Spotify - anyone heard of it?

talk to frank advert every 2 songs now. 6 tracks played 3 bloody adverts.

and again 2 tracks later (a couple of them were 2 adverts btw)

Re "Premium indistinguishable from CD"... having just plugged the laptop into the REALLY GOOD hi-fi, I take it all back. Limitations duly exposed.

I found the ads easily annoying enough to warrant spending £10 a month. £10! That's nothing. Or maybe I'm hopelessly out of touch with Breadline Britain.

If you've got the stereo cranked those ads are very, very off-putting..

these ads are much more regular than they used to be. really annoying. which is exactly how they should be if they're going to persuade me to pony up a tenner a month.

When we introduced the sharing feature, a lot of you requested a simple way of sharing the music you are listening to on Twitter. With Spotify 0.3.19, you can.

http://www.spotify.com/wp-content/uploads/share-to-twitter.png

http://pansentient.com/2009/08/spotify-fm-new-last-fm-mashup/

There are several mashup apps that help you find new releases on Spotify based on your listening habits scrobbled to Last.fm (here’s the complete list). The newest and possibly the best yet is Spotify.fm from developer Frank Quist. Spotify.fm includes several unique features you won’t find elsewhere, such as an RSS feed and the ability to search new releases based on both your Last.fm username or genre.

Spotify.fm lists the most recent releases (going back 6 months) from your favourite artists. Enter your Last.fm username to display a list sorted by date released on Spotify then by artist:

http://www.frankquist.nl/spotifyfm/

spotify is proving kind of a boon in the workplace.

What gives? I see that "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Technical Ecstasy" and "Never Say Die" among others have suddenly disappared from the Sabs page. A temporary blip?! The beginning of the end?!

p.s. Technical Ecstacy = Criminally Underrated. Don't let the cover put you off!

They added 45,000 albums in August so I don't think a couple of Sabbath albums disappearing is the beginning of the end, and there are still about 15 Sabbath albums available.

I like the Technical Ecstacy cover!

They're deliberately making those adds worse and worse to get you to pay for the thing aren't they? Might be getting near some sort of tipping point for me here anyhow.

I thoroughly enjoy those brilliant adverts.

C*nt!

Actually by "enjoy" I mean "would like to stab the star in the throat".

Noodle Vague voiced "Whitey" in those adverts.

maybe Apple will just buy it

Stevem OTM. I'm starting the rumour that Apple announces the Spotify app on Wednesday and it'll come bundled on the new iPods. And the small print will say something about Apple taking a stake in the company.

Maybe not (I am dum):

Today we’re really excited to announce that Spotify is available to our premium subscribers for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android platforms. The Spotify app is downloadable in both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market.

We’ve worked hard to bring you the same great Spotify experience you’re already familiar with to your phone. The mobile apps will allow you to take the entire Spotify catalogue and put it in your pocket. You can use our ‘offline mode’ to make playlists available at all times, even when no connection is available, perfect for that ride on the tube or long flight across the Atlantic.

Haven't tried downloading anything to the phone yet, but it takes about five seconds to start playing a song when streaming it over T-Mobile 3G and there's none of that buffering like in the Last.fm mobile player.

Using the Android version, by the way.

Spotify is set to offer offline versions of its playlists to PC users as well as those on mobile phones. Apparently.

not 100 per cent sure that blog is interpreting the t&cs correctly: spotify has always cached songs to speed up the streaming (you're also uploading tracks to other users, peer-to-peer style). so it might just mean you can use spotify on up to three machines as a premium user.

Huge update today with another 189,000 tracks added. Skimmed through the google doc http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tuLYLenoNqBWfhds8qaoXDg&output=html, Jeepster's back catalogue is up with Belle and Sebastian up to full strength, The deluxe editions of Radiohead's last EMI albums are up. What looks moist interesting is a lot of vintage stuff from 'The Orchard' including Brylcreemed Boys & Beehived Birds (Part 1), Bollywood - Before the Slumdog Millionaire Years, Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly In The Commonwealth and African Folk Music of the 1920s.

Signed up last week. Just started getting ads today, but they're not so bad...yet.

Interesting bit of comment about Spotify DRM and mobile data usage.

hahaha did anyone else get the advert for 2666 yet?

I've only listened to the first cd, but that Virginia Rocks! History of Rockabilly is nigh-on flawless. Quite wonderful.

http://open.spotify.com/album/27c6YY7NTdr1aJpHf2SdL4

Using Dan Black AND Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip to advertise Oxfam is kind of making me want to pipebomb my local charity shop.

can't hear you, too busy committing my body to corporate science

This is good - http://spotifitunes.com

I rather like this — 'R&B from Doo-Wop to Hip-Hop': http://open.spotify.com/album/4he7R24eqd1EbF9kegiAK8

Bonus — guaranteed to annoy absolutely everyone in the average office at some point!

I think this will be the carrot which makes me sign up for a premium subscription, http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/10/01/spotify-goes-offline/

'Love vs Money' finally on this

i keep getting this shit when i load it up even though i am connected to the internet

http://burythehammer.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/alan1.jpg?w=510&h=382

and songs keep just stopping halfway through for no reason. if it weren't so free and easy, i'd be starting to really get fucked off with spotify.

I kept getting some error message earlier where i had to restart spotify

There's been a lot of this kind of shit reported on the Spotify forums ... the Mac client had become unusable for some, and painfully slow to log on for others, but I know Linux and Windows users have been getting grief too. In fairness to Spotify, I think they've fixed the Mac issues: their customer service is actually exceptional, but obviously it requires everyone who's having problems to actually let them know.

Anyone heard this? http://open.spotify.com/album/7MHKYRlQH5GD2DFPSHKIEv

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z4SK4HEJL._SS500_.jpg

hahaha http://open.spotify.com/album/2kFgh4JSmUjqNSm1mkvcbK
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CJ-XpM1xL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kickin-Hitlers-Butt-Anti-Fascist-1940-1944/dp/B000NDDU60/ref=pd_sim_m_h__5

http://open.spotify.com/album/4LRTQPGnZuVjaZ40okBYNT
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EwVnPVDdL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diabolical-Hoodoo-Vintage-Hellfire-1920-1952/dp/B0002IPZI2/ref=pd_sim_m_h__2

http://open.spotify.com/album/3Awtoiuz3rT7up9wDgXucr
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R7R6FCTBL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00019FWEO/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p15_i4?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=06VFC68M04MRRVZXSFFE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

http://open.spotify.com/album/2CfMlq0DebXeJClBI8XQv9
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GPASBHJZL._SS500_.jpg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Junkers-Jivers-Coke-Fiends-1926-1952/dp/B0007WL7DK/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__img_c

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5129Z8FH0CL._SS500_.jpg

the whole series is on spotify

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZY2CYYPGL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WKTCM49DL._SS500_.jpg

Here is a list of the entire series http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/label/Buzzola/a/Buzzola

18 vintage songs about sex. Track Listing of songs: Ride Daddy Ride; I Want a Bowlegged Woman; It Ain't the Meat It's the Motion; You Put It in, I'll Take It Out; Sweet Honey Hole; Doodle Hole; Poon Tang; Let Me Roll Your Lemon; Good Jelly Blues; It Must Be Jelly 'Cos You Know Jam Don't Shake; I Had to Give up Gym; Mule Get up in the Alley; Let Me Ride in Your Little Automobile; Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods; Move Your Hand Baby; Sit Right on It; She Kept on Sittin' on It All the Time; Hucklebuck Baby;

that is filthy for 2009 nevermind 1927-53

Is nobody else here getting the CD-like skipping (not like buffering..) on every track played via Spotify 3,4 or 5 times each now?

Not me. I had it a few times months ago but not recently. Must only be certain albums?

only if I've suddenly become the unluckiest picker of spotify albums ever.

am dual booting and pretty sure I've been getting this on both XP and Win7 so suspect it's something to do with the last upgrade (I get the "offline" pause above too, although it usually clears, but takes a good minute to snap into online mode)