Spotify - anyone heard of it?

disc 4 of the man who invented soul iirc

starring all the songs you like and putting it on random is so rad

'Night Beat's' available in the UK, no sign of Cormega's 2005 album.

I wouldn't sweat about missing some stuff at the moment, there's a good chance that it'll turn up eventuall. Kate Bush and Underworld's catalogue was only recently made available in the UK for example.

disc 4 of the man who invented soul iirc

― call all destroyer, Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok cool

they don't have A LOT... like, I made a playlist and then realized they didn't have like 90% of the songs on it, so anyone I shared it with couldn't listen to most of the songs

the idea is cool, but really I don't get the point of spotify when I have my itunes and a large hard drive?

the idea is to give artists & especially labels control over our access to music once again

that we'll give up free music in favor of convenient music, i guess

I am pleasantly surprised.Is it worth it to pony up for premium if the ads aren't bothering me?

Why can't you browse by genre in either of these services? I mainly want to use it to try out dance / electronic music but usually have to browse another site to find artists and songs to cue.

you can search by genre but it isn't great - I think it shows most played songs by default

you can search by label too

list of genres you can search for: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psnjFY3R2itsqjinSs9hkZw

http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2009/03/24/spotify-genres-the-full-listing/

i think the other thing is that this site isn't really gonna have an effect on the way i consume music generally? that new mixtapes arent typically gonna be going up there, nor are most of the major artists' releases that i listen to. so i mean, in terms of access this isn't changing a whole lot. i mean, its impressive abstractly but functionally for my purposes its less 'revolutionary' than idk digitaldripped or hans-kingofthedrugs

yeah otm

man listening to the top tracks is depressing. 'i'm on one' is like the only song i like lol

new major label rap albums are on there

and what a great lineup that is these days ha

for being a generalist selection it's pretty damn comprehensive, sorry your oj da juiceman freestyles aren't on there rip :^(

that emoticon has a nose

uh, i thought they didn't have sub pop

ah, from npr -- http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/07/14/137842612/spotify-has-arrived-stateside-heres-what-you-need-to-know:

**Update (7/13/11 at 5:30pm): Spotify clears this up as well. They do, in fact, have a contract with Sub Pop. The fact that a number of albums from the label weren't available this morning is due to the fact that they're still in the process of loading many songs into their digital catalog.

new washed out is up there

nice

postal service, wolf parade, etc.

minus "at mount zoomer" i guess?

yesssssss more iron & wine

thanking u sub pop & spotify

If it lets me listen to Twister by Unrest without buying it or taking the time to look for a download (and it does) it's worth the $9.99 this month. I can't imagine that something similar isn't true for everyone else. I still want Drag City (who are also absent from Rhapsody).

for being a generalist selection it's pretty damn comprehensive, sorry your oj da juiceman freestyles aren't on there rip :^(

― flop's son (dayo), Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so is rhapsody, and why would i give a fuck abt a generalist selection? ps: you're a clown

Surely you'd care about he opportunity to easily search for, eg house music or something else you're moderately interested in? It's never gonna have every free mixtape on it but you're gonna listen to most of them anyway.

As a research tool or just something for happily stumbling across things Spotify is pretty much amazing.

Also sharemyplaylists.com us worth repping for - it's good to just search for 'Balearic' or 'Berlin 2011' and just happily listen for an hour or two.

yeah that seems like exactly what it's for, i.e. not for going deeper in a genre you're already deep in.

Anybody having problem with Spotify stopping after playing ads sometimes? Lately I've run into an issue where Spotify will play an ad through to the end, but then it won't do anything else... it doesn't play another ad or the next song on my playlist, it just stops. If I click on another song to play it, the pop up comes up saying "'song x' will play as soon as the current ad is finished', but nothing is playing. So far the only solution I've found is to shut down Spotify and restart it - works, but very annoying. I read somewhere that cleaning out the cache can help, but that doesn't seem to make a difference with this problem.

idk if it's me or the program but there have been a couple times when i've had to restart it to get it to play tunes again

same for me. the free us version of spotify is pretty terrible.

Yeah, this happened to me once. I figured I was lucky that it was just once.

I've had it just stop in the middle of songs a couple of times on the paid version. changing to another track fixes it though.

minus "at mount zoomer" i guess?
― markers, Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

LAME

That album "The Chronic" by that dude Dr. Dre is also missing.

Also some artists have individual songs missing... "You Made Me Realise" & "Sister Ray" .. weird..

billstevejim i cant imagine spotify had time to negotiate with DR. DRE

they have 2001

wonder if it's a death row thing

who even owns the death row masters? didn't they get auctioned off or something

they have doggystle, altho they list it as having been released in 2009

no japandroids :( hopefully that will get fixed.

It's probably a Death Row thing. They don't have every prominent album ever made and complaining it doesn't is kinda entitled bullshit.

The Chronic was on UK Spotify a couple of months ago then disappeared.

Disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"everything is amazing and nobody's happy"

Complaining about them not having some fairly obvious canonical releases was more responding to expectations based on hype rather than feeling entitled to it, but it's nore like this didn't fall short for my purposes i'm other ways so ymmv

Really hoping to see more metal labels on here soon.

It's *not like