Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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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

it's been around for three years but w/e

not in US

oi maties did u hear the newsie wewsies, this bloke invented a musickal machine called spotify

sb

that is not how they talk in swedeland for sure

It's been around three years but I'd imagine the licensing issues are unique to the US so it might as well be brand new.

What's the mobile app like for draining phone battery by the way? Will have a good data package so will be streaming a lot I reckon...

rhapsody more like RAP CITY amirite deej

I finally got around to "going deep" on messing around with this last night and I'm supremely disappointed. Very limited selection (of course this will always be a subjective call) and the suggested/related artists thing is, in a word, broken. The whole thing feels very low-rent...saw lots of overlapping artist pages, etc. After all the "it's so fast and slick" proclamations this is not what I was expecting. The social/playlist sharing aspect is very cool, will probably keep me coming back for a while. Anyone else feel like, "Uh, this is the future of music? Pass."

Guys, its not as if the artists that are locked in are going to be the only ones there forever. I mean, when it launched Sub Pop was a notable omission, but its already put up a huge chunk of its catalog now too. Be patient. As this thing gathers more popularity, more will be added.

I have no issues with the selection, seems pretty good so far. Just the software. Does not work as an iTunes replacement. I really like iTunes, unlike many people.

Which, that is fine, I'll just run both programs.

What's the mobile app like for draining phone battery by the way? Will have a good data package so will be streaming a lot I reckon...

― Matt DC, Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

If you're doing proper streaming over 3g then it's a pretty big drain but not unusably so. My phone has generally shit battery life tho, so I'm used to recharging during the day anyway. If you're playing stuff you already synced then it's no different to any other mp3 playing app. Most efficient thing is obv to sync over wifi before listening, if possible.

Spotify mobile is basically the best thing ever invented and it really has 'changed how I consume music' forever (or until their business model is revealed to be a bust).

Weird, I joined up but I apparently can't invite other people.

think only Premium users get any invites, as far as I can tell.

Ah, I see.

I gotta say, they don't make the social aspect of the site terribly intuitive or simple.

I'm still finding it strangely complicated to download tracks for offline use on the iPhone App. I wish they'd streamline it a little. And the app crashes when you try to save an album as a new playlist with the album name, though I can't believe they won't fix that soon.

Not sure if this has been discussed in this lengthy thread, but what do you all make of the preponderance of "re-recorded" hits from the days of yore? Is this a way for Spotify to pay less for the rights, comping the artists only and not the record companies? I know many artists (Squeeze, for example) are re-recording their old hits, faithfully, so as to exercise more control over them. Strikes me that we are entering into a Karaoke Age, in which you can get the original work for X, and a "faithful" simulacrum for X - whatever. I mean, listening to Walter Egan's re-recorded "Magnet And Steel", he still sounds fine, but the production is just a bit off, and when you lose Stevie Nicks on backing vocals, you lose everything.

Any way to divert money away from labels and to artists is ok by me.

Fair enough. But it does present an aesthetic problem. Whilst listening to the 50s poll playlist I tolerated/lived with the various rerecord versions of the old hits but really want to hear the original records- in rock and roll "the original is still the greatest" usually holds true.There's no way a live recording of The Coasters for a PBS special is going to sound as good as the recording made by Tom Dowd in the Atlantic studio with King Curtis on sax, Gary Chester on drums and Mike Stoller on piano.

Is this a way for Spotify to pay less for the rights

Oh, I really don't think so. There's a lot of this stuff on iTunes as well.

Spotify is owned by the majors so nothing they do is going to be even remotely "a way to divert money away from labels and to artists." The mechanical rate for a download of a cover is something like 9 cents. For streaming like this, it's probably much lower but I don't know the exact figure. So if anything, covers are a way to divert money away from the original artist, paying the songwriter a tiny pittance for the use of their IP.

Yeah iTunes does this too. I downloaded a Jim Croce song a while back only to realize it wasn't even Croce singing.