like
me & santa claus pull up the new washed out album, the arrow on my screen hovers over the "play" button & as i go to click the mouse it switches to slow motion. as i make contact with the mouse, moisture sprays from the mouse as the first song on the washed out album plays joyously. i turn to santa and dramatically snap open a can of coke, he grabs a glass bottle and cheers. i turn to the camera and say "thanks, coke!"
idk
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 July 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The new Washed Out isn't available on Spotify (at least in the US and I assume elsewhere if it's on Sub Pop worldwide), so I'm guessing this won't happen. Not that I mean to destroy a dream or anything.
― fffv, Monday, 18 July 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
In my spotify library of my own files, every track name is highlighted, but only some of the album and artist names are highlighted with a link - even the same artist in the same album. Is there a reason?
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 18 July 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, I'm already converted because it is reading my iTunes library (~500 GB) and yet it is SO MUCH FASTER than iTunes, which is barely usable on my computer. Playlists created by others automatically pick up the tracks already in my library and play those high-bitrate mp3s instead of streaming. The playlists are the long-term 'killer app' aspect of this service but the ease of integration with my current setup is pretty amazing.
― skip, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
hi dere this seem interesting
― Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if the artist gets paid royalties on the stuff that you import from itunes. Part of the nice thing about a subscription model like this is that artists can presumably make a tiny fraction of a cent when you listen to the stuff you downloaded illegally.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
It was one of those moments...
I logged onto spotify, and found some of my own performed tracks on there I was like "WHAT IS GOING ON?? GET ME KATE'S SOLICITOR!!" until I worked out it had added mine own library to my own stew, not anyone elses...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― fffv, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 00:40 (10 hours ago) Bookmark
Fwwi, this one is available on Spotify for me (Europe), it's licensed by Domino Recs.
― Asamoah Nyan (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Am trying it now - it's pretty good!
― Mount Cleaners, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Sub Pop is a glaring omission at this point.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
sound quality of this is p bad but it's cool to be able to check out stuff.
hey, do they have radio stations you can make quickly like last.fm?
i kinda miss that functionality, maybe i'm not seeing it.
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
sound quality of this is p bad
There's a higher quality stream for subscribers.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a radio link on the left menu that lets you choose from a list of genres or decades. On each artist page you also get an "Artist Radio" tab which plays music from that artist and whatever spotify deems to be related artists.
Neither is as good as last.fm radio or what I remember of Pandora from before the UK was blocked.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Just had another wee play with it and artist radio is better than I thought - similar to Pandora. Great thing is every artist you see is a link that allows you to open that artist's radio page and branch off wherever the mood takes you in only a couple of clicks.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
radio stations on this are basically useless in my experience. usually it seems to pick a dozen or so albums and then just play random tracks off of those over and over. xp
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
it probably varies a lot depending on what genre+decade combination you use though?
i've really liked last.fm's stations, esp for stuff like blues and genres that i'm not super well versed in.
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate that you can't copy and paste from spotify - I want to list an e.g. of an artist radio station but I have to type it out.
Gang of Four radio featuring: Wire, The Fall, The Slits, Magazine, Television, Orange Juice, Sonic Youth, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Television Personalities, Holy Fuck, Echo and the Bunnymen, XTC, The Beta Band, The Horrors, Minutemen, Pavement, Suicide, These New Puritans, Clinic, Art Brut
I'd be quite happy to leave that running for an hour.
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone litsen to Mike Hanley "A Collection of Popular Melodies" so I can get a penny in royalties! (actually something like .0001 cent
― Hot Tub Timelord (Latham Green), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
so what's the deal with "local files," that's stuff that's on your iTunes but not on Spotify so you can only play them on your home computer? they are grayed out if they're not actually on your current hard drive?
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Spotify read a tiny portion of my library which makes this pretty annoying. Anyway to get it to rescan? Anyone with a large iTunes library have issues?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
my entire home library (14k+ tracks) went in with zero issues
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Same here, 60k tracks went through just fine.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh, my biggest complaint is that I apparently have to buy another $25 piece of software to get this to play through my AirPort.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I just went from Nitzer Ebb into Frank Martin and Aaron Copland, which will be followed by The Prodigy
fucking love this
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Today it keeps just stopping on the last track of any album I listen to, about halfway through the song. I can't get it to start back up again and a replay ends up stopping it in the exact same place. Kinda weird.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
why does it not play the next song in the search results after one is done
― Hot Tub Timelord (Latham Green), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
So on the mobile app I can't get a "similar artists" radio? Well that sux.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
There is no radio feature on the US Spotify unless I'm missing something.
― fffv, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing on my spotify either for related artists.
― skip, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
does seem like it would do that but it only will play things like that in a row if you add em to Play Queue
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Something Rhapsody has, btw.
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Man this fucking terrible Matt Nathanson ad with the sub-Dave Matthews "singing" is almost enough in and of itself to make me want to pay to make all the ads go away.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Mog and Rdio have Sub Pop as well, but every service has library gaps at this point and I personally hated Rhapsody when I was using it. My feeling is that while Spotify is good, the US version is inferior to its big brother and the paid service doesn't really set itself apart from the other available services in the US.
― fffv, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
The "IN" Sound presented by the U.S. Army featuring songs by the Yardbirds and the Monkeeshttp://open.spotify.com/album/1mdTIoDXUrCshsxZ6RfYzb
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
what no linux client
― Hot Tub Timelord (Latham Green), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
What are those chain link icons to the right of the tracks?
― skip, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
> what no linux client
there is / was in the uk, only available to premium / unlimited subscribers.
http://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still not clear on how it's better than Rhapsody. Does it all come down to album selection?
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it's just really slick.. songs start instantly, you can't really tell that they're not on your own hard drive
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah getting the Linux version so I could listen at work was the initial reason I subscribed. Other people have had luck using the Windows version under Wine but it was never stable for me.
― Samantha Mumbahton (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xp obv
I've solidified my monster playlist as "100 songs I think everyone should love":
http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/2JSosmzA72ClTGzNryqTa8
sadly no ICP, because I really don't think everyone SHOULD love ICP (especially their current stuff)
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I finally got my account today. I'll be glad when they get more US licenses to fill the holes in the collection.
― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Hasn't rhapsody been around for a long time, and it uses the browser? I think I tried out out ages ago but it seemed like some really clunky realplayer kind of bullshit. I don't want something running in my browser, I want an actual app.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Just got a free invite so I can check it out, and Damn DJP - love that 100 songs playlist!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I admittedly haven't used Rhapsody in forever, but I remember it being so clunky and slow that I can't believe people are recommending it as a viable alternative to Spotify. Must have improved a TON since I played around with it.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm listening to yr songz dan
gus gus became doves right?
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Gus Gus stayed Gus Gus, they have a new album out this year that's pretty good.
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link