Originally Posted by brianluvdvd (Post 10903402)

Plays for me fine (premium user in case you are wondering). Actually have heard this song before and was very surprised by that. :lol:

Originally Posted by brianluvdvd (Post 10903601)

I was just laughing that I listen to almost everything but hip-hop or rap. So i was very surprised when I new the tune and had heard the song. I have no idea where I have heard it from. Was it popular when it was released.

Originally Posted by brianluvdvd (Post 10903601)

I was just laughing that I listen to almost everything but hip-hop or rap. So i was very surprised when I new the tune and had heard the song. I have no idea where I have heard it from. Was it popular when it was released.

Did you ever get it to work?

Originally Posted by D.Pham00 (Post 10920943)

For some reason, on my Pixi, the Spotify mobile keeps saying i'm offline. when doing a search, it will say it. On songs grayed out, it says" Streaming requires an active connection. I have tried to open web pages on my phone, it works fine.

I did check the preferences to make sure that forced offline is off. is there some fix for this?

Originally Posted by al_bundy (Post 10922217)

anyone notice music vanishing? looks like some metallica stuff is not there anymore. and the black album is missing as well even though almost everything else is there

Originally Posted by brianluvdvd (Post 10920946)

That's happened to me a couple of times and after rebooting my computer, it fixed it.

Originally Posted by The Bus (Post 10953979)

Didn't bother with this in China since I wanted to listen to music at work. To make it seem like I was in the US, I'd have to VPN in. This would make downloads pretty slow, and disconnect me from the server at work. So it just didn't make sense.

Finally tried it this week and I really, really like it. Paid for the premium subscription within the day.

Originally Posted by RichC2 (Post 11659936)

I don't know if this is new or what, but they finally have a working Web Player for their service:

https://play.spotify.com/

Originally Posted by bbc_news

Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke has pulled some albums from music-streaming service Spotify in protest at how much it pays artists.

Yorke has pulled his solo album The Eraser as well as a joint project with producer Nigel Godrich, Atoms for Peace.

The singer tweeted that they were "standing up for our fellow musicians" by removing their albums.

Radiohead's albums are still available on the site.

Yorke tweeted: "Make no mistake new artists you discover on #Spotify will no[t] get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples."

Spotify is the world's most popular music streaming service. Recent figures from the company say it has 24 million active users, of whom six million pay a monthly fee for added features.

It says that it has paid $500m (£332m) to rights holders since it was launched in Sweden in 2008.

Yorke has also removed his music from rival streaming site Rdio.

"It's an equation that just doesn't work," Godrich said on Twitter. "The music industry is being taken over by the back door... and if we don't try and make it fair for new music producers and artists... then the art will suffer.

"Make no mistake. These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system."

Godrich, who has produced on every Radiohead album since OK Computer, added: "Plus people are scared to speak up or not take part as they are told they will lose invaluable exposure if they don't play ball. Meanwhile."

British electronica artist Four Tet replied with his support: "Exactly. I had everything on my label taken off. Don't want to be part of this crap."

There has been much controversy over how much streaming sites like Spotify and Pandora pay artists, which comes as Pandora is pushing to change US laws to lower how much it must pay in royalties to songwriters.

The band Pink Floyd recently published an editorial on the issue.

"Nearly 90% of the artists who get a cheque for digital play receive less than $5,000 a year.

"They cannot afford the 85% pay cut Pandora asked Congress to impose on the music community," Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason added.

Subscription services are the fastest growing area in digital music, making up 13% of worldwide sales. But 57% of global recorded music sales still come from physical products such as CDs, down from 74% in 2008.

As well as Spotify, Rdio and Pandora, services like Xbox Music, Google Play Music All Access and the soon-to-launch iTunes Radio compete for streaming listeners.

Originally Posted by benedict (Post 11764993)

I certainly think that, with the reduced delivery costs, the originators of artistic material be it music, literary or whatever, should be getting at least as much as they did under the more traditional formats.