Spotify - anyone heard of it?

mmhh youtube soul wormhole

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/3h431t462O461y081N3K/Screen%20Shot%202018-03-22%20at%2021.40.58.png

everything else on my computer works fine

This is the correct florid techno visualisation.

spotify is a bit different than most other things on your computer though

It runs so faster on my work computer (ssd, i7)

so much faster

it might have more to do with your network connection on that computer, though

Ah yeah you're probably right

it does seem to have got slower

How do I keep The Chaimsmokers from always coming up on My Release Radar?

lol at the idea of an all-Jew Chainsmokers tribute band

“Lover Man”, oh where can you be? In my Release Radar Playlist!

Chainsmokers on my Release Radar, too. And David Guetta.

ouch

In addition to the Chainsmokers (again), I also had "The Temptations" coving Sam Smith this morning.

can I deactivate the ?si=YLlbiLPJRx2yiGRXbGCYFA string that's attached to all links I copy from Spotify? I'm guessing they're used for data analysis but I like my links clean...

IPO today

Good luck, Glenn!

Weird non-IPO IPO is sort of interesting:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotifys-un-ipo-everything-need-know-132349447.html

Damn, guess they were waiting for Drag City before they IPO'd.

stock will take a beating after investors learn that they still can't listen to "halfway to a threeway"

lol

why does spotify think i like the chainsmokers? i don't get it? *orders market sell of 10,000 shares*

So basically their net loss grows faster than their revenue? Pass.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518063434/d494294df1.htm#rom494294_12

Spotify started trading on the New York Stock Exchange moments ago. And, after a few hours of behind-the-scenes buying and selling, its official debut public price has been revealed – $166 per share, resulting in a market cap worth approximately $29.6bn.

The news comes after months of speculation regarding Spotify’s official valuation, with analysts recently reporting that private trades of the company put its worth anywhere between $18bn and $44bn.

Spotify’s valuation stood at just $8bn as recently as May 2015, according to reports in the financial press at the time – meaning that this figure has more than trebled in less than three years.

Experts have warned, however, that some price volatility is expected in the wake of Spotify’s unusual ‘direct listing’ approach to flotation.

http://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2018/04/IMG_0920.jpg

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/official-spotify-is-worth-as-it-begins-trading-on-new-york-stock-exchange/

Short term trading aside, this looks designed to be a nightmare as an investment on both the long and the short side, given that Spotify’s profitability is pretty much completely dependent on the royalty rates that the majors charge and the music they make available, and they won’t like it if too much cash leaks out to investors as buybacks/dividend.

So low rates now, big rise in profitability/users, stock goes up, majors offload their holdings, and then raise rates. Too many sceptic hedge funds on the short side? Just keep rates low for a while, wipe them out first, then do the above.

But wtf do i know, good luck to everyone involved.

I thought this was a good explanation of the weird IPO strategy

https://www.recode.net/2018/4/2/17189624/spotify-daniel-ek-ipo-silicon-valley-wall-street-relationship

spotify is telling me nirvana is having a concert in my area in june. i'm confused.

It's the official reunion tour with Geddy Lee on lead vox

Or at least I hope it is

Latest version on Windows 10 seems to have all sorts of stupid problems. Often suddenly unable to drag or even select tracks in playlists, green play button on releases stops working, even little things like the 'About Spotify' link under the recently introduced 'three dots' catch-all menu (also bad) just bringing up nothing.

My Discover Weekly was so so, but it did make me discover the song Seabird by Alessi Brothers.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 11:13 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 Alessi Brothers

So suddenly my friend feed doesn’t work. Does Anyone know how to fix it? I’ve tried toggling the show right sidebar button, but to no avail.

re: Friend Activity

same problem on Windows 10, happened about a week go. Seems to be a growing common problem as reported by others via the spotify community:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/desktop_windows/thread-id/52157/page/3

Just logged in and it's now resolved ! so hopefully things will be back to normal.

lovin that seabird, we might have a thread for DW faves

https://i.imgur.com/D6aWoYv.jpg

please please please make the label/copyright info at the bottom of an album a clickable link that works like Search by Label

^^

Yes, that would be awesome, but it won't exist or be awesome for a while, because the label data we get is currently just tragically inconsistent freeform text...

Artwork (C) Robert Wyatt
This compilation (P) 1999 Robert Wyatt, under exclusive licence to Domino Recording Co. Ltd. Manufactured and market by EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd under exclusive licence.

Yeah ok a simple regular expression isn't going to cut it.

In other complaints news why is the app on my phone automatically playing, on someone else's remote device (!), and not taking pause/listen on this phone for an answer?

i suspect this is a typo?

“We know it’s the only way we’re going to achieve our goal of getting billions of fans” on the service, said Gustav Soderstrom, chief R&B officer.

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/spotify-announces-dramatic-upgrade-to-free-service-which-it-says-will-increase-paying-subscribers-1202784478/

"unlike radio, we actually share the revenue with artists and users.”

ummmmm

would help if that article actually had any information in it

Oh wow, chief R&B officer is awesome.

Disappointing that there's no mention of lossless audio, would be nice if they threw a bone to paid subscribers.

"unlike radio, we actually share the revenue with artists and users.”

in the US, terrestrial radio play pays performance royalties to songwriters, but they're exempt from paying artists or labels for master recordings.

who is Chief Pet Calming Officer can i be that

careful what you wish for

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/24/weve-got-more-money-swirling-around-how-streaming-saved-the-music-industry

it quickly emerged that what they were willing to pay artists was a couple of thousandths of a penny for each stream. There is a big debate over exactly how many thousandths – the latest survey by Digital Music News suggests that Apple Music pays $0.00783 and Spotify pays $0.00397.

Apparently 400-800 is 'a couple'.

This article raises more questions than it answers, and it seems to state a lot of interesting sounding things but doesn't really substantiates anything. On one hand it claims that Acts with global appeal obviously perform much better than those who are only popular in one country, which means region-specific sounds can lose out. , but also Now, Afrobeat, Danish rap, hundreds of genres of niche electronic music and particularly British urban music are flourishing commercially.