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Spotify - Amazing Legal music App


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I came across www.spotify.com a few days ago, and I must say it's amazing! Been using it ever since, and haven't had a need to open itunes at all. Has pretty much every song I search for, and plays instantly with no buffering or problems etc, for a beta its very good. Anyway, it was invite only but today it's gone public so anyone and everyone can sign up. Give it a go, see what you think, i think it's a new revolution in how we will listen to music in the future.

Here's a review: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LQC2eBQ7Lsk

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Wait, I'm listening to music and there is no ads... does it only play every now and again? I'm confused.. this seems too good to be true.. I've got good quality music for free with no strings...

Great piece of software, however it doesn't have many independent labels on there (I listen to mainly DnB and breakbeat) but hopefully they'll add more as time goes on!

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There's an advert every 30 minutes or so, 30 second advert just i think. Yea they say they're adding new music to it everyday so hopefully it'll have what you're looking for soon.

Is that all? I wouldn't replace buying music with this, but it's definitely a great way to find new music and preview it before you buy it. I hate 30 second previews with a passion.

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Ooh! REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN W/OUT INVITES!

GET IT QUICK :D

EDIT: You can now go into the spotify client even if you are not located in the UK.

If you are not in UK you can register under www.daveproxy.co.uk

Thanks Johnston for the invite, but I didnt need it :p

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Is it me, or is the GUI near iTunes? :/

Anyway, I get no ad's in Spotify when listening to music, on the free account? :/

There are ads, but they are very infrequent. Sometimes they pop up behind as a browser window, sometimes they are in audio form between tracks. I think to avoid the audio ones you can switch songs before the current one ends so it doesn't have a chance to load them.

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There are ads, but they are very infrequent. Sometimes they pop up behind as a browser window, sometimes they are in audio form between tracks. I think to avoid the audio ones you can switch songs before the current one ends so it doesn't have a chance to load them.

Never had it pop up as a browser window, as far as i'm aware the software doesn't do that?! They only half audio adverts every 30 minutes or so, and occasionally a banner within the software itself.

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Never had it pop up as a browser window, as far as i'm aware the software doesn't do that?! They only half audio adverts every 30 minutes or so, and occasionally a banner within the software itself.

Nah, I got this banner from it a little while ago: http://localhostr.com/files/ca7c53/Picture+1.png

Or maybe it was something else I was doing at the time. Actually, come to think of it, it may well have been since I was on encyclopediadramatica at the time...

Never had a noticeable ad in the software window though.

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Done. Enjoy. Much better than Pandora IMO.

Thanks FreqFace, Johnston already sent one, so you can use that one for someone else.

And thanks Johnston :D

And on 1st inspection - it found all I searched for. A lot quicker than Last.FM and found stuff that Last FM didnt

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Damn, this works perfectly :) Impressed.

Does anyone know what bit-rate it streams in though?

Most likely 128 or 192.

I rip all my MP3s in V0, doubt it streams in that :p

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Damn, this works perfectly :) Impressed.

Does anyone know what bit-rate it streams in though?

Most likely 128 or 192.

I rip all my MP3s in V0, doubt it streams in that :p

Ogg Vorbis audio codec, at about 160kbps

Any other invitations going? :)

Pm'd :)

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Ogg Vorbis audio codec, at about 160kbps

Not bad (Y)

By the way, how do they add content to this?

I searched for an artist and found the two bonus songs off the Japanese version of an album, but the album itself isn't there :laugh:

Do they update content on some sort of request based focus?

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Sounds pretty good, I've been looking for something like this since Last.FM only gives you 30 second previews for most songs, and those you do get full versions of you can only listen to in full for 3 plays.

If there are any invites going, I'll take one :blush:

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