Fleet Foxes removed :-)

Can you burn it? Do the streaming to mp3 programmes work? Not that I'm interested, mind.

Here's japes, why don't we all start listening to the Infinite Playlist at the same time on Friday afternoon and share a communal listening experience whilst we post our reactions?

..furiously to the infinite playlist, is there going to be a self imposed limit each person is allowed to add?

but when i click on the 'here' link that AH kindly posted, I need to furnish an 'invitation code', which I don't have. Alternatively, I can submit my email address to be put on a list.

Am I correct that those of you browsing in the UK aren't having any such problems and are going straight to the downloading of the app?

...was Living Colour. Funny that, since they're famous for being the act that nobody liked.

I was thinking that Spotify might be a good home for the results of the randomizer... and there could also be a playlist featuring a track from all the Word cover stars to date...

I shall attempt to make a mark on the playlist when I get home.

has started...

How long before someone adds an entire album, in track order, to the playlist?

If you rearrange by artist or title, how can you get back to the Totally Official running order? The back button doesn't really work if you've shut down your browser or had a power cut as I just did. And it remembers your last settings, so it seems your stuck with them. All that seems to work is removing it from my Playlists sidebar and then clicking on the Web link up there to open a new version, but that's a bit fiddly.

How do I "save" the playlist so that I can find it again without having to click on the link from this thread everytime - any ideas?

iced up window peering at the wonders displayed within our work pc's blocked for new applications by the horrible mill owners who want us to sweep up cotton from under dangerous flying looms instead of listening to the Mill town brothers b sides all day , sorry that should be draw up 6 month roject plans and sort out new supply invoices....

Also aren't the requests to record stuff mentioned above missing the point of streaming service the idea being you just stream stuff all the time. lastly should I mention I only joined last FM last week I can see this being like the Dragon 32 incident all over again.

Blocked by firewall at work, but will give it a try at home.

Would this be likely to become available as an ipod touch/iphone app, I wonder. Last.fm is dead good and that Wolfgang's Vault that was mentioned in another thread recently has just made it onto my Touch, but am I being cynical to think that Apple wouldn't want to be giving too much encouragement to "the new iTunes"?

Now tell me it's already available...

Thanks for the invite!

I typed "Pink Floyd" in the search engine and all I got was covers and tributes. Am I doing something wrong or are there no Pink Floyd tracks on Spotify?

streams music around the house via a wireless network should get Airfoil. You can then stream Spotify in the same way as iTunes. I'm listening to the Word infinite playlist now in the kitchen!
Cooking doesn't get much funkier than this!!

I long for the day's of vinyl, record players and 45 minute albums. i knew where i was then. This is all way beyond my shrinking 39 year old brain.

So no idea what everyone's going on about. Can you get fries with it?

..and all I can say is, what good taste we've all got.

also listening and loving it!! Is it just me or does the Was (Not Was) track 'Crazy Water' sound very like 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) by Wilson Pickett?

I have selected 75 tracks to 'queue' (ie listen to), many of them from unknown (to me) artists.
It's fantastic, I'm finding all sorts of new treasures.
I am selecting the queue by taking note of previous mentions from within the Word community, and the entirely senseless reason of whether the group/artist has an 'interesting name'.
Rock a Doodle Do!

The link asks for an invitation code ... how do I get that?

Just when I'd got used to Blip.fm, someone comes up with another one.

where it states:

WORD readers can start using Spotify by clicking here. Once you've joined, you can listen to a couple of playlists we've already made and contribute to them too.

Click on the link up there, and you'll almost be there.

Thanks.

I suppose some 'Goth' is out?

shame, there's some damn fine stuff to be had... slopes off in black mood to read HP Lovecraft

My wife was just about recognising me. Now I will have to disappear again and listen to MORE music.

Tsk.

Ha! Supper's Ready on already. Not me. Can you guess my contribution?

anyone willing to own up?

I confess to Glittering prize, it's a fair cop Guv.

That few other magazines readerships would come up with a playlist as varied (and as good) as this one.

If you want to get it back to playlist order, just click "artist" twice and it sorts by artist, then back into the playlist order.

Cancel my subscription and give me my money back.

Oh, £0.00. I take cheques.

of adding Todd Rundgren to the list

Loving the playlist, but how do you add tracks - only got Spotify today so still learning how to use it...
Any help?

you will know that the Yoko Ono track is my gift to you. But you can rest assured there will be only the one.

Tracks and rising....

I've had a fantastic evening listening to the massives choices and adding a few myself. What a great service and first class taste demonstrated by the massive.

if you live in a country excluded such as Oz.

i wanna be in your gang

gotta be the convict thing again

'Erm The Fleetwood Mac Terrorist Brigade have struck again............

Must they always use fear as their only weapon?

Apart from that, a most excellente playlist so far- keep the quality quotient high.

The missus says I can use the computer tonight, so await arcane country rock, odd folk rock and covers aplenty. I bet you can't wait. It's, amongst others, a Phil Pickett alert, pop pickers! (Don't worry, it's got RT on it as well)

Whoever thinks we all want to hear 20-odd tracks by Macca followed by 60-odd by The Who, one after the other, is actually quite mistaken.

playlist police remove them?!

Don't think you can delete them yourself- although Oi tink The Word Police have- good show

that! Macca and The Who are gone, as are The Specials. They only lasted about a minute!

If you 'right click' on a track, you can start a queue, (a playlist within a playlist) and so can leave out any unwanted choices.
If you right click and hold 'control' at the same time, you can compile a multiple queue at one go, so you can, in other words, form a secondary playlist of, say, fifty songs, in about fifty seconds.

By the way, the multiple Who and McCartney tracks have ermmm 'gone'.

...you set your preferences to "enable scrobbling to Last.FM"?

that the songs you've played on Spotify will show up on your LastFM profile page, but I could be wrong!

Spotify is great, maybe good enough to convert me away from Last.fm.

Was never a fan of iTunes, partly because of the DRM and UK vs US price differences, and because it always makes my old PC run slowly, but mainly because I've just never really liked downloads. Streaming music to see if you like it, then buying the CD (or vinyl) seems much more preferable.

Article about streaming music replacing downloads from the Guardian here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/digitalmusic-drm

Would be interesting to see how this affects the downloads section - are we all going to stop downloading stuff based on the discussions / recommendations here and just listen to it on spotify?

I've asked this question on another message board without satisfactory answer...how does spotify (which I've signed up to) differ from the last.fm radio/playlist functions? (It is also possible to compile communal playlists on last.fm). I didn't find spotify any easier than last to use (I'm no technophile but I don't find anything complex or difficult about last fm). Also, having a conscience, I'm also wary of whether artists are getting paid anything for being on spotify - didn't they have to remove 10000 tracks recently which they'd ripped from illegal fire shares?

gone a bit 'Pete' with the Word playlist, there's two of everything

I can't add to the playlist. :-(

I can create new playlists.

nevermind yer Beatles and Foyds, there's no Frank Zappa - cover versions and Dweezil stuff but no Inca Roads, Excentrifugal Forz or Penguin in Bondage - what is this world coming to?

Who was the genius that added ‘Endless Art’ by A House? I was busy hunting for that very track last week but couldn’t remember the exact title so held out little hope of ever finding it. I only had an old listening cassette from the record company about 20 years ago, wasn’t even sure it was ever released. My, you’re a discerning lot aren’t ya? Made my day anyway.

I’ve got the Infinite Playlist on shuffle and finding new gems already…

Strange. I can't add to this! I want to join in and it won't let me. I just get the ne-entry symbol when dragging.

in Ireland :-(

I have yet to find a single track in any list that plays all the way through without stopping. A couple stopped so many times they became unlistenable. Obviously the data isn't arriving as fast as the player wants to play it. I usually get good download speeds for other content and I can't find anything to overcome this in the rather skimpy help files. Ho hum.

the sounds from Spotify™, it has been too much of a joy and has filled in so many blank holes in my listening. I have in fact ordered two albums that I have previewed online for a week: The Groundhogs~Solid and The Teardrop Explodes~Peel sessions

howzaboutthatthen?

...seen big articles in The Guardian and The Sunday Times enthusing about Spotify

They did this for Last FM. Accessing Spotify playlists via Sonos and then streaming throughout the home would be my idea of heaven.

Just a thought.....

I can't actually contribute to the playlist! Everyone else seems to be deleting and adding to their hearts content, but I seem to be unable to do so. Help! Please?

Here's a list of songs for little chiddlers. I've put a few in my little one seems to like. I'd love to hear some more - I need a way to keep him amused while I change his nappy...

http://open.spotify.com/user/niks/playlist/5rnIYWCJBVqiabntVik2WL

Added a few that my 5 year old enjoyed during The Nappy Years.

I've started it off, add away Spotifiers...

http://open.spotify.com/user/niks/playlist/6UUfgqWgt0f8aRUYwRDf3R

No need to be too proscriptive - country, alt.country, bluegrass, cow punk, Americana, old time string band, honky tonk, whatever, so long as it is lonesome, rootin' and tootin'.

afflicting many of us. It's like an OK branch of Virgin records 10 years ago in terms of availability, especially in the catacombs of country, folk and world.

Can anyone explain the business model behind Spotify? Do they have to pay royalties every time a song is played? If so, will the meagre advertising cover this? I've played it pretty much constantly since seeing it mentioned on here and I have to say that so far I've not felt the urge to go straight to Amazon and order a CD. I suspect I'm not alone...

I've since found this: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/spotify-ceo-talks-up-plans-for-us... where Spotify's CEO sheds some light on the question:

"Many (including us) have been confused how Spotify's business model actually works. We asked Ek whether it pays for music on a flat-rate system or per-song. As we expected, he was cagey. "In basic terms, Spotify aggregates content from right holders, distributes it to consumers through our technical platform and monetises both through a free, ad-funded service, and a subscription service," explains Ek."

So far I've not felt the need to either order a CD of an artist I've listened to on Spotify or upgrade to the premium service, as the ads are so unobtrusive as to be not worth bothering about. Can this go on?