Spotify - anyone heard of it?

jon so otm

I like MOG a lot and am keeping my subscription but Spotify seems to come up with less chaff when I do a keyword search.

Also I can indulge in guilty pleasures like elevator disco without feeling like I have to share that with everyone.

Currently working on a spotify version of my rub you the right way mix from a few years back

Sharemyplaylists is great. And they have an app

They don't have every prominent album ever made and complaining it doesn't is kinda entitled bullshit.

"everything is amazing and nobody's happy"

Make sure you only post comments like these specifically after I speak up... especially since I never alluded to either of these.. people were mentioning stuff that was missing, so I added to the list. So far I love it.. I'm very happy and I don't feel entitled to get all music for free.. although I do think it's dumb for all musicians to not embrace this as an opportunity for gettin serious-ass paid.

Japandroids are on Death Row?

No, Polyvinyl... all recent Of Montreal releases are missing as well.

They have all of Doggystyle and pretty much everything Tupac pre-death so I think it's nothin but a Dr. Dre thing and not a Death Row thing..

I'm just saying, I think Matt and Tracer were aiming at J0rdan rather than you with that comment

As long as I'm covered...

Who distributes Polyvinyl? These bands need money.

lol yeah i'm sure bands will start raking it in from spotify

$50 is still $50.

how does spotify pay bands? is it like radio royalties?

I do think it's dumb for all musicians to not embrace this as an opportunity for gettin serious-ass paid.

Yeah, as much of a devotee of spotify as I am that really isn't going to happen (infographic).

that infographic is hilarious

and sad

it's sad it was hilarious

I really have to stop doing that

ha yeah me too, muttering it to myself one time too many lately

If those figures are true though, the (legal) digital age devalued music at an alarming rate.

Maybe they're getting a better deal in the U.S. now? I know thats an older chart based on UK royalties, perhaps hammering out a better deal was part of what took so long to get it hear. Doubtful though.

thanks to that chart, I will be setting my playlists on repeat and playing them when I leave the office

I think that chart is out of date. Here's an article with some more realistic royalty numbers. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/news/e3iecb83415cefdd2b0a43399437dff3e5f

For the interactive royalty rate, let?s use 0.75 cents per stream (it?s the midpoint of a typical range of 0.5 to 1.0 cents per stream)

Still not great, since obviously at the low end of that scale, a listener would have to play a track 200 times to equal one 99¢ iTunes download. But if streaming services caught on and royalty rates began to increase as subscriptions increased maybe it would work. And it would actually benefit artists whose music gets replayed frequently. It would also favor quantity, so people who are listening to full albums would actually be a more valuable audience than people who just listen to singles.

Well that Billboard article is from 2009, so I'm not sure its much more up to date, but an interesting read nonetheless. I'd be curious to see what Spotify's current real royalty rates are.

As far as I can see, pretty much everything by Of Montreal and Japandroids is available in the UK, so hopefully will be available in the US soon.

Curious to see what message you get with this, No Singles.

The tracklisting is there but the song titles are gray.. the disclaimer says "This album is not available in the United States."

You know this whole streaming thing is great but something I really love about Spotify is how the play-controls are located at the bottom. It's great especially for windows users (pun in 3...2...1: SO MUCH WIN) where all I have to do is minimize spotify to my taskbar, and if I want to skip a song it doesn't take a massive upheaval to go all the way to the top a la iTunes.

That's all I have to add for today.

Well that Billboard article is from 2009, so I'm not sure its much more up to date, but an interesting read nonetheless.

ah, true. although the numbers in the infographic only seem to date from a few months later. the problem is it seems like he got them from a blog post written by someone who got their music on spotify through cdbaby. so they don't necessarily reflect anything meaningful.

kel, you should get Windows 7; then you can skip a track without having to open the window

How the hell do I make a playlist? This shit's confusing the hell out of me.

Wait - I think I just got it. NM!

This is overwhelming!

what's your username--we can be spotify bros

uhhhhh enbb

lol

how do we become spotify bros and what does that mean?

i added you and now i can see playlists you publish.

in the searchbox type spotify:user:callalldestroyer

also we can share trax and stuff

Oh hey there you are!!

Yeah I have no idea what any of this is yet but woah those playlists are all pretty neat. Very v exciting imo.

i kinda hate they turned "spotify social" into spotify facebook basically

spotify:user:avilyn

andy! psyched to check out your playlists.

kel, you should get Windows 7; then you can skip a track without having to open the window

Yes, love being able to pause this so easily at work when the phone rings.

I've had to close and restart the program about four times in the last hour because it decides to stop playing whenever an ad comes up. Really annoying, not sure I'm ready to pull out my wallet until this is less buggy.

Maybe the bugs are mostly with the ads, though?

Splurged for a $5 run this weekend and haven't regretted a thing. No bugs to report at all.

I think they are ad-related, I've never seen any of these problems and I've been on the $5 plan from the beginning.

Can you search for playlist themes? Like if I'm interested in Ego Trip's 40 best singles of 1994 but I don't feel like downloading a torrent... Or Billboards top 100 singles of 1989 or something... I feel like people must have made these into spotify playlists by now.

If anyone uses the foxytunes firefox (or IE) extension it can control spotify from the status bar.

http://www.foxytunes.com/firefox/download/

I don't think you can search for playlists by keyword or genre on spotify. I think you'd have to go to somewhere like http://sharemyplaylists.com/ or http://www.sharedplaylists.com/ and do a search from there.

Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.