Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

xpost: Correct, you can't scrobble Spotify from an iPhone.

^ ... which means, as I've said elsewhere, I'm *mighty* glad I kicked the Last.fm habit before I went premium :)

Like Mike, I use the iPhone app for a tonne of my listening now, and I'd be a bit stymied without it. I can't say I've noticed any streaming problems at all since I started paying, either: maybe I've just been lucky, though.

There does seem to be a link between a song's popularity and its ability to stream. Never have a problem with big hits; sometimes have a problem with lesser-known tracks, e.g. where there's only one tick on the populariity bar or whatever. Which makes sense, considering the service uses P2P behind the scenes.

But of the 80% of all my listening that's Spotify + iPhone, maybe 80% of that is via the offline mode. I've become rigorously organised about playlist management, and it's dead easy to add an album to an existing offline playlist on the fly, pending a download the next time I'm a) plugged into the mains and b) on wi-fi (both of which you need to be).

Never have a problem with big hits; sometimes have a problem with lesser-known tracks, e.g. where there's only one tick on the populariity bar or whatever

Hmm. I'd never even noticed the popularity bar until now (or, rather, I had but had ignored it): looking back, my last few blasts of listening veer from about half-full to completely empty, but I've never noticed any differences in stream quality/reliability either way. I'm guessing a lot of it will have to do with your ISP as well?

You're absolutely right about the iPhone app, though: probably because I still organise everything in iTunes with separate playlists, it feels totally natural to do that with Spotify too. Yes, it requires that tiny modicum of forethought -- but it's well worth it.

From Chrysalis Music on twitter :

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

― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:21 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/2009/11/if-spotify-is-the-new-radio-the-artists-are-winning/

so it turns out this was bollocks. $167 was just the publishing fee, she made over a grand in total, which is about 100x the amount you'd make from radio for the same number of listeners.

that advert for 'a wkd christmas' is srsly the lowpoint of our culture

I don't have any wkd christmas adverts. I just get endless ads to Yahoo playlists. I have to say spotify's tactics seem to be working, since the adverts are the worst thing I've ever heard, and I was in Nam. The Super Mario Drive By guy really needs to be fired from a cannon. Or I pay for premium, I guess.

WTF is this Mumford & Sons pish that they keep advertising? Sounds fucking awful.

lovestruck.com advert assuming you're a single professional man looking for love through the medium of music-streaming (and not okcupid or hell real life) = people had better not sign up to this shit

Awesome how this thread turned from "Spotify is the future of music!" to "these fucking ads"

"In fact you probably saw someone hot this morning!"

yes yes yes beautiful women are everywhere and available and subservient and CHECK OUT THE ASS ON THAT ONE

Still, all the Kraftwerk remasters!

i am not saying that spotify is not the best thing ever, which it sadly is

Have they got rid of the women who laughs for no good reason after she says she likes 'Can You Feel It' by The Jacksons? I hate her.

Interview with Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify. They're hoping to launch in the US in the early part of this year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8478599.stm

So now I have a whole chunk of Kraftwerk, and the Monkees' "Headquarters sessions" to minidisc..

is it 1998 again? 8)

(i still use mine for recording gigs. but nothing else.)

i use mine for interviewing people. the sound quality is great and it's totally reliable.