Spotify - anyone heard of it?

What's the deal then - is everything on Spotify clean-versions?
I'm trying to listen to Juvenile and probably only 1/10 of the words are getting through

Oh, yeh: it's run by a fundamentalist Christian sect who don't believe in swearing, premarital relations or cheese. Sorry, thought everyone knew that.

fuck that noise!

Now playing: Straight Outta Communion

Has anyone else found the wrong songs playing yet? I've had one or two, the most recent being Alien Sex Fiend turning out to be the Mission
http://open.spotify.com/track/1XflNRUaUHrfYDkwMG0tIT

This album goes screwy about halfway through meaning you have to click on track 8 to hear track 7, track 9 to hear track 8, etc. and all your last.fm scrobbling is fucked up.

I can't find a feedback mechanism to correct tags.

This album, even

http://open.spotify.com/album/0LjK4Y0vtEUOKnbIzQlmi7

I wanted to listen to Wire's 154 the other day (yes despite having it on cd) but it only came up as the 3cd set, and then it would only play the songs in order - even clicking play on the first track on 154 would play Practice makes perfect, but the tags were showing correctly. Weird.

of course instead of getting the cd out I listened to something else altogether.

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

For now, the best way to get metadata changes into Spotify is to look up the album on Musicbrainz and fix the problem or add the album if it doesn't already exist. Eventually, the fixes will end up in Spotify.

Musicbrainz has that album with 15 tracks while Spotify lists 13 with tracks 7 and 15 missing.

I can't see any way to "fix" this as the Musicbrainz listing is correct - meaning the only way to get Spotify to play the correct tracks is to delete track 7 from Musicbrainz or wait until Spotify add the missing tracks.

Surprisingly I am on this now, and it is playing GO SAILOR indiepop with good sound quality, and I think it might even be scrobbling to lastfm. ... yes it is !!

idjut boys most recent 'death before distemper' mix is up there as a 67min long (advert free so far) track, impressive

on a bright morning it's playing DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN!

aargh fuck the energy saving trust, makes me want to put my heating on at full blast with all my windows open!

1) Energy Saving Trust
2) Spotify
3) Arlington Road

Any others?

directgov.org possibly the least annoying.

DEC gaza appeal

- which confused me 'cause DEC sounds a bit like BBC.

White Lies had an advert when their rec was new.

And Lady Gaga too for a second.

U2 have a banner ad up just now, slightly ominously.

There was a while near the beginning where the only advert they were running was for Madagascar. 'I Like To Move It Move It', though great, is particularly obtrusive popping up two thirds of the way through a Sibelius symphony.

Arlington Road

Revolutionary Road?

If so: nope, I've heard nothing else. This business model worries me enormously.

There was that tax returns advert, but that's over now. They could start warning people about next year's maybe.

i hate the advert with the whistling guy so much

the only way they could do worse is if they got tiny from tile it all to do one(Grimly and Onimo might understand that one)

^ Think that's before my time north of the Border?

But FUCK YES, I hate whistling Direct Gov guy. He's just been on, actually. And I winced.

grimly its been around for 10 years at least but still on. I guess you dont have parents who listen to clyde 2 and you will avoid clyde1 on a saturday as you hate football.

Got it in one. Er, two :)

i dont mind whistling, its just that whistling with the teeth thing of that advert i hate. ugh. still not getting a tenner a month tho from me. i'll just not use it if it continues haha

This site seems useful.

For now, the co-founders are putting their own money into the company.

Can't accuse The Grauniad of being first with news here, but that's an interesting little line.

The guys behind it still seem to be basing the business model on the pay-for side of things, when it seems to me the free thing is what makes it.

link doesnt work

http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/spotify-why-it’s-been-so-successful-and-what-it-needs-to-do-next/

1. Key point not made clear by that article: Spotify allows me to listen to full-length albums with one click. Last.fm doesn't have anything remotely like as many full-length albums; also (and this might be a browser thing, but hey) it often gets pissy when a track finishes and require me to pop back to the requisite window before it starts playing the next one. Also: browser-based anything can suck dick for a whole heap of reasons.

2. Key point totally misunderstood by that article: mobile Spotify would rule so fucking hard that I'd shell out a goodly whack of cash for it.

yeah, if it's not a killer app already, mobile functionality would definitively make it so.

"Make it so!"

http://rodtsentrum.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jean-luc-picard.gif

I have to say, despite my moans and gripes above, it really has been a revelation, both for old music and new. I sincerely, sincerely hope it doesn't fuck up :)

Me too. Almost seems to good to be true TBH, despite some reservations.

If I could get some of my shared playlists on the move I'd shell out too, aye. Though I'd need a 3g phone too, I guess.

Oh dear. Thought I'd have a listen to the last Spiritualized album -- which I never got round to at the time -- while I toiled over some books this evening. But Spotify ain't playing ball: it's stuttering and stopping as if ... well, as if it had just been hit up by thousands and thousands of new users and couldn't cope.

So I'm, er, using Last.fm to listen to it instead. This seems to mean pressing "play" again after every track, which sucks (perhaps I should try it in Firefox! Hmm) but at least it actually plays the songs.

I've seen this once before with Spotify ... think it was at the weekend. Again: if they're going to throw it wide open, they need the fucking bandwidth. Or do premium-account holders get streaming priority?

I bet they do. One song int the Hole "pretty on the inside "album and whistling fucker advert is on. Adverts every 4 songs now approx. bloody annoying.

it isnt worth £10 a month tho. £2 a month maybe.

xx-post That happened to me the other day, but assumed it was a problem at my end as my computer's pretty flaky at times.

(Although at other times I'll get time-outs off some website and think 'huh is my internet broken? has my router died' and spend ages desperately hoping nothing's actually broken and all the time I'll have Spotify running perfectly, signifying there is clearly nothing wrong with 'my internet' as such.)

I've not had that many adverts recently.

Thought I'd have a listen to the last Spiritualized album

This might have been a mistake, too.

Its a good album

I'm unconvinced so far.

It needs a month to sink in I found.

Hang on, why the FUCK is it not scrobbling properly? I'm listening to it FROM THE FUCKING LAST.FM PLAYER!

It's obviously one of those nights.

I had loads of Spotify time-outs last week, particularly around 6pm to 7pm. Late evenings were always OK. This week has been pretty much back to normal, though.