This has been running a while. http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1VYiyGaPHrDzTWeovieeAL
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
weird and rubbish that spotify isn't yet available for blackberry. anyone know why this is and if it's set to change? as a result im thinking if getting this grooveshark thing instead. would anyone recommend it and how does it differ from spotify?
― NI, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Moka, ask them about how serious they are about their social sharing side of the interface.
its really cumbersome and currently will only search Facebook contacts.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
blokely.com? what?
― I *\m/* metal soooo much (history mayne), Sunday, 20 March 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
There's some banner ad on Spotify that my virus checker keeps telling me is trying to load Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-1885.C, whatever that means.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 25 March 2011 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy days, all of Underworld's albums are available at long last.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I see Dylan's gone too
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I think he's been off for some time, apart from the dodgy out of copyright stuff.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The Lennon remastered albums were all put on then swiftly disappeared too.
The Smiths' Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead are now up though, finally.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 9 April 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone care to speculate how the licensing works in the case of say REM, who's entire back catalogue of albums, reissues, deluxes and b sides collections is present and correct except one (Monster). what's going on there?
― piscesx, Saturday, 9 April 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i see the entire Suede back catalogue has vanished. probably because they want to shift a fair few copies of the upcoming reissued albums. can't blame them mind.
― piscesx, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Monster is on there.
Suede's back catalogue has been gone a while.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
my bad it was UP i meant. it's weird innit.
― piscesx, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
was only a matter of time :
http://musically.com/blog/2011/04/14/spotify-cuts-back-free-service-10hrs-a-month-and-song-capping/
― mark e, Thursday, 14 April 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Does this still count if you're one of the original Spotify Free users?
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
hope so. then it will stop my teenkid killing the bandwidth soakup in my house.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Should read more closely:
The changes we’re having to make will mainly affect heavier Spotify Free and Open users
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
What’s more, they’ll only be able to play individual tracks five times ever, before they are made greyed out and unplayable.
There's just no easy money to be made in this industry. Oh well, was a good thing while it lasted.
― Moka, Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
From a pesronal pov this sucks, but if it's what they need to do to make the service work then so be it.
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually if they can reassure Premium users that the service will remain the same and more music will be added in the long term I think I'd be willing to pay for it. If au contraire premium users end up seeing less artists and unavailable songs after a while then it will become progressively worthless. Spain still doesn't seem to have the 20 hour limit tho, so maybe we'll be lucky and we wont be seeing any of these changes just yet.
― Moka, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"What’s more, they’ll only be able to play individual tracks five times ever, before they are made greyed out and unplayable" ... "Spotify says the changes will mainly affect heavier free users, and claims the average user won’t see the limit on plays for seven out of 10 tracks."
This is an interesting idea on their part, I guess. I mean, I feel like people who will i. find this inconvenient enough to do something about it ii. start maintaining an mp3 collection or alt-tabbing to youtube all the time rather than paying £5/month ... these are people that, really, they're never going to convert to a paid account. But, also, it means the word-of-mouth goes from "you really should get Spotify" to "Spotify is kind of annoying."
― thomp, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, here is a quick question! there's a label which is greying out all tracks more than ten minutes long by, at least, Sonic Youth and Rush — I'm on Unlimited — can anyone on Premium tell me if that holds true?
― thomp, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The question people need to ask that maybe they didn't have to before is: is it worth a tenner?
For me, the price of mobile Spotify and not having to faff around with 'alternative' online sources is well worth it.
― scotstvo, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Seems they're greyed out on premium as well.
― scotstvo, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, one playlist I had was based on the content of the "Factory Records" box set, and now around 30% of that one is greyed out, not necessarily based on length or famousness...
e.g. Transmission is alright, "Sketch for Summer" and "She's lost control" is gorn.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Quick question: if I pay for Spotify premium, can I listen through my iPod touch?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. Mostly. It won't run on first gen.
http://www.spotify.com/int/help/faq/mobile/mobile-ipod-touch/
― death, taxes and (onimo), Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool. That's a good enough reason for me to pay for it.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
It is absolutely, 100% worth a tenner a month.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been listening to it all day, every day in work for the last 9 months or so, so I've got no problem with a £10 a month
― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't listen to music at work (it's not a company policy, I just can't do it myself I'd just do nowt), so I do record stuff onto minidisc for the journeys.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
whatdisc?
― VitaweatavegemiteGrrl (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Co-sign, I'm as tight as two coats of paint, but this is an absolute bargain and if you have a suitable mobile or ipod touch even more so.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
getting spotify on my mobile made an absolutely gigantic difference to the amount of music i discover week in week out. it's a bargain for the ten quid, plus the ads are a distant memory.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm on the five pound version 'cuz i don't have unlimited data on my mobile (dark ages, i know) but given i probably use it for around forty hours a week that seemed fair
someone started giving me an earful on supporting THE MAN rather than ARTISTS about it though
― thomp, Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
was on the 5 pound version until yesterday, new phone so might as well go with premium. can't understand why anyone would use the free version at all though.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Because it's free?
Currently on the £5 version but when I get a new phone I'll probably upgrade.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
me too...bastards.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Would totally pay £15-20 a month for a super premium record club account if they picked out the album you listened to the most in the past month and sent you a copy on CD to keep.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Here is your monthly copy of Disintegration, loveSpotify Record ClubPS Change the fucking record son!"
― death, taxes and (onimo), Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Surely it's up to the ARTISTS to agree a better deal with THE MAN though?
― scotstvo, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
exactly
― THE MAN (onimo), Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/spotify_not_so_free_as_it_was.html
....But I'm hearing that Spotify had the move forced upon it by the record labels and the move reflects continuing tension between the fast-growing digital service and the music industry
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it's hard to feel hard-done-by about this. i pay more than a tenner for the use of about eight dvds a month, so getting a spotify subscriptch is a nob rainer.
― a random quote of mine abt a shitty rapper (history mayne), Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually this may actually be genius. Yes, some people are angry because nothing is completely free anymore, but a lot of people have grown addicted to Spotify and the monthly fee is actually not much compared to what people used to buy CDs for in the past. So this may well be the way for tomorrow's musicians to actually earn money from their work. Which I think they do actually deserve.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
and no more blokely.com adverts hooray
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
until the £10 service gets some adverts and they want you to pay £20 to get no adverts and flacs streaming
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that would be very difficult for them to implement without losing a shit-ton of customers. Especially given there'll be other similar services on the market before long.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 April 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
This all made the front page of the Metro today!
― Mark G, Friday, 15 April 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I have premium and have it on the missus' & my phone, with both our laptops and the squeezeradio in the kitchen.
that's unlimited music on 5 devices in high quality .mp3 with no adverts or usage limits.
£10.
Can't complain when I have been known to drop £18 on an import CD when Tower Records used to regularly charge such a price.
still working out my "I love this on spotify, I'll buy it" vs. "I love this on spotify, I'll listen to it loads on spotify" threshold though.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 15 April 2011 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link