Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i may well be wrong on the per play point
but they're pointed about not sharing those stats

the thing I didn't know until that Times article is that Spotify pays a different royalty rate for whether the play was a free account or paid

it generally pays 0.5 to 0.7 cent a stream (or $5,000 to $7,000 per million plays) for its paid tier, and as much as 90 percent less for its free tier.

since only 25% of accounts are paid that seems like a huge percentage of plays that aren't worth shit really

also insane that the Gangnam Style youtube video has made $8 million

well they're worth something in that they're more likely to be converted into a paying user if spotify works well

Are free accounts still unrestricted in the US? When it switched to 10 hours/month (or whatever it is) in the UK, a lot of people jumped ship but I assume some proportion were incentivised to subscribe.

I had a free account and then it ran out of freeness so I got a paid one, I think you just get a few months or something

Really? I've had a free account for a while now. I guess I don't use it that much though.

Good article by a Galaxy 500 dude on what Spotify does (not) do for artists:

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8993-the-cloud/

Oh and to be clear I still don't care.

I still do not believe it is Spotify's problem. They are legally offering this music. If artists are upset they should be bringing it up with their labels.

you gotta feel for damon but at the same time it's hard to square this:

"As businesses, Pandora and Spotify are divorced from music. To me, it's a short logical step to observe that they are doing nothing for the business of music-- except undermining the simple cottage industry of pressing ideas onto vinyl, and selling them for more than they cost to manufacture. "

with this:

"In fact, I subscribe to Spotify for $9.99 a month (the equivalent of 680,462 annual plays of "Tugboat") because I love music, and the access it gives me to music of all kinds is incredible."

that's to say 'the business of music' includes the consumer side of things too

Not harshing on the artist (well I guess I am kinda) but he's not getting anything from the vinyl edition of the tugboat 7" since they first got sold way back when. I'm under the impression small vinyl runs still often sell out these days?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/27/spotify-the-social-network-arrives-begins-rolling-out-follow-features-to-users/

Rooting for Spotify, can't decide if I feel guilty about that or not.

had that follow tab for months

it told me to follow lana del rey. couldnt find a fuck off button.

i still don't have it

give me yours

months is an exaggeration but def a few weeks at least. I wouldnt say its a big deal tbh

I dont trust its recommendations one little bit either
http://i.imgur.com/us20Q6F.png

so you can have them markers!

skrillex is your favorite band

daniel ek knows you better than you know yourself

i was more upset about the xx and lana del rey

the last fm app is waaaaaaaaaay better

that seems like a company without a future but it's been here for a while and it's still around so

last.fm is great.

i just got this update. it says people are "following" me who haven't received the update. kinda strange.

the last fm app is waaaaaaaaaay better

no, the last.fm app on spotify is better at recommending than the new spotify feature

I got this today. Cheeky fuckers.

http://mikeatkinson.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/spotifyfail.gif

wow they know you so well!

I had no idea personal recommendations had been rolled out yet.

I just also subscribed to Mog. In large part bc they have the ECM catalog, which for me is no small deal.

Spotify doesn't seem to understand the whole point of recommendations is to introduce you to unfamiliar music you'd probably like based on what you listen to, not stuff that's all over the radio that you already know

if you've had spotify installed on your iphone since upgrading from iOS4 you might wanna uninstall it and reinstall again from the app store. have a feeling i'd been running the older version for iOS4 for ages when i could have had this slick new version!

They just released the Spotify app for my Samsung TV in the US, woo!

weirdly, for about a day this weekend, the whole pink floyd discography was available on spotify (the remasters)....now it's gone again....

but i listened to obscured by clouds on my phone you can't take that away from me

All still available on Mog.

Got the update today and now search seems helluva slow and clicking on artist link from search results doesn't do anything. Anyone else having problems?

Yeah search is bollocksed and the new interface is weird.

been slow for a while. Since I got my new laptop for xmas Spotify takes about 5 mins to load up too

I'm not in love with the new iPhone interface, I don't really like having the little play strip at the bottom of the screen come up by default instead of the full screen view and it seems like my playlist are taking much longer to load.

oh things are waaaaay faster for me, i have iphone 4. i did wipe the app and reinstall from scratch tho.

I haven't noticed any speed differences, but I do hate the new artist and album pages.

The stupid fucking app still just stops playing for some reason. I don't pay $10 a month to be a beta tester for spotify.

you've tried re-installing it? that fixed any glitches i've had. i usually have about 10gb synched offline and i've got about 1000 playlists; this is the first version of the app where it seems comfortable with that...

offline mode kinda useless when it randomly decides you need to log in again

The stupid fucking app still just stops playing for some reason. I don't pay $10 a month to be a beta tester for spotify.

― Jeff, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:48 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm sure you thought of this but if you share the subscription with someone else and they start to use it while you're already using it, it will cut you off

Yeah, we don't share, Carl and I have separate accounts.

Hate the new desktop version. Slower, bloatier (it blipped up to 790k yesterday), looks worse, and I've lost total playlist times and follower lists for my playlists.