I know, spotify are starting to wank me right off, they should be careful, Google will probably be out with alternative soon.
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Who's on it in the states? I'm waiting for an invite. Somebody sent me a workaround to be on it, but it's not working.
I've got a bunch of invites. I've PMd you one.
Thanks to Makki, I'm on this. Probably a stupid question but I'll ask anyway: to listen to music again that you've already listened to, do you have to make a playlist? Is that the only way to re-listen to music outside of searching for it again?
Pretty much.. I guess you could "star" the song, but it's essentially just another list.
Spotify is amazing for finding new music but they are a bunch of cnuts for imposing a limit on the number of times you can listen to a certain track. I thought the whole point of Spotify was that it was funded by advertising but now it's pretty shit unless you pay for the premium service. Twats.
They had a good thing going, ruined it.
It's almost useless now unless you pay the price.. then it's still an amazing service.
The point was to tempt people in with the free model and then entice them to upgrade. An advertising funded model was never remotely viable.
I'm sick of people complaining about Spotify's free services tbf.
Seriously, you pay 10 fecking quid a month so that you can have more or less unlimited access to all mainstream music (and you can even import your own fecking non-mainstream music!) on your computer or even your telephone. You can even sync the tracks to your phone so you can listen to your playlists abroad while in offline mode without having to use a 3G connection which would cost you a lot of money, and you get all pissy because they don't let you get all that for free. Get a fecking grip, people.
olesmyhero; Did you ever get that second invite I sent you for your mate?
Seriously, you pay 10 fecking quid a month so that you can have more or less unlimited access to all mainstream music (and you can even import your own fecking non-mainstream music!) on your computer or even your telephone. You can even sync the tracks to your phone so you can listen to your playlists abroad while in offline mode without having to use a 3G connection which would cost you a lot of money, and you get all pissy because they don't let you get all that for free. Get a fecking grip, people.
olesmyhero; Did you ever get that second invite I sent you for your mate?
People have unfortunately got used to music being made worthless through piracy.
Yeah, and there's a lot more than just mainstream music on there too. I find almost everything I need.
I'd rather pay 10 quid a month for the services that Spotify provide than having to trawl through countless sites to download the tracks that I want, and then having to run an anti-virus scan after I've downloaded shite from untrustworthy sites, then have them take up space on my computer and then make playlists out of them.
If that isn't everyone's cup of tea, then fair enough, but I just think that people come across as right spoilt bastards when they expect it to be free, and then when the free version hasn't got the same features/privileges as the paid version, they complain about it as hell.
I agree with you.
Hello Makki - meet Internet.
When's the realisation of it "being the internet" ever stopped someone from going into internet rage mode?Well, I suppose that is true. Rage on!
Can someone briefly explain to me how this works?
I use iTunes from time to time, but the prices are heavy and if I know I can buy the CD £3/4 cheaper off the net it puts me off using it. I occasionally download music for free, but the programme I use for that is having it's faults and after all, paying for music is what you should do.
Can songs from Spotify go straight into your iTunes album? If I have to create a brand new library of songs for Spotify then I doubt I'll use it.
I use iTunes from time to time, but the prices are heavy and if I know I can buy the CD £3/4 cheaper off the net it puts me off using it. I occasionally download music for free, but the programme I use for that is having it's faults and after all, paying for music is what you should do.
Can songs from Spotify go straight into your iTunes album? If I have to create a brand new library of songs for Spotify then I doubt I'll use it.
No but you can import your Itunes library (as well as your lists) and listen to it directly in Spotify.
Right, but you can still listen to it all on your iPod?
Is £10 a month for unlimited music?
You choose the music you want available in offline mode which you can then listen to through the Spotify app on your phone. Not sure about Ipod's (or UK fees) but I found this: Spotify says hello to the iPod - Spotify
This is quite a nice tool for exploring artists by seeing who influenced who: Music Bloodline
Since the thread's been bumped, I'll be a nice guy and tell you to hit me up if you want an invite for this.
I stopped using it because they limited the amount of songs you could play a month on the free version if I remember. Is that still the same or has it changed back to unlimited with ads?
Has anybody used the spotify remote app for iPad instead of paying for premium service? Thinking of buying the app but not sure how well it works.
Worth the £4.99? Thinking about getting Spotify back.
Changed back.
Also, I don't know how they managed to work out I was a student with the targeted ads, since I listen to stuff like Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols at about 3AM...
It's worth more. Spotify is amazing.
You on the £4.99 or the £9.99 sub? I have an iPhone, but I'm not really sure if I'd use it all that much on it.
I'm listening to it at work and haven't paid a thing.
Just 4.99 sub, don't listen to music out and about.
You can download stuff to spotify, right? If I decided to pay for a month, download lots of stuff then cancel my subscription would I still be able to listen to my downloaded stuff?
Yeah, you can buy a song to keep it I think, but I never bother with that. It's cheaper just to spend 4.99 a month and have unlimited access to pretty much everything.
Are you limited to ten hours a month though?
I'm pretty sure he'll just be lambasted with ads every third song.
I have an account from way back that I got via invite. I stopped listening when they said they were turning all free accounts into limited ones which only had 10 hours' playtime. If it's not limited I'm going to hop straight back onto that horse!
I pay the 4.99 a month. Would quite happily pay double that. If I'm on my laptop, I'm constantly using spotify, and it actually saves me money, listening to new Springsteen album now, which costs 10 quid in shops
The biggest benefit having it on my smartphone is having the ability to connect it to the TV receiver easily. Very comfortable.
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What's the £4.99 option? £10 a month is a bit much for me, considering I don't listen to as much music as I used to.
Also anyone use the iOS4 version. My phone is jailbroken to 4.2 and I don't want to unbreak it.
Any help much appreciated.