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Spotify: The official thread of invite begging playlist making awesomeness

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Minamu said:
Does anyone have some metal playlists? :) No ac/dc or metallica is annoying :( and no Beatles either!
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this one has a lot of metal and hard rock, but also hip hop, indie, reggae, ska, punk etc.
spotify:user:kottila:playlist:3qLYmFFRvazjiHBmpk0Kz5
 
b.e.r.g said:
Uhm, there is an "Artist Radio" feature in Spotify.
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It's not quite the same. The artist radio is full of songs from that artist. That playlist thing compiles a list mostly of other artists.
 
Two new playlists:

Scandirawk
A little garage rock to start off with, before it heads over punk, hardcore, hard rock and ends with metal


and Norwegian electronica

Norwegian pop-electronica has received a lot of cred for it's "cool" sound the latest years. I've included some of the known artists, Röyksopp, Annie and Erlend Øye, but also a lot of stuff that hasn't crossed the borders (yet)


+ two new invitations:

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Subliminal said:
Just discovered http://www.spotibot.com/

Its kind of Last.Fm-y, you enter an artist and it finds you similar artists and makes it into a spotify playlist.
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This is awesome- trying it now, love it.

Spotify invites-

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New version of Spotify out

Download it directly from spotify.com instead of waiting for the rollout.

my nick is kottila, if anyone wants to try to make a spotify friend

New features:

Social
Connect to Facebook: you can connect to Facebook inside of Spotify, instantly adding all your Facebook friends who’ve selected the same feature. Your friends’ profiles will appear in a new ‘People’ sidebar at the right of the screen, with your personal profile at the top.

Add usernames:
Publish your Spotify profile to the web: easily publish the link to your Spotify profile on your blog, Facebook page, website or anywhere else on the web and allow others to follow your musical journey. For example here’s a link to the official Spotify profile.

Inbox: a new ‘inbox’ folder on Spotify’s left sidebar lets you send tracks to friends directly within the platform, simply by dragging and dropping a track to their name in the People sidebar. Alternatively, just right click on the track and select the new ‘send to’ option.

Facebook feed: music your friends have posted on Facebook will be visible on the Spotify ‘What’s new’ page and via a new ‘Feed’ tab.

Popularity count for playlists: all playlists will show how many other Spotify users are currently subscribed to that playlist. By clicking on the number, you can even see the usernames of those who added the playlist.

Track playlist changes: see who and when a track was added to a playlist with the new ‘Added’ and ‘User’ columns in playlists.

Library

Local files: missing any music in Spotify? Now you can import a link to all the music files stored on your computer with a simple click of a button.
Gracenote: As with any good music media player, if you have missing or incorrect track information you need software to check those files and automatically correct them so that you can better organise and link them to our catalogue. Gracenote does just this.
Local file linking: we will check your local files and see if we have that track/artist/album in Spotify. If we do, we’ll make the file linkable so you can easily go from that file into an artist or album page. This allows for better sharing of playlists that contain a mix of your own music and Spotify’s.
Starred: every track and album on Spotify can now be ‘starred’ – allowing you to tag all your favourites into a special sub-folder.
Wireless sync: you can copy your music files to your mobile without connecting a USB cable with our new wireless sync feature.


Additional features
Mosaic images for playlists: the artwork from the first nine tracks in a playlist will create a cool mosaic image for your playlist
New toolbar in headers: Sharing music to Facebook/Twitter and your friends is much simpler. Easy to subscribe or unsubscribe to a playlist as well as view information about how popular a playlist is.
A share icon in ‘Now playing’ artwork: makes sharing what you’re currently listening to much easier.
Automatic track replacement: Spotify will now automatically try to find a replacement for any track you can’t play. So if a friend in another country sends you a playlist with tracks you can’t play or a local file, we’ll search our catalogue and link to a playable track when possible. A ‘link’ icon next to the track name represents replaced tracks.
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Man I need to keep closer eye on this thread,

can anyone PM me a invite?

EDIT: got my invite, thanks AWESOME, can't wait to use it.
 
Importing songs that aren't on Spotify FTW! The new client and Facebook Connect stuff sounds great! Finally - I can add Kate Bush and Bon Jovi to my 80s selection

Gowans, sent you a PM!
 
Xyphie said:
New client is awesome sauce, finally local files.
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They messed up many of my files by letting spotify update track names and stuff. Many remixes and local bands songs were renamed into something completely different and I had to manually unupdate the info myself (right click and "undo Gracenote changes")

Really cool to see number of subscribers on playlists

Have 37 subscribers to this one! spotify:user:kottila:playlist:6rLw8XuVJjCFRKGpKyW8VT
 
I'd love an invite. I already tried this service using a proxy and I loved it to death. Spotify found out I wasn't in the UK and I got screwed. Thanks!
 
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
U.S. please! Seriously, this seems like the perfect response to piracy; plenty of music, available relatively cheaply.
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It could be, but the artists themselves get nearly nothing of it. According to a Finnish radioshow, if an artist's songs are listened to million times via Spotify, (s)he gets a couple of hundred euros for it. Now imagine what the smaller artists get.
 
Installed it about two weeks ago, and it really is a godsend. Spotify + YouTube means I can find about everything I'd ever want to listen to.
 
Melchiah said:
It could be, but the artists themselves get nearly nothing of it. According to a Finnish radioshow, if an artist's songs are listened to million times via Spotify, (s)he gets a couple of hundred euros for it. Now imagine what the smaller artists get.
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How much do artists get when their song is listened to on the radio by a million people?
 
Steppenwolf said:
How much do artists get when their song is listened to on the radio by a million people?
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I don't know about that, but when a song is aired in the television it's about 100€ for the first time it's played, and IIRC about a third of that for the subsequent plays.

It's hardly the same thing if some artist's song is played on the radio, whereas with Spotify all the artist's songs are at your hand, to listen freely whenever you want. It kinda takes away the need to buy the artist's albums.
 
Melchiah said:
It could be, but the artists themselves get nearly nothing of it. According to a Finnish radioshow, if an artist's songs are listened to million times via Spotify, (s)he gets a couple of hundred euros for it. Now imagine what the smaller artists get.
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The fees would increase if more people had premium.
 
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I'm pretty sure these numbers will change the more popular Spotify becomes. They will have more premium members and better sponsors in the future.

Also it is very flawed to equal 1 bought album with 1 played song to make the pink dot look as big as possible.

If i do some number crunching based on this pic it means that a song has to be played 366 times to equal the buy of it on amazon (assuming that the experience on free Spotify with advertising jingles and not being able to copy the songs to your phone etc is worth the same as a bought mp3 - which it is not).

Would be interesting to know how often a bought mp3's gets played in average. That would be an better indication to make comparisons.
 
Melchiah said:
This clearly proves Spotify is good for everyone, but the artist. That seems to be what the people want; to get entertainment (be it music or movies) for free.





I highly doubt that would affect the amount of money the artist gets per play.
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I've always had the impression that the artist pot is a percentage of their income. So where does the money end up? Record companies and spotify shareholders?
 
Melchiah said:
This clearly proves Spotify is good for everyone, but the artist. That seems to be what the people want; to get entertainment (be it music or movies) for free.
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While this is true, I think it represents out-dated thinking: the idea isn't to rely wholly on Spotfy as a source of revenue and income, but to use it as one of many revenue streams in your portfolio. I think that there are a group of distinct users who will gladly listen to lots of music in Spotify, but rarely buy a CD (and I say this because I am one of them), and thus trying to catch them is a worthwhile endeavour.
 
This latest update is amazing. I love Spotify's queue so being able to use it with my iTunes library is brilliant. 3 other friends have it so far, loving being able to see playlists and share music.

Glad listening to your own music doesn't count towards you having to listen to ads, that worried me at first.

Now Listening -You Can't Rap - Example Just sent to my inbox.
 
Wow! This looks amazing!

If anyone has an invite they would be willing to part with and PM I would be eternally grateful!

Edit: Bah! Didn't see that it wasn't currently available in the US. Code begging rescinded.
 
I am formally lodging a beg for a Spotify invite :D

seriously though, if anyone can help me out I'd be in his/her debt
 
Have at them- help yo'selves.

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