[dundun]

I've heard the p2p stuff is going away on the desktop app, but you could easily get around it by using the webplayer or mobile app. AFAIK, there's no way to limit the upload speed in the current desktop implementation (in the app).

The content is generally pretty good but they depend on the artists/labels getting it into aggregators or making it available. Bootlegs won't be there because that would probably piss the bands off.

[dfc]

Terabytes of bootlegs that do not piss the bands off:

https://archive.org/details/etree

Short list of musicians granting permission to have bootlegs hosted on archive.org/etree:

  311                                   Blues Traveler
  Camper Van Beethoven                  Cowboy Junkies
  Cracker                               Dark Star Orchestra
  Death Cab for Cutie                   Derek Trucks Band
  Disco Biscuits                        Donna the Buffalo
  Drive-By Truckers                     Ekoostik Hookah
  Elliott Smith                         Furthur
  Grace Potter and the Nocturnals       Grateful Dead
  Guster                                Hank Williams III
  Hot Buttered Rum                      Jack Johnson
  John Butler Trio                      John Mayer
  Keller Williams                       Little Feat
  Live Music Archive                    Local H
  Lotus                                 Matisyahu
  Matt Nathanson                        Max Creek
  Michael Franti and Spearhead          moe.
  My Morning Jacket                     Of A Revolution
  Perpetual Groove                      Phil Lesh and Friends
  Radiators                             Railroad Earth
  Ratdog                                Ryan Adams
  Smashing Pumpkins                     Sound Tribe Sector 9
  String Cheese Incident                Tea Leaf Green
  The Breakfast                         Umphreys McGee
  Warren Zevon                          Ween
  Yonder Mountain String Band  

My personal favorite is Danny Schmidt, a singer songwriter rom TX/VA: https://archive.org/details/dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac

The 4,700+ other artists: https://archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmet...

24bit flacs: https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28format%3A%2824Bit%20...

[dundun]

Sorry, I should have clarified that comment before posting it.

Many bands allow audience taping but I'm not aware of m?any that allow for commercial distribution of those recordings. If Spotify attempted to distribute those recordings against the bands' policies then it would probably piss off the bands.

That Danny Schmidt is pretty great stuff. You're right about Spotify's lack of content when it comes to stuff like this-- they have all his studio albums but are kind of weak when it comes to live stuff, they have one album. Archive.org definitely fills in this gap (I use it all the time for Dead shows).

[dfc]

Now I see what you were saying. I think the studio process strips the humanity out of music. I have been working on a feature request / outline of functionality for beets and etree that I need to finally submit to sampsyo. How awesome would this be:

  $ beet etree --get dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac
  etree: requesting ogg format
  etree: fingerprints verified
  etree: Success: Downloaded Album: 2007-12-13 - The Cactus Cafe
  $ 

Archive.org has a somewhat documented API that describes all of the "resources." A lot of the shows even come with cover art for those that are into that.

JSON for recording: https://archive.org/metadata/dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac