Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

How much does an artist receive for a single play on a radio station with 9000 listeners?

Somewhere in the region of £0-£8

I thought 50/50 was a pretty standard deal for indie labels, or was that only in the halcyon days of factory or rough trade or whatever?

when Touch N Go was doing the 50-50 split I always thought it was talked about as being a notably good deal for the bands. although the other side of it was that they didn't pay any advances or fund the recordings (just put out the records).

Black Metal Room is now LIVE.

Doom Metal room isn't on public page yet but it can still be accessed from the link Doom Metal Room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FRBau3Qe1JQ0X

Also there is now an Ambient room

Doom Metal room is now live and on the main page.
Ambient room got better after the trolls got banned/songs removed by the soundrop guys. Same goes for African room, 80+ users and lots of good songs. I saw mike t-diva dancing in there..

The rooms idea is great...but they're kind of mainstream. I like to give creative names to my playlists, which makes them undescriptive to the casual browser. If I call my mix "new wave mix", it gets lumped in with mainstream new wave lists. I like browsing Spotify for stuff I couldn't afford before!

well with sub-genre rooms being added now it's less mainstream. i believe death metal, minimal techno, prog house , industrial rooms are coming plus a lot more.

There should be an ilx room (with a permanent url) so we could all go in and add whatever we like (within reason) , but sadly there's no demand. Plus I dont wanna see outloud die. but i see no reason why both cant be done. outlouds more a night time thing.

Classical room is pretty good btw

djp is clearly behind this
http://support.soundrop.com/soundrop/topics/fandom_room

Damn electronica room, ppl keep bumping up Boards of Canada. I've heard it all a trillion times, plz vote for something I haven't heard.

holy shit there's over 1600 people in dubstep room

bzzzzzeeeoooooww
wak-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka bmmmmmmmmmmmm
zeeeeeeooooooow
WAK-KA-KA BOOP

haha i looked in and they're arguing over what is real and not real dubstep.

Sounds entertaining, I might have a peep.

I am wondering if it is heinous to use profanity in a mix title, etiquette wise. Does it show disrespect to the general community of users? I suppose so.

Maybe I'll just use an asterisk in the offending word.

If you're doing a pigfuck playlist I'm not sure it's avoidable!

lololol on the soundrop forum someones mum is complaining about skrillex songs added by him are being removed in the dubstep by people who dont like it (i think theyre sick of 100 skrillex songs in the queue or getting voted up all the time, like the killers in indie room or slipknot in rock room etc).

First time i've ever seen someones mum doing it though, hahahaha

this sounds like the worse place ever
what's it's appeal?!

they're waiting for the drop!

I noticed the songs being skipped the first few times I was in the room but today was the first day I paid attention to the chat. It's bad enough the music we vote for and want to listen to is skipped repeatedly but those of us who complain are insulted and badgered. They laugh and tell us they can skip what they don't want to listen to get out of their room.Then the conversation goes downhill fast. I would like to allow my son to enjoy this room but these are the conversations that will be keeping him out and driving me away. Here are a couple for example.

"FOR ALL YOU SKRILLEX PEOPLE THERE IS A SKRILLEX RADIO SO GTFO."

"Dont really care about the votes cause they get skipped anyway. ;)"

"Im telling them to stop voting for skrillex sigh-"

" B=====D~~~ in ur face :P"

" Fap fap fap into whitneys eye."

She's actually not allowing her son in the room because that.

obviously those chatters are horrible people, but the fact a mum is complaining is just too funny.

i actually know a couple of people in the dubstep room and they're good guys, they like the more ilx/the wire friendly dubstep and i think they get sick of skrillex clogging the place up. They wouldn't be nasty or voting to remove songs though. (if 5 people report a track as inappropriate the track gets removed. It's an anti-trolling thing which is obviously being abused here. But with people going in rooms adding rick astley,pokemon,slipknot or nyan cat to troll the rooms it was needed.
The guys i know are the ones who need to report troll tracks. All the rooms get trolled constantly by morons.

but yeah im glad i dont like dubstep as that room must be a nightmare. I'll never 'get' that music. I dont think its because im older now as i never liked a lot of stuff when i was young!

La Lechera come in doom or black metal rooms, its fun (when not being trolled)

maybe metal kid will come in

Ehhhhhhhhhh I don't really see that happening (and I don't really want to fraternize with metal kid anyway!)

It's outloud or bust for me.

outlouds usually bust :( or trolled by a slipknot fan funnily enough

some new albums seem to hit U.S. Spotify on Thursdays, 2 days after they're released everywhere else. not complaining since hey i'm happy they're there but it makes me wonder what the logic behind that lag is.

it also seems like not all new albums get added to the New Album Releases playlist?

isn't that because thursdays are the official release days in stores just as its mondays here?

tuesdays are traditionally release days in the u.s.

ha thank you for reminding me that the new album playlist exists

next up: the new SPEECH DEBELLE

ahh ok, perhaps the artists/labels think streaming right away will hurt sales so dont allow it to be streamed to thursday? i doubt its a spotify decision. im sure they would prefer to stream right away

had never seen the New Album Releases playlist before but yes it appears that it is assembled in a way that filters out any album i am interested in hearing

poor Speech, she has found this nice little pocket of music that I and only I will like

I find this more useful than the playlist http://spotimy.co.uk/

are people's shuffle functions working fine? mine tends to play a few songs from the same album in a row...

also after this upgrade, new random people are showing up in my "x listened to" feed...are these actually not random?

also after this upgrade, new random people are showing up in my "x listened to" feed...are these actually not random?

yeah I was wondering about that too

Have release years always been so reliably broken? Anything released earlier than, say, 2003 seems to have some random year stuck on. Michel Polnareff's entire oeuvre is supposedly from the 1990s, for instance.

remasters maybe? albums that have been remastered always seem to be by that date

Spotify has created some serious space issues on my phone.

^

Definitely some kind of vampirism going on

I like how if you have songs loaded on your iTunes on your iPhone they'll show up on your Spotify Mobile.

I just noticed that now you can see what your friends are listening to. Which is like that cool thing in itunes where you can see what your co-workers are listening to.