Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Do you not use it then?

i do but im getting bored of it. It's fine for well known music on major labels but if they dont expand to get more obscure stuff im gonna end up never using it.

Yeah I can see that. At the moment there's more than enough major label stuff to keep me happy though!

The huge selection of Blue Note Jazz is what's keeping me on it. Hopefully they will license stuff from some of the independent labels i like (southern lord,hydrahead etc)

Recommend some of said jazz. As you say, the dearth of alternative labels is bad, although recent additions of Domino and Warp are a step in the right direction.

wel the usual suspects of miles davis, john coltrane, sun ra, charles mingus are all up there along with Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Pharaoh Sanders,sonny rollins, alice coltrane, lonnie liston smith etc

plus pretty much all the Blue Note roster. Grant green, lee morgan, lou donaldson,wayne shorter , donald byrd, joe henderson, hank mobley, babyface willete to name a few.

Spotify really needs a browse by genre and artists by alphabetical order list

also browse by labels

Nice one, thanks Herman, will start digging!

i expect you to keep us up-to-date with your jazz listening on the last fm thread!

Get on Spotify and play this
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e349/e349382wo3n.jpg
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jxfoxqygldde

Now!

;)

hehe neil jumps to it

"Root Down and Get It" is great, and familiar from the Beastie Boys track of the similar name.

i knew someone would say that

So predictable!

can i ask somebody to mailme an invite? ta.

Do they not play adverts during the weekend then? I played three full albums and some assorted tracks on Spotify this w/end and never once had an ad inturrupting.

xpost. I didn't think you needed an invite anymore. If you need one, I'll mail one to you.

tried quickly to get on last night, seemed to need one. appreciate it.

Mail me your address and I'll get it sorted then.

Done!

cheers.

xpost - Yes, VERY few ads over the weekend. 'Twas bliss.

New ILM Spring collabo playlist.

wtf is this zarif pish?

I saw Zarif supporting Chris Brown in January. Perhaps the least effective arena support I've ever seen. Cheered to the rafters when she announced "And this is my last number"...

Good to see the 2020 label on Spotify, especially the superb Greg Wilson label comp from last year - highly recommended:

http://open.spotify.com/album/70IMqk0XAaeYWnyHcrhB63

26 Klaus Schulze and 16 Popol Vuh albums added today, any recommendations on which ones to try first?

i've been waiting for Popol Vuh. great news!

lol i just d/l some schulze tonight, wish you had told me an hour ago

serive is currently down ;_;

oh well it was early albums i got and theyre not there

Moondawn id say to start with that for Klaus Schulze

Popul Vuh > In Den Garten Pharaos, Hosianna Mantra,Aguirre, Affenstunde.

Is it broken for everyone else?

Oh, it's working again!

great, looking forward to all that Krautrock. The Fever Ray record which is getting some discussion elsewhere is also on there.

y'all, please keep the playlists coming, i love the ILX feb collab one especially, a bunch of great tunes on there.

top 5 most wanted features:

1. TAGS (so as to find similar material more easily)
2. more meta data displayed and searchable esp. original year of release, label, nation, genres
3. thumbs up/down tracks (maybe only interesting for low-audience playlists), or maybe 1-10 rating system
4. better home page - itunes-style portal (inc. more 'new this month' type listings), customisable
5. videos (ok maybe next year)

oh and playlists to be searchable (if public) too definitely

M.I.A. seems to be getting paid (if anyone is) for MIA.'s music.

Still no Melt-Banana or Boredoms :(

Hopefully they will license stuff from some of the independent labels i like (southern lord,hydrahead etc)

There's a list of the labels they have deals with here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psnjFY3R2itudXATC9GQVUg

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/02/27/spotify-missing-your-favorite-artists-you-can-help/

have a look at the labels we have signed, if the artist is covered by one of the deals then it’s likely they’ll get added to our catalogue in the near future. We’re currently adding about 10,000 tracks a day from our current deals.

If they’re not a part of one of our current deals then the way you can help us is to contact the label or artists and let them know you want to hear their music on Spotify. We’re ready and willing to sign any label and they can contact our content team by emailing cont✧✧✧@spot✧✧✧.c✧✧.

well i posted on the comments thread a list of labels i'd like added. So maybe if some people second it and ask for other stuff you like they might take notice.

can't access this service from ireland? can that be right?

At last, Velvet Underground Loaded fully loaded edition is on spotify. I have the banana box set but i cant be arsed ripping it.

rofl Sweet Jane is unavailable
"the artist/label has chosen to make this track unavailable"

Couple of weeks ago I brought my laptop with me when I was going to the Netherlands and even though in the Netherlands only the paid-for version is available I could play my in England installed (free) version of Spotify without any problem and, that's the best bit, without any ads either.

They let you use it for two weeks when travelling. After that, you have to register in whatever country you're in.