Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Yup, I was hoping to hear the "Sugarplum Fairy" version of "A Day In Life."

the weirdo xmas fanclub collages woulda been cool today but they were never commercially released in any form so i wouldn't expect that out of nowhere.

It's insane they haven't released those.

counterpoint: streaming does suck actually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The artist bio for the Beatles is pretty wonderful at the moment. I hope people are taking screen shots. Apparently Mark Ronson is a big fan of their chart-topping sin-gles. Tom Petty liked them too.

I'll never forget the time when Skrillex said, "The Beatles sin-gles, and this is irrefutably true, invented everything I take for granted."

Lol.

Kevin Howlett, I'm glad you were chosen to introduce the world to the Beat-les on this moment-ous occasion.

I think we can all agree with Kevin Howlett that Tom Petty summed the Beatles up best, "We grew up with the Beatles and grew up trusting them. They could have chosen to do anything, and they chose to do good, which is a great example for the rest of us." I'm going to spend Christmas eve thinking about those words, and I hope you will too.

marianas trench deep

B-b-but what did Bobby Gillespie say about them?

"The six new songs in the film and the number one 'Hello, Goodbye' completed a momen-tous year of recording. Three more tracks from 1967 remained unreleased until they were heard in the movie Yellow Submarine premiered in 1968. The film's imaginative animation evoked the 'psychedelic' spirit of Sgt. Pepper to reveal the triumph of Love over Evil."

It's like you're in an office thinking, "who should write about the Beatles to introduce them to the huge new Spotify audience on this momentous occasion when the biggest band in the history of rock and roll makes their catalog available for streaming?" Greil Marcus. Nah, he'd just go on about the Futurist Manifesto. Thomas Pynchon? Nah, he'd never write liner notes. Hey wait, what about Kevin Howlett!

Ha exactly. I was considering posting "Who wrote that? Mark Lewisohn? Richie Unterberger?"

"Perfect 10s

Did you know that 6 Beatles albums scored 10s at Pitchfork?

Now you can hear why on Spotify"

anyway, 1 YKMN play here, what a jam

so uh for christmas I bought a year's worth of spotify for my mother and (according to her, on the phone, this may well be inaccurate) it's telling her that it expires tomorrow, anyone experienced this?

I haven't heard any reports of that, but customer support can fix it, whatever the issue...

fair enough, will check if it ends up turning into a pumpkin tomorrow

I hear you couldn't find Spotify anywhere after Y2K hit.

I've listened to "You Know My Name" 3 times in the past few days but it wasn't enough to help it into the Top 10.

Here are the top 10 Beatles tracks on Spotify, according to global data:

1. "Come Together"
2. "Let It Be"
3. "Hey Jude"
4. "Love Me Do"
5. "Yesterday"
6. "Here Comes the Sun"
7. "Help!"
8. "All You Need Is Love"
9. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
10. "Twist and Shout"

We blew it on You Know My Name. Moving on, I'm writing customer support to see if they can find a fourteen year old girl who might be able to write a better essay about the Beatles. I hear they can fix any issue...

xps glenn how long did it ~ take for songs to go live on spotify after publishing on onerpm?

any reason why come together would be #1? i would not have expected it to be in the top 10 nevermind winning. those other 9 are exactly what id expect in there but with strawberry fields instead of come together

Dunno why but I always felt "Come Together" had a life of its own, like I knew it long before I knew it was a Beatles song...

I generally end up submitting things to OneRPM on Sunday nights for Friday "release", and they tend to show up in Spotify's internal catalog by Wednesday. They officially say it takes a few weeks, though.

Cool! For some reason I'm p psyched to see my music on Spotify

There is a Come Together playlist that Spotify has as their first playlist under browsing to The Beatles, and the first song is... Come Together.

cracker dude is going off

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6828092/spotify-class-action-royalties-david-lowery-cracker-150-million

lol was looking for add the queue function for like 5 mins before realizing it's now called Add to Up Next. People having a hard time with the word queue?

Well I was wondering why Spotify kept asking me "what?" in Spanish.

Have I ever told you about my buddy who refused to pronounce the word genre as anything but gen-AIR? Have you noticed that the 10th most-listened-to Beatles song is the song they did in Ferris Bueller?

I'm not sure why Come Together is the most listened to Beatles song, but I do remember around 5 years ago it was also the most listened to Beatles song on Last.Fm as well.

people searching for the Aerosmith version

really happy to discover that the ios app has gotten smart about background download management by freeing up space when you remove downloads, something it didn't do in the past.

I un-downgraded and got the latest version of the desktop client and it seems like most of what was wrong before has been righted. Pleased.

Does it give you full playlist running times, or does it still round them off to the nearest hour?

Does the local library work?

It gives playlist lengths in hours and minutes on the Mac desktop app xp

Yeah, it's showing the full playlist running time in PC desktop as well.

I never use the local library feature, so I can't answer Mordy's question.

I might have to sack it, its stopped working on the touchpad and the palm pre 3.

It's the same account, but there's definitely a big chunk of activity that doesn't seem to be reflected. I know that Facebook tracks my spotify activity but never shows anything I played on the roku, which is why I thought it wasn't tracked here either

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, December 8, 2015 2:27 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I just set up spotify on my amazon fire tv and was able to start music on my iphone and change playback device to my tv, but it didn't scrobble. When I went to my app settings on my phone to see if I had logged out accidentally or something, the playback, social and streaming quality options are greyed out and it says "these options are not available when listening on another device". I'm pretty bummed, I am pretty obsessed w scrobbling everything I listen to, I don't want to give that up when listening on the tv :(

― musically, Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:01 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okay so i know you all have been deeply concerned with how this was going to get resolved...well, I actually figured something out. Using Spotify Connect to play your music on TV won't scrobble your plays, but using AirPlay will still allow you to scrobble while listening via another device. I paid 99c for the Airbuddy app for my Amazon Fire TV stick, and now my tv shows up as another device just like a bluetooth headset or w/e on my iphone. It shows what's playing on the screen and everything. And unlike Spotify Connect I don't need to be logged into the app on the TV to send something to the TV, Airbuddy always shows up as a device regardless of what I'm doing/watching on TV. Anyway, if this is something you cared about a little bit, it's not a bad way to spend 99c.

FWIW I've been listening to the Beatles catalog on Spotify and I think it sounds quite good! (I use the "extreme" quality setting).

this 3,333 saved song limit per device thing is shitting me to tears. a handful of playlists and a few dozen albums and it caps out. as long as it's like this it can't ever be my only music player.

because of this crap i need to complement/replace spotify with some other service but all the apps ON IPHONE are deficient in some way (apple music is still a broken mess, google play music still doesn't have an equaliser, groove is basic and won't let you scrub through songs). really not sure what to do at this point.

Deezer?

deezer is looking shaky these days business wise - not sure i'd invest personal admin time in their infrastructure

I may be mistaken but I'm getting the impression that apple music is fine now as long as you just forget about using itunes to try putting your own music into your phone? Keep it to streaming only and it'll work fine? Idk though - I've actively tried to avoid using apple music but I'm finding that they almost always have the new songs that I can't find in spotify or google play, so I'm currently debating whether or not they deserve a second chance.

siegbran: cheers for the deezer tip. i've just started the free trial (and am mindful of tracer's warning). clunky interface and terrible search, but the selection is good and the equaliser customisation is a nice surprise. i'll at least stick with it for the trial.

longneck: the putting-my-music-in-my-phone part is critical. if i sign back on with apple music now, whether i get to keep my music on there will depend on what mood icloud music library is in that day. google music seems to be the most solid and flexible of all of them, but no equaliser in ios is a deal breaker, and youtube red is still not available in australia (so i wouldn't be getting full value).

i cannot fathom why spotify limits offline music, unless it's got itself tied up in dumb contracts that specify that. really really stupid limitation. i wouldn't even be looking at alternatives if not for this.

I prefer Google Music myself and am not too bothered about the lack of equalizer (it would be great though). I'm also thinking that buying the individual songs lacking in google play though iTunes and uploading them to google play is probably cheaper than sticking w apple music, sigh. I've just now started to use spotify too and must confess that i like it a lot - it's pretty tidy whereas google play is an endearing mess. And their playlist function is obv the best. I just wish they'd have the extra songs that apple has and/or the upload function of google play. Sigh.

yeah, spotify's ui and playlists are lovely. gpm's ui felt fine when i was trialling it, probably just a bit vanilla if anything.

Integrating your own music library is pretty terrible everywhere, even with Apple who you'd think would be best placed to pull it off, with iTunes being a very powerful local library manager & all. Plex is pretty awesome for streaming your own stuff everywhere, but their sync-to-device is needlessly complex, unreliable and slow. But least there's steady improvement in the right direction there, all the other platforms (Apple, Deezer, Spotify, Groove, Google) are steadily pushing users further into their cloud. Reliable sync-over-WiFi of local music seems an afterthought to everyone.

tbh i'm not all that's fussed about seamless integration. i'd be happy to just stream (save) 98% of what i want to hear and have the other 2% sat on my phone and playable offline through a sound equaliser. gpm was pretty reliable in just letting me dump a load of albums in its cloud and download them to my phone (and keep them there without trying to change them or match them to anything).

spotify would let me upload some stuff but there's that save limit again.