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..
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just saying, I think Matt and Tracer were aiming at J0rdan rather than you with that comment
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
As long as I'm covered...
Who distributes Polyvinyl? These bands need money.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah i'm sure bands will start raking it in from spotify
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
$50 is still $50.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
how does spotify pay bands? is it like radio royalties?
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
that infographic is hilarious
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
and sad
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
it's sad it was hilarious
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
I really have to stop doing that
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
ha yeah me too, muttering it to myself one time too many lately
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
If those figures are true though, the (legal) digital age devalued music at an alarming rate.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to that chart, I will be setting my playlists on repeat and playing them when I leave the office
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
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 multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
The tracklisting is there but the song titles are gray.. the disclaimer says "This album is not available in the United States."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
kel, you should get Windows 7; then you can skip a track without having to open the window
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
How the hell do I make a playlist? This shit's confusing the hell out of me.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Wait - I think I just got it. NM!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
This is overwhelming!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
what's your username--we can be spotify bros
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
uhhhhh enbb
lol
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
how do we become spotify bros and what does that mean?
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
i added you and now i can see playlists you publish.
in the searchbox type spotify:user:callalldestroyer
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
also we can share trax and stuff
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda hate they turned "spotify social" into spotify facebook basically
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
spotify:user:avilyn
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
andy! psyched to check out your playlists.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, love being able to pause this so easily at work when the phone rings.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe the bugs are mostly with the ads, though?
― timellison, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
Splurged for a $5 run this weekend and haven't regretted a thing. No bugs to report at all.
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
If anyone uses the foxytunes firefox (or IE) extension it can control spotify from the status bar.
http://www.foxytunes.com/firefox/download/
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Why can't you just search for a playlist within Spotify? That's always confused the hell out of me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
Never any problems with the premium
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
― Matt DC, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah this seems like a huge flaw? they should also have a last.fm/netflix style recommendation system
― max, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Jon, I agree, the advertising isn't that annoying and I am still not clear on what goodies I will get if I up to the $5 plan.
When I get more money, though, the $10 plan will be cool, would love to listen on my Blackberry.
― Indie Pop: Intelligent People's Music (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
There is no Spotify for Blackberry afaik - only iPhone/Android.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
this...is amazing
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
it really is
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I had no idea, I thought one could listen on any phone. I'm sure in time you'll be able to get these services on any phone.
― Indie Pop: Intelligent People's Music (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link