Spotify - anyone heard of it?

radio is usually the same songs every 2 hours ime

I've been listening to the beats music app all day so far.
Impressions:
The recommendations thing seems to be pushing toward curated playlists. As far as I remember I've gotten:
The best of GZA, Intro to Ellen Allien, Warp Records: Essential Listening, Can Family (solo work from members of Can and related music)

The entire "describe your mood/atmosphere" feature hasn't done much for me yet, but it seems like they're working through some glitches at the moment. Weirdest thing so far is that I've found an album or two that's not supposed to be out for a while that's on there.

DETOX???!?!??!!

shhh

I think I'm cracking up. Convinced every song is playing just slightly too *fast* tonight. Wondering if it's a plot to increase advertising revenue by having it take less time to play a song.

iirc there were radio stations in the past who played songs a bit too fast, with the theory that it would sound subliminally "more exciting"

which in turn led to at least one group recording their songs slow, knowing it would be played on that station

i think maybe it was stiffed records who did this?? recorded everything slow in order for it to sound "right" on radio caroline or something?

that had to really fuck with people with perfect pitch

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Chipmunk_songbook.jpg

AL-VIN!!!!

ah documentation: my own post:

Robert Johnson....playin' too fast???

http://fifteenpercentfaster.tumblr.com/post/60849338910/welcome

dudes, somebody at my work rebooted spotify and everything has a sexy new look. like, really nice design. this was weeks ago. i'm stuck with same old spotify, at work and at home. wha happen?

sounds like they've been gradually rolling it out for a month or so -- still have the old version here

had the new version a few weeks now or more

oh over a month

Spotify - anyone heard of it?

http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/30/4-million-songs-on-spotify-have-never-been-played-ever-forgotify-is-about-to-change-that/

^ this sounds neat but it doesn't work for me :(

On the Media did a piece recently about a guy who records hundreds of (very basic) songs and puts them on Spotify. He makes a decent amount in streaming fees.

Also there's Pappa Razzi and the Photogs-- a guy singing idiotic songs about semi-famous people: "Bob Odenkirk, Everyone Loves You" "Ron Funches, You Are so Funny" "Zoe Saldana, I Respect You For Being Nice & Great" "Blair Underwood, You Are a Good Actor" etc.

I don't really like Spotify but Forgotify is really great

On the Media did a piece recently about a guy who records hundreds of (very basic) songs and puts them on Spotify. He makes a decent amount in streaming fees.

Also there's Pappa Razzi and the Photogs-- a guy singing idiotic songs about semi-famous people: "Bob Odenkirk, Everyone Loves You" "Ron Funches, You Are so Funny" "Zoe Saldana, I Respect You For Being Nice & Great" "Blair Underwood, You Are a Good Actor" etc.

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Man, Wesley Willis would have done great in this day and age. :(

I wonder how much money Chief Kooffreh makes off Spotify

He's finally rich I bet.

Posted in the digital music collection thread, but it's worth re-posting I think: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/04/pacemaker-dj-app-with-spotify/

does anyone know how forgotify works? is it really all tracks that have never been played before?

According to the Forgotify site, yes. Load up Forgotify, see what never-heard-before song it randomly chooses (Maybe it uses a search algorithm and Spotify play stats to determine what is never-played), admire the cover, then play it (or don't)

OK, I've been using this for half an hour and it is now playing a track that I am almost certain I myself have played before

Maybe it takes a while to update the play statistic?

Forgetify has also given me a Mary J. Blidge track once

forgotify is still pretty great, regardless of whether these are tracks that have literally been played by zero people or not, some really fantastic stuff that I never would have found myself.

it kind of reminds me of the Random Shopper thing in that regard

There was a website that would show you a random book on Amazon - it turns out that most of their stock is either erotic literature or print-on-demand hard copies of Wikipedia articles.

yeah, it was not the best way to stock my library

= karaoke versions and tracks from sound fx albums in the spotify equivalent

So far Forgotify has given me a bunch of great 1970s Middle Eastern pop, some Bollywood soundtracks, off-brand classical recordings and some random self-released earnest singer-songwriters. Every now and then it says the track it was about to play has now been played by someone, but would I like to hear it anyway.

So nobody cares about Pacemaker? I can't wait to check it out!

downloaded; it's kinda neat

The thing about getting a track on forgotify which it seems too strange that noone has played: Some albums are on Spotify twice over or more -- could be because of various editions, or availability in various markets, or due to simple error. It is conceivable that one instance of such an album gets all the plays (e.g. if there's a tagging error in the other one).

So nobody cares about Pacemaker? I can't wait to check it out!

messed around with it a little today, it doesn't do much pro DJ type shit if you're used to Traktor or whatever (I can't really figure out cueing or get it to auto-sync very good) but just to have a simple app to crossfade between two tracks off of Spotify is pretty great (especially for free)

Yeah, hopefully:
1. Pacemaker gets some improvements
2. Spotify opens up to other vendors (Traktor for example)

after some more playing around I figured out you can at least move the start cue but it's hard to put it right on a beat. without having a good starting point it seems impossible to get it to sync right, unless there's something I'm missing. like you hit "sync" and it just immediately starts playing the other track, they will be the same tempo but if you're just starting from some random spot it's not gonna match up right.

still, it's kind of a cool app, I do like it

funnily enough this will only work on iOS 7 and Traktor DJ will only work on iOS 6 haha

I grabbed Traktor DJ for iPad the day they had it up for free but I never used it.

if they integrated spotify with Traktor Pro for desktop that would be pretty killer.

er, not desktop ... laptop ... non-iPad. you know what I mean.

Before this, I figured that something in Spotify's contracts prevented them from allowing "performance" apps (like DJ software), but I guess not. Hopefully this is just the start.

the only restriction in Pacemaker is that you can record your set inside Pacemaker (mix and record at the same time) if you're using mp3's but if you use Spotify tracks the record button is disabled. supposedly because of some copyright thing.

Traktor works fine on iOS 7 iirc?

oh does it? I guess they updated. they sent out an email saying not to update to 7 and never said anything more about it. (I went ahead and upgraded since I really only use it on my laptop anyway.)

I mean, if it still didn't work this many months in, they'd be having some serious issues

Guys remind me is there still a way to see the total time of your playlists?

I see a tiny little figure in the top right of the playlist screen, above the switch for making "available offline"

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140223/22200926326/musicians-increasingly-realizing-that-streaming-services-are-actually-really-good-thing.shtml

Thanks for that article, interesting read. Sounds like the key is to lose a label that will suck most of the money before you see it (duh!) and get hugely popular in Scandinavia.

interesting read, sure, though i'm not sure two musicians writing pro-spotify articles means that musicians in general are "increasingly realizing" anything. it would have been just as easy to find two or three or twenty or thirty pro-spotify articles by musicians three or four years ago.