Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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...

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, 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.

Am trying it now - it's pretty good!

Yeah, Sub Pop is a glaring omission at this point.

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.

sound quality of this is p bad

There's a higher quality stream for subscribers.

hey, do they have radio stations you can make quickly like last.fm?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

everyone litsen to Mike Hanley "A Collection of Popular Melodies" so I can get a penny in royalties! (actually something like .0001 cent

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?

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?

my entire home library (14k+ tracks) went in with zero issues

Same here, 60k tracks went through just fine.

tbh, my biggest complaint is that I apparently have to buy another $25 piece of software to get this to play through my AirPort.

I just went from Nitzer Ebb into Frank Martin and Aaron Copland, which will be followed by The Prodigy

fucking love this

tbh, my biggest complaint is that I apparently have to buy another $25 piece of software to get this to play through my AirPort.

otm

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.

why does it not play the next song in the search results after one is done

So on the mobile app I can't get a "similar artists" radio? Well that sux.

There is no radio feature on the US Spotify unless I'm missing something.

nothing on my spotify either for related artists.

why does it not play the next song in the search results after one is done

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

Yeah, Sub Pop is a glaring omission at this point.

Something Rhapsody has, btw.

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.

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.

LOL

The "IN" Sound presented by the U.S. Army featuring songs by the Yardbirds and the Monkees
http://open.spotify.com/album/1mdTIoDXUrCshsxZ6RfYzb

what no linux client

What are those chain link icons to the right of the tracks?

> what no linux client

there is / was in the uk, only available to premium / unlimited subscribers.

http://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/

I'm still not clear on how it's better than Rhapsody. Does it all come down to album selection?

it's just really slick.. songs start instantly, you can't really tell that they're not on your own hard drive

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.

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)

I finally got my account today. I'll be glad when they get more US licenses to fill the holes in the collection.

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.

Just got a free invite so I can check it out, and Damn DJP - love that 100 songs playlist!

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.

i'm listening to yr songz dan

gus gus became doves right?

Gus Gus stayed Gus Gus, they have a new album out this year that's pretty good.

ah yeah that was Sub Sub i was thinking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9O32R1BZY&feature=related

I just sprung for the premium Spotify, and have been giving it a whirl. I like the desktop interface slightly better than Rhapsody, but not in any overwhelming way. They had a couple things that Rhapsody didn't, but no major differences during my initial check on a handful of favorite bands (Kim Fowley, lilys, Swell Maps -- Spotify had a better Swell Maps selection -- and the like).

Their iPhone app is buggy and not at all as good as Rhapsody, and crashed a few times. Presumably that'll get fixed. At the moment I'm going to keep both. Rhapsody makes it much easier to download tracks to iPhone to play when I'm on the subway. I'm still not sure which one I'll end up sticking with, but since Spotify will probably improve while Rhapsody has already had time to solidify, I'd guess Spotify at some point.

xpost: I wouldn't ever think of calling the current Rhapsody clunky or slow, so it must in fact be a big improvement over whatever it started off as...

I recommend the 'fifties' poll result playlist, it's excellent.

Thanks to Dan and let's keep posting playlists

ayo can someone hook a dude up w/an invite to this?