Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I could ditch iTunes and get over Spotify's tagging issues real fast if column browsing and smart playlists were possible.

That stuff will probably be available in a few years time. I don't know, I think dark colors are better for music, psychologically. I like the black and green, it's soothing. Although it is kind of a blatant rip-off of itunes.

bunch of white stripes stuff disappeared?

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/spotify-playlist-generator-creates-playlists-based-on-your-favorite-artist/

just found this and am at work so haven't tried it out yet. sounds quite good though and, if it works as described, a solution for those that want a bit of last.fm functionality.

That looks rather neat, will try when home!

Be careful, looks like you might download something you don't want!!

Oh, like what? Toolbars or advert shite?

How is this different to artist radio?

It generates a playlist

Try this for a web based playlist generator http://spotibot.com/playlist/

x-post: No there is a link there to some idiot software, be careful. I looked at the page, it isn't worth it.

decided it was actually better to try it at work than at home and it's fine. really basic but still quite impressive.

Spotify has made me appreciate the full album listening experience rather than always listening to random things on shuffle.

annoyed at the lack of a single repeat button so that I have to manually start 'livin on a prayer' every single time

lol

:-D

back from vacation and noticing Spotify saying I have a number of invitations I can send to USers. If this is still a thing and you need one, feel free to gmail omhalck. First come etc; also I cannot promise lightning-quick reaction at all times.

annoyed at the lack of a single repeat button so that I have to manually start 'livin on a prayer' every single time

dude make a "Livin' On A Prayer" playlist!

done and done

what is to stop someone from just going analog port in and recording anything they want and KEEPING IT!

HOME ANALOG PORT RECORDING IS KILLING MUSIC

I've wondered about similar questions myself, and ended up thinking:

1) analog port as in whatever the soundcard processes? vulnerable to random facebook chat alert dings and other unwanted sounds;
2) otoh the sound files are actually temporarily cached on your computer and you could probably get the exact digital file if you were superhumanly fantastic at decryption etc;
3) however if you wanted to care for the collection you'd get in one of those ways, you'd have an hell of a tagging and organizing task ahead;
4) all of which indicates that it seems too much hassle when the app allows you to call it up anytime you want anyway?

it's pretty simple to mute all sounds except for one app

(loving the ilm 50s playlist from upthread btw; is it a countdown or a countup or more random than that?)

HOME ANALOG PORT RECORDING IS KILLING MUSIC

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

(loving the ilm 50s playlist from upthread btw; is it a countdown or a countup or more random than that?)

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Love it myself! It is in random order though, it was made based on people's votes.

The votes make it unrandom though, right? It's a countdown from 101-ish (Battle with the Invisible Monster) to #1, I Only Have Eyes for You.

xps: fair enough Dan, but also

5) I guess rather few people would be simultaneously a) sufficiently nerdy to build a digital music collection based on re-encoding to digital form the actual analog sound signals and b) sufficiently unnerdy to not care about the resulting files not being the same as the original digital files.

Damn, loads of negations in there. Hope it is untanglable.

Oh, WmC, thought it was just a compilation of all the tracks people nominated. Sorry, misused the word vote there.

I am using this to listen to the new Kelly Rowland album right now.

Are ppl still getting defensive about how this is missing lots of stuff? Didn't feel like pulling out my cd of the infamous, tried to pull it up on spotify, oops! A bunch of classic tracks are missing

again not saying it's useless but there are def some canonical rap artists poorly served by this

that is probably because a lot of artists and/or labels want certain tracks unavailable as they are ones that they think people should/will pay for. Blame them not spotify.

It doesn't just happen with rap either , it happens with other genres. Some artists wont even allow anything on spotify.

2 tracks! idk, were they the biggest tracks from the infamous? could also be weirdness with a sample or one of the credited writers, tho i've got my copy of the infamous right here and can't really figure out what the issue would be (one has a sample listed, the other doesn't, they have different co-writers).

but anyways yeah rap and metal are certainly going to get shafted by this as they usually do.

i think some labels are leaving out some tracks to create a ~pain point~ that leads ppl to go out and shell out $$$ for those songs/a copy of the record, but that's just a guess

god, if that is true it is such a ludicrous position

Spotify is pretty great for jazz at least. unfortunately even some albums have tracks missing, but blue note is there in full.

Can't say im surprised underground rap & metal is missing on spotify but often that is because the label is not interested, not spotify.

the more mainstream metal bands seem to be catered for. Are the big rap albums missing in full or just labels leaving a few tracks out to make you buy the album?

could also be weirdness with a sample or one of the credited writers

or publishing company?

Metal has not been a commercially successful genre for like two decades now so it's hardly surprising spotify doesnt cater to it. Rap is the biggest genre of music in the world for the past two decades so it is utterly shocking that it is being treated like this.
Spotify needs to up its game to go beyond useless.

"beyond useless" would be a good line 4 them 2 use in their advertising

spotify: beyond useless

I really miss the days of recording audio tapes becuase they were so persnola, random , nice and home made - I also like taking records like Elvis COstello's "NOrth" and messing with the revreb, adding chorus, doing weir d things.

I don't really see what being 'commercially successful' has got to do with how metal and rap gets treated by spotify or anyone else. rap and metal are huge genres with acts that sell millions, get lots of youtube hits, get illegally downloaded. They are not niche genres. But Spotify cant have everything, also the smaller labels probably need to approach spotify, you simply cannot expect them to know of every label out there. Jazz im sure sells less and a lot of these genres but thankfully it is well catered for. Which is why I pay premium, it's worth it just for the access to the blue note catalogue. Hopefully more labels from more genres will approach Spotify now that it it available in the USA along-with Spotify approaching others. Spotify caters to music fans so sales figures shouldn't come into it all the time. And it thankfully doesn't, hence all those smaller labels on it. But you cant do anything if labels/artists don't want certain tracks or full albums streaming for free.

Metal is very much aniche genre. Its not comparable to hip hop. Spotify needs t imrove the hip hop selection to make it worth using it.

not really, not unless all you care about is hip-hop

What else musically is worth caring about? You can't seriously be suggesting metal. The most white (power) racist sexist mysogynist music ever invented.

The aliens have invaded again, I see.

The most white (power) racist sexist mysogynist music ever invented.

this didn't turn up anything when I searched on sharemyplaylists. I'm beginning to question the point of Spotify.