I searched for this, but couldn't find any results that made sense: how do you create those files on a Mac?
― pplains, Saturday, 16 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
after i updated instead of having my facebook friends show up on my activity feed, it is now populated exclusively by a dutch guy into barbara streisand and some lady from detroit
― Spectrum, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
la bateau ivre?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 17 March 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
another shitty thing: the space bar - the universal play/pause button in all music programs including spotify up until last week - now activates some "post track to feed" thing
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 18 March 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
what the update improved is that when you press play the shit actually tends to work consistently nowwhat the update botched is most everything else
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 March 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Those files are just blank text files named accordingly. Easy to do on pc, and presumably just as easy on a Mac?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 March 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Five play limit removed for free UK users
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9940432/Spotify-removes-five-play-song-cap.html
― Habemus opiniones pro vobis (onimo), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Free at last!
― Everybody wants a piece of the (Viceroy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
The commercials on Spotify are a deal-breaker for me -- when i stream, i use grooveshark.
― suspecterrain, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
That's because you're using the free version.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
I prefer Grooveshark too, except it's not as reliable on the streaming and you're not guaranteed that every song you line up will play.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe grooveshark hasn't been shut down yet by the riaa
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Rdio is good.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
I realize it's splitting hairs here, but Grooveshark is a completely rogue operation while Rdio/Spotify/MOG/etc are at least throwing a pittance back at the artists whose recordings they stream.
I signed up for Rdio, but immediately found they had only about 10 of the first 20 things I looked for and cancelled my membership.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't had any major problems with the Spotify update or the UI changes.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
It's not splitting hairs e.g. Grooveshark. The only thing missing from that site are speedometer.gifs with little bouncing needles and a Gamesheep banner ad.
I still use it though.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
I just upgraded from the basic Nook to the color HD Nook (basically so I can read illegally DL'ed comix on it) and hilariously enough the Nook 'app store' offers Grooveshark alongside Spotify, something Apple refused to do...
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
the major label artists who are on spotify are getting fucked probably either way and likely don't have a say, unless they are like pink floyd or someone like that
but indie labels can opt in or out of spotify based on whether they think the exposure/etc is worth the low royalty rates...grooveshark does not grant them that option
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Spotify has been working a lot better for me, its not freezing up or stalling and the search seems to be better too.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I've been perfectly happy the last few days with my rigged older version that prevents the update. When they work out all the kinks and maybe fix the UI, I'll upgrade again.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Neither service is worth paying for, IMO
― suspecterrain, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
if spotify was the blue note app alone it would be worth the cost of two cups of coffee a month for a subscription, throw in everything else and it's pretty easily worth paying for unless you're destitute or something.
― balls, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i can't even fathom how could can say it's not worth $10 or $5 a month
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
_That's because you're using the free version._Neither service is worth paying for, IMO
$10/mo is nothing. If you can't afford it, you can spend $5/mo for ad-free streaming. If you can't afford that, you're a loser.
At the moment, I'm also subscribing to MOG because I really want to ECM catalogue as well. So that's $20/mo, which is--gasp--$240/year total. Which probably equals a couple of months of what I used to spend in a pre-P2P era.
When you consider that you are getting instant access to virtually every record you ever wanted, have some principled stance against the idea of subscription services because they pay so little to artists (a fair criticism), or don't buy $120 worth of music per year, it's a no brainer, really.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
Er, that's supposed to read:
UNLESS you have some principled stance...
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 21 March 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
Otm. Try to put back some of what I don't spend by going to gigs, where I may even buy a CD directly from the artist.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
It's worth the money for having no annoying ads and the usage of the mobile app, which has changed my listening habits more than pretty much anything else ever, it's amazing.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard to argue that the ability to download 10,000 songs of your choice to 3 mobile devices isn't worth $10 a month
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
wau @ the blue note app
wau
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
just listened to a whole album by this guy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Hope
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Love that guy. First heard his record way back in Paris at La Paillote on Rue Monsieur-le-Prince then decades later saw his widow Bertha Hope, who latter married one of the jazz Bookers - Booker Little or Booker Ervin I can't remember, don't think Walter Booker- perform once at one of those little restaurant jazz gigs I like to go to before they finally shuts down first the jazz and then the restaurant.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Of course in the future we won't have any more of these kind of stories, it will all be more like - "I first heard that song when I finally successfully upgraded after they fixed the bug in the search engine and the scrolling unfroze."
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
Also, meant to type last night that I recently got a mass mailing from a friend saying he just finished recording his latest album. Yesterday I checked it out on Spotify after which I sent him an email to tell him that I liked it, upon which he immediately replied to ask where I had heard it. An hour or two later he sent out an email about his tour to support his new recording, now available at iTunes, CDBaby and streaming on Spotify. Meanwhile as I was talking to another guy about this and pointed to a third guy saying "you know he took his record off Spotify" to which the second guy replied "I told them to take mine off too" and then of course he admitted, like Damon Krukowski before him, that he used the service himself to listen to stuff. Not sure what my point is exactly, just trying to anecdotally limn the mixed-up, shook-up digital world that we live in.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
That brings up back to the ownership vs. access culture regarding media. I'm fine with having access the rest of my life, because I've owned too many albums in my life and getting rid of them is a hassle and they take up space and I'd rather dedicate my time to buying other things when I can just access music new and old like I do cable television or movies on Netflix or any other monthly expense. I'm sorry the streaming model seems like a ripoff so far, but I'm prioritizing ME and my wants.
So selfish.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still not really clear how an album I recorded in the 90s ended up on Spotify and who gets paid when it gets played.
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
You should contact them and find out. I'm sure that's a question a lot of people have.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to find out just for curiousity's sake. I like that it is available and I'm positive no one is actually profiting off of it.
― Moodles, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
my band's old stuff that's on spotify is the stuff that we sold through cdbaby, so i guess cdbaby and spotify have a connection, either directly or indirectly
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
if it's turning people on to elmo hope, it's doing SOME good
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I just found my old band on there too.
Spotify should be paying you if you get stuck with those on a playlist.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
Poor people. Fuck em.
― Habemus opiniones pro vobis (onimo), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no!
http://i.imgur.com/Ynor9k8.png
I feel like I'm on the bus in Speed. I can't ever turn the ignition off again!
― pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Just added text files to that folder Johnny Fever posted (and made them read only). We'll see what happens.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Spotify, how about fucking off with putting '2009 Digital Remaster' after every Kraftwerk track title. We don't need to know and it messes up my last.fm page.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'm *glad* they do that because they often offer different masterings of the same album, and frankly that's my favorite thing about spotify considering how many fucked up remasters there are out there
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
They could put that stuff in the album title. It annoys me too.
― aztec table rapper (seandalai), Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
working a bit better today so far
yeah i mean ethics and all aside
the blue note app for spotify is just about one of the most amazing things ever done in music IMO
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think I did the fix about a week ago now and I haven't had any problems with it at all.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
text files with nothing in 'em except for the filename, right?
― pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they're just blank text files, but save them with the file extensions shown above.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link