Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Yeah Spotify doesn't post anything to my Facebook as far as I can see, even though it is connected to my FB account.

so for 100K plays, the artist receives ... $29.00 (0.00029 per stream). the label receives ... $160.00 (0.0016 per stream). no artists or labels are getting rich from spotify, regardless of how shrewd or tough they are in negotiating deals with the service.

OTOH this guy claims €0.004 per stream: http://www.spotidj.com/blog/?p=264

Though I thought that Spotify royalty rates weren't fixed, and that artists on major labels got more than those on indies?

it's a gold mine. all you need to do is get your song streamed 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times.

there are a LOT of ways artists/labels collect royalties besides sales (radio, TV, performance at live venues). there's no reason streaming should be any different or should produce a huge income to justify its existence as a legal source of revenue.

i use spotify all the time

you, personally, are providing a living wage to indie artists across america.

lol :)

Big discrepancies with the numbers here! This Billboard article claims that the typical interactive royalty rate is between a half cent and one cent per stream:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/news/e3iecb83415cefdd2b0a43399437dff3e5f

I think I've got exactly one FB friend with that setting turned on. I was wondering why he saw fit to recommend all that stuff.

half of the links about royalty rates people have been posting are from like 2009 and 2010, well before Spotify launched in the U.S. -- i'm sure the rate has and will continue to change

and that it's not the same in the U.S. as it is in the U.K. even taking into account exchange rates

will soon be 0.000029 per stream.

otoh if you stream music you've already purchased before (i'm on a netbook without local music files ~75% of the time), it's a tiny stream of bonus money going to artists you like.

Yeah, I do that as well.

The Stevie Wonder poll, all by itself, will buy him a pack of gum.

i remember reading that spotify had ~750,000 users at some point recently. im guessing they're hoping they can make this 750 million within the next few years. 750 million people paying a £10 monthly subsription to stream music and share it with their friends, if managed properly, would do a lot of good for the industry imo.

i hate file management so i have no desire to download music
My thoughts, exactly. I sit in front of a company computer for ten hours every day. They wouldn't be thrilled about me downloading and saving albums on their machine.
Spotify boosts my listening library at work exponentially. And it's fun to make and share playlists.
I just tried to edit the post settings in my fb apps, I hope it works.

If you have your Spotify account connected to your Facebook, it now posts updates of every song you listen to on your news feed. It seems like there's no way to only turn this feature off.

http://lifehacker.com/5843847/how-to-keep-spotify-from-broadcasting-your-music-taste-to-all-of-facebook

I actually quite like this feature and enjoy being able to lol at my friends trying to listen to the Kooks in private.

I sit in front of a company computer for ten hours every day. They wouldn't be thrilled about me downloading and saving albums on their machine.

That is exactly what Spotify does. It also uploads them to other users in your area requesting the same tracks.

http://lifehacker.com/5843847/how-to-keep-spotify-from-broadcasting-your-music-taste-to-all-of-facebook

I actually quite like this feature and enjoy being able to lol at my friends trying to listen to the Kooks in private.

― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:24 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh thanks i am definitely doing this!

yeah, I listen to music for a significant portion of my work day and spotify has been a very convenient way to keep an influx of new stuff going while I'm away from my personal music stash.

facebook news is supremely irritating tho.

Editing it from the apps worked for me fwiw

Spotify Needs U.S. Success After Losses Deepened In 2010

http://www.themusicvoid.com/2011/10/the-awkward-unanswered-questions-that-led-to-coldplay%E2%80%99s-spotify-embargo/

So if more big acts do this spotify is fucked.

it links to http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-awkward-unanswered-questions-that-led-to-coldplays-spotify-embargo/ (dont worry the article is all there)

loads of stuff has been removed since it went live in the US, all tzadik seems to have gone for example :'(

Yeah, really disappointing with the way things continue to trend.

in the not too distant future... no dance music, no new releases, no big hits, only major label stuff that's stopped selling on itunes

still worth it for the classical and jazz if you're into that, but ehhhh. my spotify evangelising is over

And yet loads of new stuff is added every day afaict. It's hard to keep a count, but there's probably been about 150 new albums from this year alone that I've been interested in enough to check out at least once.

i'm still finding more stuff on grooveshark these days
:-/

Well, yeah, I won't argue that more and more new stuff is being added, but I'm finding that a lot of it doesn't really align with my tastes.

yeah -- "more" in my case means "more of what i want to hear"

My biggest problem with both grooveshark and spotify is that, as of right now, I can't wirelessly connect either to my Airport.

what you need is airfoil? have you tried that? works for me.

sounds move magically from outer space to the speakers of my 1993 college stereo in the other room
it is amazing

Oh yeah, I do need that, I'd just been hoping to find a free option before I ponied up the $25 - but it seems like my best option at this point.

The spotify app has been bad recently. It will hang and crash every time I start it and make me login again. Reconsidering my subscription. Which is a shame because I've listened to it a lot.

iPhone app eventually creates huge data footprint even if I have hardly anything set to offline access so I have to delete it every once in a while and redownload it.

The spotify app has been bad recently. It will hang and crash every time I start it and make me login again. Reconsidering my subscription. Which is a shame because I've listened to it a lot.

― Jeff, den 31 oktober 2011 15:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean the desktop app? i've had the same problems. getting kinda bored with this.

No, iPhone app. Haven't had issues (yet) with the desktop app.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15524852

Virgin Media has released the details of its promised partnership with the Spotify music service.

New customers buying Virgin's 30Mbps or faster broadband package in the UK will receive six months of free access to Spotify's premium service.

Existing subscribers will get the same offer when they renew their contracts.

Experts believe the bundle will help Spotify compete against Apple's iTunes music store, and other streaming services such as Deezer.

Spotify Premium usually costs £9.99 a month. Spotify claimed musicians will also benefit.

"Telecoms companies moving into the music space increases revenue streams to the music industry and provides benefits for fans and artists alike," said Andreas Liffgarden, Spotify's global head of telecom business development.

Virgin Media said it will also waive related data charges for Virgin Mobile customers using the offer.

Customers who take up the deal can listen to an unlimited number of music tracks, including exclusive content, on either their computer or mobile handsets.

Virgin Media says it also plans to let owners of its Tivo video recorders stream Spotify's music directly to their television sets at some point in the future.
Competition

The announcement comes a month after the French streaming music provider, Deezer, announced a similar tie-up with the mobile network Orange.

"It helps the firms automatically boost their subscription numbers overnight," said Chris Cooke, business editor at the CMU music news service.

"One would assume that both may be looking to sell out or float their stock at some point in the future, and this will build confidence."

Spotify may also benefit from the opportunity to reach an older audience than it typically appeals to, especially if the new users take out a subscription once the promotion period ends.

However, previous efforts to link music and telecoms packages have not always proven fruitful.

BSkyB closed its music service, Sky Songs, at the end of last year. It said it had been "unable to reach a large enough customer base" for its £4.99 per month offer.

"We think the dynamic route to market is the mobile one, like Deezer's with Orange," said Alice Enders, music expert at Enders Analysis.

"Selling music subscriptions to broadband households has the problem that the account holder isn't necessarily the one who listens to the most music.

"Free offers often promote experimentation, but it can be hard to get people to dig into their pockets afterwards."

complete* FELT collection now up!

*no 'Snakes Crinkle..' but hey.

I canceled a couple of weeks ago, it won't be compatible with Tiger soon anyway.

Missing question from their FAQ: "How do I play a track?"

Is there a reason why I'd want to sync my ipod to Spotify? As far as I can tell it would just result in fewer songs on my ipod.

Also, I'm trying to figure out what would be the best portable device to use with itunes and spotify. I have pretty big libraries in itunes and spotify and I'd love to have a single device that can play all that stuff together, but my options seem to be limited to a really large ipod that can't run the spotify app or a smaller ipod touch that wouldn't be able to hold all of my mp3s. Are there other options I haven't considered?

Some sort of large capacity android-based mp3 player? If they exist.

does android support itunes?

oh I don't think so actually. I overlooked that.

is it now normal that one gets up to three ads played in a row, with no "extended listening" compensation later on? dudes really ramped up on the coca-cola ads.