I too will check out this recommendations, thanks Curiosity. Was already a big fan of Lousy Connection (love those rolling trumpet parps) so will check out others.

Weirdly, we had the Chopley playlist on heavy rotation during our holiday in France. I'd say I enjoyed about 50% of it, which isn't a bad hit rate. Could do without being reminded of the Cardigans, though.

My (not at all leftfield but nevertheless excellent) jukebox additions to the list would be:

Fight Like Apes - Something Global
Futureheads - Hounds of Love
Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind
Erasure - A Little Respect
Beastie Boys - Skills to Pay the Bills
Super Furry Animals - Chupacabras
The Hold Steady - Same Kooks
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Aztec Camera - Somewhere in My Heart
Smashing Pumpkins - Jellybelly
Fuck Buttons - Brainfreeze

Chupacabras was always my song of choice when you had slightly too long a gap at the end of one side of a tape. [/old]

Weirdly, we had the Chopley playlist on heavy rotation during our holiday in France. I'd say I enjoyed about 50% of it, which isn't a bad hit rate. Could do without being reminded of the Cardigans, though.

I loved My Favourite Game, mostly down to it being on the Gran Turismo soundtrack

I done this.

So, I got a 24mo Premium sub to this with my phone contract. Started adding all my library to it so I can cancel my Apple Music sub... but yet I've only got up to D (Dead Kennedys in fact) and it's told me my library is now full! So I look it up and there's a 10k song limit. I mean...what? Why? It's not like I'm uploading or downloading all these songs and causing strain on their servers. How on earth does it make a difference how many songs I have added to my library? Infuriating.

This might sound like a stupid question, but are you adding all these files locally? Isn't most of it available on Spotify already so that you can just search and create playlists?

How much of it isn't already on Spotify?

What I mean though is that surely the my files thing is for adding tracks that aren't already on Spotify? If they're already there what's the value in adding them?

What I mean though is that surely the my files thing is for adding tracks that aren't already on Spotify? If they're already there what's the value in adding them?

However Gaywood has offered an alternative which seems to work so it's all good.

Yes, I think Monster got a lukewarm reception as it wasn't Automatic. I look forward tonthoa diacussion with the pair of you tomorrow

Anyone listened to their Spotify Time Capsule? A playlist created by Spotify playing the music you loved as a teenager.

Weirdly accurate.

Mine's pretty good apart from starting with 2 disney songs

Anyone listened to their Spotify Time Capsule? A playlist created by Spotify playing the music you loved as a teenager.

Weirdly accurate.

“You keep using that word, ‘product.’ I’m not trying to be difficult, I’m really asking you: what do you think your product is?”

The executive was surprised. He stared at me blankly and said, “What do you mean? Our product is Spotify.”

There it was. It was a shocking admission to me, in earshot of everyone, and one he obviously didn’t think was an admission at all.

“No no… sorry,” I said, shaking my head in disbelief. “Your product isn’t ‘Spotify.’” He continued to stare at me. I said, “Sir, your product is music.” The emboldened musicians standing around us started laughing. The exec smiled and backed away, “Well okay, if you’re going to be like that.”

“Wait,” I said, “Listen, it’s music. Your product is music. The reason I know that is because if we went out into the street right now and asked a thousand people what Starbucks’ ‘product’ is, they’d all say coffee. Not a single person would say ‘Starbucks’ product is Starbucks.’ Right?”

His smile faded.

“And by the way,” I added, “Stop calling your subscribers ‘users.’ They’re not ‘users,’ they’re listeners––our listeners in fact. You’re the ‘user.’ You’re using our music to monetize our listeners for your profit.”

He looked at me as if I’d just shot Santa Claus in the face.

“No, man! You’re wrong!” He was sweating now, and the dozen or so musicians who’d gathered around us began heckling him. He shouted, “Spotify is our product! You don’t get it at all!” He stormed off.

He does have a point, though, in that without the music Spotify would literally be nothing.

Well, apparently, Spotify are.

No, but by arguing that Spotify is the product (which I'm reading as "the reason that people use Spotify") that is basically what he's saying.

By my reading (which could be entirely bollocks, of course) the article writer's point is that Spotify's execs are under the impression that people use Spotify because it's Spotify, and I imagine there's an element of "the artists should be glad to be on Spotify!" attached to that too.

That entire point though could be, and indeed was, made in a single sentence without all the self-aggrandising bullshit and idiotic comparisons attached to it.

Whilst there isn’t a set figure, they don’t vary by that much from what I have heard (well, they do in percentage terms but not in real cash terms so you could argue either way).

Spotify and its ilk are set up to benefit the consumers at the expense of the average artist. There are exceptions who break out because of these platforms, of course, but on the whole the amount of money most acts make from sales+streams is way down. I do feel kind of bad about it, but I do go to a lot of live shows to try to support the smaller acts I care about.

It's a free market, and I wish some viable alternative happens that gives musicians their rightful share, but even so i'd rather if Spotify is winning instead of Google or Apple.

I wish some viable alternative happens that gives musicians their rightful share