Spotify - anyone heard of it?

the genres aren't so great. a bunch more yodeling albums come up (for instance) just searching for 'yodeling' than going thru genre

http://mashable.com/2012/10/05/spotify-revenues/
http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/spotify-revenue.jpg

Well they need to sack some people.

Uh oh, I have a job interview with these guys. Am I asking for trouble?

Tell them to fix their damn iOS app.

I have a whole list of things they could work on, although the specific job I'm going for may not be one that would have much say over such stuff

I hope you looked at their job listings... when you're not at work.

Worried I was slacking off?

I may be paraphrasing it wrong... seems like I hear their house ad "Why don't you come work for us? Check our website now... or maybe when you're not at work." (she says with a grin.) every five minutes.

Thank goodness I'm a subscriber and don't have to hear their terrible ads anymore.

Still, it's odd that they are making such a big hiring push when they are so deep in the hole. I hope that means they have a clear plan on how to turn the corner.

i think their (correct) plan is to be in the hole for four years until they have a generation that thinks of them as netflix for music, puts it on their credit card and forgets they're even paying anyone

already happened for me

I hope that works, but unlimited free play kind of makes that more difficult

I was doing that until I had to close my bank account for reasons that are TMI... Unlimited free play is nice but it means I have to hear those damn condom ads every 4 songs.

I just compiled the "Scorpio Rising" soundtrack -- apparently no one had done this yet!

http://open.spotify.com/user/1245064873/playlist/4Wz7H3L5x0xR9rnp9c4p0W

which site does everyone use for good/interesting playlists? there always seems to be hundreds.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

There's a lot of really bad playlists here (http://sharemyplaylists.com/), but you can find great big ones to at least filter some chaff out of.

guys if I am skipping through an album, are the Spotify + Facebook timelines spammed with EVERY SINGLE TRACK that I skip through?

it doesnt usually post every track. I think if you play 5 tracks from the same album it makes that post. (unless its changed today)

nothing from you has appeared to me fwiw

but i am fairly new to fb and dont really understand it fully

does spotify still stream while online w/playlists marked offline?

http://spoti.fi/UB5foW

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

Been listening all day with no problems.

Yes! I have heard of it. Some guy was talking about it the other day.

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

that happened to me when I tried to go to an artist page from a search; I got around it by clicking on the specific album I was looking for in the search results

spotify has finally arrived in ireland!

not even bothered now

comhghairdeas!

is there playlists for all that music that was on the ILX "Rough trade to...." thread?

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

A few of the rough guides are linked from here:

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

Also a non-zero number of Spotify links in

The ILM Fan-made BEST OF/ANTHOLOGY Compilation project -- POST Tracklists, Cover Art, Liner notes, editorials, spotify links and/or otherwise LEGALLY obtained streaming album lists HERE!

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

^ new blog post i hope

New support page if anyones having problems
http://spoti.fi/Wa8zIy

Anyone tried new look updated and improved Soundrop app yet?

Just noticed that Zeppelin isn't on there anymore. The whole Zep catalogue used to be on Spotify, and now NOTHING. I'm sad. ;_;

I don't remember the Zeppelin catalog ever being there.

Oh shit, you might be right. I was probably thinking of the Stones.

still no Hounds of Love which saddens me since they have every other kate bush record - was that one on a different label than the rest?

Nope, same label as everything else prior to The Sensual World.

Weird one-album gaps like that baffle me. Why no Pretenders debut album, when the rest of their stuff is there?

I've never seen any Zeppelin on Spotify.

Signed,
An American

No, you're right. I was thinking I'd listened to a ton of Zep on Spotify during the artist poll, but I was confusing that poll with the Stones poll and the Stones listening binge.

Where are you guys as I can see HoL http://open.spotify.com/album/5BWl0bB1q0TqyFmkBEupZy and 1st Pretenders http://open.spotify.com/album/4oDYsMBe7KtOu12VNMO75k

I did figure out that you can find The Beatles on grooveshark by looking for "escarabajos."

they need to consolidate their entries and separate others, e.g. there are artist pages for Windy & Carl, Windy and Carl and "Carl, Windy" — and not all of those pages contain the same content. Also the LFO artist page has both the techno duo and the Lyte Funky Ones. The Scott Walker page has some albums from some amateur autotune-using nobody by the same name. Their classical indexing is horrifying. They could pay me $13/hr and I could sort it out for them.