Spotify - anyone heard of it?

yes, there is a good chance that if you're an ilm poster, you're going to be able to find songs that aren't on there

― markers, Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it didnt take much work to find them -- ive been on this thing for five minutes

oh no, not cormega!

deej, i think negotiating w/ cormega's personal label is pretty low on spotify's priority list

ok? so its high on my 'personal listen-to' list ...

i mean hes not the most obscure rapper or something. & its not like they dont have tons of stuff up by more obscure artists. seems like a pretty random omission

deej, i think negotiating w/ cormega's personal label is pretty low on spotify's priority list

― J0rdan S.

deej, i'm not sure you understand how this works

idk what im not 'understanding,' everyone talks about how this has EVERYTHING and 2/3 things i first looked for werent there

and you're like, "well thats probably not a priority" -- and?? so im supposed to be impressed?

well, i think one might logically be able to understand how spotify u.s., in its first week of release, has yet to negotiate personally with... cormega

like if thats not how it 'works' then ppl should stop telling me it is \oO/ theres no question theres an impressive selection i guess i was just expecting more

if spotify ever goes public, they're gonna have to explain how they overlooked cormega's self-released 2005 album

well, i think one might logically be able to understand how spotify u.s., in its first week of release, has yet to negotiate personally with... cormega

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

then maybe ppl should chill on telling me it has EVERYTHING on the site until it actually does?

if spotify ever goes public, they're gonna have to explain how they overlooked cormega's self-released 2005 album

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:06 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

can you come up w/ a comeback that isnt "lol cormega"?

my comebacks are mostly "lol deej"

deej, if someone told you a restaurant had "everything", would you go in with the expectation that you could eat any food available anywhere in the world

deej, if someone told you a restaurant had "everything"

generally reason enough to not go to that restaurant tbh

i never said it was shocking that they hadnt personally negotiated a particular album w/ cormega (although they have most of his albums so... i dont know why they would be missing one) i was just surprised considering everyone's line on this is that theyre so incredible comprehensive that they would miss out on the first couple things i searched for. i dont know why that deserves "lol deej" "lol cormega" or snarkiness from you in general

spotify has like zero metallica studio material, but it has enough stuff i love that i've starred, like, over 1,800 songs in my first week using it -- so, no, it doesn't have everything, but it has an insane amount of stuff

bcuz i think you're being unrealistic

it has every other cormega album bcuz those ones were released on actual labels

I know this has more stuff than rhapsody but maybe id be more impressed if i hadnt had that first? idk i guess it being a step further towards comprehensiveness is a good thing but its not the revolutionary thing i was expecting

it has every other cormega album bcuz those ones were released on actual labels

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was released on 'legal hustle' as were some of the records that are included

the first thing i wanted to listen to was the washed out album but apparently they don't have sub pop -- i'm still a satisfied user tho

im not saying im trashing the program yeesh

i just found out that spotify doesn't have any live skull albums, fuck this shit

Does anyone have a spare invite for me? prettygoes @ gmail

― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:28 PM (44 minutes ago)

Sent you one there.

anyone know why labels decide to make, like, one track unavailable from an album?

safe + sound missing so-neccessary dj quik DONT YOU EAT IT! skit :(

I know this has more stuff than rhapsody but maybe id be more impressed if i hadnt had that first? idk i guess it being a step further towards comprehensiveness is a good thing but its not the revolutionary thing i was expecting

― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have weird enough taste in certain areas that i can't expect much in the way of comprehensiveness so i don't even worry about it.

that said i think the interface is totally ace and maybe closer to revolutionary, in that it's like a correctly-implemented itunes.

that said i think the interface is totally ace and maybe closer to revolutionary, in that it's like a correctly-implemented itunes.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:18 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'll play around w/ this, that was a downside w/ rhapsody for sure

deej, if someone told you a restaurant had "everything", would you go in with the expectation that you could eat any food available anywhere in the world

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:09 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol side note, has this ever happened to you?

i don't think so

i ended up thinking of stefan tho: "melt, new york's hottest club, has everything..."

well done to whoever put that ILX best of 00's remixes playlist together

Sent you one there.

Thanks!

i don't see the advantage of spotify over, say, emusic plus access to clips on youtube and everywhere else these days. but i'd like to investigate. if anyone has an extra invitation available, i'd be grateful for it.

no sam cooke night beat :(

disc 4 of the man who invented soul iirc

starring all the songs you like and putting it on random is so rad

'Night Beat's' available in the UK, no sign of Cormega's 2005 album.

I wouldn't sweat about missing some stuff at the moment, there's a good chance that it'll turn up eventuall. Kate Bush and Underworld's catalogue was only recently made available in the UK for example.

disc 4 of the man who invented soul iirc

― call all destroyer, Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok cool

they don't have A LOT... like, I made a playlist and then realized they didn't have like 90% of the songs on it, so anyone I shared it with couldn't listen to most of the songs

the idea is cool, but really I don't get the point of spotify when I have my itunes and a large hard drive?

the idea is to give artists & especially labels control over our access to music once again

that we'll give up free music in favor of convenient music, i guess

I am pleasantly surprised.Is it worth it to pony up for premium if the ads aren't bothering me?

Why can't you browse by genre in either of these services? I mainly want to use it to try out dance / electronic music but usually have to browse another site to find artists and songs to cue.

you can search by genre but it isn't great - I think it shows most played songs by default

you can search by label too

list of genres you can search for: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psnjFY3R2itsqjinSs9hkZw

http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2009/03/24/spotify-genres-the-full-listing/

i think the other thing is that this site isn't really gonna have an effect on the way i consume music generally? that new mixtapes arent typically gonna be going up there, nor are most of the major artists' releases that i listen to. so i mean, in terms of access this isn't changing a whole lot. i mean, its impressive abstractly but functionally for my purposes its less 'revolutionary' than idk digitaldripped or hans-kingofthedrugs

yeah otm