Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I have access to all of the Swans record though, maybe it just took a few days?

Yeah it popped up the next day, maybe they were in the process of adding it when I looked the first time.

You can hear the entirety of Swans' THE SEER on Spotify now...

Is there any way to get Spotify to actually say how long a playlist is once you pass the 59-minute barrier. Saying everything from 60 to 119 minutes is '1 hour long' is not useful

http://tapeop.com/blog/2012/08/11/why-and-how-spotify-managed-get-such-low-royalty-r/

the guy whose band i'm in ran the numbers: anytime someone streams his entire 10-song album on spotify, he gets paid 5.5 cents. they've paid between $0.0006 and $0.0141 per single song stream.

there are a variety of reasons why individual songs might not be available on spotify (and rhapsody and mog and sometimes itunes). it's different from case to case. but for starters,m i'm pretty sure that every publisher that has even a small piece of a song has the right to say no, so if there are a lot of songwriters and a lot of samples, that increases the odds someone's going to do so. also, you'd be amazed how often the record companies simply screw up and make songs and albums unavailable by mistake. it's a ridiculously (and needlessly) complicated business.

The only thing I can say in favour of the low Spotify royalty rates is that more often than not I'm streaming stuff I already paid for on CD, but don't have on my hard drive, so the musicians are being paid a second (admittedly paltry) sum on top of what they already got when I bought their album, purely because of laziness on my part.

I've bought 52 new CDs this year, and all but a handful were trialled on Spotify before purchase. However, even after purchase, most plays are still via Spotify, which does beg the question "so why buy the CDs in the first place". I have my reasons!

is it me or does no-one ever say what the royalty rates should (as specifically as possible) be for a service like this? does anyone actually know?

ve bought 52 new CDs this year, and all but a handful were trialled on Spotify before purchase

This too, actually--I've bought a heap of CDs since I got spotify, because of hearing them there

Have to say my CD/download purchasing has lessened as a direct result of Spotify and I'm spending less overall so there's no way that can be good for artists on average. I'm more likely to buy something if it's *not* on Spotify. That said, I've discovered a bunch of artists through Spotify that otherwise would have received £0.00 from me and now have my undying affection and occasional purchase.

i'm mostly using spotify the same way I used listening booths in record stores

I haven't bought a CD in years, but have completely transitioned to Spotify from illegal downloads.

I haven't bought a CD in years, but have completely transitioned to Spotify from illegal downloads.

i like to make hard-copy versions of some of my playlists, so i'll end up looking on itunes/amazon/boomkat for the mp3s if i don't already own the songs in some other format.

I wish you could search playlists on Spotify, like a playlist that has certain artists. I mean, when I search "goth" I get a lot of goth music I don't like.

It needs more Boolean operators for sure.

I wish you could browse by label

If you use the This Is My Jam app, you can click on songs and see all the people who've jammed that song (and thereby see a playlist of all the other songs they've jammed). Not quite the same, but good.

I wish you could browse by label

You can do this by entering "label:________" in the search field. It's not perfect.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/harveysidfasterspotifylol.jpg

Easy ROFLs are too be had. I'm not complaining too much, if you like dicking around with databases, it's fun.

I want a search based on song length.

While I'm working, I try to listen to a big mix so the next song surprises me enough to listen and keep me wondering what will come on next. That said, If the next song is eight minutes long and I don't like it, it's not fun anymore obviously.

I came up with this playlist of 26 songs all around 2:18 or so, which is 12 seconds short of an hour. Not every song on that list is a winner, but it doesn't ever drag on you either.

I'd like to make more lists like that. I'm also aware that there are 36 matches on the floor, 36 matches.

Do a search for every song that begins with the letter "T" in it and save all of the 2:18 ones. Repeat with every letter of the alphabet.

You can do this by entering "label:________" in the search field. It's not perfect.

I notice you can do this with genres as well. I know nothing of Boolean searches, so this is all new to me. Where do you find how stuff is catalogued by Spotify?

Here's their list of genres https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psnjFY3R2itsqjinSs9hkZw

Disappointed by the lack of coverage in "genre:yodeling". Only three albums!

the genres aren't so great. a bunch more yodeling albums come up (for instance) just searching for 'yodeling' than going thru genre

http://mashable.com/2012/10/05/spotify-revenues/
http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/spotify-revenue.jpg

Well they need to sack some people.

Uh oh, I have a job interview with these guys. Am I asking for trouble?

Tell them to fix their damn iOS app.

I have a whole list of things they could work on, although the specific job I'm going for may not be one that would have much say over such stuff

I hope you looked at their job listings... when you're not at work.

Worried I was slacking off?

I may be paraphrasing it wrong... seems like I hear their house ad "Why don't you come work for us? Check our website now... or maybe when you're not at work." (she says with a grin.) every five minutes.

Thank goodness I'm a subscriber and don't have to hear their terrible ads anymore.

Still, it's odd that they are making such a big hiring push when they are so deep in the hole. I hope that means they have a clear plan on how to turn the corner.

i think their (correct) plan is to be in the hole for four years until they have a generation that thinks of them as netflix for music, puts it on their credit card and forgets they're even paying anyone

already happened for me

I hope that works, but unlimited free play kind of makes that more difficult

I was doing that until I had to close my bank account for reasons that are TMI... Unlimited free play is nice but it means I have to hear those damn condom ads every 4 songs.

I just compiled the "Scorpio Rising" soundtrack -- apparently no one had done this yet!

http://open.spotify.com/user/1245064873/playlist/4Wz7H3L5x0xR9rnp9c4p0W

which site does everyone use for good/interesting playlists? there always seems to be hundreds.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

There's a lot of really bad playlists here (http://sharemyplaylists.com/), but you can find great big ones to at least filter some chaff out of.

guys if I am skipping through an album, are the Spotify + Facebook timelines spammed with EVERY SINGLE TRACK that I skip through?

it doesnt usually post every track. I think if you play 5 tracks from the same album it makes that post. (unless its changed today)

nothing from you has appeared to me fwiw

but i am fairly new to fb and dont really understand it fully