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Wow. Spotify is so cool. I have yet to find a song or artist it didn't have. INSTANT on-demand music.
sebastian☆rocket brother, Walt Ruppar, Felipe Aneudi Campana and 62 other people liked this
I've been using it for a few months (here in the UK) and it really is a brilliant service. I've been an occasional music torrent downloader, and Spotify has almost wiped this out.
- Chris Nixon
I can see that, Chris. Downside would be that it doesn't go portable (to iPhone, car, etc.) but on the laptop, this is pretty darn impressive.
- Louis Gray
It's also great for re-visiting artists older artists which you have long since forgotten.
- Chris Nixon
Exactly. Hence my searching for Jesus Jones, EMF, Information Society, etc.
- Louis Gray
Have they opened it up to the US now?
- Spidra Webster
Apparently the iPhone app is brilliant...but I really have my doubts as to whether apple will approve.
- Chris Nixon
Does it have MJ Megaremix by Michael Jackson? I have only seen that on CD thus far (which I own)
- Jesse Stay
It's on the "You Are Not Alone" Single
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I can't see it on there.
- Chris Nixon
(Listening to Planet Claire by B-52s) :)
- Louis Gray
Nice - I broke Spotify :-P
- Jesse Stay
I assume you're in the US, LG, so are they now offering it here?
- Spidra Webster
Jesse: There is quite a lot it doesn't have...I'd say about 1 in 10 of MY searches...but they are adding to the library every day.
- Chris Nixon
To Spotify's credit, I have yet to find a service that does have that song in electronic format
- Jesse Stay
I am in the US. It is not yet available here.
- Louis Gray
(Listening to Billy Idol, Dancing With Myself)
- Louis Gray
rats. Well, thanks for letting me know.
- Spidra Webster
Louis: I'm listening to http://open.spotify.com/user...
- Chris Nixon
Post is up: http://www.louisgray.com/live... (Love it so far)
- Louis Gray
curious yet skeptical regarding availability of a few artists i listen to. apoptygma berzerk, skold, iscintilla, birthday massacre, emilie autumn, hednoize, psychohed, kidney thieves, mdfmk etc... they're typically not on many library-style music services that try to be comprehensive. but again, i'm not on spotify's private beta to make an informed comment.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
210 tracks from apoptygma berzerk. 18 from skold. 0 from iscintilla. 27 from birthday massacre. 1 from emilie autumn. 0 from hednoize. 0 from psychohed. 0 from kidney thieves. 11 from mdfmk.
- Louis Gray
sweet :) just saw you updating that in realtime. thanks for the info!
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Louis: It's about to go portable though. The iPhone app is due to come out in the coming week and the Android app is quite far gone as well.
- Gabriel
Looking forward to it, period.
- Louis Gray
blackfeathers: Like you, I listen to a lot of subgenre-music and underground stuff, and I don't find everything i want, unfortunately. But the surprising upside to this is that I've come to discover a lot more music that I like when I'm forced to find "alternatives".
- Gabriel
Now I am listening to apoptygma berzerk. :) your fault... sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
- Louis Gray
It still lacks the catalogue for me but I listen to lots of not so popular artists and songs. It's a great service though, I've been playing with it again this week.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd like to be able to bring in your local MP3s also, on network drives etc. This is actually the main reason I still use iTunes. Enjoy the service though for music I have not purchased in my own catalogue.
- Travis Koger
But if you want free music you can't complain about Spotify! I wish it had a recommendation engine though and the ability to import your other playlists and re-create them, as best it can, in Spotify.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I thought it had playlist sharing... couldn't this be a defacto recommendation engine?
- Travis Koger
It's still not available in India. Sad. :(
- Faraz Mullick
Bob Dylan is gone from Spotify. Too bad.
- Rubin Sfadj
from iPhone
Travis, sorry I meant like the Last.fm recommendation. It recommending new artsts/songs based on our playlists or tracks we've 'liked'. I'm always after new songs. Their 'radio' is very random.
- Kol Tregaskes
And I'd like to have my playlists from iTunes ported to Spotify - I'd rather not manually recreate them all again.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah I understood what you meant, but couldn't people just have a playlist in Spotify called 'Song Recommendations', then share that. Other users would then be able to look through the recommendations. I agree though a good recommendation engine would be beneficial.
- Travis Koger
It's amazing isn't it... be better if there were slightly less adverts though... I'm too cheap to pay the premium rate.
- Rich
Re the adverts, you can sort of get around that by clicking on a new song rather than let the playlist do it for you... I know that it sort of defeats the purpose, but if you are too cheap to go premium or listen to the ads then it does provide a workaround ;)
- Travis Koger
Travis, yeah user's recommendations would be nice too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Aaah, now you have said user recommendation I now understand properly what you meant earlier (and realise that I did not understand it properly earlier ;))... you are talking about something like iTunes Genius etc.
- Travis Koger
Yep. While on iTunes Genius does that only recommend songs in your playlists only or should it recommend songs I don't have? When I select a tune and hit Genius it lists other vaguely related songs I have already. It would be more useful if it showed new songs.
- Kol Tregaskes
As for it's catalogue, I tried to recreate my 25 tunes of the moment: http://ff.im/6diug and it only had 13 of them. It's missing the likes of Boxer Rebellion - Misplaced, Snake River Conspiracy - Breed and The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I cannot get because it says it's not available in my country.
- Damond Nollan
spotify song recommendation / discovery works really well with 3rd party websites like http://sharemyplaylists.com/ you can also cut'n'paste the playlist urls to share like this one spotify:user:iamnottheenemy:playlist:3LWd6ZTnj5lg7tqEAW4eJm
- Ian Crocombe
Ian, me and a friend also made one of those: http://listopify.com its fairly basic, but it has a "like" feature which i will admit was very inspired by friendfeed :)
- Lasse Johnsen
Spotify is a cool service but there are too many ads for now ...
- DAL
Not available in Canada...
- Yanik Falardeau
How is their metal section?
- metalerik
Spotify's library does hold a lot of song. Some millions, I read somewhere on their blog. But it definitely doesn't offer all my favorite albums and songs. Most main stream bands are in there, but more indie musicians and especially cd's from before 2000 are missing.-- Still, it's defintely the best desktop music experience at the moment. :-) And I'm looking forward to the forthcoming Android and iPhone apps!!
- roel
keep hearing great things but happy with iTunes
- Thomas Power
try to find french music, you'll be disappointed!
- Sophie Domingues
Now that's what I call a fly-past: US Navy F18 streaks past apartment block | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
imabonehead, Jérôme Flipo, Richard Chen and 20 other people liked this
"Negative, ghost rider. Pattern is full."
- Andrew Smith
"I think it's time to buzz the tower"
- JA Castillo
I was about to call Photoshop until I noticed the link. Excellent find :)
- LANjackal
I thought this a Photoshop job too, until I read the link. Nice photo!
- Rob McNair-Huff
I want to start calling my friends "mates" like they do in the UK. I've always thought that was cool.
Baard @ Pixum, mjc, Jessi and 54 other people liked this
So you want to mate your friends?
- Jemm
Then, when you're online, you can spell it like 'm8'!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Will you call FriendFeed MateFeed? :D
- Tamara
that's great, mate
- Manuela
@Tamara: lol :D
- Jemm
Maaaaaaaaaaaaate! (you won't get this unless you've seen "Men Behaving Badly")
- Vicky
I was chatting with a random stranger on Omegle.com and he was from the UK and he said, "hold on, mate, my mobi's ringing" and I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A JAMES BOND MOVIE. In all seriousness, it made me want to travel and get out of my southern california ghetto.
- Derrick
Hi mate...
- Håkan Dahlström
Yar Matey! How's yer yardarm hangin'?
- Alex Scoble
Alright mate?
- Timothy Griffin
:) You have my permission, Derrick old mate :) (and I really miss ppl saying that and 'moby' instead of cell....*sigh*)
- WorldofHiglet
LOL @ "James Bond movie" comment :) Was it the young Sean Connery on the beach of Dr. No´s island ? (which would fit Alex´s accent) :)
- Thomas Bøhm
I've watched far too many documentaries to call anyone mate. And that's after living in the UK for five and a half years. I just don't feel right around the word.
- Richard A.
LOL
- Derrick
don't u mean Australia?
- fijidaddy
Hehe, Derrick. Is "pal" or "buddy" the American alternative? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Good on ya,Derrick.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I lived in the UK for a long time - and much prefer using the word mate/s - also love the word bollocks - very versatile :)
- Patrick Jordan
Hah, we need an Australian friendfeed! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Kol, I find myself using 'dude' a lot. But then I was born and raised in Southern California. Patrick, let's do it, mate!
- Derrick
I'm a UKer and I love the way Aussies say Mate. My mate Karronnie from LA makes me laugh all day with his awesome accent. Need to get to the states to impress the laddies with my posh english/Bond accent
- Toby Graham
Allrighty - Matefeed - or MF for short :)
- Patrick Jordan
ahh, bollocks...Patrick has just reminded me of how great that is....as a word. To use.
- WorldofHiglet
good on ya mate. ;o) less bollox worrying what other numptys will think ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Agreed: "bollocks" is an excellent word which I use at every available opportunity, company allowing of course.
- Timothy Griffin
I've been known to substitute feck for fuck :)
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Love using feck and fecking as well. And yeah, bollocks is just so versatile - can mean anything from great (as in 'the dog's bollocks') to rubbish - as in my reply to dopey Twitter spammer touting how they'd 'discovered' a crappy ripoff iPhone unlock site - told him I was delighted for them but site was a loada bollocks :)
- Patrick Jordan
Tosser is another very good Brit word ...
- Patrick Jordan
"Wanker" gets used in my house a lot.
- Nine
Wanker is good too, but tosser always feels like it can be said with a bit more venom (often with a close cousin of fecking just in front of it) :)
- Patrick Jordan
Not everyone in the UK calls their friends "mates".
- Nicholas James
I want to start mating with some of my friends, but fear much resistance to this idea.
- Morgan Haley
Look, pal, don't start on me with all that old bollocks, you bloody tosser
- Ian May
is 'tosser' like 'wanker'?
- Morgan Haley
Yes, Morgan, English is rich in earthy vernacular :)
- WorldofHiglet
as long as I can still fiddle with myself, I don't care what it's called.... :-)
- Morgan Haley
Perhaps you should go the whole hog and call your friends "me old china" which is short for the cockney rhyming slang for mate, china plate. Cheers Geez !
- Paul Nash
OH, if we're doing rhyming slang, I like 'bristols' ...
- Patrick Jordan
Derrick, of course - dude - how come I forget that one, it's in so many US movies. Cheers, mate!
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm just trying to think of all the various alternatives I've been called to "mate": "chap", "fella", "geeza", "matey", "bloke". Can we think of any others? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
pal, dude,buddy,crony
- Banu Pluie
Kol "China" = china plate = mate :)
- James Beake
James, :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Porn industry seeks federal bailout - CNN - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009...
Danielle Fong, j1m, Mandi and 12 other people liked this
"Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry's survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people." “We should be delivering [the request] by the end of today to our congressmen and [Secretary of the Treasury Henry] Paulson asking for this $5 billion dollar bailout,” he told CNN Wednesday. Flynt and Francis concede the industry itself is in no financial danger — DVD sales have slipped over the past year, but Web traffic has continued to grow. But the industry leaders said the issue is a nation in need. "People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in the statement. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.""
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
This is awesome on so many levels.
- Mandi
Popular blog post ideas for lazy peeps - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Sean Oliver, Voyagerfan5761, Tris Hussey and 14 other people liked this
this is a really good post.. haha! I will do everything!..... not really..
- Cesar Sanchez
I really want to write a post complaining about Diggs alg. and then make the next post complaining about complaining about it
- Kevin Bondelli
Lazy post = link bait. ;)
- Cyndy
Hey, I resemble that remark!
- Mark Dykeman
Shouldn't that be titled, "82 popular blog post ideas for lazy peeps" ? or "A List of" since lists are popular? Amusing, anyway :)
- lilbyrdie
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