Spotisfaction
Evening folks.
Our man in the field, James TAE, is posting updates from Glastonbury where he”™s working on getting everything set up for the festival this week. We”™re currently trending #spotisfaction on Twitter, so keep an eye out for snippets of behind the scenes info.
James”™ Twitter account is http://twitter.com/James_TAE
Take it easy, kids.
Spotisfaction Crew.
Evening folks.
Our man in the field, James TAE, is posting updates from Glastonbury where he”™s working on getting everything set up for the festival this week. We”™re currently trending #spotisfaction on Twitter, so keep an eye out for snippets of behind the scenes info.
James”™ Twitter account is http://twitter.com/James_TAE
Take it easy, kids.
Spotisfaction Crew.
Some exciting Spotisfaction news for your delectation this afternoon:
Firstly, some housekeeping. As some of our more observant readers may have already noticed, we decided to stop being cheap and have bought ourselves a new domain name! http://spotisfaction.tumblr.com is now officially https://www.spotisfaction.com. Feel free to change your bookmarks, innit. Way to be more professional, Spotisfaction! We”™ve also added a few links underneath our title frame including a new ”˜About Us”™ section, which I encourage you to check out.
Secondly, we will very shortly be expanding our blog section to include music news, reviews and features (among other things we haven”™t thought of yet). These will be in addition to our 3 playlists a week – which aren”™t going anywhere – and will hopefully be community-driven, ie, written by you good folks. Here”™s your chance to release your inner opinionista. If you saw an awesome gig recently, chuck us a review. Think it”™s a travesty that hardly anyone has heard a particular album? Send us a short piece on why you think everyone sucks for not listening to it. More info incoming shortly, but in the meantime consider this your advance warning to get writin”™.
Spotisfaction is constantly growing – get involved and get your voice heard.
To help us drive this forward, we”™ve brought in a couple of brand spanking, shiny new editors. Please give a nice, warm, slightly soggy Spotisfaction welcome to James TAE and Ben Hawling – you”™ll begin to see posts from these lovely chaps very shortly indeed.
Thirdly, we”™re working furiously behind the scenes on getting Spotisfaction out to the masses. No official announcement to make just yet as we”™re still hammering out the details, but expect good things shortly. Sorry for being vague, but these are ridiculously exciting times”¦ plus I wanted to be a bit cryptic and mysterious for once :P
Finally, a thank you. All of these changes were bought about after reading your feedback. We exist because of and thanks to you guys. Thanks for your support. As always, if we can do anything to improve Spotisfaction, please let us know.
[David]
PS. If any of you lovely folks is a whizz with Photoshop and/or webdesign, please get in touch at admin@spotisfaction.com – we may have a job for you. HEARTS AND STUFF.
Evening all.
Just a quick bit of information I wish to share with you all. Are you new to this Spotisfaction thing? Do you want to listen to a playlist that some bloke with a shaved afro and dangerously long fingernails posted last month but don”™t want to trawl through the entire blog looking for it? Well you”™re in luck, because you can now head over to the Spotisfaction Archives here (or if you”™re prejudice against clicking text links you could click that little clock icon on the top right of this blog). Contained within is every single submission we”™ve published. Woot. Is that still too much effort, then you can head over to either Dave”™s Spotify profile or my Spotify profile, which also feature the entire Spotisfaction back catalogue.
Right, back to work.
[Thom]
Hey guys,
As you know, here at Spotisfaction Towers we have a huge crush on Spotify. A manly crush, you might say. A deep, meaningful, sweaty and sadly unrequited man crush, but a man crush nonetheless. And so, the following excites us:
http://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/open/
Spotify Open is a free version of our favourite music-streaming client. If you”™ve not been listening to Spotisfaction because you didn”™t have an invite, now”™s the time to get involved!
Much <3 to the Spotify crew.
PS. Yes, this is old news, but I”™m OK with it.
David.
Sup. So, recently we”™ve had some lovely feedback about Spotisfaction but it feels as if the submissions are gradually slowing down and I think it”™s a good idea to try and address how we can improve things for you guys. What we”™d like to ask is the following question:
If Spotisfaction could have one more feature, what would it be?
To help, I”™ll share some comments we recently received.
I think you guys have done a really good job in starting a community here and I like supporting that however I could. In that respect I think you could actually open up what Spotisfaction ”˜is”™, or rather ”˜does”™ – it is quintessentially about sharing music, and so the mixes should remain integral to what it does, but you can suppliment and expand the community by opening up to community journalism and that sort of thing. You could write one on the Digital Rights Bill, for example, [or] an article on the expansion of Spotify in general, and the impact the new facebook and personal library integration the new update has. We could definitely kick something like this off!
Further thoughts: People could submit album reviews, perhaps only for albums that are on Spotify so that you don”™t break the spotify-4th-wall, so to speak. Similarly, you could do artist overviews, in a similar way to Allmusic so that you”™re literally building a Spotisfaction editorial/journalistic community, all tied in by the fact it can be instantly listened to through Spotify
Would people be interested in something like this? If we were to open up Spotisfaction to such submissions, are there many of you that would submit articles to us?
Just a thought to get the ol”™ creative juices flowing – all other suggestions are gratefully received!
Much love, yo.
David
Turns out that while our Tumblr theme was sort of pretty, it didn”™t really let us do anything fun. So”¦ after a good couple of hours of messing around with a new theme (ARGH HTML WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO?!), we”™re ready to introduce our new commenting system!
Our good friend Craig pointed out that “”¦Spotisfaction has the potential to inspire much debate, and people would enjoy feedback on their selections.” – so, please do get involved and leave encouragement, props, ask questions or whatever you like.
We”™re using DISQUS (http://disqus.com/overview/) for this functionality. All you need to do to comment on a playlist is click on the Comments link underneath the post.
You can post comments anonymously as a guest, with your Twitter account, or via a Yahoo!, OpenID or DISQUS login.
Ladies and gents, we hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy a good rack of BBQ ribs (read: a lot).
TATA.
David
(Twitter)
Yo! So, one of my all-time favourite bands are playing in Birmingham on Saturday 26th June. The Spotisfaction crew are going, and we”™d like you guys to come too.
I”™ve set up a Facebook event with further details, including where to buy the tickets from and a rough idea of what the plan will be.
Give us a shout if you”™d like to come with us, and we”™ll send you an invite! You can find me on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/SpotisfactionDavid
Woop!
David
I haven”™t had chance to post recently, it”™s been a pretty wild April that has managed to near bankrupt me. Lots of news, lots of news. I”™d planed to update later this week with enough stuff to make up for the last week or so of quiet. However, this couldn”™t really wait. The Digital Economy BillSit up and take note, people. This is important. It damn well is. Trust me, sitting this one out will piss the Spotisfaction boys to no end. So make sure you damn well read it. And ACT, for the love of God. Unless you are a soul-less, ball-less no brain who is happy to sit on and smile whilst the condiments that are your liberties are being taken from the dinner table that is your life. I for one love a bit of wasabi. Don”™t let them take our wasabi!
Link: Mukinabaht: Save Our Interwubs
I haven”™t had chance to post recently, it”™s been a pretty wild April that has managed to near bankrupt me. Lots of news, lots of news. I”™d planed to update later this week with enough stuff to make up for the last week or so of quiet. However, this couldn”™t really wait.
The Digital Economy Bill
Sit up and take note, people. This is important. It damn well is. Trust me, sitting this one out will piss the Spotisfaction boys to no end. So make sure you damn well read it. And ACT, for the love of God. Unless you are a soul-less, ball-less no brain who is happy to sit on and smile whilst the condiments that are your liberties are being taken from the dinner table that is your life. I for one love a bit of wasabi. Don”™t let them take our wasabi!
To make things easier for you, you can now ask questions, provide feedback or even contribute by going to the below link:
http://spotisfaction.tumblr.com/ask
Fill in the form with your questions or comments and by the power of magic and spandex in will arrive in our grubby little inbox for us to read. I believe that you can submit anonymous questions if you”™re worried about ridicule and I don”™t believe your questions will be published to the public.
Come on, we”™re not giving you any excuses. Submit some shit.
Thom
(Twitter)
Hi folks.
So, we”™ve been thinking about how to best go about this whole Spotisfaction malarkey, and have been asking some listeners what they think about the whole thing. It seems that it”™s sometimes hard to find enough time to listen to a 2hr playlist every day. So, that leaves us with a couple of options:
We could move to an every-other-day kind of system to avoid over-saturating people”™s brainparts with quality music lists. That”™d mean that the pressure to fire out a killer playlist would be a bit higher to compensate. The playlists so far have been banging”¦Â can the human brain cope with the next level of amazing? I foresee explogasms in the near future.
We could create a ”˜best of”™ list as voted by our listeners to highlight any stand-out tracks that may have been missed throughout the week. Perhaps this could be in the form of a collaborative playlist on a Friday? We could all choose, say, 4 tracks that we loved that week and bung them into Friday”™s playlist. The drawback here is that it”™d involve a fair amount of audience participation and wouldn”™t work if you fine kids didn”™t help out.
So, we”™re looking for some feedback please! Let us know what you”™d prefer, or even if you”™d like us to carry on as we have been doing.
David
(Follow me on Twitter)
Finally, a question: How would you describe Lady GaGa in 10 words or less?
Like Spotisfaction? Want to get involved? Submit your own playlist.
A”™ight. We”™re looking for people to contribute playlists to our Spotisfaction series, so if you like what we”™re doing, give it a shot yerself. To see the guidelines, please continue reading”¦
Playlists can be submitted to spotisfaction@gmail.com, in person, by courier or via the medium of dance.
Finally, if anyone would like to get involved but doesn”™t have Spotify, give me a shout for an invitation.
Ta,
[David]
Okay. So we”™re getting there. Here is the deal. At present, Dave and I are swapping playlists daily. I”™m taking Monday and Wednesday and he”™s taking Tuesday and Thursday. Friday we had planned to do a collaborative playlist and then leave it for the weekend. Instead I want someone to put”¦Submissions to: spotisfaction@googlemail.com
Link: NEWS: Mukinabaht: Friday Morning Guest Spotisfaction?
Okay. So we”™re getting there. Here is the deal.
At present, Dave and I are swapping playlists daily. I”™m taking Monday and Wednesday and he”™s taking Tuesday and Thursday. Friday we had planned to do a collaborative playlist and then leave it for the weekend. Instead I want someone to put”¦
Submissions to: spotisfaction@googlemail.com