Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

This is pleasing meh because I am listening to lots of random 90s r&b albums it never would have occurred to me to download. Koffee Brown! Somethin' for the People! Nicole! d-_-b

that stuff was prob all on rhapsody too -- if anyone's confused abt why im still like 'and?'

Rhapsody costs money, right?

yeah but half the ppl here are paying money for spotify

yeah but deej you need secret invite to get into spotify

lol

were you those kind of guys who were going on and on about Diamond Rio when the iPod first came out?

yeah i had 20gigs worth on my first ipod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMWGye7u4E

lol. spotify seems to have a pretty comprehensive Diamond Rio discog

you know, in case BlindWillyPuller is looking for a good alternative to hip hop and metal

I dunno, I've never been on Rhapsody and this is free.99

It's surprisingly good for random dance compilations.

Also, this is the Spotify playlist that everyone in the world needs. It's (a lot of ) the Optimo 250:

http://open.spotify.com/user/alex_tea/playlist/1Qrvz1kdf2VJUO0Wjt6ROw

!! awesome. thanks

Cool. Dig the "Wichita Lineman" outro on "La Vie En Rose"

See you in ten hours.

I don't like the way that Spotify handles my compilations in iTunes. In that it doesn't handle them at all.

while were complaining i hate, HATE, the color scheme here

wtf who does white on black

me. i like it.

youre _so dumb_

i love everything you hate and more

I don't like the colors either.

2 against 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5jsa1lR9c

fun fact: light on dark is the second most popular contrast choice, after dark on light.

http://www.mobile-phones-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/iphone-dial-retro-cool-nice-old-mobile-phones-pic-pics-img-hot.jpg

Are ppl still getting defensive about how this is missing lots of stuff?

people are the absolute fucking worst

this thing that didnt exist three weeks ago isn't a complete and comprehensive database of every piece of recorded sound ever, FUCK THIS SHIT