Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i am def assuming they'll be watermarked. But there could be a ghost of a chance google was all, yo how about hooking us up with the uncut shit in exchange for some sweet ass private user info?

I use Spotify mostly on my desktop pc, but love using my ipad as a remote. The bugger is, I use the remoteless app for it, but it's absolutely shite. Crashes almost every time. Does anyone have any experience with other apps to do it this way?

I don't think the Spotify app can sync with your desktop and be used as a remote, can it?

They're posting number of plays now? It's slowing it down something fierce.

the client is fucked up

I've read the payout for spotify is something like .5 cents per stream, anyone know if that's accurate?

Less iirc, but it also differs based on whether the stream was a free user or a subscriber and whether you're a highly visited artist or a barely visited one.

to the artist or the record company? if the artist, that actually sounds high to me. an artist would normally get what from a CD sale, $1? they'd get that from 2 plays of a 10-track album on Spotify.

it'd be 20 plays, that's half a cent not 5 cents

but

I see. Now that top 10 songs on artists pages include # of plays I'm trying to figure out the level of revenue that is being generated.

For example, icona pop - I love it has 27 million plays, and if it were half a cent per play that'd be about $130,000.

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

okay.

desktop app now takes about 20 seconds to open on current version of OS X

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

― Spectrum, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:43 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

idgi

every four songs or so there's a 50% chance Spotify will play an ad for !!!!ADVANCE AUTO PARTS!!!!

Spotify has been opening quickly for the past few weeks now

xpost okay. i've had a paid account more or less since spotify came to the us so that was over my head

I know some of you get on your tall box and pull the ol' "you get what you pay for" routine with us degenerate cheapskates. That's cool. I grew up listening to commercial radio, even worked for a few stations over the course of about 20 years. I don't mind ads breaking up the flow. Usually my cue to push my chair back and go to the rest room. I'd rather pay Spotify for their service by listening to their commercials, giving their salesguys a few extra ears when signing contracts with accounts, but that's me.

But that said, goddamm, you'd think they could sell more than two fucking ads.

dude go for it! i was rewinding lala for multiple plays when i was hustling.

after Ver Floyd bite, who will be the biggest bands to hold out? Led Zep and the Beatles natch. who else? there's Oasis, Peter Gabriel.. any other big or biggish guns?

oh OK so there's also Eagles, Zappa, Metallica..

Metallica are on Spotify as is Zappa

Crimson.

What is up with "Discover" view? Why can't I get it to appear in the sidebar?

https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/apps/discover-tab/

Peter Gabriel's there -- in Aus, any way

if i'm using the spotify app on my phone to play archived playlists, am i using data from my cell data plan? trying to figure out if i can use this outside of the u.s. without incurring international data charges.

Yeah, I think PG is only non-Spotify in the US.

I hope AC/DC shows up someday, but it seems unlikely.

by "archived" i mean "synced"

I think if they're playlists that you've made available offline and you have spotify in offline mode then you're not using data. otherwise, you are.

I've started using the web player a bit. Good for just playing stuff quickly but managing playlists on it sucks.

Like you can't highlight multiple tracks and drag, you have to move each track one at a time and it takes three clicks each. Bleagh.

Alright I finally found Discover view. Kinda sucky except for the Songkick info.

I have it on the web player but not on my desktop player(s) yet.

They killed 'What's New' in favor of 'Discover.' Completely bewildering why they would kill their new release section when it's probably responsible for a huge number of plays.

Not to mention the ease and speed it provided users to browse and quickly turn new albums into playlists.

haha wat

http://i.imgur.com/rgAjEB1.png

look at what ILX is doing to the Spotify recommendation algorithms

yeah those recommendations have been completely inane for me so far, sometimes not even the same genre

You listened to Depeche Mode. Here's a song you might like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72o3ojtP-g

Spotify is big on Electric Six fans checking out Social Distortion

"Since you listened to The Cars, you might like this new release by The Allman Brothers Band."

You listened to Wire. Check out Autechre.

Since you listened to Richard Wagner, you might like this new release by Marlene Dietrich.

If you like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, try Portishead

these are all real suggestions btw

ok we might have a winner

"Since you listened to LaBelle, you might like this new release by Christopher Cross."

If I start to find bands recommending The Cure or Depeche Mode for everything then I know DJP is working for spotify

the new release in question, inspired by my checking out the LaBelle's '71 self-titled album, is two discs of Chris live in Paris, 2012.

You listened to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Check out Tangerine Dream.