Spotify - anyone heard of it?

an older ipod btw, no internet. not a touch.

so i was just durdling around with this for the first time last night since i got a new laptop and don't want to copy my whole music drive onto it. is there any reason why it's not easily worth the $5/month? how thorough is the licensing coverage now?

also are the 320kbs offerings extensive enough yet to make premium worth it if i don't plan to use it w/ a mobile device?

I don't even know how to tell what's streaming at what rate

how thorough is the licensing coverage now?

depends on what you like. there is stuff appearing and disappearing every day .... some of my favorite record labels have pulled out (Sacred Bones, RVNG Intl, there's no B-Music or Finders Keepers) but I still find a ton to listen to and it's worth the 10 bucks

I take that back, Finders Keepers does have some stuff on there

anyway I find a lot to listen to especially dance music

there have been very few new albums to come out that weren't on spotify. tzadik is really the biggest loss imo. most stuff is on there tho.

also tons of jazz and classical that I wouldn't have otherwise chased after but am now very happy to have on hand

i subscribed just because of all the Blue Note

yeah if the classical is good & thorough then i'm even more tempted. i've never had the time or resources to get a reasonable collection of that together, even digitally

soundrop has a country room now

http://i40.tinypic.com/5xvbqb.png

Shonze Famschen otm

haha

3 people like this idea including you

it's a shame there's no enthusiasm for it, but an ongoing ILM room would be pretty bitchin.

I would be all over it but my job blocks all of the Spotify apps (but not Spotify itself)

I'm enthusiastic for it!

of course mordy how could i not vote for the guys suggestion!

he got the country station he asked for

mordy start an ilm room. the person who starts it has control over what can be removed. you just need to make a playlist with minimum 3 songs, start room, then post url here and anyone can join and add/vote/listen

in the country room Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert just played here is what's queued up now
http://i44.tinypic.com/2cofynm.jpg
mordy is that the stuff you like?

Sometimes, but I can't get my soundrop to work right now.

a few people have had that. there was problems with facebook logins, they also say to make sure you have the latest spotify update as they fixed some things this afternoon

more metal rooms are coming. I asked for doom and BM rooms a month ago and here's todays reply

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Johann Prieur (Official Rep) 5 hours ago
Hi guys,

This will happen in the next few days. Thanks for your patience!

Best,
Johann

Other people asked for death/thrash or metalcore/deathcore rooms so hopefully the 2 i asked for do get made and not just that one.

it's a shame there's no enthusiasm for it, but an ongoing ILM room would be pretty bitchin.

― ryan,

Me too, but those who are into that kind of thing prefer outloud so wont use a soundrop room. Which is a pretty much anything goes generalist room. Though nobody uses outloud during the day.
Maybe ilxors on spotify prefer to listen to their own lists? or, as djp says, soundrop might not be allowed at their workplace.

ATTENTION NAKH
Classical Room is now there

African room pretty cool

when its not being trolled by dubstep kids adding skrillex or rock room kids adding bieber ,pokemon and other crap like emo.
One of the developers told me a few weeks ago, when he was clearing out mess left by the trolls in metal room , that the african room was bombarded by trolls posting racist stuff too. They all get banned though.

ok, they really need to improve their 'add tracks' feature. i guess it doesn't let you search by artist or album?

yes type in artist album name

they had to remove drag n drop as trolls were using it to add a song every second.

we just can't have anything nice, can we?

there's bored kids everywhere that think it's funny. but they all get banned if they do it. you just take a screencap and report them. As word gets out it puts off others joining in.

anyone used this?? http://www.equalify.me/

I didn't realize you can now search for other people's playlists. I just started doing that this weekend. Is this a new feature or am I just absent minded. That is so cool!

i think it's always been there?

btw if anyones interested
Got our Doom Metal Room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FRBau3Qe1JQ0X
and Black Metal Room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FJO3toeFpfBqa

not on the main page yet (goes public tomorrow) but those with the link can wire in! so do come join

My new set-up: Spotify Premium (high bit-rate setting) on laptop --> wireless streaming to Bluetooth dongle --> which plugs into Cambridge Audio DAC Magic digital/analogue converter --> which plugs into hi-fi --> which connects to three sets of speakers in three adjoining rooms. Now that I have the DAC, audio quality is every bit as good as CD.

All I need now is the Remoteless app - http://remoteless.no - which turns my iPhone into a Spotify remote control.

I run a wire from the back of my computer to the stereo. Sounds pretty good!

I run a train from the back of my house to the edge of the continent. Feels pretty good!

i run every day. feels great!

Iran; so far away!

:P

Remoteless app is a bit shit, as it turns out. But usable.

My new set-up: Spotify Premium (high bit-rate setting) on laptop --> wireless streaming to Bluetooth dongle --> which plugs into Cambridge Audio DAC Magic digital/analogue converter --> which plugs into hi-fi --> which connects to three sets of speakers in three adjoining rooms. Now that I have the DAC, audio quality is every bit as good as CD.

All I need now is the Remoteless app - http://remoteless.no - which turns my iPhone into a Spotify remote control.

Is it just me or is Spotify absolutely shit at distinguishing artists of the same name?

There are, let's say, quite a few of these.

It just lumps them all together. Surely they're aware that this is happening. I guess they just decided, fuck it?

Moss (doom band) are Katie Moss on there, lol

This freezes for ten seconds literally every time I search for an artist.
But only on my home computer. Work computer is slower processor, worse internet connection but it works better. Must be an OS thing?
Have reinstalled multiple times.

i enjoy the multiple destroyers

Is it just me or is Spotify absolutely shit at distinguishing artists of the same name?

Most annoying thing about Spotify. There seem to be a surprising number of British dance producers who share a name with terrible sub-Fountains of Wayne American rock bands.

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/15/beggars-group-give-50-of-streaming-revenues-to-their-artists/

^ interesting

This is what the Music Week piece said:

Artist income from the likes of Spotify is a hot topic, with some labels reportedly passing just 10-15% of revenue generated from streaming sites to artists and managers as a royalty.

Mercury-nominated artist Jon Hopkins said last year that he received just £8 for 9,000 plays on Spotify, whilst other acts including the Black Keys have questioned the "feasibility" of the streaming model for performers and writers.

Speaking in a special report in today's Music Week magazine, Beggars Group director of strategy Simon Wheeler revealed that the label - which part-owns XL, Matador, Rough Trade ad 4AD - pays its artists from streaming services on a licence basis, at a much higher rate than its rivals.

"When we looked at the streaming models we felt that splitting this revenue 50/50 as licensed income was the right thing to do - we couldn't justify it as a 'sale'," he commented.

Wheeler suggested that if other labels adopted the model, artists could receive "two or three times" their current income from streaming.

So by my reckoning, under this deal, Jon Hopkins could have made £16-£24 if he'd have signed to Beggars.