Spotify - anyone heard of it?

See link posted above - some of this stuff is being sourced from vinyl rips.

i saw that after i posted, sorry mike.
tis a great application though.
i really hope this is legit, makes people money, and doesn't get shut down.
the catalogue is bursting with stuff i enjoy.

The Pitchfork 500: #1 - 1977-1979.

Weekly updated UK Top 40 and US R&B/Rap 40 playlists here.

And to possibly save Mike some work, here's someone else's playlist for the whole Pitchfork 500

am I missing something here?

catalouge seems very bitty to me so far or maybe it's just what I'm searching for...

Is this the kind of thing where I'm better searching for other peoples playlists? or it's meant to be like last.fm with full tracks?

hmm, it's probably because I used a UK invite isn't it? No Kompakt, no Melt-Banana.. not much of anything so far to be honest so not really much use

(anyone got a US invite? :( )

oh wait shi-

I searched for kompakt the other day and it returned loads of results... today I get 2?!

five hits for superpitcher now, when there were tons (30?) the other day

All the Gescom's disappeared.

And all the Autechre! ffs.

But the one I put on a playlist still plays...

Thomas Brinkmann is gone, too.

oh well

yeah the development here isn't very promising.

Fucking hell, you're not wrong. This is moving in completely the wrong direction.

I suspect they're probably taking down loads of stuff, possibly because the original sources were private collections and now they're having to clean up their act and get proper permissions. A year ago, when the site was a tiny Sweden-only start-up, they even had Beatles stuff on there.

However, it's inconsistent. I noticed yesterday that if you follow the "Home" link and view the "most popular" lists, Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" (both the track and the album) were displayed in red, meaning "no longer available" - and if you clicked the link, a message came up saying "not available in the UK". However, you could still search for "coldplay viva la vida" and play the results just fine. (Can't check this out now, as the s/w isn't installed on this machine.)

Also, d'you suppose that they've negotiated reprint rights with AMG for the biog blurbs?

On the evidence so far, I very much doubt it.

Still, this answers the question lots of people have been asking me when I've been bunging them invites: "How does the business/rights model work?" Answer: badly.

my gut instinct is that they've taken them off the search, as a preliminary measure, before taking the tracks out of the database entirely

Judging by the recent developments I imagine open source, P2P alternative in 5…4…3…2…

Availability certainly varies by country; my friend in Amsterdam found that about 50% of my "best of 2008" playlist was unavailable in the NL.

Perhaps they've signed agreements with the majors, but haven't sorted things out with a lot of the independents?

NB - some of the Spotify service already relies on P2P protocols, and I recall reading that one of the lead developers was previously working on Torrent services.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/why_do_songs_disapear

No Kompakt

kompakt total 6 is still there. you just can't find it with their search engine...

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/why_do_songs_disapear

lol Metallica fans

That response is from three months ago. I assume the songs disappearing this week are for different reasons.

Eh? No, I assume it's all part of the process of them updating their catalogue with "more" music and "adding" songs. Now, to me it looks suspiciously like that should be "less" and "removing", but hey! I'm not a thrusting young web 2.2b chancer, so what the fuck do I know?

The Smiths have vanished... ah, I knew it was all too good to be true!

muxtape mk. viii

Muxtape is relaunching as some kinda minimal MySpace.

Yes, and Spotify is relaunching as some kinda minimal Spotify.

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-important-changes-to-the-spotify-music-catalogue/

I retract my AMAZING, although it's still pretty good.

It also can't play albums as a continuous mix, which is terrible. I suppose it took itunes till version 7 or something to do that, but my CD player from 1991 has no trouble.

Aghrr Lady Gaga advert! Bring back the Energy Savings Trust.

Energy Savings Trust ad, featuring the dulcet tones of Hugh Dennis.

the whole villalobos archive has now gone :(
was my easiest/best/quickest/cheapest way to catch up on the mans history.
oh well, i'm going to listen to sinatra at the sands instead.

This is pretty cool - runs perfectly in Wine on Linux!

RIP

One page article on Spotify ion the NME today.

in

Spotify has managed to go downhill in the space of a week.

What's with all the cupcake icons on that (mostly) Metallica thread?

Real shame about the paring down of the catalogue.

Here's a source of more playlists, if you're hungry:

http://www.spotyshare.com/

In hindsight it would have been better to remove this in October when we launched publicly

Er, yes.

, we realize this now and apologize to you for not doing it sooner

<Non-committal, graceless noise>

There's actually adverts for Spotify on Spotify now!

energy saving trust issued a takedown notice

Energy Savings Trust ad, featuring the dulcet tones of Hugh Dennis.

I thought it was posh, blonde fop Julian Rhind-Tutt doing the voiceover. Ironic, bearing in mind how badly he did on 'It's Not Easy Being Green'.

The Guardian Tech article about Spotify today unluckily uses King Crimson tracks as a demonstration of what's on it.

TS: "unluckily" vs "a bit stupidly"

"we understand you are an American, and we can't service you"

first thing I see when I go to the website.

good luck spotify