Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

BTW what makes this superior to Rhapsody?

Design? $5 vs. $9? Does Rhapsody have an app or is it browser only?

Seriously, how the fuck do so many people have this?

i haven't checked this out yet, so i'm not sure, but if you sign up for one of the paying things instead of just giving them your email address, i think they let you right in

Maybe, but according to what I've read they'll just "bump you ahead in the queue", but you still have to wait at this point. I don't know, I'm getting to the point where I don't want to give them my money out of spite. Fuck this, "oh wow we have a great new service but we're going to get all cute and coy about actually sending out invites".

I mean, I understand its all about "building buzz", but its annoying as all hell to watch people rave about something you can't even use.

Ah, and apparently we can blame this company Klout. They've partnered with Spotify for this launch and are favoring their Klout Perks members with invites right now.

Maybe, but according to what I've read they'll just "bump you ahead in the queue", but you still have to wait at this point.

didn't hear this, but if it's true that's eh

I could be wrong about that, its something I read on a blog. Any of you ilxors that have paid for it in the last few hours can attest to that?

Also, apparently the invites that come after today's batch will have more restrictions.

the front page of their site literally says

Don’t want to wait for an invitation? Jump the queue by signing up for Spotify Premium or Unlimited, starting at just $4.99/month.

"[j]ump the queue" is ambiguous though

yeah, I just paid the $5 out of curiosity and I got right in

the invites are only for the free which doesn't really interest me anyway because I don't want to listen to ads

thanking u -- might do the same

I have some invites left if anyone wants one. I just need an email address.

Wondering how long it will take until they manage to actually include an alphabetical sorting option in the Android client.

one thing i find funny is the division between people i know irl into the two camps of YOU PAY FIVE POUNDS A MONTH FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING MUSIC? YOU'VE GIVING MONEY TO THEM? FOR THAT? FIVE POUNDS? and people who go 'eh'

IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN NOTHING! AT LEAST I KEEP MY MUSIC etc etc snore

Maybe, but according to what I've read they'll just "bump you ahead in the queue", but you still have to wait at this point.

This is wrong. You get to use it immediately.

Okay, the blog I was reading (which I can't seem to find now despite my googling) said he paid the $5 option but still had to wait almost 8 hours to get his invite code.

one thing i find funny is the division between people i know irl into the two camps of YOU PAY FIVE POUNDS A MONTH FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING MUSIC? YOU'VE GIVING MONEY TO THEM? FOR THAT? FIVE POUNDS? and people who go 'eh'

Surely the option to carry with you your offline playlists on your mobile phone is not worth paying for? Or maybe those people want to listen online and pay their mobile provider instead of paying Spotify?

WELCOME AMERICANS

Remember on Spotify one track is referred to informally as "a nine-fellow", eg "I just added a 'nine-fellow'" to my playlist. However playlists are known as "Sir Alfred Rogetsons".

Well, it's a download at the end of the day. (xpost)

Remember on Spotify one track is referred to informally as "a nine-fellow", eg "I just added a 'nine-fellow'" to my playlist. However playlists are known as "Sir Alfred Rogetsons".

I thought they used to refer to them as Volvos or Smorgasbord.

Judging by all of the celebrities giving away invites on their Twitter feeds, this is obviously all part of building the buzz. I'm guessing they won't be releasing more today, as they said yesterday.

Okay, the blog I was reading (which I can't seem to find now despite my googling) said he paid the $5 option but still had to wait almost 8 hours to get his invite code.

This is what happened to me:

- I received an invite from the indomitable Billy Dobs.
- I clicked the link and was presented with the three choices. I clicked "Free" and it asked me for a code I didn't have and which wasn't attached to the URL.
- I spent 5 seconds going "hmmm" then clicked the $5 plan.
- I filled out all the info and got an email receipt in seconds.
- I downloaded Spotify and started jamming.

There was no invite code involved, ever.

I later invited my brother, who forwarded me the confirmation email to verify I'd sent him the invite; the URL he got in his invite had a token in it that unlocked the free plan.

I suspect one of the following:
- The invite I got from the UK circumvented whatever invite logic this blog person ran into.
- The blog you were checking was written by an idiot.