Spotify - anyone heard of it?

So why does Pandora even exist, exactly?

What's the selection going to be like in the US -- are there lots of limitations?

So why does Pandora even exist, exactly?

because you couldn't get Spotify in the US until today

re: selection, I couldn't find "Hot With Fleas" by Severed Heads on it; so far that has been my only disappointment

jon, if the link doesn't work, drop me a line at the address upthread and I'll send you an invite.

This is the hardest thing to believe since I first found out a woman would sleep with me.

Yeah, I'm really trying not to get over excited here because this seems way too good to be true. My fear is that will be awesome for the first couple of months, then labels will start freaking out and pulling their catalogs.

lol hurting

I found dope body's new album out there, between that and dan's college choir it seems pretty comprehensive

billy says there are voice ads on the UK service but all I've had are popup image ads, all for terrible musicians

Or they'll jack the price way up, more likely imo. I just don't see the economics of this making sense for labels in the long run with free, $5 and $10 subscriptions. I mean I still exchange some money for music sometimes, and with something like this I don't think I would do much of that anymore. (xpost)

re: selection, I couldn't find "Hot With Fleas" by Severed Heads on it; so far that has been my only disappointment

That's interesting. I was curious whether the US catalogue matched the European one. It must be different as that track is available in the UK. Presumably it's a licensing issue.

I should specify that I meant the original "Hot With Fleas" off of Bad Mood Guy, not the extended remix on Commerz

Yeah, it's the one on Commerz which I can see.

There are definitely some differences, e.g. about 20% of the ILM Pet Shop Boys top 50 playlist is missing (it looks like Behaviour isn't there at all?!). Comparing my playlists from the UK version it seems that a little under 10% of each is missing.

just signed up for the $5 version. It seems pretty cool so far, especially for checking out new stuff. Some of the older stuff I've searched for hasn't shown up.

I'm not sure if I could switch to this entirely from itunes though. It seems like the playlist organization is a little fiddly. Maybe I'll get used to it.

I wish it had better ways to browse and find related stuff you might like. That aspect of it seems really weak. I've tried to search by label using label: but it doesn't seem to work. There should be more prominent genre tags, recommendations, etc.

I can't even figure out how to make the search window bigger. Like if I search by genre I see about 10 titles and then a ... and there's no way to see more?

I wish it had better ways to browse and find related stuff you might like.

otm. there is the 'related artists' tab, but that seems a little hit & miss.

Ah, I didn't see the tab. I only saw the tiny summary and was wondering why you couldn't see more.

but yeah, still pretty weak

One huge pisser for me was that they took off the entire ECM catalogue a couple of months back. Perfect work music too.

I wish they had charts by genre too

Yep. It's weird - when I'm confronted by this vast store of music I find it really hard to think what I want to listen to. It's some kind of musical snowblindness.

I am currently listening to a Son of Bazerk album. From 2010.

no ecm = no king crimson, bummer

however I did listen to jorge ben's o bidu silencio no brooklin and scissor girls' we people space with phantoms today

like the fact that they have bonus and comp tracks on the artist page.

I'm sure these have been linked upthread, but I've found these the most useful spotify sites:

http://www.pansentient.com/ - Unofficial spotify blog

http://www.spotiseek.com/ - creates random playlists based on an artist you like

http://pitchify.com/ - links to latest well reviewed albums

def will need an unlimited data plan if you use this on your mobile

apple must be sh1tting their pants about now

maybe they can clean up with all the money they make from ipads + iphones

Steve Martin's 70s stand up albums

gotta go listen to cruel shoes brb

def will need an unlimited data plan if you use this on your mobile

Yes, unless you synch your playlists via wifi to listen offline.

Three weeks from now Jobs announces that all "hot" singles on iTunes are $2.99.

Lots of rdio stans saying Spotify doesn't come close, but it's US only so I can't tell if they're full of crap or not.

kind of annoying how if you add a bunch of albums to a playlist for a particular artist, there's no way to automatically reorder them by year

Yeah, I wish there was a way of managing your playlists through the same webpages that you can use to edit your account (ie through clicking on your username).

Dan, I hope you've got scrobbling switched on?

I've been using Spotify for a while since I live in Europe a bunch of the time, but now I'm in the USA for a while & happy to see that my Euro account works here too, with all the same playlists I had.

Scrobbling is blocked for me atm, don't know why

gonna take my work laptop home and see if I can enable it there

So can American users see this full list of the 50s ILM tracks poll?
http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/4IKcWqGQQ5cN1QTT0ya7xo

yup

Hooray God Bless America!

Thanks Neil!

http://www.tedhickman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/crying-eagle-98.gif

haha my audio ads are in English but my written ads are in French

can't find cruel shoes, but let's get small is there.

doh, it's on the Rhino comp

http://open.spotify.com/track/2qD4zVWSL9xpgTDC7sHRzY

I see it here

totally worth the wait

So what's better, this or MOG?

Yeah, diamonddave, I couldn't get that link to work either, just keeps asking for my invite code.

I love that this thing scrobbles without having to have a separate app open

I wonder how long before they send out more invites.