Spotify - anyone heard of it?

rofl

I have 100% faith in Glenn to get that all fixed

Could be an experiment/glitch/weird data...on the whole I think Spotify recommendations are pretty good! Apart from the ones that tell you about artists you already listen to.

You should never have 100% faith in anything. But 95% faith would be heartening. Thanks!

can any UK-ilxors check Spotify to see if they have Debbie Friedman's miracles and wonders album? for some reason i can access her catalog when going thru old playlists and other ppl's direct spotify links, but not directly thru search function.

no, a search on her name here just gives 'Songs of the spirit', a 2-cd anthology.

Search is weird for some albums. Try searching for a song title and then click more info and view album details. If necessary, make a playlist for the album.

oh man, i just looked at the "related artists" for kesha and they include shitty mp3-only cover shit with titles like "cover pop," "tribute mega stars" and "rainbow mix" in between austin mahone, rihanna and katy perry.

never looked at the "related artists" to a big modern pop act before, i knew it could be a little clunky and repetitive when it came to more obscure stuff, but i didn't know they'd straight up point you towards karaoke-style covers.

that said the related artists for lesser-known acts are actually genuinely fascinating/useful!

totally - i just didn't realize how absurd whatever algorithm they use gets when karaoke-style shit was in play.

the top 5 "related artists" for tribute-makers Radio Waves are: Big Hits 2012, Don't Wake Me Up (literally just a single anonymous cover of Chris Brown's "Don't Wake Me Up"), Hit Makers 2012, Phat Tunes and Paris Hilton.

eagerly anticipating Hit Makers 2012's followup

I listen to Spotify on my MacBook at the office, and sometimes on my iPhone, but at home I mostly listen to it through my living room home theater system, which has a Squeezebox attached. Recently I was showing this system to my father, who is in the market for new TV and music gear, and now he's all about getting something that will let him use Spotify the same way.

What kind of equipment are people using for similar purposes? There's got to be something really simple I could set up for him, judging from the number of receivers and receiver-connectable devices that now support Spotify.

Wait does that Squeezebox still work?

this is what i use and i really like it:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Home/Wireless-Speakers/A4+XW-SMA4-K

I've mostly been playing spotify through the roku lately with my tv audio routed to my stereo. I like being able to see what's playing on the screen and use the tv remote to skip. However I don't like that the roku app doesn't allow you to play an entire playlist folder, only individual playlists.

yeah, the Squeezebox works fine

Ours finally died so we went with Sonos

Sonos. He'll need something to control it -- an iPhone or Android phone, iPod Touch, computer -- but it's super easy to set up and use. They make self-contained speakers as well as boxes that you can hook into an existing stereo system. I've been really happy with mine.

I just have my computer close to my stereo and run a cord out of the headphone jack that has RCA cables on the other ends. I plug them into the "VCR" channel on my receiver because it's not being used.

had a dream last night that the RIAA or some similar institution shut spotify down. there were so many songs that i couldn't summon on command anymore, i felt a profound sense of loss.

it's gonna be okay treeship

i would feel a sense of relief at that
a couple of weeks ago spotify choice anxiety was driving me irl insane

i find that half the time I don't even finish whole tracks on there bc i need to switch to the next thing i thought of, it's just not good for my brain.

that's the internet in general for me.

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-Band-Is-Making-Money-On-Spotify-By-Streaming-5335449.php

Michigan-based rock trio Vulfpeck recently released a 10-track album on Spotify to help fund its tour, Digiday reports.

But here's the thing: the entire "Sleepify" album is pure silence. The idea is for fans to stream the album while they're sleeping. Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long, all of the Sleepify tracks are at least 30 seconds of silence.

Vulfpeck also thinks it can make enough money to not have to charge anything at the door. One listen to a Vulpeck song on Spotify gets the band half a cent. If a single person listens to the album on repeat during a 7-hour sleep session, Vulpeck has calculated that it could earn $4 per person.

"It's a clever stunt," a Spotify spokesperson told Business Insider via email. "Not much more to say than that."

This is not the first time someone has tried to game Spotify. Back in January, we found out that Matt Farley made $23,000 last year from posting songs to Spotify and iTunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvncV79LXk

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long

this isn't true, idgi

I pulled out my 128 gb iPod and am enjoying it so much more than spotify. Call it choice anxiety I guess.

There are still songs in my own collection that I haven't fully digested. I don't need 10 million more.

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long

this isn't true, idgi
― ogmor, Friday, March 21, 2014

maybe if it's silence? so that they can't release a 6,000 track album and make $30 per play?

this is a waste of energy and bandwidth

Spotify bitcoin mining is kinda next level honestly

because it's real coin

is there any reason why Hounds of Love isn't on US spotify when the other kate bush records all are? was it on a different label or something?

it's the spotify omission that bothers me the most since it's my favorite record and there's no obvious reason for it not to be there.

Spotify bitcoin mining is kinda next level honestly

the karaoke version / cover version maestros have been at this game a long time. i'd love to see a documentary about these people. i imagine them commanding a dank basement of studio musicians, like some kind of gulag, churning out sound-a-likes for the price of a bowl of soup. add on some SEO wizardry courtesy an underpaid high-school wunderkind and some of these cover versions actually make the top 40 singles chart.

you don't even need SEO wizardry. you cover "drunk in love," you call it "drunk in love," and you're done. you will get a shitload of hits in spotify and lots of other places.

in fact, someone should cover that entire beyonce album and put it on spotify. goldmine. unless 10 other people already have.

Since Spotify requires a track to be at least 30 seconds long, all of the Sleepify tracks are at least 30 seconds of silence.

They may be confused with last.fm - if the track is under 30 seconds it won't appear in your last.fm listening stats.

don't know if it's true or not, but what they're saying isn't that you can't put a shorter track on spotify, but rather that it has to be at least that long to register as an official play. if you only listen to a song for 29 seconds, spotify won't pay the artist their .00000000002 cents.

yeah, that makes sense

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/happy-single/id821081024

Do any UK ilxors know why "The Man Machine" has disappeared from Spotify? Are Kraftwerk removing their LPs?

This is kind of interesting:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2014/mar/27/uk-most-popular-music-city-by-city-spotify-interactive

ha, the geographical distribution for robin thicke

mind you, the geographical distribution for alt-j is nothing to be proud of :(

noodle vague caning the bruno mars again

The wacky jugglers of Brighton are probably caning the Alt-J album.

fucking posh english edinburgh uni students!

So Spotify had a major facelift. The iOS app is very different. It looks good but I'm finding it a bit baffling. Don't really get some of the changes.

i think it's meant to echo the look of the newly facelifted ios, lotsa circles