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Spotify, the greatest thing since... Last.fm?

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This is wow:
http://www.spotify.com

Their presentation video:
http://www.spotify.com/en/about/press/concept-video/

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Only in beta phase, has anyone tried it? [edit: Since I have now, I've edited the text below a bit]

Basically it's a huge library of songs, which you stream and listen to. No buffering, instant play. Albums, music soundtracks, tons of stuff. Songs listed after popularity, to easy find the artist's most famous songs. Great way to find new artists and such, but also listen to favourite songs. On the artist's pages, all the "Top hits"/"Most wanted"/etc albums they're featured on are listed, making it easy to find songs in similar genre. Also different radios within genres available.

- Backed up by Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Warner Music Group, The Orchard, Sony BMG (plus more)
- Free option: 30 sec ad every sixth song (they've changed this several times so it's not final)
Premium with no ads: ~$10 a month
- Sound format is Ogg Vorbis, translates to ~192 kbps MP3
- Creator of TradeDoubler, ~$20m poured into the project, estimated worth ~$100m after 8 days in service
- Having exclusives, like they had the new John Legend album for download a week before anyone else
(Edit: Since many asks - No, you can't download the songs, only streaming. Meaning, doesn't work on Iphone/Ipods/MP3 players)

The Beatles and Metallica aren't there, otherwise most of the "known" artists are. Everything from Johnny Cash to Guns'n'Roses, Tiesto, The Killers and all tons of genres.

Here's their blog:
http://www.spotify.com/blog/

$10 a month is basically what one CD costs, and that's around what I buy. You can't move it over to your MP3 though, which sucks, but is understandable.

You need an invite to get the free option right now (several available in this thread). Not available in the US (proxy needed for registration, then fine).
 
Just heard about this 30 minutes ago :lol

Thought it sounded like a good idea, but then I realised that alot of the music I listen to probably won't be there, oh well.
 
not available in your country yet whoo

the fact that you can only listen to it on the comp sorta makes it worthless though
 
legend166 said:
the fact that you can only listen to it on the comp sorta makes it worthless though
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I agree, unless this thing takes off in a youtube kind of way where it becomes the standard way of people linking each other songs they like over the web. The fact they use ogg is a misstep for them. With SanDisk's sansa fuze being one of the only biggish players to support ogg it would be wise of them to join forces.

The frontend looks a lot like Songbird

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Why is that worthless? Do you expect to have free MP3's downloadable with ads to your MP3's? This is a step closer to easier use of listening to music.

legend166 said:
not available in your country yet whoo

the fact that you can only listen to it on the comp sorta makes it worthless though
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You can listen to it through LAN I believe, so it should be able to work on phones and iPods etc soon (or maybe it already does).

Steppenwolf said:
So whats the difference between this and last.fm or some of the mp3 search engines?
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Are there any other engines that has all the big four labels? Doesn't Last.fm only have indie labels (for streaming)?
 
Manager said:
Are there any other engines that has all the big four labels? Doesn't Last.fm only have indie labels (for streaming)?
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Lots of artists have full tracks on their last.fm pages and with the program you can listen to practically anything but you can't just type in a song you want to hear.
 
legend166 said:
not available in your country yet whoo

the fact that you can only listen to it on the comp sorta makes it worthless though
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I thought you lived in Bumblefuckistan or some other country nobody cares about. You live in 'Merika, don't you?! WTF, us 'Merikans ain't used to this sort of treatment. Spotify need to rectify
this oversight.
 
TheExodu5 said:
I can't think of anything that I listen to that's on the big four labels. Pretty useless to me, I guess.
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This, indie for life!

(actually I own all the queen albums and faith no more albums on CD, so yeah no need for big label sponswhoreship)
 
Chojin said:
This, indie for life!

(actually I own all the queen albums and faith no more albums on CD, so yeah no need for big label sponswhoreship)
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Heh, well I'm not totally indie. I happen to listen to a lot of metal, progressive, and European stuff...they're usually on labels like Ferret and Roadrunner.

Very cool idea though. Hopefully they get other stuff onboard.
 
They just sent out 500 000 invites to a Swedish ISP, so I'll get an account tomorrow. Hopefully this means they will open it up more internationally too.
 
... NO.... USA? ..... I don't understand... I cannot fathom not being apart of something first... help me... I'm cold....
 
I just got it, this is really cool. The songs starts the second you click on them.

New The Killers album playing now, neat-o. *adding Chinese Democrazy in playlist*

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KR3W said:
lame. no US.
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I think you can get around it by just entering a European zip code when registering for the account (and then log in through the program). Not sure though, but if I get an invite later I'll give it to an American and try.

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Truant said:
Just use a british proxy and register using a british zip code, and you get it for free. Worked for me.
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Like that, or just talk to a European friend who can do it for you.
 
cjelly said:
Hmm, there doesn't seem to be much on here... :-/
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I just clicked on Justin Timberlake, and it literally listed hundreds of compilation albums he's on in every different country possible - and all of these have like 20 songs and artists. Everyone of these artists have their whole albums up.

I'm amazed, I couldn't believe it had these many songs. I have yet to find an artist I like, except Beatles. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Backstreet Boys, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown... it never ends.

It's like Wiki:ing, you enter an article and then clicks through to read a sub-category. I'm amazed if I will use any other media program from now on.
 
If anyone could spare an invite I'd be a happy camper. I've been waiting for an Spotify invite for ages and they haven't sent me anything :(
 
TheExodu5 said:
Heh, well I'm not totally indie. I happen to listen to a lot of metal, progressive, and European stuff...they're usually on labels like Ferret and Roadrunner.

Very cool idea though. Hopefully they get other stuff onboard.
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Same. Not available for Costa Rica anyway.
 
Cdammen said:
If anyone could spare an invite I'd be a happy camper. I've been waiting for an Spotify invite for ages and they haven't sent me anything :(
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What do you need an invite for? I just signed up on the site and it works.

TheExodu5 said:
Heh, well I'm not totally indie. I happen to listen to a lot of metal, progressive, and European stuff...they're usually on labels like Ferret and Roadrunner.
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Roadrunner are on there. Nuclear Blast and other metal labels are on as well as a load of compilations.
 
Just got this today and man, it's great -- although there is a still quite a lot of music missing from there.

This is the future of the music industry.
 
Can't believe there's not more talk about it here, although I'm fairly sure that's because it apparantely doesn't work in the US. But what about the rest of Europa? Where are you brits and all?
 
This thing is insanely great, and when it's expanded could be a big change in music distribution. I mean, I can't believe this shit is free! So far the advertising is really limited, and I've been surprised at all the full albums I've found. Including real new ones. No loading, great sound quality, constantly building music library. I mean, I found the whole new Those Dancing Days album, pluss lots of extra shit from them. I'm finding single releases with b-sides I haven't heard from artists I love.


Top notch. Top fuckin notch.
 
TDC (Danish company) just launched a service called Play. They offer free music when you buy a mobile/internet subscription. The music library currently contains more than 2 million songs from various artists.

I've had more than 25,000 plays on last.fm, so that service is fairly useful in finding new (and free) music. But I'm intrigued by this Spotify service. Will sign up for the trial period.
 
ItsInMyVeins said:
Can't believe there's not more talk about it here, although I'm fairly sure that's because it apparantely doesn't work in the US. But what about the rest of Europa? Where are you brits and all?
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Australia says free passes and day passes aren't available yet. You can only try it if you sign up for premium.
 
Hyoushi said:
Yeah, constant online would be awesome for the battery time. hua
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I'm gonna go ahead and assume he meant a functioning app to iPhone that doesn't drain the battery in five minutes.
 
All premium users get 2 invites each day for the whole of December, according to their blog. I guess you guys have to find some premium user, or wait for them to go more public. With 500 000 invites for this ISP, they should be able to go broader.

My music taste is pretty mainstream, and it's awesome to go to an artist and then find every single album its songs are on. Mix albums from all over the world. Plus, live albums, a certain fantastic acoustic album (nr 1 on top list), it's insane. They even have (for example German) billboard albums and such.

Like I said, it's like Wiki:ing. You go to an artist, add songs to the queue and then click your way through to the next artists. Everyone of my friends have been amazed by it.
 
Re: Ipod, there are a lot of barriers, like the cacheing of the songs, but there are touch App's online streaming data all the time which work well.


Found 1000 tracks from The Supremes. YES.
 
Which country are those from, that didn't need an invite? I tried using a UK-proxy but it still says i need a code.
I'd also take a spare invite if someone has one :D
 
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