Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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

And yet they let you listen to the long version on the same album!

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

"Sei Still, wisse ich bin"; "Bruders des Schattens"; "Herz aus Glas"; "Letzte Tage"

Still no Melt-Banana or Boredoms :(

― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Thursday, 19 March 2009

Just added!

Melt-Banana

"Mxbx 1998 - 13,000 Miles At Light Velocity" (album)
http://open.spotify.com/album/1xTRltVBoDXKYj1WBUYD4S

I could live with the BBC Gaza appeal and Robertafromspotify... but everytime I hear that Zarif ad I momentarily reach for my wallet!

Curse you, Spotify! Zarif is the ace up your sleeve!

but everytime I hear that Zarif ad I momentarily reach for my wallet revolver!

Loads of Skinny Puppy added this week, if that floats yer boat.

Is there anywhere that has the full catalogue for viewing? I look at the updates blog and I get artist notifications from http://freshspotify.com/ but I get the feeling there's loads of stuff I'll never see or know about because of the limitations of the search. Say you want to hear some old blues stuff but don't know the exact names of albums. Searching "blues" gets you 1329 albums, of which 12 are listed then it says "and 1317 more.." but the 1317 more bit isn't a link so there's no way to find out what "more" might include.

they really need a list of their catalogue and also have a browse by genre/labels feature

you can get alerts based on your last fm top artists. quite handy http://www.freshspotify.com/alerts/importlastfm

Type "year:0-2100" in the spotify search bar and it gives you a total of what's available in your area. I have just under a quarter of a million albums available. Better get listening :)

Thanks for the tip.

shame it doesnt have a list of them all :(

hahaha you can listen to Krokus albums on it

lots of Saxon to make you feel like a teenager again onimo

someone should start a playlist for this thread and just add every album on it ;)

Saxon is a band that has been around forever and has completely passed me by so I don't think they'll bring the teenage nostalgia.

I am currently rediscovering dodgy 80s industrialists The Cassandra Complex.

I think I'll undiscover them again if this Frankie Teardrop cover is anything to go by. Bloody awful.

Utterly weird set of most popular tracks by year, obtained by searching on year:yyyy

2009: Crack A Bottle - Eminem
2008: Human - The Killers
2007: Kids - MGMT
2006: In The End - Linkin Park
2005: Fix You - Coldplay
2004: Numb/Encore - Jay-Z/Linkin Park
2003: Basket Case - Green Day
2002: Clocks - Coldplay
2001: Chop Suey! - System Of A Down
2000: Yellow - Coldplay
1999: Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
1998: The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring
1997: Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day
1996: Fire Water Burn - Bloodhound Gang
1995: 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
1994: The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
1993: What Is Love - Haddaway
1992: Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
1991: I Want To Break Free - Queen
1990: Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
1989: Like A Prayer - Madonna
1988: Mother - Danzig
1987: Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
1986: Raining Blood - Slayer
1985: Your Love - The Outfield
1984: Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
1983: Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
1982: Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
1981: Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
1980: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
1979: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - Neil Young
1978: Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
1977: The Passenger - Iggy Pop
1976: Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
1975: Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
1974: Strutter - Kiss
1973: I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits
1972: Heart of Gold - Neil Young
1971: Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones
1970: Your Song - Elton John
1969: Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
1968: Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
1967: Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
1966: Under My Thumb - Rolling Stones
1965: Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
1964: The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
1963: Bob Dylan's Dream - Bob Dylan
1962: Green Onions - Booker T and the MG's
1961: At Last - Etta James
1960: C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran
1959: Let The Good Times Roll - Ray Charles
1958: Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
1957: I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
1956: Love Me - Elvis Presley
1955: Blues for Basie - Oscar Peterson
1954: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
1953: There Will Never Be Another You - Chet Baker
1952: Dear Old Stockholm - Miles Davis
1951: Ahmad's Blues - Ahmad Jamal
1950: Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley

Search by genre: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/03/24/spotify-genres-the-full-listing/

Don't forget the quote marks around multi-word genres.

Comment by ilovehada
2009-03-25 09:35

None of the metal genres work on the searches. Why?
Comment by degis
2009-03-25 09:37

Wow! That was not useful at all! I tried to find some Black Metal and used Death Metal/Black Metal. Got Hammerfall, Soilwork etc. The closest to any Black Metal at all was Dimmu Borgir. Not really what I would call Black Metal…

Why not make a real Black Metal genre with real Black Metal?

lol

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World is NOT from 1994?!

Genre tags come from AMG. I blame Ned Raggett tbh.

Searching for "grindcore" throws up some pretty interesting results, if by "interesting" one means "wrong".

genre:"Happy Hardcore" - 0 artist, 0 songs

shame!

genre:"ragga jungle" - 0 as well...

I don't think I know what spotify playlists are. Where are they on spotify?

here's one:
http://open.spotify.com/user/stigoftdump/playlist/0FSVLPzC0gMszrS7AtaCwC

Click on the link and the playlist will appear! You can also create your own by dragging and dropping tracks and albums.

Thank you. Can one seek playlists from within Spotify?

sadly not. really hope they implement such a feature soon.

new today
Ulver

* Blood Inside (album)
* Lyckantropen Themes (album)
* Peredition City (album)
* Svidd Neger (album)
* Teachings In Silence (album)

which one to start with?

well, Louis reckons blood inside is the album of the decade. But its not a black metal album, so it depends what youre looking for.

Well if it's good enough for Louis it's good enough for me too!

Never heard this, giving it a go now.

Mute Records Cabaret Voltaire Live At The YMCA 27.10.79. album spotify:album:27doRJOJqOOqZZjLHzjbxH

spotify:album:6U4FYnA6MejEBdrcdg1fOl

New Mono album "Hymn to the Immortal Wind"

im still waiting on my mono vinyl arriving. pre-ordered it months ago.

Another vote of "fuck you", this time to the Norah Jones-lite Daily Mail jazz stylings of Melodie Gardot.

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Is it worth paying just to get any of that?

I'm not convinced, and at the moment I'm not using it enough to get annoyed with the ads.

I have noticed that when a cd has a hidden track at the beginning, Spotify plays it at the beginning of track 1 (eg on SFA's Guerrilla and Out Spaced), which is a bit weird, but probably easier than going through tracks individually and cutting them out and giving them names and worrying where you'd fit it in an album playlist.