Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Funnily enough, apart from whistling cunt, i find the adverts for bands/acts FAR more annoying.

Yeah, this is true (I mean, I find this also). At least the adverts are just adverts, and it's a bit like listening to local radio or something, but listening to music and then hearing completely different music really annoys me. Especially the radio 2 jazz woman.

The Wired adverts are just really annoying, like they've heard the Roberta from Spotify ad and based the whole thing on that. And there's more than one ad, so you can't directly tune out of it.

I don't know if I use it regularly enough to warrant subscribing (although I did just re-subscribe to last.fm without really knowing why I had), but I also think the £1 a day thing is too much. Maybe if I was having a party and playing only Spotify all night then I'd stump up one whole pound. Maybe £5.

It'd be nice if Roberta from Spotify or indeed anyone else from Spotify would read this and think 'well, there's £15 a month we wouldn't have had otherwise' and gave us special rates.

Shame there's not a spotify forum , like they have with last fm, where we could all tell them that.

You can comment on the blog, and the Spotify guy does actually answer questions there.

last fm forum is so dense, they're probably better off without one

ok i'll post and all of you post after me then?
https://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/04/01/today-we-have-a-lot-to-celebrate/

my post

Comment by pfunkboy
2009-04-01 14:52

Congratulations.
If you bring the price down to £5 a month I’ll happily subscribe. I’m sure you would get a lot more premium users at that price too. £10 a month is a lot in this climate.
Any plans on changing the price?
Who else would subscribe if it was £5 a month?

Have done so too. Solidarity, brothers and sisters!

Done.

Yeah! bring down the man by paying a different man some money to stop listening to the whistling man who is still on there, just not as frequent as he used to be.

damn that whistlin' man

I just hope more ppl post about halving subscription so that Spotify take notice.

just realised a massive chunk of the touch catalogue is on there

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/what_is_your_source_for_the_music

"A Merciful Release" - box set of the three remastered Sisters of Mercy albums now on

http://open.spotify.com/album/1iOqH6ohy8xJLFH9v8SaiB

spotify:album:1iOqH6ohy8xJLFH9v8SaiB

pity they only email me when they add an artist from my last.fm top list. and i cant be arsed looking through pages and pages of stuff in alphabetical order in that google document thing.

It's not that hard to skim the google doc.

They added 140 squillion Grateful Dead albums this week.

I see there's a couple of Saint Vitus albums on there

Lazycame Finbegin album 12 spotify:album:1RedM5z0zcC8q6gYU2jSON

I think they must have finally captured every album in the world ever if they've managed to get to this crap.

who?

Lez Zeppelin

spotify:album:6kTKatDLQfs5SGm2ADJ2Qi

All girl Zep tribute act. I'm going to have to hear it.

xp
Lazycame is William Reid of JAMC fame making an absolute arse of a solo "career".

my mum and dad listened to the Faryl album on spotify today. Sadly I think theyre going to buy it so they can play it in the car.

My turn.

Who?

Some opera singing kid from a tv program

Ah, I'll pass thanks :)

Turns out one hit wonder Lisa Loeb has loads of albums. Things you learn from huge google spreadsheets.

They're still tagging all the MIA. stuff as M.I.A. - and presumably paying the wrong artist (unless the money goes to the record co).

some of the tagging is awful so it doesnt bring up the proper album pics on last.fm

Sun Kil Moon:
April spotify:album:6qeg3FR18R4rUsQjsHBugt
Ghosts Of The Great Highway spotify:album:5KUtu3Jyp5SKIEhJb8NzQ0
Ghosts Of The Great Highway + Bonus Tracks spotify:album:3gFMYvuhTeUXrVzj4mFX1F
Tiny Cities spotify:album:5FJntCmaKtDxThWzyRxQ1Z

I'm just having a 'ah I don't actually have to get hold of all the stuff I got rid of or taped over when I went 'indie' again' evening, and listening to Dookie and the first RATM album and stuff and loads of it is tagged as -Album Version which is really annoying me. Also none of the decent (or at least, what I want to listen to) Offspring stuff's on there.

Is Kerplunk on there? I'd like to hear that again sometime. Never liked Offspring/nofx etc

Nup. Dookie actually didn't sound too bad, for 20 minutes or so. Great memories.
Uh, I just thought I'd listen to some NOFX and there's only an album I don't recognise, a tribute to NOFX and their contribution to a Misfits tribute, Last Caress, and I've always liked Metallica's version of that, so I played it for the 20 seconds it took them to not 'go ska', and then they went ska and it was horrible.

NOFX were truly horrible. And responsible for all those bass players with goatees pulling faces in videos.

And now I'm listening to the Damned (Offspring covered Smash it up for some reason in 95 or so) and I've just discovered where grimly presumably got his name from. I just assumed it was a state of mind!

NOFX were truly horrible. And responsible for all those bass players with goatees pulling faces in videos.

I'm just glad I never went through with getting dreads. Gawd, I was an awful 15 yr old.

Offspring covered Smash it up for some reason in 95 or so

lol Batman Forever soundtrack.

I think Grimly took his name from the comic book character that preceded the Damned song (though he spells it the Damned way).

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/grimfien.htm

i thought it was because he resembled
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ou-LlEaaDOY/Rmh66IH5jaI/AAAAAAAAAEY/OjDlnnma3OQ/s320/grimly+1.jpg

I see.

What else can I learn tonight!

that onimo has a secret liking for all things goth?

Secret? I wear my sad old goth badge with pride!

And now I'm listening to the Damned (Offspring covered Smash it up for some reason in 95 or so) and I've just discovered where grimly presumably got his name from. I just assumed it was a state of mind!

Actually, you're all wrong. I got it from The Founding of Evil Hold School by Nikolai Tolstoy (published 1968). Predates the Damned, obviously -- but not the comic strip (1964). So I think Mr Tolstoy must have been, umm, "inspired" by Leo Baxendale :)

Also, yeh, state of mind: that's about right. Usually.

lol at onimo on the spotify comments.

Is this -ALBUM VERSION tag thing new, as someone on the blog mentioned it as well. I'd never noticed it 'til last night, but then I hadn't listened to Green Day on it 'til last night.

lol at onimo on the spotify comments

HAHAHAH. Funny fucker :)

everybody's gotta troll somewhere

is that you lot just noticing?

So much for solidarity :-(

also saw other posts from premium subscribers who dont want the price reduced.

What a stupid attitude. Who doesn't like saving money?

they presumably having already paid the fee want everyone else to have to pay the same price rather than getting it cheaper than they did.

^ Exactly.

Fuck 'em, really.

I've been an (ill3gal) downloader since 2000 but the concept of Spotify irks me somewhat, I just don't know why. For a start the PC I play music from that's plugged into my hi-fi isn't attached to the net so I wouldn't really be able to use it anyway, but I think it's something else.

Maybe it's because it seems too good to be true. If this catches on it means that the idea of a music collection will be considered ridiculous in only a few years. Having every song ever available to stream for free sounds great, but will it replace downloading and format sales once they work out a way to make the quality top-notch? If so does that mean the end of the mix-CD, the end of DJing, the end of using recorded music in a creative way? will it all turn into a big messy jelly of sound with no accounting for quality control whatsoever? I can't remember the last time I went to a friends house all excited because I have a new album to show them and in a way I blame downloading. Remember "What's this? I'll buy it on Monday!", I haven't thought about that since 2003. Yeah blah blah move with the times, but once the iPhone Spotify app comes out, that's it - the idea of having a music collection won't exist and it'll be a big hivemind mass of music.

Haven't signed up yet, then again and I haven't read this thread, but how exactly do artists/labels get money for this? Is it all down to pay-per-play? What will happen to artists like the Beatles who, let's face it, never appear on Spotify?