I’m not talking about Spotify- I’m sure it’s a great service, and the harder they fight for the fairness we both feel they deserve, the more I’m behind them. However, I’m long past caring about any business or service that supports this kind of behavior. In fact, I stopped supporting Pandora for that very reason, actually. Okay, point taken about Spotify itself, as well as Pandora. I am complaining about the fragmentation of the Internet that this represents – and I’m doing it by showing support for these people. I started out skeptical, but I’m pretty well sold on it now. I can’t wait for my American friends to be able to use Spotify. To withdraw support from an online music service that I love because they’re fighting a cause I believe in (as you appear to as well) would just be dumb. You can’t blame the internet startups for the ridiculous hurdles they keep having to face. ![]() When American companies want to stream in Britain, the publishers are the problem. ![]() When European companies want to stream in America, the labels are the problem. But a) they’re not allowed to and b) when they are, they get completely priced out of the market. Spotify are desperate to launch in the States, just as Pandora wanted to keep streaming in the UK. These guys are completely hamstrung by the absurd and tortuous territorial complications that the record labels introduce. What sort of idiotic commercial entity would do that? This is not because these services have ‘locked themselves to a specific geographic region’. In the same way that I can’t get Rhapsody or Pandora in the UK, Americans can’t use Spotify in the USA. Sorry you couldn’t play along, Darren – but your conclusion is completely bonkers. In the meantime – enjoy The Best of Twitify Volume One. Just to make it interesting, tomorrow’s Twitify is going to be a little different: I’ll choose a theme, and you can choose three songs (under 3 mins) that meet that theme.Ĭatch you then. Send the link to Twitter, and hashtag it #twitify Right-click on the name of the playlist and copy the HTTP link Make a playlist of three songs of less than three minutes duration ![]() If you want to join in tomorrow, here’s how you do it: Some really great tracks, quite a few of which I hadn’t heard before. So that’s a compilation album of short tracks put together and published by a dozen different people in the space of an hour. I listened to them all, chose a track from each playlist, and then made another playlist out of those 12 songs – called it The Best of Twitify Volume One and tweeted a link to that playlist. Sometimes things happen fast on the internet.Ībout an hour or so ago, I asked people on Twitter to send a link to a Spotify playlist consisting of three songs of their choice under three minutes duration.Ī dozen people who use both Twitter and Spotify humoured me and sent me their short lists.
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