Comments on: Spotify solves discovery by discovering music ain’t so social after all

By: Niels Munksgaard

Niels Munksgaard — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:40:12 +0000

Diane, in UK you have Nokia Music. Free music streaming, no ads, no registration, no subscription … And it is curated :-)

By: Corey Tate

Corey Tate — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:13:43 +0000

Google+ is doing social music right with its new Communities feature. Currently I’m in a few circles dedicated to certain genres/types of music. In this case social isn’t real world friends trying to join music interests but instead online fiends who share a passion for the same kind of music as you. It’s been great so far.

By: Scott M. Graves

Scott M. Graves — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:51:43 +0000

To add some historical perspective to your DJ comment RomneyM, the story goes that the Duke, as in Duke Ellington would regularly go through the book with his musicians during rehearsal or when chit-chatting. When a tune was overwhelmingly lauded by the musicians, he tended to take them out of regular rotation. The lesson there if you want to call it that (as a bandleader this was pitched to me many year ago) that ‘musician’s’ tunes were not the ones that the average listener probably wanted to hear. Technology that provides a space for you and I to connect and share if an interest is there is the best way to go organically rather than for a service to pitch ideas to me.

By: Diane Dalmon

Diane Dalmon — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:41:44 +0000

If only Pandora was still available in the UK …

By: Paul W

Paul W — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:18:17 +0000

I’m a longtime Rhapsody subscriber who loves using it to discover something new (to me). A few years ago, I picked up the book “1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die,” by music critic Tom Moon. (http://amzn.to/VBWYCq) I am randomly listening to them (one from the “A” section, one from “B”, etc) and often use them as jumping-off spots for more explorations.

He also has a website that he keeps updated: 1000recordings.com

So yeah, I guess that’s not too social.

By: Thomas Juul

Thomas Juul — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:07:57 +0000

I find all my musical friends and recommendations at http://www.last.fm/user/Kirpus69
I pick friends from their stats – stats don’t lie.

By: Fred Roosevelt

Fred Roosevelt — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:01:34 +0000

Your friends helping you discover new things is the future in social.

There is a facebook recommendation engine app that already does what spotify is trying to do called recomendo.
http://recomen.do/

it recommends facebook likes for a user based on their taste and in addition.
you can designate friends as tastemakers in specific categories and that influences what is recommended to you.

By: raspberryjones

raspberryjones — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:22:31 +0000

Forgive me, but this made me laugh: “…new beacons of new music – ‘journalists, trendsetters and artists’…” Because never before in history have those folks been “beacons of new music,” because appropriate content-programming is a novel concept. Wow…same as it ever was indeed.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:55:40 +0000

Music discovery done right: http://22tracks.com

By: Alice Enders

Alice Enders — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:40:16 +0000

Isn’t curation what radio has been about for decades? After trying to re-invent the wheel, Spotify goes back to the wheel…