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Spotify is great as long as you don't step out of the narrow scope of the music offered. Try finding anything released <6 months ago and report back. rdio and M

by mitjak 16y ago

Spotify is great as long as you don't step out of the narrow scope of the music offered. Try finding anything released <6 months ago and report back. rdio and MOG are even worse in that respect. Grooveshark is the only service that has a decent though a Kazaa-like chaotic catalogue.

eru 16y ago
Pandora has been quite nice. Especially since they added some classical music. They don't have a lot of, say, German music, yet, though.
Tomek_ 16y ago
It isn't that bad, I would say I'm listening to pretty broad spectrum of music, most of it being not very popular, and Spotify has roughly 75% of what I need. OK, when something that was there disappears after a while then it's seriously irritating, but still, the true selling point of Spotify is the quality of the program itself: it's super slick, fast and has the best interface ever in the category of music players. Personally, I ignored a bunch of artist just because they don't have their music in Spotify; "you want me to listen to your music? let me do that the way I want, otherwise go screw yourself" type of thing.
- mitjak 16y ago
  ..except availability on Spotify of their catalogue is not artists' business but their label's, regardless of degree of indie-ness. My attitude is the complete opposite: "I can listen to Madonna but not to Tallest Man on Earth, who is from Sweden? Kthxbye".
  - Tomek_ 16y ago
    Well, the truth is in somewhere in the middle - I suppose it's not that Spotify doesn't want Tallest Man on Earth to be in its' catalog, nor that Tallest Man on Earth doesn't want to be in Spotify. (Worth to note: Spotify actually has Tallest Man on Earth in its' catalog, I'm now listening to the guy)
mzl 16y ago
I would say that the scope of music offered by Spotify is not so narrow. They have more than 10 million songs now, compared to about 2.5 when they launched late 2008 and 11 million in the iTunes store. AFAIK, music goes up more or less as soon as the labels deliver it. One really scary thing I've heard though, is that the masters for a lot of older music is missing, so while the labels might have the rights and even the willingness to license the music, they just don't have it anymore.

by mitjak 16y ago

eru 16y ago

Pandora has been quite nice. Especially since they added some classical music. They don't have a lot of, say, German music, yet, though.

Tomek_ 16y ago

It isn't that bad, I would say I'm listening to pretty broad spectrum of music, most of it being not very popular, and Spotify has roughly 75% of what I need. OK, when something that was there disappears after a while then it's seriously irritating, but still, the true selling point of Spotify is the quality of the program itself: it's super slick, fast and has the best interface ever in the category of music players. Personally, I ignored a bunch of artist just because they don't have their music in Spotify; "you want me to listen to your music? let me do that the way I want, otherwise go screw yourself" type of thing.

mitjak 16y ago
..except availability on Spotify of their catalogue is not artists' business but their label's, regardless of degree of indie-ness. My attitude is the complete opposite: "I can listen to Madonna but not to Tallest Man on Earth, who is from Sweden? Kthxbye".
- Tomek_ 16y ago
  Well, the truth is in somewhere in the middle - I suppose it's not that Spotify doesn't want Tallest Man on Earth to be in its' catalog, nor that Tallest Man on Earth doesn't want to be in Spotify. (Worth to note: Spotify actually has Tallest Man on Earth in its' catalog, I'm now listening to the guy)

mzl 16y ago

I would say that the scope of music offered by Spotify is not so narrow. They have more than 10 million songs now, compared to about 2.5 when they launched late 2008 and 11 million in the iTunes store. AFAIK, music goes up more or less as soon as the labels deliver it. One really scary thing I've heard though, is that the masters for a lot of older music is missing, so while the labels might have the rights and even the willingness to license the music, they just don't have it anymore.