Think Farnborough fucking airshow and The Boy Who Trapped The Sun might have finally made me crack and move to Unlimited. Still worried I'll move from Free to Open if I cancel payments. Anyone done that yet?
― useless chamber, Monday, 19 July 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
is this true? spotify works in USA now?
http://twitter.com/KellyeSue/status/19081467285
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
this person has protected their tweets
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
HOLYFUCKINGSHIT spotify works in the US now!!!!! My life just got 30% better.
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hang on what
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
WELCOME
Uhhh, it doesn't though?
― Sensational Howard (admrl), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
okay i asked KellyeSue how it's working and all I got was:
" I don't know how it's working.I just did an update, and then it started working again.I'm terrified it's going to stop working."
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you were in the UK? afaik if you use it in the uk, you can use it for 2 weeks abroad.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 22 July 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― OK (LOLK), Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
ok any nerds know of a good proxy i can use to get spotify here in the land of the free?
― OK (LOLK), Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
nevermind, why would i want to circumvent the very laws that protect my freedom
― OK (LOLK), Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
for unlocking my UK account I use ivacy, since most of proxies I used to use stopped working and I wanted to have something reliable, bought 20GB of transfer for 13$ which is enough for me and my friends to have an eternity of unlocked spotify
― V79, Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this Lynx advert = please die, now
― BLACK METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
rip 'histoire de melody nelson'
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I have gotten myself on the free version for a while, and that is sufficient for me, just to check out stuff I am curious about and whatever. Still stick to CDs for actual listening to fave music.
And I still wonder if Spotify will last, as in, will they actually make enough people want to pay for this to keep it going?
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Serge Gainsbourg was driven from the interent solely by the awful doggerel of Sky Sports adverts.
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
God I want this in the USA!!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
awful doggerel of Sky Sports adverts.
p sure these are actually done by spotify to force you to get a pay-scubscriptch
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
rip 'veedon fleece'
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet more stuff disappears once it opens in the USA.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss the Sutopia ads. :(
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
'there you are in your perfectly nice little car' -- what a horribly formed advert
― i am legernd (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone in Dylan's team has a sense of humour as the only CBS albums available are Empire Burlesque, Down In The Groove and Under a Red Sky.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"We've tried a number of times but have been unable to renew your Spotify subscription. Unfortunately, this means that we're no longer able to continue your Spotify subscription."
Yeah well I had to cancel my credit card because of fraud, maybe if you'd emailed me earlier I could have rectified for you.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Like Friendster, it is probably doomed in the long run.
― Party with Your Poodle (u s steel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed. It's a great way to check out new stuff I haven't heard right now, but I cannot see them making enough money to keep going.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea how they work out "related artists" but alongside Kraftwerk they have "Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, New Order, Radiohead, David Bowie, Morrissey, Talking Heads and Various Artists" :/
I get a couple of them but there's a dozen other's I'd put before that lot - wonder if it's a record company/marketing thing - like they'd rather I was tempted to buy something by an established popular artist than go off listening to Klaus Schulze all night.
― the reasonable one (onimo), Monday, 8 November 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
or fans of "The Model" probably likeed those other bands as well
― Gukbe, Monday, 8 November 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I was under the impression it was based on what users listened to, so spotify listeners to Kraftwerk listen to PSB, Grace Jones, New Order etc rather than Klaus Schulze, Neu, Amon Duul etc
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I read somewhere that is how they decide it, yes. Klaus Schultze is somewhat more "ambient" than Kraftwerk as well, so I don't know if they are that much more musically related to him than to, say, Pet Shop Boys or New Order
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw. this thread is just a little over two years old, and the thread topic title already looks extremely old. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Brasso? They not really doing much in the way of 'profiling' their user base, are they?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's some sort of screen wipe thing, not the stuff you'd use for polishing your knobs.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
You'd think the knob polishers would sue.
― Smiley panda mixed moniker (7,4) (onimo), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there some sort of "off-line-spotifylookup", as I have it at home, am not going to install it at work, but would like to look up things?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's usually decided by popularity, most music sites base suggestions on that. I'm sure it's not intentional, but it gives the impression you're sharing space with a bunch of teenagers just discovering 80s music. If you are the cold-blooded mature sort who favors Kraftwerk one would assume you have already embraced or rejected Morrissey or Talking Heads.
― like you really know who trisomie 21 is (u s steel), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that's a massive problem with all recommendation systems - you used to get things like "You bought a Beatles album - check out these other 10 Beatles albums!" on Amazon but it's a bit better now. People are looking at how to predict diverse and unexpected recommendations but it's not a mature art yet.
― seandalai, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:25 (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:25 (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Twice in the space of 10mins, never buying any of their fucking products...
― Neil S, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
pay the tenner a month (if you have an iphone)
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Or invest in a minidisc recorder and edit the ads out.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
You're going to need a hell of a sales pitch to get me to 'invest' in any more minidisc shite.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The group’s revenues for 2009 were £11.32 million, but its cost of sales was £18.82 million, plus distribution costs of £608,711 and administrative expenses of £8.29 million.The result: an operating loss of £16.4 million for 2009 as a whole, and a net loss after taxation of £16.66 million
The result: an operating loss of £16.4 million for 2009 as a whole, and a net loss after taxation of £16.66 million
― James Mitchell, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Still, though: All the Kraftwerk albums!
― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
all?
― koogs, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah.
Oh, OK, not all. Not the first three, or "Exceller-8" or "Elektro-Kinetic"....
― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
what plans do the spotify bigwigs have to change that around? is this coming year going to make or break? surprised the major labels haven't clubbed together to create their own version yet, maybe in 2017 eh
― NI, Monday, 22 November 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
surprised the major labels haven't clubbed together to create their own version
they pretty much have with Spotify - the labels have a huge chunk of equity.
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Monday, 22 November 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
They've changed the pricing structure for one thing (now there's a £5/month not-so-premium option), and they've capped the amount that new users can listen to for free each month. And it always feels like the ads are getting more annoying.
― seandalai, Monday, 22 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link