#spotify (16 links)
- Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? newyorker.com
Artists have always fretted about the pressure to conform, but the data-driven, music-as-content era feels different. “You are a Spotify employee at that point,” Daniel Lopatin, who makes abstract electronic music as Oneohtrix Point Never, told Pelly. “If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what is the music that you’re not making? What does the music you’re not making sound like?” Listeners might wonder something similar. What does the music we’re not hearing sound like?
everynoise.com is and was a projection of things I worked on at the Echo Nest, and then Spotify. As of this morning, I'm not working there, and I expect most of the things I did will no longer be done. The domain is mine, but the processes that updated the site have already stopped running, and the current server may stop serving at any moment. Once that happens, I will try to bring back at least a wistful memorial to what it was.
- Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals jeremiahlee.com
Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” and neither should you.
- woutervanwijk/Pi-MusicBox · GitHub github.com
<blockquote>An image (SD-card) to turn the Raspberry Pi into an easy to use MusicBox with Spotify playback and AirTunes streaming</blockquote>
"Until now, the argument in favor of streaming had broadly been that on-demand services fill the same sort of function as radio: a discovery system that leads to purchasing. But the NPD and NARM numbers suggest that, for many people at least, the opposite is true — having music streamed on demand made them less likely to purchase." It's getting harder to stomach Spotify and other streaming services with any hat on.
- Library and Local Files - Spotify spotify.com
Unexpected. "In Sweden, both Sony and UMG are making more money from Spotify than from any other retailer – online or offline."
A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.
- Spotify - the next generation - Spotify spotify.com
New Spotify with a number of interesting new features.
- How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Spotify playlist of Ghostly's 110 albums of the decade. If Warp were on Spotify this would be even better (can't blame them for not being, though).
- Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com sharemyplaylists.com
Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music