from the 50s.

the quality is good, the range not so much, but this could well prove useful.

Presumably the range will increase as they agree deals with more record companies? It seems fine for major label stuff and a quick search for eg Kompakt pulls up a lot.

does it pass the melt banana test?

the range seems identical to what's on 7digital (and therefore itunes i think). eg they have trina's first and third albums but inexplicably not her second or fourth. i dunno how much use i'll have for spotify but kudos for how well it works, the quality of the tracks etc - the tags need ironing out but i'm sure they'll do this in time.

actually it'll be most useful for stuff like the goldfrapp album this year - i didn't really expect to love it but i wanted to hear it, so obv i wouldn't buy it but couldn't be arsed blagging it. that's a ton of consumer laziness in there.

oh god i should've said i was american! fuck. could've got access to all the hip-hop and r&b which never makes it over to this godforsaken, miserable island.

Do they have a license for the US now? I don't think they did a couple of weeks ago...

Four MB albums, Deano: Teeny Shiny, Bambi's Dilemma, Charlie and Scratch or Stitch.

does not work in australia yet

Just searched for The Recession and that shows up in its entirety, and it hasn't been released here at all right?

It's really good for the one-album playback when you've no idea if you'll like it or not and can't be arsed downloading.

yeah i'm basically going through albums i've been wondering about checking out but didn't have the hd space for.

no the recession was released here, but the label didn't bother telling the pr - she only realised when she looked on amazon and found it had been there for a fortnight

"80s funk house disco" radio suggests Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers!

> Four MB albums, Deano

thanks. we don't have any, amazon.co.uk mp3 store has scratch n stitch and a couple of tracks from compilations, emusic had a lot... all these people seem to be getting their info from the same places though, they all make the same mistakes (search for broadcast on amazon - details are about duophonic / warp broadcast but the listed albums aren't)

One detail I like: when it gets to the end of what I've queued up, it just continues with the current album without me needing to ask it to. (I suppose I can see how someone might not like this, though.)

Finally got round to sorting scrobbling for this (there's a windows messenger box ticked by default in the last.fm client that somehow stops Scrobblify from working). So far I'm really liking Spotify - handy for hearng stuff you randomly think on that you haven't got in your library or for legal trying before you buy. The adverts don't annoy me in the slightest.

fails Boredoms test :(

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

anyone got a spotfiy INVITE?

If not, try the "oooh ask me please!" option on the website ("Get started" -> email in "Not invited?" field). Took about five days for me, was surprised to get it at all actually.

jordan, webmail me an email address to send an invite to.

didn't get asked for an invite here, just got straight in

This is amazing! You type in what you want to listen to, and then you are listening to it. all this needs is to work on an iphone, and then i'll buy an iphone, and then i will have achieved bliss.

Mine appears to have made it through an album without giving me any adverts. Maybe they've bumped me up to a pro account without realising it.

you can now scrobble to last.fm from within spotify (it's in 'preferences')

That's handy, saves me running that scrobblify thing at the same time.

Spotify lists 'The Prodigy' as 'Prodigy' and makes last.fm think this guy sings Smack My Bitch Up and Out of Space
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/17704623.jpg

can someone please send me an invite?

thanks!!

Er....

https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

Think there's still a waiting list though.

<3 this service btw.

Got in straight away with the link I posted.

Aha they've obviously opened it up!

Downside is loads more ads (I've heard two during the same album), but you can hear them coming after a while and tune out. Still great.

thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.

Please!

If i hear gareth jones from cardiff reciting pi again i'll scream

(advert)

And I'm not buying that White Lies record either.

At least it doesn't scrobble the adverts

jonathan from spotify sounds remarkably like Michael Vaughan

It called “spirit” by Bauhaus an Obama-era jam...

“Your Spotify was ponytail pop escape room tay tay fan girl bad” AND
“Your taste is so obscure that’s so cool I bet you’re super interesting...”

(What is ‘escape room’? Is it a Spotify made up genre or something?)

Yes, pretty much. It’s discussed upthread and here is an explanation:

https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-it-one-of-my-top-genres-on-spotify-a886372f003f

Did the pudding thing and I dunno.

imo we should just make a playlist collecting all the songs we "listened to way too much" in order to make this thing productive

Yeah

http://i.imgur.com/UV0ksAN.png

2% basic, bow to me suckers

15% basic. I stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

Fiona Apple
Taylor Swift
They Might Be Giants
Janet Jackson
Billie Eilish

(TMBG are due to the ILM poll a couple years ago)

The other 4 it's true I stan to an uncomfortable extent though.

3% basic thanks to edgelord listening habits like this:

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Baa Baa Black Sheep by Nursery Rhymes 123 and Jelly on a Plate by Nursery Rhymes 123.

I got "oh great another Gunn-Truscinski Duo stan"

You only listen to Obama-era jams like El Bandito Pt. 1 by Delroy Edwards and Untitled Reversion by Lee Gamble.

lol

ok that was fun

2 percent basic

17% basic because my ex-wife used to share my account and just listened to future and 21 savage constantly :'-( she really destroyed my algorithim

Ha, I eventually got a family account so my wife could listen to her own stuff and my year end wouldn't be all 50 Cent.

Sort of weird because I split between Apple Music and Spotify.

Listen too much:
Lithics, "Excuse Generator"
Cat Power, "I Don't Blame You"
Sextile, "Disco"
The Fall, "Theme From Sparta FC"
Priests, "The Seduction of Kansas"

my taste is
studded-leather-jacket bad
lilith-fair bad
skrt-skrt bad
weeping-in-your-bourbon bad

Certified 0% basic

I think it got a bit confused as it called Jyocho idol-rock but OK.

https://i.ibb.co/KhYKnmK/Screenshot-20201223-220440.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/mG7Yssn/Screenshot-20201223-220515.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Jdb7PHH/Screenshot-20201223-220809.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0c1YLLr/Screenshot-20201223-220820.jpg

I didn’t really find this funny, sorry. Not Zappa-level unfunny but still.

it shamed me for liking Kendrick Lamar and it's not funny

It's like an annoying roommate or cousin or co-worker who picks up some random article from your stuff and says "haha, you like this?"

I forgot who posted that screenshot but was reminded when I saw Iced Earth.

It's like an annoying roommate or cousin or co-worker who picks up some random article from your stuff and says "haha, you like this?"

That’s the joke, innit?

D'oh!

"Your spotify was so-ambient-its-barely-music-mom-and-dads-date-night-swiftie-fangirl bad."

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/us/test-on-street-language-says-it-s-not-grant-in-that-tomb.html

Not that it really matters, but did Spotify remove the ability to scrobble to last fm?

well, it would matter, but it seems to be working fine atm #knockingonwood

(last.fm does have the occasional hiccup tho in my experience, so maybe you’re having one of those?)

I occasionally have to re-enter credentials for last fm scrobbling but it's been fine recently.

I just noticed it scrobbled some stuff I played on my phone this morning, but the desktop app for Linux doesn't have last fm in the Settings. Lemme go check the changelogs from the project I guess?

SPOTIFY TYPO, IDENTIFIED:

spotify:track:4DkW4or9lWD1psWQvfE0WO

Rothko Chapel
by Morton Feldman

Rohtko Chapel 1

https://i.imgur.com/CV3W8Mc.png

bitroht

Lol

My most recent RR has all kinds of confusing ringers, artist-wise and title-wise.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...
> remember-when-williamsburg-was-cool bad

Quite impressed that it picked this out (among other things). I have been hitting the 'High Maintenance' play list recently.

Pretty sure this isn't Johnny Marr: https://open.spotify.com/track/097pzmJXGs1xdpGr7g7Atk?si=1Wh1fcwBQzy4D7D4FGnPXw

Okay, I’ve got and X plus collabo of Roger Miller and Buck Owens, neither of which seems to be the artists I am familiar with sorry.

Oh and then Cream.

Luna too

And Fanny

The Outsiders. WTF?

I got the Roger Miller / Buck Owens collab too, lol

Pretty impressive direction for two dead country icons.

this isnt justin k broadrick https://open.spotify.com/album/42TWZTm8U1tZP1wSiM8Zsu?si=fU3LtlH2SwusFkyNPS-QKA

Pretty impressive direction for two dead country icons.

Can you still sync local files with the mobile app? Via a playlist or something ?

On desktop, you can choose a playlist folder and play the whole folder (or shuffle it). Am I missing something, or is this impossible on the iOS app?

That hasn't been available on mobile apps for years