demoscene on spotify ?
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Are there any demoscene tracks on Spotify ?
Check this playlists website for Spotify, and add some tracks ! Thanks :)
http://www.mp3-fr.com/spot/index.php3
Check this playlists website for Spotify, and add some tracks ! Thanks :)
http://www.mp3-fr.com/spot/index.php3
it somehow feels like desecrating a holy cow. putting free culture content in a paying webradio service.
spotify promotes some artists, they give only some tracks, and the whole catalog is available on amazon or itunes.
there is a lot of tracks and full albums for many artists too.
I think that Bjorn Lynne or some other old sceners like Moby could have some tracks on it (maybe they have already, I didn't check).
And you'd better have spotify premium, without ads ! :)
there is a lot of tracks and full albums for many artists too.
I think that Bjorn Lynne or some other old sceners like Moby could have some tracks on it (maybe they have already, I didn't check).
And you'd better have spotify premium, without ads ! :)
spotify sucks imho. but if you're into that, you can check their inbred brothers reverbnation (free) and pandora (who recently commited indie suicide by binding themselfs to amazon accepted content only)
i guess they still beat myspace for what its worth.
and with last.fm closing down their online radio service to most countries, things look abit grim again for decent online radio services aimed to promote indies.
and yes i bundle demoscene with indies. even if some scene artists are known commercially. i want access to all music, not only the kind that is in cahoots with a random copyright mafiaa.
but i fear im highjacking the thread into yet another useless "capitalist industry vs free culture" grey area debate, sorry. i'll go away now.
i guess they still beat myspace for what its worth.
and with last.fm closing down their online radio service to most countries, things look abit grim again for decent online radio services aimed to promote indies.
and yes i bundle demoscene with indies. even if some scene artists are known commercially. i want access to all music, not only the kind that is in cahoots with a random copyright mafiaa.
but i fear im highjacking the thread into yet another useless "capitalist industry vs free culture" grey area debate, sorry. i'll go away now.
Good promotion will never come from spotify.
Good promotion will come when you'll pay a good public relation that know how to promote an artist into its genre area.
Good promotion will come when you'll pay a good public relation that know how to promote an artist into its genre area.
FYI
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http://open.spotify.com/artist/4DNjU1V0BkXgHPmElduZ1I
Quote:
Dear Artists,
First of all; we are really glad to hear that you are interested
in getting your music onto Spotfiy.
We appreciate your patience since you signed up to the Spotify
Artist and Label list. The reason why we haven't gotten back to
you earlier is that we haven´t been ready to launch our own
uploading-platform. Our time and energy has gone into uploading
thousands of tracks every day from our existing partners which
is a continuous process. However, getting independent artists
music onto Spotify is important to us so we're working on various
solutions to assist artists.
The current solutions we offer indie artists offer are CDBaby,
Ditto Music and Record Union. They are artist- aggregators, who
we've recently made an agreement with, and we highly recommend to
you as a method to get your music onto Spotify. With them you
can create a standard agreement and upload your music onto
Spotify as well as deliver your music to other great services
such as 7digital and Amazon.
So if you want to join Spotify as soon as possible we strongly
recommend you to go one of the following sites:
http://cdbaby.com/
http://www.dittomusic.com/
http://www.recordunion.com/
We're really looking forward to having your music on Spotify soon!
Regards,
The music team at Spotify
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http://open.spotify.com/artist/4DNjU1V0BkXgHPmElduZ1I
you may be right.
I think spotify premium is a huge best of, of course the copyright mafia is there, but it's free with shitty ads, or 9.90€ totally available with 100 000's of tracks in 320 or 160 kbps !
This could be the greatest if everything was available : majors and indie-freeware "benevolat style" like me doing computer music since 1988.
and it can be easily managed on the database for the remuneration to each played tracks (0.1 cent is the range for paying a 1 shot streaming audio file, with ads or paid subscription).
Of course, some artists would never be listened to, so no money and starving.
Some could get a massive amount of cash, if the whole users are at least 100 000 000 people.
If Google (more than 500 M users worldwide) creates a true Google Music like this , they have won easily millions of users using today's spotify-deezer-jiwa-last.fm etc...
I think spotify premium is a huge best of, of course the copyright mafia is there, but it's free with shitty ads, or 9.90€ totally available with 100 000's of tracks in 320 or 160 kbps !
This could be the greatest if everything was available : majors and indie-freeware "benevolat style" like me doing computer music since 1988.
and it can be easily managed on the database for the remuneration to each played tracks (0.1 cent is the range for paying a 1 shot streaming audio file, with ads or paid subscription).
Of course, some artists would never be listened to, so no money and starving.
Some could get a massive amount of cash, if the whole users are at least 100 000 000 people.
If Google (more than 500 M users worldwide) creates a true Google Music like this , they have won easily millions of users using today's spotify-deezer-jiwa-last.fm etc...
wullon, thanks for the link :)
http://open.spotify.com/track/5pwqrY3pGbdjmZdTH8owGC
have a big laugh :)
have a big laugh :)
Sptoify Premium is totally worth it. I've discovered countless new artists through it, not to mention listened to a lot of albums that I would've bought otherwise and been disappointed.
Here's my current shared playlist in case you're interested spotify:user:sonnenwende:playlist:08pDnmpjg2JlCCJMfssD04
Here's my current shared playlist in case you're interested spotify:user:sonnenwende:playlist:08pDnmpjg2JlCCJMfssD04
Hm, BBCode breaks your Spotify URI :)
@ps: Agreed 100% with what you said earlier.
It's a real shame, to be brutally honest, that in terms of getting hold of decent music, so-called "illegal" services like BT and the Usenet tend to have the bigger collections with no silly advertising. I guess sites such as Spotify might have a chance in hell of working if their advertising was targeted in a better way, but I would prefer, if using something like that, to not have to put up with the lowest-common-denominator adverts that we get on mainstream sites like Spotify.
It's a real shame, to be brutally honest, that in terms of getting hold of decent music, so-called "illegal" services like BT and the Usenet tend to have the bigger collections with no silly advertising. I guess sites such as Spotify might have a chance in hell of working if their advertising was targeted in a better way, but I would prefer, if using something like that, to not have to put up with the lowest-common-denominator adverts that we get on mainstream sites like Spotify.
Yeah, those lowest-common-denominator adverts are just as annoying as people who don' know the difference between websites and pieces of software you run on your computer. A damn shame that.
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Good promotion will never come from spotify.
Good promotion will come when you'll pay a good public relation that know how to promote an artist into its genre area.
sad but true.
music is much more about social awareness (and thus marketing/pr) than actual proof of quality.
services like spotify cash in on potential popularity, they dont much create or promote it per se.
ps: Totally. The way Spotify deals with making music visible is quite bad actually - if you don't know what you want to listen to, you're stuck. Search or that horrid "What are idiots in your country listening to?"-list are the only options.
Why should Spotify make music visible?
Preacher: As in: it doesn't give you suggestions of what other, similar, music to listen to, or give you the opportunity to browse intelligently. It is best for when you know what you want to listen to, which isn't always the case, and also part of the reason why Pandora and Last.fm became so hugely popular.
Well there is the "similar artist" thing on the artist pages in Spotify, but it's not much.
At least there is a great greasemonkey script that adds Spotify links to every artist, song, album, etc. on Last.fm :)
At least there is a great greasemonkey script that adds Spotify links to every artist, song, album, etc. on Last.fm :)
Spotify also has an "artists you may like" option, and since it supports last.fm, you can also use last.fm's "artists you may like"...
The problem with spotify+last.fm is that some albums in it are tagged wrong, you know, many titles are Written Like This Although It Is Not Correct Way In Many Languages - and actually there are also other problems with those tags.
The problem with spotify+last.fm is that some albums in it are tagged wrong, you know, many titles are Written Like This Although It Is Not Correct Way In Many Languages - and actually there are also other problems with those tags.
Preacher : thanks ! check my playlist of singles :) http://open.spotify.com/user/grabule/playlist/0AdM3GU1TIi1xAXjc4W0Gp
I think Spotify is pretty nice, and each day they they seem to be adding more and more music/artists.
It actually might be the closest thing to the "music like water" philosophy... dunno.
It actually might be the closest thing to the "music like water" philosophy... dunno.
ehm.....anyonne got an invite?
@tell?
Similar artist? There are no websites able to manage a true "similar artist" algorhythm. Most of the time, its only dealing with the other artists who signed on the same label. Not even mentionning that god damn web2.0 making stupid able to say what he want to say and have exposure for the stupid things he said.
Similar artist? There are no websites able to manage a true "similar artist" algorhythm. Most of the time, its only dealing with the other artists who signed on the same label. Not even mentionning that god damn web2.0 making stupid able to say what he want to say and have exposure for the stupid things he said.
The similar artist feature is cool but could be better on spotify. What I like is the huge catalog and the audio quality up to 320k for premium access. Managing playlists is very Nice, some site have 1000s of playlists, my site spot.mp3-fr.com has less than 100 pl now but many more will be added.
The music starts 1 second after a click, it's like mp3s on a local hd !
The iTunes like GUI is great, no useless function.
The music starts 1 second after a click, it's like mp3s on a local hd !
The iTunes like GUI is great, no useless function.