Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I went to a party recently and instead of DJs or hosts' own music collection being made available to soundtrack the getting drunk/good times, they just propped their laptop on a shelf, launched Spotify

After a while it got a bit stoopid with people cutting playing tracks short instead of queing them.

Still it's got enough to rock the house for an extended period

IIRC the new jingle sounds like the opening of "Diamonds and Pearls" by Prince.

Also annoyed about classical music tagging - especially on the radio part, which does not seem to allow scope for classical listening at all! Music didn' just suddenly t begin in the 20th century, guys...

Speaking of the radio: I like lots of 70s music, but the tags on the radio thing just suck... way too broad. Whatever configuration I try it just sounds like I'm getting the latest Ariel Pink album... I think they need some kind of Pandora tech, or at least a blacklist option (- "nooo, not Chicago AGAIN!")

IIRC the new jingle sounds like the opening of "Diamonds and Pearls" by Prince

It's similar -- I queued up D&P and, by sheer luck, managed to get the jingle right before it -- but not identical ... it puts me in mind of some mildly cheesy, breezy seventies Americana, but maybe that's just the sign of a really good jingle.

The whole of Earache's back catalogue has been uploaded today! I'm currently listening to Heartwork by Carcass!

For some reason, I used to be able to follow direct links from ILX into the Spotify music, but now they're saying that because I'm in the US, I'm blocked. WTF? Was I just hitting accidental backdoors before?

I'm not sure, I've always been blocked from the ILX links.

i need spotify rehab, my soul is being destroyed

New Isis on spotify and an old Ulver album added

Anything else new added?

Nothing too exciting in today's spreadsheet, but there is this: http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/904190/Spotify-challenges-iTunes-unlimited-downloads/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

£10 a month for unlimited downloads. Hmm.

Realizing that once you can access this anywhere anytime anyway, whether it's stored on your own device or not is of little importance? (Actually, in this case it's a cost to download it, since it takes diskspace.)

This argument obv only works when seeing the user in isolation, since filesharing between users is what the conventional extra cost for download is about anyway. Or, it also works if everyone uses eg Spotify, since then filesharing is pointless, you just share links and playlists instead.

OK one final advantage of downloading to device: insurance for when the Net collapses.

(Also, I haven't followed thread too closely, what is this spreadsheet you mention?)

Every few days they post a link to a googledoc on their blog with the latest additions to the catalogue. http://www.spotify.com/blog/

The other big advantage of downloading is being able to put it on a portable player though - mobile spotify seems to be on the way but I'm unlikely to be getting anything to take advantage of that for a while. My 1GB iRiver is fine for my needs and I've only just figured out how to get wap on my 4 year old mobile phone.

My first thought was 'I think £10 a month is a fair price to save me the bother of ripping my collection (started in February, currently stalled somewhere around the Chameleons), as long as the quality's good enough'. But at the moment I seem to only be listening to music through Spotify, getting my girlfriend's laptop out and plugging it into the stereo when I actually have cds and records sitting there. This is probably more to do with last.fm nerdiness though.

The £10 a month for d/ls claim is bullshit btw.

ha, ok! saves worrying about that. (I've just noticed the writer of that piece has the same name as me. Just a coincidence.)

The other big advantage of downloading is being able to put it on a portable player though

Yeah, I was kinda projecting into the future when Spotify(-likes) are installed on everyone's phone anyway. (Feels somewhat inevitable to me.)

Thanks for blog/spreadsheet answer!

Haha title of new Bob the Builder album: Appetite for Construction

Right, have d/l Spotify.

Let's have a go...

> Yeah, I was kinda projecting into the future when Spotify(-likes) are installed on everyone's phone anyway. (Feels somewhat inevitable to me.)

at the risk of astroturfing (i spend my days monitoring and debugging this stuff) can i point out that the future is now (but, as gibson points out, unevenly distributed)

http://www.vodafonemusic.co.uk/products/musicstation.cfm
and, in the interests of impartiality, the nokia 'comes with music' thing - http://www.comeswithmusic.com/uk/

(in fact we did it the other way around - targeted mobiles first and only recently desktops)

> Haha title of new Bob the Builder album: Appetite for Construction

the previous one seems to be called 'Never Mind The Breeze Blocks'

Right, have d/l Spotify.

Let's have a go...

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Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

(I might not be around here much, until I got bored wit it.)

find anything good on it?

I'm revisiting "So Tough" St Etienne. Side 1 may be the most perfect album ever.

album side ever, obv.

this is awesome for being drunk with

sometimes you get to 2am on a friday and you just want to listen to a load of Dio shit, right fuckin now

you havent changed in 9 years ferg

still, it keeps you off ebay and drunkenly buying rubbish ;)

Lol at the 2am thing: "Wait! I suddenly realize I've never knowingly heard Queensrÿche"!

My partner got drunk one night when I was away, and decided he really needed to hear some T.Rex. Then, presumably too drunk to work out where the Stop button was, he muted the volume and went to bed, leaving Spotify to play EVERYTHING in the search results queue, including the Ameritz karaoke versions. Result: seriously buggered last.fm stats. (Still, at least it wasn't bloody Wishbone bloody Ash again.)

just delete them

and then do the stats.

spodify

[dopey loathsome Innocent Smoothie voice]Everyone *loves* music![/dopey loathsome Innocent Smoothie voice]

Nah, remove the asterisks. The emphasis is on "EVERYone". But you catch my drift.

Think they aiming at the 'couples' (nearly typo'd Copuls there ha) who soundtrack lovin' with their laptops?

"I'M NOT PUTTIN YR OFF HERE AM I?"

The amount of adverts I get saying that they have adverts is ridiculous. Just fucking advertise to me, don't tell me you are going to advertise to me. It makes me feel bad that I only get like 1 advert a day (I have been caning spotify all day lately, with it being time to do all my coursework i'm glued to my pc) and think that the only difference between this and illegal downloading is the occasional prick saying hello to me. No-one be making money with 1 real advert a day (ok, 1 real advert every 4 hours or something.)

Also, after making playlists of like 100s of albums I would have never thought to listen to and have got addicted to, I'm tempted to make a thread like 'recommend great albums to listen to on spotify' type thing. (Well I would if I wasn't busy.) It seems like a perfect opportunity to dive headfirst into metal and classical etc. instead of my previous attempts to dip my toe in.

Spotify isnt very good for metal (not the kind i like anyway)

Well then I'm just gonna have to carry on listening to Minnie Riperton on repeat and forget all those rubbish neckbeards and loud geetars.

It seems like a perfect opportunity to dive headfirst into metal.

Being pathologically metal-averse, I did actually try this with the ILM Best Metal Albums of 2008. Um, yes. Well, it was... interesting.

Well, I'm not going *there*

Are Spotify users familiar with Grooveshark? Looks like a similar kind of thing, but with the focus on tracks rather than albums. It passes the Beatles and AC/DC test as well.

t I only get like 1 advert a day

huh, i've been bombarded recently. 2 in a row quite often.

however I haven't been using it that often so perhaps they tailor it so the more you listen the fewer adds you get.

or ads.

Can't believe that Grooveshark is legit if its got Beatles and AC/DC available.

yeah how does grooveshark exist? that seems crazy

It seems like a perfect opportunity to dive headfirst into metal.

Being pathologically metal-averse, I did actually try this with the ILM Best Metal Albums of 2008. Um, yes. Well, it was... interesting.

none of the good stuff from that poll is on Spotify. I think Earth was the only one unless stuff has been added since.

Lots of great older metal stuff is available though. Saint Vitus' first one, Born too Late has been a recent fave, and of course all ver Sabbs' stuff was put up recently.

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