WhoSampled offers an extensive database of songs, samples, covers, remixes, artists, and more. According to its website, it's now tracking more than 1.2 million songs and nearly 622,000 samples. That data is powering Spotify's latest features, like its upcoming music discovery tool SongDNA.
  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.

  • mrdown@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    812·
    2 days ago

    I hate the culture of startup selling themselves to big companies

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      Launched in 2008…

      Is it really a startup if it was started during the Bush administration?

      Spotify itself started in 2006

      • ronigami@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        This is such a random acquisition. It’s like IMDB buying some film aficionado’s tumblr profile.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

      the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

      • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        2 days ago

        I dont blame them either, Id take the buyout if it set up all my employees with a few million

        Big if if i was a person who did any of this

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      It’s their dream to be bought and live long without working anymore. Of course not everyone dream, but the most common.

    • dan69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      This really does choke innovation, market share and is strongly considered market monopolistic behaviors.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    412·
    2 days ago

    We are the Spotify. Lower your webpage and surrender your songs. We will add your userbase and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Interesting. This will probably enable them to get significantly closer to their goal. I’ve tried their site a few times but it only had really mainstream, obvious samples. If Spotify can combine their song data with whatever system they have that isn’t just user-contributed, it’ll probably be significantly more useful.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      If it can be used so that Spotify can FINALLY offer live streaming/replays of live sets so I no longer have to go to youtube that would be amazing