Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

You should contact them and find out. I'm sure that's a question a lot of people have.

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.

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

if it's turning people on to elmo hope, it's doing SOME good

Ha, I just found my old band on there too.

Spotify should be paying you if you get stuck with those on a playlist.

$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.

Poor people. Fuck em.

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!

Just added text files to that folder Johnny Fever posted (and made them read only). We'll see what happens.

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.

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

They could put that stuff in the album title. It annoys me too.

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

Just added text files to that folder Johnny Fever posted (and made them read only). We'll see what happens.

I think I did the fix about a week ago now and I haven't had any problems with it at all.

text files with nothing in 'em except for the filename, right?

Yeah, they're just blank text files, but save them with the file extensions shown above.

They could put that stuff in the album title

Exactly.

this updated version is constantly crashing on my ubuntu machine grr

yeah, ditto. although it was never tooooo stable anyway.

This app is reversed-engineered using alien technology

"Like to install the latest version of Spotify?" Haha, Fever, you rock.

I was able to create read-only files. I am a computer genius.

I updated the client on my pc last night so I could build out a playlist based on the 70s poll results. Wow, I had some frustrating problems, especially with opening albums from the spotify URLs in the 70s thread. The client crashed or lost its connection a bunch of times. I finally gave up on using the links and just started looking up the albums in the spotify search bar and that worked a lot better.

They need a way to copy and paste a url directly into the client or better yet, have some kind of playlist url mass entry box where you can copy and paste a whole list of urls and generate a playlist from them.

Another annoying thing: when you click a spotify URL it opens up a browser window with links to your music and related music. If you click the background/border of the spotify browser tab, it opens up a really terrible generic house album. Since I was clicking back and forth between my browser and the spotify client a lot last night, I accidently clicked on the browser border about a million times, so I kept getting this same terrible house music, which really spoiled my 70s hard rock vibe.

I think I can help you there moodles from now on (thanks for doing the playlist!)

thanks, I should be able to crank through the rest of the list either tonight or tomorrow morning

cool. you just put that other link in search bar and it will take you right there (unless its not in your country so you need to search your own version)

ah, didn't realize you could plug urls into spotify search

the spotify: ones yes you can not http ones

gotcha

oh man the Blue Note app. see you in a few hours after I finish messing with the "Blue Break Beats" section.

Understand that is the only way to locate yr Denny Vertigo albums.

I thought those were only available on MOG.

can anyone tell me how i can stop spotify of starting automatically after turning on my windows xp computer?

go to spotify preferences (edit > preferences)

way down the list, you'll see "open Spotify automatically after you log into the computer"

set it to "don't open automatically"

thanks!

I've always heard of Spotify ever since it started, but is it really that good? I've yet to try it, but I've heard it has ads in the middle of a song, unless you pay to remove them. Is this true?

If this is so, I'd much rather stick to 8tracks, even though Spotify seems to have more variety, people on board and, thus, a higher potential to discover new music.

The free version has ads in between every few songs, not in the middle of songs. The pay version doesn't have ads. It gives you access to a huge library of music. The premium version allows you to download up to 3333 tracks on a single mobile device, 10000 across 3 devices.

and they have higher bitrates if you pay £10 a month

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm sold. I will create an account right now.

At one point it had ads in between songs that were like 15 minutes or longer, but that doesn't happen anymore.

Have any of you tried the iPhone app? Thoughts?

It works really well if you have premium. I currently don't have premium so I can't use it. You get a 48 hour free trial of Spotify mobile when you start a free account.

I played around with it for that 48 hour window and it was much better than say, Pandora... obv cause you can choose exactly what you want to listen to.

App is frustrating as hell. Buggy.

My user is 573v3n on there. Please feel free to add me, guys!