Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Don’t leave your invites unused. People are dying to get access to Spotify.

Blimey, I had no idea it was so serious.

i haven't tried this out, but theres a deep url that looks like it will let you sign up without an invite
https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

got 25 invites

And why do so many ads have announcers speaking in really bad fake American accents?

This is a feature of many adverts on TV in Britain, especially done in that deep film trailer voice.

Yeah, that deep URL still works, so you still don't need an invite. As for premium bitrate, it sounds superb on iPhone + decent headphones - appreciably better than the miserly 192 that I've always used in iTunes. Not full CD quality, but not far off.

can someone send me a spotify invite?

people who say "haitch" are the most disgusting savages imo

wait, how else do you pronounce H?

"aitch"

How do you spell Haitch?

"Haitch"

Yes, Haitch.

"Haitch"

Yes, Haitch.

geeta i'm not sure spotify is available on the orbiting techno spaceship you live in

o, sorry about the H at the start. Yeah, disgusting savages.

invitation sent nonetheless

Wow, that Nandos advert is a tad racist

how does the Nandos advert go? I have premium so ad-free!!

I haven't got that one. I just keep getting the sodding Robbie Williams ads. You know, I *like* Robbie, but those ads are making me hate him. :-(

not sure what it is about my spotify habits (recently, herbie hancock, esma redzepova, nels cline, ersen, evangelista, the open strings comp), but for some reason they keep trying to sell me sodding hard-fi.

that's hard-fi.

My new game is typing two unrelated words into the search box and listening to whatever it comes up with or suggests. Just found this amazing karaoke version of the Cheers theme tune by searching for 'space cheese'.

Hello spotify. Yes, I like Little Boots and I like Douglas Adams but I DO NOT LIKE THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHILIP GLASS OPERA THANK YOU.

Actually, a Philip Glass opera about Douglas Adams starring Little Boots would be just about the best thing in the universe.

would love a douglas adams ad. all i get is the malibu mishmash one. BE ONE OF THEM.

Except it's not really Douglas Adams, it's more like that "And Another Thing..." thing.

Searching "space cheese" - several xposts

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f02efac6-d4ab-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Spotify has also played up the rates it can charge advertisers, saying that its ability to determine a listener's mood based on the beats per minute in the songs they are listening to has helped it achieve high click-through rates of as much as 6-7 per cent.

yeah right

looooooooooooooool

now playing: Cat Stevens "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun"

now playing: Rotterdam Terror Corps "Brutal Attack"

Still sometimes surprised by the extent of the catalogue on this: both Hugo Largo albums! sixty-nine and I by AR Kane! Even Euphoria by Insides = currently listening to Relentless for the first time in at least six years.

All it needs is for someone to script something that can detect the running time of a track and skip to the next one as it reaches the final second to defeat the advertising (every other track for me these days, pretty onerous).

All it needs is for someone to script something that can detect the running time of a track and skip to the next one as it reaches the final second to defeat the advertising

Or you could just buy a subscription ... :)

they really should've made it cheaper now to be fair

omg please stop with the malibu mishmash. or just give me another advert. i genuinely have heard nothing but BE ONE OF THEM in about a week and a half. it's got to the point where i'm using spotify less& less just not to hear that advert.

BE ONE OF THEM

i think i've learnt to block that one out - it's not as bad as the 3-Mobile-goes-Braveheart one

From Chrysalis Music on twitter :

1 million streams on #Spotify earns you $167? Not good.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/1-Million-Streams-on-Spotify-Earn-You-167-127714.shtml

>Or you could just buy a subscription ... :)

y'know, blueski otm - if it was even just a couple of quid cheaper then I would probably already be signed up, but on top of every other household bill I cannot justify it. I also don't think that £9.99 a month is value for money in this instance, which likely reveals me as a terrible skinflint.

traditionally britishers haven't had to pay for what is effectively radio, so i can see there's some opposition there.

am not sure lady gaga can complain either. that's $167 from a brand new revenue stream, one that didn't exist this time last year and is 167 dollars more than she'd've got from people downlooting it. it's not like they had to press up another million copies and ship them out to record stores... 8)

(does seem awfully low though)

do they mean that's how much lady gaga got directly after taking into account everyone else's share (inc 'repaying' the label on initial investment or whatever)?

pretty sure it's just the artist's share. how likely is it that the labels accepted low royalties in return for a share of ownership and neglected to think about their musicians' interests? hmm...

I also don't think that £9.99 a month is value for money in this instance, which likely reveals me as a terrible skinflint

Ach, I was being a bit cheeky ... TBH, the only reason I've signed up is so I can use the mobile app (which I love). If I didn't have an iPhone, I think I'd still be enduring/moaning about the ads.

yeah, if it worked with my mp3 player I think I'd be more into paying for it. But until then, I'll continue with my cheapjack last throes track skipping habits. As it is I only ever listen to it at work, so the radio comparison from koogs is spot on.

I know the lines have now blurred in this digital age such that data = product to most people...

But a solid tenner every month still feels extortionate for a rental service that still isn't quite there delivery wise, at least in comparison/addition to my monthly broadband bill.

That said, I don't suppose anybody on a premium subscription knows if the streaming is actually less buggy on it?
I'd hope it'd somehow get a higher priority in the p2p end of things...

I still get intermittent skips (more like missing blocks getting joined together without the silence) on 2 different operating systems (XP & Win7), 2 different connections (home wireless and work broadband direct ethernet connection) and well, it's okay for free sure, but having serious trouble committing any further as it does spoil my enjoyment frequently.

yeah it does skip more now than it used to plus im not convinced they take care when ripping some albums either.

I haven't experienced any skips, but the premium service often runs too slow - annoying pauses in the middle of tracks. It doesn't bother me too much though, as I mostly set currrent playlists to offline, so that they download overnight on the iPhone. No issues with value for money, as £10 a month is good value for unlimited high bitrate listening of multiple albums. A good 80% of all my listening is now via Spotify on iPhone, either on headphones or wired through the hi-fi. But I do miss scribbling.

...that should have read "scrobbling". Damned auto-correct...

yeah lots of pausing in tracks too

you cant scrobble from an iphone?

cant 'scrobble' in scrabble yet either

which is just silly

i tried premium day pass last week and the thing became nearly useless. skips, stops and tracks that wouldn't load. don't know if the size of the files had anything to do with it but yeah, they have some issues to deal with

the premium day pass is in the low bitrate too, i didn't relaise this but supposedly so.