Comments on: A rant about companies outreach and how accessible they are http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/12/18/a-rant-about-companies-outreach-and-how-accessible-they-are/ In pursuit of The Idea Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/12/18/a-rant-about-companies-outreach-and-how-accessible-they-are/comment-page-1/#comment-17909 Daniel Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:41:34 +0000 http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/?p=639#comment-17909 Jure, thank you for your great feedback! I'm going to try and answer some of the specific questions you had. <br><br>Regarding content we are far from done with our mission of having all the content in the world. We are well aware that we lack both artists and albums for artists. We are currently adding more than 15 000 tracks a day and after christmas this process will be speeded up further as we can put more resources to it. There are several million tracks more we have licenses for that we are working on ingesting.<br><br>We are thinking long and hard about ways for our users to discover and browse the depth of the Spotify catalog. It is not as easy as it may seem at first, since the depth of the catalogue makes it quite useless to just show it all, or even do genre browsing. Preferably you need some recommendation engine. We think that there might be better ways to browse music other than genre based. We will explore more of that side in the future. Meanwhile you can perform a "genre:bluegrass" search in Spotify if you wish to see all the bluegrass music we have.<br><br>Hope this answered some of your questions about the service and I do hope that you try out the service again in the future.<br><br>Daniel Ek Jure, thank you for your great feedback! I'm going to try and answer some of the specific questions you had.

Regarding content we are far from done with our mission of having all the content in the world. We are well aware that we lack both artists and albums for artists. We are currently adding more than 15 000 tracks a day and after christmas this process will be speeded up further as we can put more resources to it. There are several million tracks more we have licenses for that we are working on ingesting.

We are thinking long and hard about ways for our users to discover and browse the depth of the Spotify catalog. It is not as easy as it may seem at first, since the depth of the catalogue makes it quite useless to just show it all, or even do genre browsing. Preferably you need some recommendation engine. We think that there might be better ways to browse music other than genre based. We will explore more of that side in the future. Meanwhile you can perform a “genre:bluegrass” search in Spotify if you wish to see all the bluegrass music we have.

Hope this answered some of your questions about the service and I do hope that you try out the service again in the future.

Daniel Ek

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