Spotify - anyone heard of it?

where's all the fuckin music

i consider their lack of joanna newsom a feature

Likewise

lack of drag city is a drag though

apparently they used to have all of tzadik sometime before they opened in the US

who

not enough cattle decapitation

Yeah I remember when they had Tzadik, don't think they ever had the full catalogue though.

Is there to download Spotify version 0.6.0 for iPhone? Goole don't help.

a way

and neither does Google

sucks about drag city but i really don't blame any indie label for not doing spotify

Agree with that. Obviously it's in my interest for as many labels as possible to play along but I completely respect any label that decides that being on Spotify is not in their interests.

I buy vinyl of new stuff I hear on spotify. I haven't heard any new drag city artists as a result. So please, Drag City, think of the tens of album sales you could net from joining spotify.

i'm more pissed about drag city not including downloads with vinyl than i am about them not being on spotify

yeah that's a real bummer

Download codes are annoying too. I'd prefer a system where they let you listen to the albums on spotify after you bought a physical copy.

that's a good idea

Download codes are annoying too. I'd prefer a system where they let you listen to the albums on spotify after you bought a physical copy.

― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, April 1, 2013 12:47 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao @ ppl downloading mp3s IS SO HARD WHY GOD WHY??

hey I don't want all those mp3s taking up space in my living room

i just took a couple boxes of mp3s to the salvation army

Could always sell the mp3s on the second hand market via ebay

works for Amoeba Music

if i can't play it on guitar hero it's not real

I want to shazzam an audible code unique to my physical copy of the album that releases all digital content, ie the album should appear on my shelf in Animal Crossing a moment later

KK's Moombahton

Can I ask you guys that don't have cds and records etc what you use to play digital dl and streaming on? Not just your computer with headphones right? I do a lot of listening like that, via my laptop - usually late at night but if I can I'll pump cds and records from my separates system but the sound is 20 times better.

Can anyone recommend a speaker set I can plug straight into my laptop - or is there more to it than that?

― kraudive, Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Powered monitors out of the headphone jack are the best compromise I've come up with so far. Sound pretty good. You could also get some kind of usb interface and then run it out through your stereo.

KRK Rokit 5's, fwiw. I do pay for the "premium" spotify so I get allegedly better sound quality. For some reason, I notice the inferiority of Spotify sound the most on very old recordings, as though it "flattens" them and accentuates certain flaws. Not sure why.

I play digital music off of my computer. Office is next to living room and the speakers are decent enough that it sounds fine to my non-audiophile ears. For kitchen I stream to a little Bluetooth speaker. I wish I had a better one of those.

For kitchen I stream to a little Bluetooth speaker.

I should do this -- never thought about it before.

You could also get some kind of usb interface and then run it out through your stereo.

You don't need a USB interface, just a cord you can plug into the headphone jack that has RCA left/right plugs on the other end.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the Soundmatters foxlv2 bluetooth speaker, seems to be the best sound in a little package that also supports apt-x.

You don't need a USB interface

Didn't he say that at the beginning of that paragraph you quote, Tim?

You don't need a USB interface, just a cord you can plug into the headphone jack that has RCA left/right plugs on the other end.

― timellison, Monday, April 1, 2013 5:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's true, in fact I use 1/8" to RCA with a splitter. But I had always thought you get better sound through an interface than you do through the headphone outs? Maybe that's not true anymore.

this is supposed to be awesome

http://www.audioquest.com/usb_digital_analog_converter/dragonfly-dac

new version is v ugly imo

Didn't he say that at the beginning of that paragraph you quote, Tim?

He was talking about running some powered speakers out of the headphone jack, but you can also just plug your computer straight into one of the channels on your stereo using the kind of cord I was describing.

Oh yeah, sure. Sorry for indulging in Beef by Proxy.

so...is this borked again for everyone or is it just me?

Working just fine for me on both the home and work pcs.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the Soundmatters foxlv2 bluetooth speaker, seems to be the best sound in a little package that also supports apt-x.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, April 1, 2013 5:23 PM (3 days ago)

borrowed this advice while doing some retail therapy. it came in today and boy does it sound AMAZING so thanks for the recc

MOG, btw, seems to have none of the licensing issues Spotify has. All these albums that are missing tracks on Spotify have no issues on MOG.

I left mog bc the iPhone app was terrible. This was at least a year ago. Maybe it's better now. Also, can you share playlists on mog now?

No, the social aspects suck. Or, I guess you can share them on Facebook and Twitter, but it's nothing like Spotify.

But the app is solid as a rock. And the catalogue is definitely better.

borrowed this advice while doing some retail therapy. it came in today and boy does it sound AMAZING so thanks for the recc

Woohoo, good on yer Mordy! I'm off to place my order, thanks for confirming my research!

Here's a question for all of you:

What Spotify apps do you recommend? There are some that look interesting but don't want to risk giving more of my info to third parties than I already do. Is SoundTracking any good?

I like Swarm.fm.

got onto MOG since it you can run it in-browser in chrome os, it's p dope although i prefer browsing in spotify (use it at work)

if you're having probs with spotify taking ages to load and being a bit shit turn all the crap off in preferences, except for enable hardware accelleration i guess, made a huge improvement here

what stuff did you turn off?