Spotify - anyone heard of it?

awful doggerel of Sky Sports adverts.

p sure these are actually done by spotify to force you to get a pay-scubscriptch

rip 'veedon fleece'

I bet more stuff disappears once it opens in the USA.

I miss the Sutopia ads. :(

'there you are in your perfectly nice little car' -- what a horribly formed advert

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.

"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.

Like Friendster, it is probably doomed in the long run.

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.

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.

or fans of "The Model" probably likeed those other bands as well

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

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

Btw. this thread is just a little over two years old, and the thread topic title already looks extremely old. :)

I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.

Brasso? They not really doing much in the way of 'profiling' their user base, are they?

It's some sort of screen wipe thing, not the stuff you'd use for polishing your knobs.

You'd think the knob polishers would sue.

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?

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.

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.

I'm going to kill that Brasso advert.

― 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...

pay the tenner a month (if you have an iphone)

Or invest in a minidisc recorder and edit the ads out.

You're going to need a hell of a sales pitch to get me to 'invest' in any more minidisc shite.

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

Still, though: All the Kraftwerk albums!

all?

yeah.

Oh, OK, not all. Not the first three, or "Exceller-8" or "Elektro-Kinetic"....

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

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.

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.

pro tip #1: to mute adverts, press pause, lower volume, and press play again

pro tip #2: dub your spotify playlists onto cassettes, but be at the ready with your finger on the pause button of your tape deck for those adverts. afterwards you can just listen to your tape and not have any adverts, a proper mixtape, like the good old days.

or just pay 10 quid a month for no ads and the best iphone app there is

I was grooving on this for a couple months til Spotify apparently clamped down on my US residence and I'm disabled from playing much anything. Might give it another try if I can find another IP-faker.

or just pay 10 quid a month for no ads and the best iphone app there is

EMPHATIC CO-SIGN

I would if I used it more than I do.

pro tip #23: dub your spotify playlists onto cassettes minidisc, but be at the ready with your finger on the pause button of your tape deck 'split tracks' button for those adverts . or afterwards. You can just listen to your tape it later and do it then, then go back and remove any tracks of 30 secs or thereabouts (check first in case they are short tracks for real. Then you will have a proper mixtape, and not have any adverts like the good old days.

Spotify to launch in US, sort of.

pro tip #23: dub your spotify playlists onto cassettes minidisc, but be at the ready with your finger on the pause button of your tape deck 'split tracks' button for those adverts . or afterwards. You can just listen to your tape it later and do it then, then go back and remove any tracks of 30 secs or thereabouts (check first in case they are short tracks for real. Then you will have a proper mixtape, and not have any adverts like the good old days.

TS: Tape vs. Minidisc, which of these two is most the outdated technology in 2010?

the most outdated even

tapes ain't that outdated, they were hip just a moment ago (chillwave, witch house etc.)

Fuck tape.

(on my iPhone that initially came out as 'faucet rape', fuck a Steve Jobs)

So Spotify on my laptop crashed and I had to uninstall and now it won't let me install again for free? Is this right?

Ahh, it seems so.

xp - do you have a link for this? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem...

That doesn't make sense - the Spotify client should be independent of your user account and your user account should be independent of any one computer or installation. E.g. I was able to download and install the official Linux client (which you need a subscription to use), I just couldn't log in until I paid up.

Every time I tried to open spotify - windows would have some message (yes, Vista...) (often a different message) saying it couldn't open it, or it wasn't supported, or the pragramme has not opened properly and will now close. I tried to download an update but I just got into a loop of "you've already got it" or "it's already open". So I uninstalled it (and even then Windows wasn't happy). Went to d/l another freebie but it seems I need a code and/or money. It's a pity because it worked like a dream until to-day. Sigh.

Anyone with Spofity Premium here?

I am not on Spotify Premium yet, and I have also yet to have an mp3 player, but I do consider to do something about both. There are just a few things I am interested in facts about.

- I guess I will go for an iPod, but if I go for a different player, will the offline version of Spotify still work?
- Perhaps the most important question is about adding mp3s not on Spotify to the playlist. I am aware this is possible on Spotify (even on the free version), but is it also possible to add mp3s from your mp3 player in the offline version or will non-Spotify songs only work on the online version of Spotify? This is rather important because Spotify is, after all, far from complete (Beatles, for starters....).

1) Spotify doesn't work on an iPod. You'll need an iPhone (which also works as an MP3 player through iTunes synching).

2) You can add non-Spotify songs to Spotify playlists on your computer. If you mark these playlists as "offline" on your iPhone, and if you have the iTunes integration options activated on both computer and phone (note that they aren't switched on by default), then the non-Spotify tracks will synch to your phone.

PS - you don't need to plug your phone into your computer for the non-Spotify tracks to synch - this will happen wirelessly.