Spotify - anyone heard of it?

minus "at mount zoomer" i guess?

yesssssss more iron & wine

thanking u sub pop & spotify

If it lets me listen to Twister by Unrest without buying it or taking the time to look for a download (and it does) it's worth the $9.99 this month. I can't imagine that something similar isn't true for everyone else. I still want Drag City (who are also absent from Rhapsody).

for being a generalist selection it's pretty damn comprehensive, sorry your oj da juiceman freestyles aren't on there rip :^(

― flop's son (dayo), Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so is rhapsody, and why would i give a fuck abt a generalist selection? ps: you're a clown

Surely you'd care about he opportunity to easily search for, eg house music or something else you're moderately interested in? It's never gonna have every free mixtape on it but you're gonna listen to most of them anyway.

As a research tool or just something for happily stumbling across things Spotify is pretty much amazing.

Also sharemyplaylists.com us worth repping for - it's good to just search for 'Balearic' or 'Berlin 2011' and just happily listen for an hour or two.

yeah that seems like exactly what it's for, i.e. not for going deeper in a genre you're already deep in.

Anybody having problem with Spotify stopping after playing ads sometimes? Lately I've run into an issue where Spotify will play an ad through to the end, but then it won't do anything else... it doesn't play another ad or the next song on my playlist, it just stops. If I click on another song to play it, the pop up comes up saying "'song x' will play as soon as the current ad is finished', but nothing is playing. So far the only solution I've found is to shut down Spotify and restart it - works, but very annoying. I read somewhere that cleaning out the cache can help, but that doesn't seem to make a difference with this problem.

idk if it's me or the program but there have been a couple times when i've had to restart it to get it to play tunes again

same for me. the free us version of spotify is pretty terrible.

Yeah, this happened to me once. I figured I was lucky that it was just once.

I've had it just stop in the middle of songs a couple of times on the paid version. changing to another track fixes it though.

minus "at mount zoomer" i guess?
― markers, Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

LAME

That album "The Chronic" by that dude Dr. Dre is also missing.

Also some artists have individual songs missing... "You Made Me Realise" & "Sister Ray" .. weird..

billstevejim i cant imagine spotify had time to negotiate with DR. DRE

they have 2001

wonder if it's a death row thing

who even owns the death row masters? didn't they get auctioned off or something

they have doggystle, altho they list it as having been released in 2009

no japandroids :( hopefully that will get fixed.

It's probably a Death Row thing. They don't have every prominent album ever made and complaining it doesn't is kinda entitled bullshit.

The Chronic was on UK Spotify a couple of months ago then disappeared.

Disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"everything is amazing and nobody's happy"

Complaining about them not having some fairly obvious canonical releases was more responding to expectations based on hype rather than feeling entitled to it, but it's nore like this didn't fall short for my purposes i'm other ways so ymmv

Really hoping to see more metal labels on here soon.

It's *not like

jon so otm

I like MOG a lot and am keeping my subscription but Spotify seems to come up with less chaff when I do a keyword search.

Also I can indulge in guilty pleasures like elevator disco without feeling like I have to share that with everyone.

Currently working on a spotify version of my rub you the right way mix from a few years back

Sharemyplaylists is great. And they have an app

They don't have every prominent album ever made and complaining it doesn't is kinda entitled bullshit.

"everything is amazing and nobody's happy"

Make sure you only post comments like these specifically after I speak up... especially since I never alluded to either of these.. people were mentioning stuff that was missing, so I added to the list. So far I love it.. I'm very happy and I don't feel entitled to get all music for free.. although I do think it's dumb for all musicians to not embrace this as an opportunity for gettin serious-ass paid.

Japandroids are on Death Row?

No, Polyvinyl... all recent Of Montreal releases are missing as well.

They have all of Doggystyle and pretty much everything Tupac pre-death so I think it's nothin but a Dr. Dre thing and not a Death Row thing..

I'm just saying, I think Matt and Tracer were aiming at J0rdan rather than you with that comment

As long as I'm covered...

Who distributes Polyvinyl? These bands need money.

lol yeah i'm sure bands will start raking it in from spotify

$50 is still $50.

how does spotify pay bands? is it like radio royalties?

I do think it's dumb for all musicians to not embrace this as an opportunity for gettin serious-ass paid.

Yeah, as much of a devotee of spotify as I am that really isn't going to happen (infographic).

that infographic is hilarious

and sad

it's sad it was hilarious

I really have to stop doing that

ha yeah me too, muttering it to myself one time too many lately

If those figures are true though, the (legal) digital age devalued music at an alarming rate.

Maybe they're getting a better deal in the U.S. now? I know thats an older chart based on UK royalties, perhaps hammering out a better deal was part of what took so long to get it hear. Doubtful though.

thanks to that chart, I will be setting my playlists on repeat and playing them when I leave the office

I think that chart is out of date. Here's an article with some more realistic royalty numbers. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/news/e3iecb83415cefdd2b0a43399437dff3e5f

For the interactive royalty rate, let?s use 0.75 cents per stream (it?s the midpoint of a typical range of 0.5 to 1.0 cents per stream)

Still not great, since obviously at the low end of that scale, a listener would have to play a track 200 times to equal one 99¢ iTunes download. But if streaming services caught on and royalty rates began to increase as subscriptions increased maybe it would work. And it would actually benefit artists whose music gets replayed frequently. It would also favor quantity, so people who are listening to full albums would actually be a more valuable audience than people who just listen to singles.