Eight hours later and this is perhaps the best purchase of the year. Cant wait to get home and try it via Sonos. Will be walking from zone to zone with a big smile.
I use it with sonos, I don't think you will be disappointed, works flawlessly.
Eight hours later and this is perhaps the best purchase of the year. Cant wait to get home and try it via Sonos. Will be walking from zone to zone with a big smile.
You're right. Got one of the beta codes (thanks smythey!!!), the selection is impressive. I imagine most of my library is on here, and a bunch of other stuff I've been thinking about buying is as well. Definitely going to go premium.
Anyone been streaming over 3G? How is the performance and quality? I plan on using this mostly for mobile purposes.
I've been streaming over 3G in a lousy reception area for about an hour now at high quality and its doing fine. Seems to take about 10 seconds between songs, but the sound quality is great!
Been using this for the last hour or so and honestly meh...
I really dont like the interface, yes songs load fast and quality is good but after using rdio for the last month I can't imagine investing in spotify.
Rdio allows me to easily add albums to my collection in spotify you have to find each song and can make a playlist. I like full albums and so far Ive not found a way to do that in spotify.
Also only allowing one device in use at the same time even offline in offline mode sucks!
Streaming is so 2009.
Spotify was smart to copy the iTunes interface just like Samsung was smart to Copy the iPhone. It's cheating but smart.
Considering that the iTunes Store is so 2003, I know what I'm choosing.
Spotify was smart not to copy the iTunes Store, since that's the past.
About the GUI, I think I could name a number of image viewers with almost the exact layout too, did they also copy Apple?
I don't know a lot of other image viewers out there but I think the majority of the listening public is familar and comfortable with iTunes so the look and feel is very iTunes like. If others also look just like it I have no idea but when the spotify app popped up i thought "darker colored version of iTunes."
It's a rather classical GUI design, and I doubt that Apple was first with it.
The Spotify and iTunes interfaces look a lot like FastStone.
Image
Top Pane with buttons and stuff.
Left Pane with a list and a preview. Right Pane with the main window.
Maybe they copied Apple too?
Just so you know i guess the 9.99 in the US is without tax, while the prices here in europe include tax. So for example here in Sweden it costs SEK 99, and we have a VAT of 25%. That makes SEK 80 to Spotify and 20 to the government. SEK 80 equals 12.3 USD. So it's almost the same.
Spotify = New and Old Music all you can eat at a cheap price
Netflix = 80's and 90's movies all you can eat at a cheap price.
When will the vice grip of movie studios be released? the music lables are on their knees begging for mercy.
I want spotify for movies and tv shows. I can't wait for the year 2020. I'm sure it'll happen by then.
Streaming makes more sense to me for tv shows and movies anyway. You watch a TV show once. Why would I buy it? You listen to music over and over again so it justifies the purchase through iTunes.
I made my account without an invite using a work around off of Lifehacker. I can't seem to find any radio functionality, including artist radio. Anyone know why I am missing this? Here's what my sidebar looks like:
Netflix = Current TV Shows on DVD, all you can eat as well. I've watch all of Top Gear, Dr. Who, and Eureka that way. I would say that Spotify is the equivalent to where Netflix is moving.
yeah TV shows is actually pretty decent. I agree. It's those darm movies.
The movie business is baffling.
1. huge in theater massive release $$$$$$
2. DVD sales $$$$
3. iTunes sales $$
4. eventual netflix license sales $
4. merchandise sales (sometimes $ and sometimes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
rinse and repeast. Of course there are the occassional dud movies and it's a huge investment and risk to create a movie but man the payout is sure sweet if you can pull it off.
Not available in the free version.