Spotify - A world of music.

[Righ]

No, just to sign up. 

[Tale]

Yes, you only need a UK proxy to sign up. The app itself doesn't care where you are. Except when you've been using it from a non-UK IP address for weeks, when it says "hey, holidaying British person, go home!". Eventually it decides your holiday is too long and cuts you off. Then you register again!

[schild]

Oh, really?

anyone want to send an invite to schild AT gmail.com? Heh.

[schild]

Nevermind. Just signed up. This shit is amazing as everyone says. It will NEVER be released in America.

[Tale]

As far as I can tell, it's the same massive "combined participating record companies" database of music as the old Yahoo! Music (Launchcast). And that was released in America.

But Yahoo! Music streamed randomly selected tracks at you, based on your taste preferences. Spotify puts you in control, allowing you to play what you want, when you want.

They both lack similar things from artists or labels that heavily policed their online availability, such as Metallica.

[schild]

allowing you to play what you want, when you want.

When people say phrases like this, I twitch.

[Tale]

allowing you to play what you want, when you want.

When people say phrases like this, I twitch.

Let me leverage my existing resources to ramp up production going forward.

[Tale]

http://open.spotify.com/track/2X9gApcguimlVTPqxIE19Y

That's awesome, it sounds brand new, not 30 years old.

[K9]

http://open.spotify.com/track/4kuNFpoQFcpjvakQR8TsXO

http://open.spotify.com/track/39WMOeMuNxiklFxMv1YcQh

Both of these and many more; this is a really good platform for finding new music.

[Tale]

Hey Schild,

Here is a 10-song playlist I made called The 1990s Not Sucking.

Tale.

(edit - made one change, removed Sonic Youth's 'Kool Thing' and replaced with The Breeders 'Cannonball' - broader appeal, also great)

[schild]

10 Songs does not an argument make. Will have to check these links later from my mac.

[K9]

Hey Schild,

Here is a 10-song playlist I made called The 1990s Not Sucking.

Tale.

Needs moar Chumbawumba

[Jherad]

http://open.spotify.com/user/jherad/playlist/4QWDSIueM6l80sBAr4MH0W

The 90s very much sucking 

[K9]

Hey! Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre is a motherfucking classic.

About 50% of that playlist made em very happy, the other 50% made me very sad.  

edit: No 'Return of the Mack'? pfff

[Jherad]

Heheh, keeping it to 10 was haaaard. The playlist is collaborative though 

I started with a couple of Shamen hits, then realised I was enjoying listening to them too much, so had to take them off... If I one day have kids, I'll embarrass them with 90s songs. The 80s were just too cool (although my fiance has an unhealthy obsession with Pat Benatar now. Thanks guitar hero).

[Tarami]

Link one track you (re)discovered on Spotify, that you'd like everybody else to hear.

Madder Mortem - Armour

[Tale]

Another 10 track compilation: Australian Bands

(includes from the 70s to the 00s)

[Tarami]

This playlist thing is fun.

Ten reasons the 90's didn't blow.

A slice of Swedish metal, between 1991 and 1998, sorted by descending age. (Some are re-releases, although original recordings.)

[Jherad]

I'm probably late to the party with this, but -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALGPknOsiU

Spotify being developed for Android. I know they've been working on an iphone app also, but I'm ... doubtful that'll happen.

Edit: Heh, they announced their submission to the iphone store for approval here:

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/07/27/spotify-for-iphone/

[Jherad]

Well - I didn't see this coming...

Apple cleared the Spotify app for their IPhone store:

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-spotify-says-apple-still-testing-iphone-app-spotify-vanishes-from-app-s/

[Engels]

From the article:

Spotify hopes to launch in the U.S. in Q3 or Q4

 

[Xurtan]

Mm, I wonder how long that will last. 

[Righ]

That depends on advertising revenues. With the recent hits on Internet radio licensing costs in the US (read FCC sanctioned cartel protection) it will be a more expensive proposition than European coverage. Fortunately there has been some improvement in the situation this year with the bodies that collect performance royalties agreeing to set rates based on the income of the broadcaster. That's why we still have Pandora.

[schild]

Gonna be honest, I prefer Snowtape's radio stuff over Spotify's format. I like what Spotify is doing, but I've bought pretty much every CD I ever wanted and the only way I'm gonna find new ones is through radio stations directly targeted at me.

[Ozzu]

Gonna be honest, I prefer Snowtape's radio stuff over Spotify's format. I like what Spotify is doing, but I've bought pretty much every CD I ever wanted and the only way I'm gonna find new ones is through radio stations directly targeted at me.

That's sort of the same boat I find myself in. I get turned loose into this huge library of music and I just have no idea where to go. That's why I still really dig Pandora.

[Quinton]

What's the price on their monthly premium (no goddamn ads) service like?

[Xurtan]

9.99 euro I believe. I would have signed up for it just for the unlimited-travel, but they don't accept American cards.  Unsurprising, but still.

[Ingmar]

ARISE!

Spotify is taking emails for US beta/signup something something now.

http://www.spotify.com/us/hello-america/

[KallDrexx]

So is Spotify any different than Rhapsody or Zune Pass?

[Stormwaltz]

If you get a Premium or Unlimited subscription, you bypass the beta wait and get right in.

[K9]

I upgraded to a paid subscription a few months ago, having used Spotify for ~2 years or so (whenever I first posted in this thread I guess). As someone in front of a computer all day I think it is worth it; although it's library is incomplete, they keep adding new content all the time, and I'm rarely disappointed.

[Jobu]

I just dove straight in, and I really like it. I'm always searching for new music to listen to, so it scratches that itch really well. It really needs recommendations a la Genius/Pandora/Last.FM, and a better way to tag albums for offline availability other than just making playlists out of them all. Big big fan so far.

[MuffinMan]

Yea, I'm finding this lacking. Seems to be great if you know exactly what you want to listen to but I don't. Definitely needs recommendations or even the ability to look at a certain genre. Maybe I'm just missing something here.

[Jherad]

In the UK at least, there is a Radio option in Spotify, that lets you stream random tracks of a various genre. Kinda. It's not brilliant, but it's something - this is apparently disabled in the USA at the moment.

[K9]

I just dove straight in, and I really like it. I'm always searching for new music to listen to, so it scratches that itch really well. It really needs recommendations a la Genius/Pandora/Last.FM, and a better way to tag albums for offline availability other than just making playlists out of them all. Big big fan so far.

You can "Star" an album or a track and it will appear in the list under downloads, which can be enabled for offline play, if that is what you mean?