does this have collaborative playlists yn― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
y - right-click on a playlist and select "collaborative playlist" then share/send the playlist link to anyone who wants to contribute.
― a million anons (onimo), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
The mobile version + unlimited data package has genuinely changed my life all over again. I tend to listen to much more music on the move and I'm discovering so much already. Killing my phone battery though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
Is a Spotify membership a set length contract or can you cancel at any time?
― Jeff, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
You can cancel at any time.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Lol spotify
Well that didn't take long.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
ty onimo
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
This. Selection is crap and interface/search is either broken or functional but hopelessly obscured and convoluted. But people sending you tracks/playlists - YES PLEASE FOREVER.
otm expect i got no problem w/ the selection. the playback design feels songbird-like in some very bad respects (is there a common-sense 'now-playing' queue i'm not seeing or are they really trying to foist a new playlist-only paradigm on people??) but the playlist sharing is as fluid as any service i've come across, like it wasn't even a feature i paid attention to but it may be the only reason i keep messing w/ it, fantastic. other than that sound quality doesn't seem to be there on mobile, compared to rhapsody at least, i could be wrong though.
― tremendoid, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
(is there a common-sense 'now-playing' queue i'm not seeing
it's on the left menu, under "play-queue"
― future events are now current events (Z S), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
ok i guess i don't have it (windows version?). i know how to queue stuff but even then the way random search results, playlists, etc. get dumped to/overwrite what's there already is maddening. and there's only so much you can do under the hood, i get claustraphobic; must...customize...
― tremendoid, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
can a brother rearrange a column, somthing?
― tremendoid, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
i have the windows version too. Are you sure you don't have it? on the left side of the screen, the second item on the list, beneath "what's new" and above "Inbox".
― future events are now current events (Z S), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah i got play queue it just doesn't act the way it should i mean.
― tremendoid, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
so how does playlist sharing work for songs that aren't on spotify
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 August 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
www.muxtape.com
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Saturday, 6 August 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
Does that still exist?
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Saturday, 6 August 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
they just show up gray or are removed from the list depending on whether people have "display unplayable tracks" checked
if it's gray and you have the track, you can import it as a local file
― dmr, Saturday, 6 August 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
they only have the clean version of "get ur freak on," SHUT THE WHOLE THING DOWN
― get to drankin you shiftless fucks (reddening), Sunday, 7 August 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Simpson
― grey for me to poupon (crüt), Sunday, 7 August 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Does Spotify upload my local files to its servers ?
No. Local files that you have imported into Spotify are not uploaded from your computer.
You can share local music in the same way that you can with streaming music. However, the music will only be played if it can be matched with music that can be played by the other users that you shared with. That is, if the music is available as impoprted local music on their computer, or if it can be found in the Spotify streaming catalogue.
pretty weak, and i'm not talking about the typo!
― tremendoid, Monday, 8 August 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, they just fixed the bug in the iPhone app that made it crash during new playlist creation, which was my biggest complaint.
Cool thing: when you creat a playlist on your home computer, it instantly turns up on your iPhone, without restarting the program or anything.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
doc pemberton, inventor of coca-cola, is not a welcome guest in the middle of beethoven's 7th symphony
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
hello this is john maus, please listen to my new album on spotify
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, finally paying for my subscription. If only to keep shit like Amos Lee interrupting my Black Flag listening from ever happening again.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
― markers, Monday, August 8, 2011 11:47 P
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck you spotify for inserting some Jack Johnson-alike in the middle of Bad Brains.
― dutty whiney (The Reverend), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh man the worst ad is the one w/ the dude who starts by saying PSST or something like that
guarantee you some ppl are going to be at their desks doing work and listening to music but not really paying attention to it, and they're going to flip out when that comes on
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
happily enjoying my $5 a month ad-free account, been listening to Otis Redding all afternoon.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/08/10/kicking-and-streaming-why-indies-tolerate-spotifys-minuscule-royalties/#more-52994
Ian Mackaye and others express their views re Spotify royalty payments
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
But guess what royalties Dischord Records gets from streaming services like Spotify? “They’re negligible,” says Ian MacKaye, the D.C. label’s co-owner and public face. Although specific deals are confidential, Spotify tallies its royalty payments in fractions of a cent per stream—meaning a label might only make a few dollars, even if tens of thousands users play “Waiting Room.”
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what counts as a "play" for royalty purposes.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
rifftrafft NICK SYLVESTERinteresting fact: for 2617 streams on spotify last month, @mrdreamnyc made $15.83. if they had been itunes downloads? $1837.90.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
interesting *strokes chin*
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
That's not a relevant comparison, though.
― timellison, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
An equivalent of an album selling 100,000 copies would mean over one million streams if everyone only listened to the album one time.
― timellison, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
sure, but do the rest of the math and it still doesn't look good. a million streams at a half cent each is only $5000. Whereas a 50 cent royalty on 100,000 album sales is $50,000. And clearly a lot of smaller artists aren't getting anywhere near a half cent. $15 for 2600 streams is like if the artist sold a single copy of an album and that person listened to it over 150 times which is pretty unlikely.
― the wheelie king (wk), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Let's say it's only a quarter of a cent - $2500 for a million streams. Again, that's the equivalent of 100,000 listeners hearing the album one time. If, over the course of time, those listeners average ten listens, that's 25K from only 100,000 listeners.
― timellison, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
vs. 100,000 albums sales which would have made double or even quadruple that amount of money for the artist. Calculated based on your example of a 10 song album listened to 10 times, that works out to a 2.5 cent royalty per album sold.
― the wheelie king (wk), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
oops, I mean 25 cents
― the wheelie king (wk), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
25 cents for artist and label, seemingly. It will be interesting to see how labels deal with the percentage of that paid to artists.
― timellison, Thursday, 11 August 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, labels get a chunk of that plus then the majors all own a piece of spotify itself so they win either way.
― the wheelie king (wk), Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
Whoever uploaded Young Gunz "Can't Stop Won't Stop" fucked up.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
"fancy a beer?"
"wha? Fan Ci Dabeer?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/08/11/indies-drop-spotify-and-spotify-responds/#more-53078
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I should hold off before ponying up for a subscription, I don't want to pay in time for a bunch of labels to start jumping ship. I was afraid this was too good to be true.
Nice to see a Del Cielo reference though, loved those girls.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Hardly an avalanche of withdrawals though, is it? In the UK, indie representation is very high, and this goes right through to self-releases.
(One of the more notable non-participating labels here is Ministry Of Sound, so I am denied the opportunity to savour Example and Wretch 32... but I can live with that...)
― mike t-diva, Friday, 12 August 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Century Media just feels more like a big deal to me because I listen to a lot of metal, which was already an underrepresented genre on Spotify.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
If any of you guys in the US needs an invite, I apparently have a couple.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
No Royal Trux or Hagerty, just sayin
― Jung Danjah (admrl), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Noticed the Royal Trux, Hagerty, and RTX problem yesterday. Hopefully they'll get on that.
― thinveneer, Friday, 19 August 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
it's a big, serious problem, yes. Someone tell them
― Jung Danjah (admrl), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link