Yes, quite the handy feature when you want to limit the amount of bandwidth you use when you're out and about.
A lot of misinformation about Spotify here...
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Yes, quite the handy feature when you want to limit the amount of bandwidth you use when you're out and about.
A lot of misinformation about Spotify here...
If you plan on never buying music again. When you consider the cost of music when using iTunes match that price gap is closed. Say you buy as little as 5 songs a month, that's more like $85 a year.
I like paying a fixed price for a streaming service, which gives me the option of easily managing and storing my music on all my devices.
Very handy for me, also the Spotify programn in the desktop can sync files wirelessly to your mobile device when they are on the same network. I put all my playlists as offline incase of Internet failure or I have to move temporarily to where Internet is non existent.
Definitely have them as offline on my iPhone, I'm in the countryside and 3G is practically non-existent. So I download my playlists and listen to them on the go, without being interupted or using my data cap.
Since getting Spotify Premium, the only songs I've bought from iTunes are when Spotify doesn't have them.
Btw... Napster? Wasn't that the music service that Lars Ulrich killed
Lars isnt too keen on Spotify either from the looks of it.
Neither are the usual suspects of Beatles Led Zeppelin ACDC or Pink Floyd. Napster DOES at least have Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd..Also to add to the Napster plug, you get artist radio and seasonal charts dating back to 1960. Not sure if any other streaming service hosts that.
Napster has 15 million tracks btw, 2 million more than Spotify.
Napster - http://www.napster.co.uk/
Spotify - http://www.spotify.com/uk/
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Well, people who are planning to use iTunes Match to match their pirated songs (and I'm still not sure that will actually work as people think it will), then paying the $25 would be better. Even better would be not paying Apple at all, since you already have all the music, and would only be paying to have it easily downloadable to all your iDevices.
And considering that the songs ripped from my own CDs is at a higher quality than what Apple offers, I would be downgrading and giving away money to Apple doing it...
Apple would never be able to offer the same service as Spotify and others do for just $25/year.
Apple still wants you to buy music through iTunes Store, so when it comes to consuming music, they are the past. But who can blame them, they have made billions thanks to their 30% cut.
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I used to be a spotify premium subscriber but cancelled it a few months ago over the total lack of an iPad app (or even a timescale as to if or when one will be coming). It's a good service but the software is terrible. The other thing to remember is that you can't really share accounts: if you have multiple devices logged in then playing music on one of them will pause it on of the others.
I used to be a spotify premium subscriber but cancelled it a few months ago over the total lack of an iPad app (or even a timescale as to if or when one will be coming). It's a good service but the software is terrible. The other thing to remember is that you can't really share accounts: if you have multiple devices logged in then playing music on one of them will pause it on of the others.
I'm not a fan of Spotify. I've had a Premium subscription for the last month and still isn't doing it for me.
No gapless playback
Compressed audio only (MP3, OGG, AAC etc... is not real sound, it is a toy)
160kbps streaming only to the iPhone, which sounds dreadful
Can't be streamed around the house
Bad content discovery system (in comparison to say, a good record store)
Artists don't get paid, simple as.
I'm a sound engineer, and having recorded quite a few artists who have appeared on both iTunes and Spotify, I know the damage Spotify does to their income. Using CD Baby, your music appears on Spotify after it appears on iTunes, and every time, iTunes income drops significantly when listeners switch over to Spotify. The income for musicians from Spotify is insignificant, verging on non-existant.
No gapless playback
Compressed audio only (MP3, OGG, AAC etc... is not real sound, it is a toy)
160kbps streaming only to the iPhone, which sounds dreadful
Can't be streamed around the house
Bad content discovery system (in comparison to say, a good record store)
Artists don't get paid, simple as.
I'm a sound engineer, and having recorded quite a few artists who have appeared on both iTunes and Spotify, I know the damage Spotify does to their income. Using CD Baby, your music appears on Spotify after it appears on iTunes, and every time, iTunes income drops significantly when listeners switch over to Spotify. The income for musicians from Spotify is insignificant, verging on non-existant.
Is thats true wouldn't that make spotify illegal as well? They offer free music with ads as well.
um... of course they don't have an app in the US store, it's not available yet. I'm sure they will add it to the US store on the day it becomes available in the US.
I think the difference is Spotify has a liscense to do it legally whereas a lot of the other similar sites don't.
Question
If I get Spotify or any other downloadable service and get 1 month unlimited subscription, then download all the music I want onto to my iPod Touch.
I then terminate my subscription.
What happens to all the music that was downloaded on my iPod Touch?
Can I still play them?
Do they expire immediately?
Do they expire after one month?
Or do they require some sort of authentication to play them which I don't have anymore because I stop the subscription?
If I get Spotify or any other downloadable service and get 1 month unlimited subscription, then download all the music I want onto to my iPod Touch.
I then terminate my subscription.
What happens to all the music that was downloaded on my iPod Touch?
Can I still play them?
Do they expire immediately?
Do they expire after one month?
Or do they require some sort of authentication to play them which I don't have anymore because I stop the subscription?
You have to log in once every month, so i guess you would be able to listen to your music for one month after canceling your service.
You can download 3,333 songs for offline listening. Spotify requires that you'll be online at least once a month to check that you still have a paid subscription, if you don't, then you can't play the songs stored on your device.
The app will know when your subscription runs out, so unless you lengthen the subscription and go online you won't be able to listen to the music.
I subscribe to Spotify, quality and choice is excellent.
Apples $25 a year for songs one owns is $25 too much, I dont see the point, Ill just sync the devices that I want the songs on. It cant be that simple, I must be missing something.
Apples $25 a year for songs one owns is $25 too much, I dont see the point, Ill just sync the devices that I want the songs on. It cant be that simple, I must be missing something.
What do you mean gapless playback? I've never had any issues with buffering or time between tracks.
Give me a break. It's 320kbps. You can't hear a difference.
Again, give me a break.
Except to anything with Airplay, or a Sonos. What else are you looking for?
Are you really saying that an app doesn't compare to a record store? Really? Wow.
False.
I'm an artist, and I know that if you have stuff that people actually listen to, you get a decent supplemental income from Spotify. Artists don't make money from recordings these days, regardless of the medium. You used to tour in order to sell more albums. Now you record albums to enable touring.
Does Spotify gives you the option to buy the music and download it to iPod leaving it there permanently and not disabling it if you decide to cancel the subscription?
I Love Spotify, been using the free version for a couple of years now. The big problem I have with Spotify is it's too expensive. It's £120 a year for subscription, While that sounds cheap for the wealth of songs at your fingertips It's expensive in terms of how much I would normally spend on music over the year and there is no way I have ever spent £120 on music over the cause of a year accept for maybe when i was in my teens
I think £4.99 for unlimited access would be more reasonable
I think £4.99 for unlimited access would be more reasonable
Don't know. I don't buy music from Spotify, don't see the need to. Actually, I don't buy almost any music since I started paying for Spotify.
It's another way to consume music. A better way. It's the future.
If you need to buy music, then I guess you got a third source to buy from. And then you can either compare them all, or just chose to buy music from one source.
Spotify does allow you to add locally stored music to your playlists, if you need to.
Gapless? I rarely have problems with buffering, and if you want to make sure, just use Offline mode (caches all songs and enables playback even if you are offline).
As do... everyone else too? And at 320k OGG, who cares?
Because it's an iPhone, yes. 160k OGG doesn't sound "dreadful" in a good audio system.
Yes it can. Airfoil is one way.
Random "radio" mode (with genre/era selections), social playlist sharing and related artists listings bad?
Yes, they do.
And yet the record companies are getting well paid from Spotify. If the artists are not getting their cut from their record company, it's not really Spotify's fault...
I Love Spotify, been using the free version for a couple of years now. The big problem I have with Spotify is it's too expensive. It's £120 a year for subscription, While that sounds cheap for the wealth of songs at your fingertips It's expensive in terms of how much I would normally spend on music over the year and there is no way I have ever spent £120 on music over the cause of a year accept for maybe when i was in my teens
I think £4.99 for unlimited access would be more reasonable
Then my advice is to use something like iTunes instead. I guess you could buy up to 150 songs or so for £120, 75 for £60.
Personally I'm paying more than I used to. But then I like how easy it is and the fact that I have 13 million songs that I can listen to.