Spotify

[Portia]

Shit, how good is this?????

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

No idea what it was. Just downloaded it.

Awesome!

 

[Portia]

Amazing how much old shit I liked I am finding.

Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out - Bentley Rhythm Ace
Unbelievable - EMF

crazy

 

[Macca19]

Not sure ill use it heaps to just listen to songs, but it will be handy when wanting to search for new stuff

 

[CrimsonRaven]

Spotify is awesome. Great way to find music which you will like without having ot listen to the radio or trawling through random youtube videos.
LastFM.com is also good.


Also Porthos = Older than I thought.

Macca are you sure you dont look exactly like your Avatar? There was a bloke at the 1870 function tonight who looked exactly like Creed Bratton.

 

[Portia]

How have I never heard of Infected Mushroom before???

Also Porthos = Older than I thought.

Don't worry, I am extremely immature.

OH MY GOD ITS FULL OF STARS

 

[flight23]

swingfish is better

you can actually download the songs and they go straight into your iTunes

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I can't recall ever hearing about them until I read the following story In Monday's Australian in the Media section.

There was a table that's not in the online story

Digital Jukeboxes... Free Version.. Basic Service.. Premium Service
iTunes 20mil songs.. Only samples.. $0.69/song.. $1.29/song
Spotify 15mil songs.. Yes - ad supported.. $4.99/month no ads unlimted.. $9.99/month for offline service
Mog 15mil songs.. yes but limited streams ad free.. $4.99/month unlimited access.. $9.50/month for offline access
Rdo..12mil songs..$4.99/month for no ads.. $9.99/month for unlimited mobile

Spotify launches with big-name backers

Darren Davidson From: The Australian May 21, 2012 12:00AM

SPOTIFY, the world's largest free on-demand music provider, will launch in Australia tomorrow with a number of local commercial partners.

The Stockholm-based company, one of the hottest properties on the internet with more than 13 million global users, has signed up a number of advertising and technology partners, including Commonwealth Bank, Carlton United Brewers, McDonald's, and Triple J, Media has learnt.

Listeners use their computes or smartphone to select music tracks from a giant library provided by the service.

They listen to advertisements on the free service or pay a subscription to listen ad-free.

The company is in talks to bundle the product into Virgin Mobile plans, and Facebook will play a major part in local marketing as part of the companies' global partnership.

In New Zealand, Spotify may partner with Vodafone.

Spotify launches with big-name backers


and about there Australian launch and how important Oz is and how they make money.....

The launch, more than six months in the making, has been delayed at least once as Spotify inked contracts with global and local record labels in Australia to build its online music catalogue.

Every time a song is paid by a Spotify user, a royalty is captured and paid back to the record label and artist, while a percentage of the subscription revenues Spotify generates is also shared with the label.

Spotify held back from launching in Australia until it had negotiated agreements with all the record labels so it could offer consumers the deepest online music catalogue.

"We will have the largest, most comprehensive online catalogue of music in Australia," Spotify's New York-based chief marketing solutions officer Jeff Levick told Media. "It's not just the major labels, and it's also about having local labels. In every market . . . we make sure we have local artists relevant to that country.

"Australia is an incredibly important music market for Spotify, it's the sixth largest music market in the world. Consumers in Australia are online and highly social, and love music. So that's the perfect trifecta for Spotify and exactly the sort of consumers we want to reach."

Spotify's business model is based on a dual revenue stream: free access supported by advertising through banner ads and audio spots, and premium access priced at a monthly rate without ads and bolstered by mobile access based on an app

the competition....

"Our conversion rate from free to paid is 25 per cent. Once people have learnt the model of access, they want to take that portability with them," said Mr Levick, a former Google and AOL executive.

The service will compete with Apple's iTunes, Telstra -- which has partnered with music steaming service MOG -- and another service called Rdio. Last month, MCM Entertainment Group launched a local version of on-demand music video website Vevo in partnership with its Take 40, The Hot Hits and Aria Chart websites

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

15 minutes into it and set up a quick play lists and radio stations - ****en brilliant!

 

[Portia]

I have a sudden hatred of kids today that get to go through high school with this.

 

[Macca19]

Macca are you sure you dont look exactly like your Avatar? There was a bloke at the 1870 function tonight who looked exactly like Creed Bratton.

lol, im sure. Same hairline, considerably younger.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Three days on, I'm still going with the ****en brilliant call.

 

[Phhht]

Do they need to spend some marketing/advertising dollars? Maybe on a footy jumper?

 

[Portia]

Just signed up for the pay service. Finally a good app that runs on my antiquated Symbian/Nokia setup!

 

[toffeeAU]

About time it came out. I remember when it launched in Europe in 2008 (iirc) and I got heaps of invites from euro friends but couldn't sign up because it 'isn't available in your country just yet'.

Went with last.fm instead, and have become slightly obsessed with the statistics it provides

Might still check it out.

 

[Portia]

You can scrobble to last.fm from spotify

Also: http://open.spotify.com/track/1O8Ad8CglsnGQKV1bFROV4

 

[bomberclifford]

Amazing how much old shit I liked I am finding.

Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out - Bentley Rhythm Ace
Unbelievable - EMF

crazy

Porthos a BRA fan!? You've just blown my mind.

 

[Portia]

They're tidy but I'm more into Amon Tobin and Air (which puts me on either side of the curve)

 

[bomberclifford]

They're tidy but I'm more into Amon Tobin and Air (which puts me on either side of the curve)

10,000 hz legend is an amazing album.
Electronic Performers is one of my all time favourites and great video to boot.

 

[bomberclifford]

No idea what it was. Just downloaded it.

Awesome!

Just coming to the end of my 48hr trial and will definitely continue.

Great fun setting up playlists to send to friends.

 

[Portia]

For a favourite, I can't go past Moon Safari - its just 100% excellence. Talisman in particular is a plodder I love - nothing better for a long drive in the country.

The new album (on Spotify heehee!) is a pretty awesome progression of their style. I know the tradition for pump up songs is a foundation in rock, but Seven Stars is exactly the sort of track that gets me up and going.

 

[Macca19]

Wouldnt have picked you as an Air fan Porthos....but then you do like Aphex Twin so im not sure why I wouldnt have picked it.

 

[Portia]

I think there is a general perception that I am a cauldron constantly bubbling over with rage. Which is only about 60% true.

 

[Jonts]

I have a sudden hatred of kids today that get to go through high school with this.

O, so i'll just leave then

Its boss, can't beleive it took you guys this long to post about it

 

[Portia]

the carrier pigeon only just arrived with my telegram about it