Background: I’ve used Grooveshark for around a year now, and have been paying for VIP since September. I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with disappearing songs from my playlists and the unavailability of “key” songs like Rolling in the Deep. Grooveshark’s “host music until we receive a DMCA” model stops working when record companies start caring and start DMCAing.

I splurged last night on the Unlimited ($5) subscription and spent 4-5 hours setting up my entire “collection” on Spotify. It’s great. All the music is “legit”, ie actually licensed as opposed to Grooveshark’s mostly illegal model. A couple albums are missing here and there, namely all of Arcade Fire, and Daft Punk’s Discovery, but they had just abut everything else I wanted available, including many “rare” Muse B-sides, “indie” artists, and random dance remixes of stuff. It automatically scans your hard drive for music files and adds them to your library, which is AWESOME, and perfect for someone who doesn’t want to abandon their extensive catalog, or if you have super rare stuff that the Spotify catalog doesn’t have, or if you like The Beatles. Unfortunately it doesn’t like my WMA lossless files (probably not FLAC either), but I have most of them transcoded to v0 VBR on a separate hard drive which I’ll move around and import eventually.

Sound quality is 160 kbps Ogg Vorbis at the free and Unlimited level, 320kbps at Premium ($10 a month). It sounds fine (on RPI TV’s stereo monitors), much better than Grooveshark. Albums do NOT play back gaplessly. I do prefer Grooveshark’s “now playing” bar, but Spotify does allow you to queue things on-demand with a simple right-click -> Queue. It also shows the list of upcoming shuffled songs, which is a wonderful feature Grooveshark neglected. However, it doesn’t shuffle “queued” songs, only songs from whatever source you’re “playing from”. Additionally, you’re only able to reorder songs you’ve queued, so if you’re playing from a playlist you can’t reorder the songs in your “play queue”, like you can in Grooveshark. The workaround is to queue the whole playlist instead of playing from the playlist, but that’s slightly awkward and counter-intuitive, and then you can’t shuffle. So, some improvements to be made to the Now Playing interface.

Social networking integration, blah blah, I see Jeff in my right panel. It’s missing a “music discovery” tool like Grooveshark’s Radio, but I suppose there are enough other tools out there to help with that (Grooveshark mostly suggests garbage anyway).

I’m already considering upgrading to the $10 a month plan, namely for the mobile app. 320kbps and offline support would be nice too, but I’d be mostly paying for the mobile app.

Potential song list:

We Interrupt This Program (CuttlefishTech Remix) — Coburn
Don’t Interrupt That Girl Hollerin’ (CuttlefishTech Remix) — Coburn vs. Gwen Stefani (easy combo)
Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) [CuttlefishTech Remix] — David Guetta vs. The Egg
What Else Is There? (CuttlefishTech Remix) — Royksopp (maybe combo with the JCA radio mix?)
Tracking Treasure Down (CuttlefishTech Radio Remix) — Gabriel & Dresden
Love is Gone (Fred Rister and Goachim Garraud Remix) — David Guetta
Destroy Everything You Touch — Ladytron (maybe combo with Hot Chip remix?)
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit — Fedde Le Grand
Let Me Think About It — Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand
30 Minutes vs Nyana — t.A.T.u vs DJ Tiesto
Feels Like Home — Meck
Calabria/Calabria 2008 — Rune / Enur
Da Funk / Funk Ad — Daft Punk
Eisbaer — Groovezone
Faster Kill Pussycat (Roman Hunter Remix) — Paul Oakenfold
L.E.F. — Ferry Corsten
He’s a Pirate / Jack’s Suite — Tiesto / Oakenfold
Let Go — Paul Van Dyk
Not Over (Robert Vadney Club Edit) — Paul Oakenfold
On My Mind — Thomilla
Where’s Your Head At — Basement Jaxx
Never Be Alone / We Are Your Friends — Justice vs Simian
Turn on the Music – Roger Sanchez

Any other ideas? Something with a bug house beat?

Song list from the first mix was:
0:00 – CuttlefishTech Intro — CuttlefishTech
0:18 – We Interrupt This Program (JCA Mix) — Coburn
3:38 – Destroy Everything You Touch — Ladytron
7:40 – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit — Fedde Le Grand
9:57 – Jack’s Suite — Paul Oakenfold
12:28 – New Born (Oakenfold Remix) — Muse
17:38 – Not Gonna Get Us (Remix) — t.A.T.u.
21:49 – Faster Kill Pussycat (Roman Hunter Remix) — Paul Oakenfold
28:55 – Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) [CuttlefishTech Remix v2] — David Guetta vs. The Egg (Custom intro)
34:23 – End

So, lots of returning candidates! I want to keep the new mix moving a bit more, so I’ll be cutting up the songs a lot. Cuttlefish is cutting songs. Oh dear =(

Lyrics as follows:

Aaaand Download Here (10.5 mb)

Enjoy?

Oh, and I realized afterward I butchered a lot of pronunciation. Mainly “sin”. OH WELL…

Embedded Video

I absolutely love the song, and its one of the better videos I’ve seen in a while!

And since the music video is absolutely amazing, it just makes the song even more special for me!

Remember, I remixed this song a while back:

I finally got around to tweaking my remix of Love Don’t Let Me Go. The second (final?) version is below:

Download here! (6 megs, 5:17)

The original song and post are below!

I’ve created my first remix! It’s a mash-up of three songs:

• Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta
• Walking Away – The Egg
• Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) – David Guetta vs. The Egg

It’s kinda funny, but I made a mashup of a mashup! It’s not the best, there’s a couple rough transitions, and I’ll release a 2nd version this weekend.

Download here! (6 megs, 5:12)

Ugh, double quote action, oh well!

You can listen it on my Flash Zune MP3 player, or download here:
Royksopp – What Else Is There (CuttlefishTech Edit).mp3.

It’s still in development, but its already pretty cool!

http://zune.cuttlefishtech.com/

Original (EQ’d)

Extended (EQ’d)

Mixed (EQ + Effects!)

And for you purists, the original (warning–file has noise)!

Original

If someone knows the name of the song, or a full version (which I doubt exists!) let me know! It would be cool if someone could mix a longer, fuller version!

This version combines three different versions of the song, the Interrupted Vocal Mix, the Radio Edit, and the Jean Claude Ades (JCA) mix.

Here’s the link to the extended remix:
http://uploads.cuttlefishtech.com/WeInterruptThisProgram(CuttlefishTechExtendedMix).mp3

And here’s a link to the looping mix (slightly modified ending for looping madness!) for when you want to listen to the same thing for 5 hours:
http://uploads.cuttlefishtech.com/WeInterruptThisProgram(CuttlefishTechLoopingMix).mp3

Download here! (6 megs, 5:17)

The original song and post are below!

I’ve created my first remix! It’s a mash-up of three songs:

• Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta
• Walking Away – The Egg
• Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) – David Guetta vs. The Egg

It’s kinda funny, but I made a mashup of a mashup! It’s not the best, there’s a couple rough transitions, and I’ll release a 2nd version this weekend.

Download here! (6 megs, 5:12)