Spotify - anyone heard of it?

The latest iphone/ipod app update appears to have solved a problem I've had for a long time. My giant full library playlist had been taking 5 or more minutes to load up on my ipod touch. Now it's coming up and playing immediately. Yay!

a lot of 'you listened to pan sonic, check out ___' recommendations over here

This is probably the best suggestion for me this week:

"You listened to Felt this week. Like to try Dr. Octagon?"

Update to the iphone app changes the icon (again) and brings back ability to re-arrange track sequence in playlists.

Not seeing how to do that.

In a playlist, click the three periods on the upper right (...). Choose Edit. Then use the horizontal lines to the right of each song name to drag the track.

The Discovery feature is kind of neat, I guess. I don't understand why they couldn't add it and also keep What's New.

Oh yeah, thanks. Those lines do not appear on the Starred Playlist though.

http://i.imgur.com/CwaQVtY.jpg

posted this to the drake thread the other night, still smdh:

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/spotifyrecommend_zpsebf258e2.png

"Since you listened to Elton John, you might like this new release by Hans Zimmer."'

That release being the Lone Ranger soundtrack.

"You haven't listened to Jah Pretty Face by Culture for a while. Play now?"

Jesus Christ leave me alone! I haven't listened to it for a very good reason and besides it's only been a couple of f'ing weeks!

*listens to Jah Pretty Face*

*twice*

lol

if anybody needs the "New Releases on Spotify" playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

You listened to Oum Kalsoum. Here's the new album.

Since you listened to Washington Philips, you might like this new release by Shangri-Las.

yes no the.

Welp, I finally was inducted into the "try Depeche Mode" club. Since I listened to the Pretenders and the Beach Boys, they think an album I might like is Delta Machine.

"You listened to Blind Blake, here's a song you might like" ("Machine Gun" by the Peter Brotzmann Octet

^this is way fucked up at the same time as maybe being kinda OTM, in that maybe they've not just pegged me as some hopeless music nerd

lmaoooooo

"You listened to Ludovico Einaudi, you might like Piano Tribute Players - A Piano Tribute To The Fast & The Furious"

liveblog it!

Anyone for tennis?

http://i.imgur.com/iPzNBmY.png

my job recently blocked spotify :[

Dang.

my job recently blocked spotify :[

― Spectrum, Friday, July 12, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Quit your job, obvs.

on the bright side I can start forgetting about the existence of Advance Auto Parts

Things tend to take the shortest path to their destination; or the cheapest, as a certain organisation from a 5up3rp0w3r has taught us in recent times.

ADVANCE

AUTO PARTS

seestorefordetails

marcos and pplains otm

Someone needs to write a history of the particular style of chatty, "ironically brawny self aware narrator" or whatever the fuck it is the Ad-Vance Auto Parts people are rocking. I think of it in a lineage going back to the equally annoying "real american hero" Budweiser commercials but somewhere along the line I feel like it became 90% of all radio ads.

Oh and then after they've written the history they can use it as a reference text to track down and kill everyone involved. AD VANCE! AUTO PARTS!

advance auto parts has NOTHING on maybelline
that is why i changed my gender on spotify!

pay up you stingy fuckers!

advance auto parts has NOTHING on maybelline
that is why i changed my gender on spotify!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, July 12, 2013 3:05 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha this is something I hadn't considered even though it makes perfect sense

oh that's a cheap shot, commercials by gender.

I would say the roots of the brawny narrator extend to Tommy Lee Jones as Red Dog, James Garner for Kodak and somehow, even though he ain't brawny, Tom Bodette for Motel 6.

bring back john maus

we never knew how good we had it in summer 2011

Spotify recommendations are kind of winning me over, ranging from the obvious such as

You listend to Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers and Jonathan Richman. Check out John Cale.

to the actually useful

You listened to Wire. Want to see a gig near you?

to the obvious cherry-pickable bizarre:

Since you listened to Os Mutantes you might like this new release by Anita O'Day.

You listened to Jimmie Rodgers . Here's an album you might like.
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/80715603/The+Best+Of+Johnny+Mercer.jpg

If it had mentioned Chemirocha I would have gotten scared.

They should have enough data to do recommendations properly, just feel it's more of a UI issue - if they presented them better or controlled the plague of idiotic "here's the new album from Serge Gainsbourg" recs I might actually enjoy exploring them.

this stuff is just short of inane at best, genuinely annoying at worst

I've found it kind of useful. Discovered Capital Cities, which I have enjoyed.

In principle a recommender could be great - I want to hear new stuff!

yeah. so hard to do it right though.

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

"Galaxie 500's 'Tugboat' was played 7,800 times on Pandora in the first quarter of 2012, for which its three songwriters were paid a collective total of 21 cents, or seven cents each."

"Spotify pays better: For the 5,960 times "Tugboat" was played there, Galaxie 500's songwriters went collectively into triple digits: $1.05 (35 cents each)."

I think this speaks for itself. Spotify should be used as a way to discover music, not support it.

That's exactly why you should go to the gigs they recommend.

im curious how many downloads on iTunes or whatever (or even CD sales) they'd need to get to the same number?

thought this might be revived to talk about Radiohead pulling their music from spotify.