Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Just searched for The Recession and that shows up in its entirety, and it hasn't been released here at all right?

It's really good for the one-album playback when you've no idea if you'll like it or not and can't be arsed downloading.

yeah i'm basically going through albums i've been wondering about checking out but didn't have the hd space for.

no the recession was released here, but the label didn't bother telling the pr - she only realised when she looked on amazon and found it had been there for a fortnight

"80s funk house disco" radio suggests Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers!

> Four MB albums, Deano

thanks. we don't have any, amazon.co.uk mp3 store has scratch n stitch and a couple of tracks from compilations, emusic had a lot... all these people seem to be getting their info from the same places though, they all make the same mistakes (search for broadcast on amazon - details are about duophonic / warp broadcast but the listed albums aren't)

One detail I like: when it gets to the end of what I've queued up, it just continues with the current album without me needing to ask it to. (I suppose I can see how someone might not like this, though.)

Finally got round to sorting scrobbling for this (there's a windows messenger box ticked by default in the last.fm client that somehow stops Scrobblify from working). So far I'm really liking Spotify - handy for hearng stuff you randomly think on that you haven't got in your library or for legal trying before you buy. The adverts don't annoy me in the slightest.

fails Boredoms test :(

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

anyone got a spotfiy INVITE?

If not, try the "oooh ask me please!" option on the website ("Get started" -> email in "Not invited?" field). Took about five days for me, was surprised to get it at all actually.

jordan, webmail me an email address to send an invite to.

didn't get asked for an invite here, just got straight in

This is amazing! You type in what you want to listen to, and then you are listening to it. all this needs is to work on an iphone, and then i'll buy an iphone, and then i will have achieved bliss.

Mine appears to have made it through an album without giving me any adverts. Maybe they've bumped me up to a pro account without realising it.

you can now scrobble to last.fm from within spotify (it's in 'preferences')

That's handy, saves me running that scrobblify thing at the same time.

Spotify lists 'The Prodigy' as 'Prodigy' and makes last.fm think this guy sings Smack My Bitch Up and Out of Space
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/17704623.jpg

can someone please send me an invite?

thanks!!

Er....

https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

Think there's still a waiting list though.

<3 this service btw.

Got in straight away with the link I posted.

Aha they've obviously opened it up!

Downside is loads more ads (I've heard two during the same album), but you can hear them coming after a while and tune out. Still great.

thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.

Please!

If i hear gareth jones from cardiff reciting pi again i'll scream

(advert)

And I'm not buying that White Lies record either.

At least it doesn't scrobble the adverts

jonathan from spotify sounds remarkably like Michael Vaughan

wtf 2 adverts in a row (the 2nd was for that White Lies album)

See what I mean about them? The Killers meet Editors big wowz!

can i get a spotify invite

thanks Chewshabadoo but I need an invitation code.

Please!

― kaiser, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

can i get a spotify invite

― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:03 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

Have any of you actually tried the link posted? Quite a few of my friends in the UK have used the link and joined today. Maybe it doesn't work in other countries...

\o.0/

I'm in the US and that link asks for one of two things:

1)an invite code

or

2)your email address so they can notify you when it goes "public"

I wonder what their excuse is. Don't they want more people to hear their stupid ads?

is it UK only?

mr bimble check your email

It's odd and a fucking pain how Spotify often doesn't specify that tracks are remixes in any way.

i'm in the US and unless something changed in the last few days, we can't use spotify and all the workarounds have been blocked

2)your email address so they can notify you when it goes "public"

I selected this a couple of weeks ago, and got an invite from them within the same day. May not be the case now, of course.

https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/ gets you straight in without an invite.

I went in on that link above, no trouble at all. I'm in the UK tho - maybe there's a problem with the US, I dunno.

It's awesome, btw. Nearest thing to the "universal jukebox" I've seen for a long time.

I think it's staggering. At least 95% of my track/artist searches to date have returned results. And I like the concept of shared playlists.

Spotify Premium is available in Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the UK. The Free version is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.

It amuses me to see the adverts briefly appear in last.fm (and permanently in your Spotify history).

This is impressive. There's a lot more weird, small stuff on than I thought there would be, thopugh also mystifying gaps too.

Someone should set up a shared ILX playlist for Jan (then we can move to Feb etc to stop it getting unwieldy). I'll do it tonight if no-one else does.

Excellent idea. I was thinking of doing one for the Pazz & Jop Top 50 singles, and maybe the Rocktimists poll tracks as well. But it'll have to wait until tonight.

Gaps spotted so far: no King Crimson, very little UK Funky, no Aeroplane mix of Grace Jones "Williams Blood" (although their mix of Friendly Fires "Paris" is on there). Remixes are generally well represented, though.

Remixes are generally well represented, though.

But not always listed as remixes, I've found. And they don't scrobble as remixes (sorry, I'll take that to the last.fm thread)

I also like the non-bloatiness: the software was running at around 14,000k on my home PC last night - so I could close iTunes for once, and benefit from the faster performance.

I hope this thing a) goes global so the US can use it b) they make a mobile/iphone app c) ushers in a new era of music use.

I confidently predict big 4 will put a stop to it.

All the majors have signed up in europe, though. I suppose it's whether the US ones are far-sighted enough.

It's also notable that most of the big digital music holdout bands aren't represented- no Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC.

Every Stones album is there though, yay!

Another thing I've noticed is that the service avoids any queueing problems, as you occasionally get on, say, last.fm.

Not Spotify specific probably, but another AI artist is making the charts:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/spotify/the-hottest-neo-soul-artist-on-spotify-doesnt-exist

Prior to today, I had never heard of up-and-coming neo-soul act Sienna Rose before, but based on social media today, it seems a lot of people had—she’s got three songs in the Spotify top 50 and boasts a rapidly rising listener count that’s already well into the millions. She is also, importantly, not real. That’s right, the so-called “anonymous” R&B phenom with no social media presence, digital footprint, or discernible personal traits is AI generated. Who would’ve thunk?

Well, not Selena Gomez, it seems. Two days ago, the “Come & Get It” singer posted a photo dump on Instagram after the Golden Globes and soundtracked it to “Where Your Warmth Begins,” a Sienna Rose “original,” computer-created vocals crooning soulfully through the screen (rather ironic, considering Sienna Rose is inherently soulless, being a series of numbers and all). The post has 1.3 million likes.

i suppose i should've counted on there being traitors and collaborators within the musician community but it's still sad to see

a scummy company from the jump

Has anyone else got the Beta "Prompted Playlists" feature? Unlike the crappy "AI Playlists" one they launched last year this one actually allows you to draw on your own data, so you can say something like "Songs by 70s female singer-songwriters that I haven't listened to since 2020" or whatever and have it auto-update daily or weekly if you want. It also attempts to make the playlist flow well.

Also, this popped up on Google Discover:

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

Sensationalist headline but wondered what those with more understanding of the business model of streamers than me had to say about its thesis.

Has anyone else got the Beta "Prompted Playlists" feature?

Yes, comes under the sub-heading: Prompted by us, made for you

examples:

My First Plays on Spotify

My Rediscover Weekly

What's My Musical Enneagram?

i'm a bit skeptical of an article that has a graph with "SaaS = exponential profit" on it

Can't find any discussion of a phenomenon I've been encountering recently: fake tracks by real artists. I've had bullshit phony 'new singles' recommended to me for both Annette peacock and jeanne lee in the last week, both of which are slop. Can only find mention of the more well known fake artist thing when I search but then Google is also famously shit now.

https://open.spotify.com/album/03KyeQKVd0nrpSVUHVz9vg?si=7l6r-M9GQcWmg2_FxNHxjg

Who could mistake that unforgettable Carla bley sound

Stating the obvious here, but you could just not use Spotify

It’s on Youtube too, surely others places as well.

Custom Radio lists for me right now have the subtitle "About recommendations and the impact of promotion".

Just noticed that one of my favorite features, that disappeared from the mobile app years ago, appears to be back. You can once again hit play for an entire folder of playlists in mobile.

https://partyoftheyears.withspotify.com/en-GB

If you go here, Spotify will do a kind of Wrapped for your entire listening history.

Very proud to say that of the 50,259 songs I've listened to, the first was Tarzan Boy by Baltimora.

Ha. My first (in July 2011) was "The Grey Ship," the opening track on EMA's Past Life Martyred Saints, an album released a few weeks earlier.

My top artist, I am unsurprised to learn, is CFCF. And my top song is "The Instinct (Prins Thomas DISKOMIKS)" by Mark McGuire.

i am going to do this but not for another 30 years or so

Love the most-played-ever playlist, a feature iTunes had that I missed when I switched to streaming. But is it actually a dynamic playlist? I just played my top track from beginning to end, and the play count hasn't updated.

re:

But is it actually a dynamic playlist? I just played my top track from beginning to end, and the play count hasn't updated.

No, this would be a snapshot feature, not dynamic and evolving.

Also note:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/spotifys-launches-a-wrapped-style-recap-of-your-entire-listening-history/

Spotify said that this feature is available worldwide, but it will only be around for six weeks.

Dumb

Like, why wouldn't they want to make that a permanent feature?

there'll be an overhead on crunching that data and maintaining the feature

Looks like it might have broken Spotify lol

Spotify search problems in the UK at the mo, I guess the servers are overloaded with users checking the new all time wrap feature

User reports indicate problems with Spotify since 12:21 PM EDT.
How is it affecting you? #SpotifyDownhttps://t.co/jjlzRIlMaA

— DowndetectorUK (@DowndetectorUK) May 12, 2026

Bandcamp down in the UK as well now?

Spotify problems in the US too

This new app icon is the pits. Is it supposed to be shiny like a jukebox or something? It looks like something out of Candy Crush, and I have to look multiple times before I even recognize it as Spotify on my phone.

It's a disco ball and it's connected with the design for the "All-Time Wrapped" feature but it looks like a hunk of garbage. even if it didn't there's no point in it after the first time you've looked at your (underwhelming) Wrapped stats

It looks like it hasn’t loaded correctly