Spotify - Amazing Legal music App

[Johnston]

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

[Badtz-Maru]

Getting a problem here. It's saying that my country doesn't match the one in my spotify profile. Any way around this?

[-KJ]

Look for some UK VPN's that offer volume-based plans. There's one provider that has a free trial with a limited amount of bandwidth, which should last you a very long time as the only time Spotify checks for your country is during log in (nothing bandwidth intensive). After that, the Spotify app should open up and play just fine. From there you can turn off your VPN and use it all you want. You won't need to run the VPN again until the 14 days of travel are over, and once you pass 14 days Spotify will lock you out from logging in because your country doesn't match the one in the profile. This is when you'll need to log in with the VPN again, and then you're free for the next 14 days or so days.

[Badley]

Hi! I heard a lot about this, but unfortunately my friend did not have any invitations left.

Can any one help me out?

Thanks!

- Badley

[plasmarox]

you no longer need an invite ;)

[-KJ]

Just got this email:

Spotify security notice

Dear Spotify user,

Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise

our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group

had gained access to information that could allow testing of a

very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.

The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and

fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware

that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.

Along with passwords, registration information such as your email

address,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt

details were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are not

stored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handled

by a secure 3rd party provider.

If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,

we strongly suggest that you change your password and strongly

encourage you to change your passwords for any other services

where you use the same password.

When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator of

the password strength to help you choose a good one. To change

your password please visit your profile page on our website.

https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/

For the technically minded amongst you, the information that may

have been exposed when our protocols were compromised is the

password hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and they

have never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but the

combination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering of

our encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders access

to individual hashes.

The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.

Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable to

offline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individual

users, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, there

has been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete user

database has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it was

possible to access the password hashes of individual users had

you reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew the

username.

We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.

We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in order

to prevent anything like this from happening again.

Regards,

The Spotify Team

[Pretend]

Same :p

[ViZioN]

Yeah got the email too. I use password hasher for my passwords so if they want to reverse engineer it they can go right ahead :p Might take them a while!

[-KJ]

Good thing I registed with my forum password. They won't get very far with that. :)

[jimbo11883]

I'd like an invite too... ;)

[ViZioN]

I'd like an invite too... ;)

I'd send you one but it won't let me into the Spotify site. It's hanging, probably because of all of the other thousands of users trying to change their passwords :laugh:

edit: PM Sent

[dewaaz]

Good thing I registed with my forum password. They won't get very far with that. :)

omg what does this mean? i have the same password for all my accounts (spotify, email, etc.)

do i really need to change asap? :/

[ViZioN]

omg what does this mean? i have the same password for all my accounts (spotify, email, etc.)

do i really need to change asap? :/

It means that if they manage to reverse engineer your password, they can use it to login to your email etc because obviously that's stored in your Spotify profile. That's if you're one of the unlucky ones however as I don't think they'll be able to reverse-engineer any sort of mass number of these.

I'd change your passwords just to be safe, especially the Spotify one.

Also if you're using FireFox you can use an extension called Password Hasher to generate yourself secure passwords based on the name of the suite and your master key. Clicky.

[Guest]

I'd like an invite too, if anyone has one for me :)

[what]

I'd like an invite too, if anyone has one for me :)

You don't need an invite. Registrations have been open for ages now.

[Guest]

You don't need an invite. Registrations have been open for ages now.

If you are from the UK maybe..

No, the advertising-funded version of Spotify is free of charge, however, for now it requires that you receive an invite to register unless you are in the UK

[+John. Subscriber¹]

I'd like an invite too, if anyone has one for me :)

PM me with your email address, I'll have one sent ASAP.

[shakey]

Bah, it is still not available in US and proxies only work for so long lol.

Thx for the link to Grooveshark whoever posted it. I'm really enjoying it. Good site with quick access to many songs.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Invite sent, anyone else want one?

[Guest]

If I follow the link in the invitation.

Spotify free is not available in your country.

Why do they tell in their FAQ that you need an invite for other countries?!

No, the advertising-funded version of Spotify is free of charge, however, for now it requires that you receive an invite to register unless you are in the UK

[Emil Valsson]

I'd like a invite please. :)

[minimalisticx]

I'd like a invite please. :)

pm me your details and ill send one

got 9 invites left btw

[what]

If you are from the UK maybe..

Oh okay. Well that's dumb, but it's nice to see us getting precedence for one.

[Calum Veteran]

Thread moved to the 'Software Discussion and Assistance' forum

[JRosenfeld]

I know this will be a minority taste amongst those posting here, but does Spotify carry any classical music?

[Max Veteran]

I don't understand - I'm from the UK and I just signed up and got it all there and then?