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...
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
20 second xbox ad came in after 5 songs. not bad really.
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
needs last.fm support asap
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I love it!
I think there is progress towards spotify scrobbling happening here:
http://www.last.fm/group/Scrobble+for+Spotify
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
carsmile sent this link: http://code.google.com/p/scrobblify/
scrobbles perfectly
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
for Windows maybe!
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
i am so in love with this thing <3
― king lame (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
some artist tag crapness tho
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
the radio is fun for discovering things totally insane and cheesy
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wow the quality is actually pretty good.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― country matters, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
does it pass the melt banana test?
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
does not work in australia yet
― Suggesteban Buttez (jabba hands), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm basically going through albums i've been wondering about checking out but didn't have the hd space for.
― king lame (c sharp major), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
"80s funk house disco" radio suggests Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers!
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
> 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)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 December 2008 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
fails Boredoms test :(
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
anyone got a spotfiy INVITE?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
jordan, webmail me an email address to send an invite to.
― slag move (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
didn't get asked for an invite here, just got straight in
― stet, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Slumpman, Sunday, 7 December 2008 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 December 2008 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
you can now scrobble to last.fm from within spotify (it's in 'preferences')
― braveclub, Sunday, 21 December 2008 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 Spacehttp://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/17704623.jpg
― dj onimotian (onimo), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
can someone please send me an invite?
thanks!!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Er....
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Think there's still a waiting list though.
<3 this service btw.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Got in straight away with the link I posted.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Aha they've obviously opened it up!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.
Please!
― kaiser, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
If i hear gareth jones from cardiff reciting pi again i'll scream
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
(advert)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
And I'm not buying that White Lies record either.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
At least it doesn't scrobble the adverts
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
jonathan from spotify sounds remarkably like Michael Vaughan
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
It called “spirit” by Bauhaus an Obama-era jam...
― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:38 (three weeks ago) link
“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?)
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:49 (three weeks ago) link
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
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:52 (three weeks ago) link
Did the pudding thing and I dunno.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:52 (three weeks ago) link
imo we should just make a playlist collecting all the songs we "listened to way too much" in order to make this thing productive
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:57 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:59 (three weeks ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UV0ksAN.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:26 (three weeks ago) link
2% basic, bow to me suckers
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 19:01 (three weeks ago) link
15% basic. I stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:
Fiona AppleTaylor SwiftThey Might Be GiantsJanet JacksonBillie Eilish
(TMBG are due to the ILM poll a couple years ago)
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 19:07 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 19:27 (three weeks ago) link
I got "oh great another Gunn-Truscinski Duo stan"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 19:42 (three weeks ago) link
You only listen to Obama-era jams like El Bandito Pt. 1 by Delroy Edwards and Untitled Reversion by Lee Gamble.lol
― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 20:50 (three weeks ago) link
ok that was fun
2 percent basic
― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 20:51 (three weeks ago) link
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
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:00 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:24 (three weeks ago) link
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 badlilith-fair badskrt-skrt badweeping-in-your-bourbon bad
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:26 (three weeks ago) link
Certified 0% basic
I think it got a bit confused as it called Jyocho idol-rock but OK.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:39 (three weeks ago) link
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
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 December 2020 03:16 (three weeks ago) link
I didn’t really find this funny, sorry. Not Zappa-level unfunny but still.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 03:31 (three weeks ago) link
it shamed me for liking Kendrick Lamar and it's not funny
― lukas, Thursday, 24 December 2020 04:06 (three weeks ago) link
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?"
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 04:16 (three weeks ago) link
I forgot who posted that screenshot but was reminded when I saw Iced Earth.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 04:21 (three weeks ago) link
That’s the joke, innit?
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 24 December 2020 04:27 (three weeks ago) link
D'oh!
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 04:29 (three weeks ago) link
"Your spotify was so-ambient-its-barely-music-mom-and-dads-date-night-swiftie-fangirl bad."
― groovypanda, Thursday, 24 December 2020 13:14 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/us/test-on-street-language-says-it-s-not-grant-in-that-tomb.html
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
Not that it really matters, but did Spotify remove the ability to scrobble to last fm?
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:39 (two weeks ago) link
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?)
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:50 (two weeks ago) link
I occasionally have to re-enter credentials for last fm scrobbling but it's been fine recently.
― new variant (onimo), Thursday, 31 December 2020 15:27 (two weeks ago) link
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?
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Friday, 1 January 2021 16:22 (two weeks ago) link
SPOTIFY TYPO, IDENTIFIED:
spotify:track:4DkW4or9lWD1psWQvfE0WO
Rothko Chapelby Morton Feldman
Rohtko Chapel 1
https://i.imgur.com/CV3W8Mc.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 January 2021 19:54 (two weeks ago) link
bitroht
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 2 January 2021 01:42 (two weeks ago) link
Lol
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 January 2021 02:40 (two weeks ago) link
My most recent RR has all kinds of confusing ringers, artist-wise and title-wise.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 January 2021 06:54 (two weeks ago) link
> 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.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 2 January 2021 13:22 (two weeks ago) link
Pretty sure this isn't Johnny Marr: https://open.spotify.com/track/097pzmJXGs1xdpGr7g7Atk?si=1Wh1fcwBQzy4D7D4FGnPXw
― DJI, Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:29 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:04 (one week ago) link
Oh and then Cream.
Luna too
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:05 (one week ago) link
And Fanny
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:06 (one week ago) link
The Outsiders. WTF?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:07 (one week ago) link
I got the Roger Miller / Buck Owens collab too, lol
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:44 (one week ago) link
Pretty impressive direction for two dead country icons.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:45 (one week ago) link
this isnt justin k broadrick https://open.spotify.com/album/42TWZTm8U1tZP1wSiM8Zsu?si=fU3LtlH2SwusFkyNPS-QKA
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:53 (one week ago) link
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:25 (one week ago) link
Can you still sync local files with the mobile app? Via a playlist or something ?
― calstars, Saturday, 9 January 2021 02:27 (one week ago) link
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?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:16 (three days ago) link
That hasn't been available on mobile apps for years
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:17 (three days ago) link