Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Re the off brand crappy comp plague, for this reason I REALLY wish you could see record label on the iOS app.

These problems have existed for years they wont change it now. Still no decent search function has been made. Why??????????

the "tastemaker" is a myth perpetuated by marketing types who consider themselves hipper than they actually are

You're not a tastemaker Maura?

I don't know about that. I first heard about Spotify a few years ago here, on ILM, from people who I know are obsessive about music. Eventually I tried it, and then I turned several of my co-workers onto it. If something better comes along that does a better job of catering to people who really care about music, I will switch to it, and then I will start telling people about it. This doesn't make me "hip," I just spend more time listening to a wider variety music than a lot of the people I know. It's not that different than the go-to lady in my office for restaurant recommendations. She's not "hip" in the sense that she's a middle-aged career paralegal who wears "funky" jewelry. But she goes out all the time to restaurants and has pretty good taste, and because she eats in a lot of restaurants, she's going to be more discerning from experience. So make her happy and you increase the chances that everyone else in the office will come.

maura otm; music nerds are a tiny sliver of the population and these guys are aiming at getting our mothers to subscribe
i have hated the "tastemaker" label ever since I heard it, it's an easy way of saying "unpaid critic"

it's not even about attracting nerds. if there was a better service, people would go there and tell their friends. That's what happened with Friendster and Myspace. The thing is, it's highly unlikely we'll see a place with better tech AND the same depth of catalog.

the catalog has never been more accessible for folks with deep pockets; my understanding is that the remaining major labels are deeply invested enough in spotify succeeding that it's unlikely they'll fully support and cosign with anyone else until spotify is out of the pool. Aren't spot still bleeding cash right now? anyways, if you want curation, i'm sure they'll be several alternatives in 2014 or so, starting with daisy.

I also always thought Spotify should just buy Pandora and use their radio technology, since Spotify's is inferior.

xpost that's the thing - why would anyone BOTHER creating a quality alternative to spotify (or tumblr, for that matter) when they're so unprofitable

because they're rich and filled with hubris, i.e. reznor and dre, i guess

Rick Rubin is on the board of MOG

they wheel him into board meetings on a couch

They have the potential to be profitable though. Still only a small fraction of the potential audience online. A lot of their costs won't increase as fast as their revenue as they add more users.

it's definitely possible someone will come with a better way to give people What They Want re: online music, which may not be What Nerds Want. But at this point, with Spotify adding users and coughing up advances to get those AOR titans to come around, if someone had a killer curator app or whatever, it seems just as likely that spotify would buy it than that a new empire would build up around it.

that's possible, but i think it's equally likely that they reach a point where they hit nova, sell out to facebook, revamp interface and restaff 90% of their people and then who knows.

reznor's thing has to be some kind of 'you like NIN, consider psychic tv' deal, right? i dunno if your average late adapater really wishes a nerd was there to nudge them towards hipper shit when they're jamming out to the 90s at the office.

adapter, sorry

it's "adoptater"

the new yorker profile that talked about daisy made it sound like trent is a music nerd with an obscene amount of money who is basically looking at this and saying "hey there's a market!"
seems doomed to me, but what do i know.

it's "adoptater"

d'oh

haha I suggest you dont take your mobile if you're going for a swim
http://i.imgur.com/0jpPMID.png

the chillout room on there is the least chill place ive ever seen btw . Its like ILX!

I like the chat in Soundrop, its fun to talk shit and rag on each-others taste.

hah It's like ILX but with music playing!

You haven't listened to Betfaker Fe Min by Oum Kalthoum for a while. Play now?

I don't even remember which song that is.

They got me, my curiosity got the better of me.

The soundrop app is really sleek and nice. Sorry you android guys don't have it yet.

There's a lot of great rooms to choose from too... I like the "falling asleep" room. The "indie" rooms are not that great, OTOH.

It actually works fine on the ipad. Chat is just too small tho its usable. They just need to fix the scale and the chat will work great. The app plays spotify tracks A-OK though. So if anyone has an ipad they can use it.

Various forms of dance/electronic rooms have the most users in soundrop but there's hip hop,rock,metal,jazz,classical,african,post-rock,punk even k-pop rooms amongst many others. The indie wok and indie folk rooms are the worst though, its true.

Spotify recommended me Giza by Gatekeeper and I had to check it out because it had groovy cover art:

http://open.spotify.com/album/0H44xNUhmOSIvnp1xQrHBl

Not bad

Gatekeeper is great, I would recommend his other albums too.

seriously what is spotify's deal with the Byrds?

this morning:

"You listened to the Byrds, you might like..."

The Buzzcocks
The Small Faces
Buffalo Springfield (first one that makes sense)
Edywn Collins
Todd Rundgren

old people like the Byrds, old people also like the Buzzcocks

"If you like Matthew Sweet, try Butthole Surfers."

they're nuts about the Small Faces too

The latest iphone/ipod app update appears to have solved a problem I've had for a long time. My giant full library playlist had been taking 5 or more minutes to load up on my ipod touch. Now it's coming up and playing immediately. Yay!

a lot of 'you listened to pan sonic, check out ___' recommendations over here

This is probably the best suggestion for me this week:

"You listened to Felt this week. Like to try Dr. Octagon?"

Update to the iphone app changes the icon (again) and brings back ability to re-arrange track sequence in playlists.

Not seeing how to do that.

In a playlist, click the three periods on the upper right (...). Choose Edit. Then use the horizontal lines to the right of each song name to drag the track.

The Discovery feature is kind of neat, I guess. I don't understand why they couldn't add it and also keep What's New.

Oh yeah, thanks. Those lines do not appear on the Starred Playlist though.

http://i.imgur.com/CwaQVtY.jpg

posted this to the drake thread the other night, still smdh:

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/spotifyrecommend_zpsebf258e2.png

"Since you listened to Elton John, you might like this new release by Hans Zimmer."'

That release being the Lone Ranger soundtrack.

"You haven't listened to Jah Pretty Face by Culture for a while. Play now?"

Jesus Christ leave me alone! I haven't listened to it for a very good reason and besides it's only been a couple of f'ing weeks!

*listens to Jah Pretty Face*

*twice*

lol