that stuff was prob all on rhapsody too -- if anyone's confused abt why im still like 'and?'
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Rhapsody costs money, right?
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but half the ppl here are paying money for spotify
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but deej you need secret invite to get into spotify
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
were you those kind of guys who were going on and on about Diamond Rio when the iPod first came out?
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i had 20gigs worth on my first ipod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMWGye7u4E
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol. spotify seems to have a pretty comprehensive Diamond Rio discog
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
you know, in case BlindWillyPuller is looking for a good alternative to hip hop and metal
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I've never been on Rhapsody and this is free.99
― The Reverend, Friday, 29 July 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's surprisingly good for random dance compilations.
Also, this is the Spotify playlist that everyone in the world needs. It's (a lot of ) the Optimo 250:
http://open.spotify.com/user/alex_tea/playlist/1Qrvz1kdf2VJUO0Wjt6ROw
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 July 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
!! awesome. thanks
― dmr, Saturday, 30 July 2011 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Cool. Dig the "Wichita Lineman" outro on "La Vie En Rose"
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
See you in ten hours.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the way that Spotify handles my compilations in iTunes. In that it doesn't handle them at all.
― Jeff, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
while were complaining i hate, HATE, the color scheme here
― max, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
wtf who does white on black
me. i like it.
― blueski, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
youre _so dumb_
― max, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
i love everything you hate and more
― blueski, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the colors either.
― Jeff, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
2 against 1
― max, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5jsa1lR9c
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
fun fact: light on dark is the second most popular contrast choice, after dark on light.
http://www.mobile-phones-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iphone-dial-retro-cool-nice-old-mobile-phones-pic-pics-img-hot.jpg
― blueski, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Are ppl still getting defensive about how this is missing lots of stuff?
people are the absolute fucking worst
― ennui morricone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
this thing that didnt exist three weeks ago isn't a complete and comprehensive database of every piece of recorded sound ever, FUCK THIS SHIT
― ennui morricone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's been around for three years but w/e
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
not in US
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
oi maties did u hear the newsie wewsies, this bloke invented a musickal machine called spotify
― max, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
sb
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
that is not how they talk in swedeland for sure
― blueski, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
It's been around three years but I'd imagine the licensing issues are unique to the US so it might as well be brand new.
What's the mobile app like for draining phone battery by the way? Will have a good data package so will be streaming a lot I reckon...
― Matt DC, Sunday, 31 July 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
rhapsody more like RAP CITY amirite deej
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Sunday, 31 July 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
I finally got around to "going deep" on messing around with this last night and I'm supremely disappointed. Very limited selection (of course this will always be a subjective call) and the suggested/related artists thing is, in a word, broken. The whole thing feels very low-rent...saw lots of overlapping artist pages, etc. After all the "it's so fast and slick" proclamations this is not what I was expecting. The social/playlist sharing aspect is very cool, will probably keep me coming back for a while. Anyone else feel like, "Uh, this is the future of music? Pass."
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, its not as if the artists that are locked in are going to be the only ones there forever. I mean, when it launched Sub Pop was a notable omission, but its already put up a huge chunk of its catalog now too. Be patient. As this thing gathers more popularity, more will be added.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I have no issues with the selection, seems pretty good so far. Just the software. Does not work as an iTunes replacement. I really like iTunes, unlike many people.
― Jeff, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Which, that is fine, I'll just run both programs.
― Jeff, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
What's the mobile app like for draining phone battery by the way? Will have a good data package so will be streaming a lot I reckon...― Matt DC, Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― Matt DC, Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
If you're doing proper streaming over 3g then it's a pretty big drain but not unusably so. My phone has generally shit battery life tho, so I'm used to recharging during the day anyway. If you're playing stuff you already synced then it's no different to any other mp3 playing app. Most efficient thing is obv to sync over wifi before listening, if possible.
Spotify mobile is basically the best thing ever invented and it really has 'changed how I consume music' forever (or until their business model is revealed to be a bust).
― oppet, Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Weird, I joined up but I apparently can't invite other people.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 31 July 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
think only Premium users get any invites, as far as I can tell.
― dmr, Sunday, 31 July 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, I see.
I gotta say, they don't make the social aspect of the site terribly intuitive or simple.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 31 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still finding it strangely complicated to download tracks for offline use on the iPhone App. I wish they'd streamline it a little. And the app crashes when you try to save an album as a new playlist with the album name, though I can't believe they won't fix that soon.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 31 July 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure if this has been discussed in this lengthy thread, but what do you all make of the preponderance of "re-recorded" hits from the days of yore? Is this a way for Spotify to pay less for the rights, comping the artists only and not the record companies? I know many artists (Squeeze, for example) are re-recording their old hits, faithfully, so as to exercise more control over them. Strikes me that we are entering into a Karaoke Age, in which you can get the original work for X, and a "faithful" simulacrum for X - whatever. I mean, listening to Walter Egan's re-recorded "Magnet And Steel", he still sounds fine, but the production is just a bit off, and when you lose Stevie Nicks on backing vocals, you lose everything.
― henry s, Monday, 1 August 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Any way to divert money away from labels and to artists is ok by me.
― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Monday, 1 August 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
Fair enough. But it does present an aesthetic problem. Whilst listening to the 50s poll playlist I tolerated/lived with the various rerecord versions of the old hits but really want to hear the original records- in rock and roll "the original is still the greatest" usually holds true.There's no way a live recording of The Coasters for a PBS special is going to sound as good as the recording made by Tom Dowd in the Atlantic studio with King Curtis on sax, Gary Chester on drums and Mike Stoller on piano.
― Scharlach Sometimes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
Is this a way for Spotify to pay less for the rights
Oh, I really don't think so. There's a lot of this stuff on iTunes as well.
― timellison, Monday, 1 August 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
Spotify is owned by the majors so nothing they do is going to be even remotely "a way to divert money away from labels and to artists." The mechanical rate for a download of a cover is something like 9 cents. For streaming like this, it's probably much lower but I don't know the exact figure. So if anything, covers are a way to divert money away from the original artist, paying the songwriter a tiny pittance for the use of their IP.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 1 August 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah iTunes does this too. I downloaded a Jim Croce song a while back only to realize it wasn't even Croce singing.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 1 August 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
but really it's not iTunes or Spotify doing it. It's other artists doing it. anyone can record a cover without permission by simply paying the statutory rate for a compulsory license. This goes back at least to those '60s hit cover collection LPs but probably earlier as well.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Monday, 1 August 2011 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
this whole no songs >10 min is really starting to get to me
will probably kill the subscription because of it
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link