Acts that are not on Spotify

Royal Trux

I just looked and there were only a few odds and sods from Gabriel, certainly no albums

That's weird--I can see all of them (in Australia, anyway)

Boards of Canada
Throbbing Gristle
Severed Heads

all pretty much absent

Only Gabriel that's on Spotify US is that live/orchestra thing from recently.

Greg Kihn.

Royal Trux
No Drag City at all.

Right, no Bob Seger. So I went out and bought the CDs because Spotify makes me want to own everything.

If you aren't buying Seger on LP (and 45, actually) you are missing some of his best stuff!

"Mary Lou Mary Lou she took my diamond ring..."

I had the Seger 45s as a kid. I loved "Against the Wind" and "Still the Same". How they would sound today, I don't know.

Did you have "2+2=?" "Heavy Music" and "East Side Story" though?

No.

More eighties bands. I wanted to hear "Real Life" for example.

yeah still no Gabriel proper in the UK.

Pain in the ass. I just watched that "Classic Albums" thing on So and wanted to listen to it. Ugh, not on spotify. I actually had to go dig around my hard drive for mp3s! Felt like the stone ages.

That's totally how I feel when stuff isn't on there. I've often wondered if the Spotify's of the world will move from a flat fee pricing structure to one based more on usage -- ie, where my wife would pay a lower fee for her account but I pay more because I listen more. That would still work out for me -- I mean, $120/yr. is chump change compared to what I used to pay for records.

Along the same lines, I wonder if higher demand artists will end up basically end up getting a higher royalty per listen than others as these models develop.

I wonder if higher demand artists will end up basically end up getting a higher royalty per listen

I might be wrong but I think that's basically what's happening now. Or at least on a per-record-label basis. Not sure about per-artist.

I think that's the case already, isn't it? That major labels are getting higher payouts? I suppose it's justified in theory by the fact that Spotify gets more plays per labor hour (just with uploading and whatever else they need to do) compared with smaller labels.

xp

But it must still not be more than they get w CD sales -- otherwise, Gabriel/Pink Floyd/etc. would already be doing it, right?

I might be wrong but I think that's basically what's happening now. Or at least on a per-record-label basis. Not sure about per-artist.

the problem is that Spotify won't be able to sustain their business model if they have to start actually paying artists

xp i feel you Johnny; that's exactly what stoked my interest. really great doc that.

There are only 3 Shalamar tracks up:(

Shalamar is the bomb. I am thinking of getting premium soon, but would fork over even more if I could have better selection plus less re-recorded crap.

I upgraded to whatever the ad-free status is a while back and haven't regretted it. Thinking of stepping up to the one that allows mobile device streaming because I just got an iphone. Road trips will no longer involve burning a lot of mp3 cds!

Shakey, they have like almost everything already so I don't get "not going to be able to sustain it."

Loads of Shalamar in the UK...

Frank Zappa

Really wishing he had ANYTHING on there right now.

selecter's 'celebrate the bullet' is not on spotify to my annoyance right now

I was wondering if the Zappa catalog coming out on Universal would mean it would end up on Spotify too.

^^ Exactly what I'm hoping.

Would be nice, but I suspect that the Zappa family will never let that happen

So there's no way to upload music onto spotify's server?

No but you can link it to your hard drive and mix your personal collection with Spotify's...in your own home / office. I think the titles still show up in published playlists, just as "not available".

can you also link songs from your hard drive on the mobile version, on any of the plans (free/premium/superpluspremiumlultrawhatever)?

where's the fun in that if no one else can listen to it?

Well, your online friends can see your home cooked favorites on a playlist, or you can have a party / guests etc. and mix your own music in.

Ergonomically, it IS frustrating, though.

Mad God, if you have songs on your phone you probably could, but I have a Blackberry so I dunno.

can you also link songs from your hard drive on the mobile version, on any of the plans (free/premium/superpluspremiumlultrawhatever)?

Spotify integration means I only use iTunes to add files and burn CDs. It's almost never used as a player any more. Ugh, horrible bloaty thing.

same here

I think the titles still show up in published playlists, just as "not available".

Might depend on the settings of the person who's looking at it. There's a check box for "show unplayable tracks."

To that end, the thing about Spotify that is frustrating is less "artists" that aren't on Spotify, but *tracks*. For instance, I was putting together a monster Can list for a road trip -- and while all their albums were on there, all the long epics from those records ("Yoo Doo Right," "Bel Air," "Chain Reaction," "Cutaway," "Pinch") weren't.

That makes no sense at all. It seems the only thing more complicated than airplane ticket pricing is music licensing.

Lots of jazz records are ruined on Spotify the same way.
But it is weird how selective that is.

yeah I don't get how that happens. Maybe one particular musician who appears on the tracks will not grant rights and that causes individual tracks to be stripped out?

Just realized there's no Cap'n Jazz on spotify... On the bright side all the Polvo albums are up!

yeah I don't get how that happens. Maybe one particular musician who appears on the tracks will not grant rights and that causes individual tracks to be stripped out?

I think it just comes down to lengths, Spotify just doesn't like long tracks for whatever reason. I was listening to some early Allman Brothers and the albums were on there, but the long epic jams weren't.

I don't think that's it.

nah that can't be it!

Being away from my record collection for the past 2 months I've only had Spotify to keep me warm at night. The lack of Coil is killing me.

mid-period (post green, pre buckingham) fleetwood mac

nah that can't be it!

I'm not arguing that it definitely is, but I really am struggling to figure out why 7 tracks out of 8 on the same album work, but the 8th won't. They are share the same songwriting credits, so that theory of a sole holdout doesn't wash either. The only reason I brought up the song lengths thing is because whenever I come across an album missing only one or two tracks, its consistently when the songs in question are more than 10 minutes in length.

The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.

xp Spotify takes a hard anti-doxxing line. It’s on Tidal though.

j-zone connection on the new vw (lol j-zone! nice!) made me look him up. big sigh.

xpost re:randomly unavailble/greyed out stuff-
"what are their names" on the first david crosby album is still unplayable in the usa. i thought maybe his passing would prompt something getting sorted, but no. not even on the deluxe edition.

Yeah, looks like the full album is available finally