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

Yes, there's classical in there, though Spotify does not allow you to search by Genre which a shame, cause it is indeed a wonderful little application, Also remember the music you can find on it varies by country, so people in the UK might find stuff not available to Spain users and vice versa.

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I like this from their "What is Spotify page":

"And because the music plays live, there’s no need to wait for downloads and no big dent in your hard drive."

Well, everyone knows that data you stream is actually less than the data if you downloaded it

*scratches head*

yeah that sounds right...sheesh

Who wants to tell them 160kb/s Free or 320kb/s is the same streamed as downloaded ?

I would but my care factor gauge has been stuck at -infinity since the iPad was announced

Give it 6 months and it will be gone because the business model is a superhighway to failure and bankruptcy

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I like this from their "What is Spotify page":

"And because the music plays live, there?s no need to wait for downloads and no big dent in your hard drive."

Well, everyone knows that data you stream is actually less than the data if you downloaded it

*scratches head*

yeah that sounds right...sheesh

Who wants to tell them 160kb/s Free or 320kb/s is the same streamed as downloaded ?

I would but my care factor gauge has been stuck at -infinity since the iPad was announced

Give it 6 months and it will be gone because the business model is a superhighway to failure and bankruptcy

I think you are missing the point, somewhat.

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I think you are missing the point, somewhat.

What, youre going to tell me that apart from the streaming data being magically less than directly downloaded data, the time it takes to stream it is LOWER than the time it takes to directly download it as well?

Thats awesome

What point am i mising exactly????

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Does anyone in the UK have a Spotify Invite they could kindly donate to me?

PM'd :)

@Raa: It was, but they made it invite only again because it was getting too much interest (apparently) from people, and their servers couldn't cope with the surge in demand.

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What, youre going to tell me that apart from the streaming data being magically less than directly downloaded data, the time it takes to stream it is LOWER than the time it takes to directly download it as well?

Thats awesome

What point am i mising exactly????

The fact that the whole point of streaming is that the data is cached, therefore not taking up space on your hard-drive for all eternity. The cache can be flushed once finished with etc. Also - you can be listening after the first few kilobytes are downloaded (depending on the size of the track) rather than having to wait for the entire file to be present before listening to it.

If that doesn't benefit you then Spotify as a platform is pretty useless. Might as well just stick to mp3 files.

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The fact that the whole point of streaming is that the data is cached, therefore not taking up space on your hard-drive for all eternity. The cache can be flushed once finished with etc. Also - you can be listening after the first few kilobytes are downloaded (depending on the size of the track) rather than having to wait for the entire file to be present before listening to it.

If that doesn't benefit you then Spotify as a platform is pretty useless. Might as well just stick to mp3 files.

Cached or not the data size is the same, unless you exist in some quantum universe where the laws are different? :)

I dont know about you, but i rarely , actually never, listen to a song just once, i like my cache full :)

And as for listening after only a few kb's are downloaded, well you arent on dialup are you, in just 30 seconds (if that on broadband) you can have the whole song downloaded and listen to it without the glitches

I started out querying their stupidity in asserting data sizes were different when you streamed from them and them alone (Note: usual rules of data size continue to be normal for the rest of the internet) and ended up i believe reinforcing why their and the other "free" streaming music business models are doomed.

I listen to my music more than once, im not about to login every time i want to hear something and end up blowing bandwidth on return visits (thereby killing their no wait and no large filesize paradox).

I download my music, its mine

Ill be off now, i think ive made my point...

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Fantastic service. I love the no-buffering side of it. I don't mind the ads but some are just annoying, like one which plays an answer machine message and the beep from it is just really loud :/

"Leave your message after the beep... BEEP."

Overall a great service though.

Yes, there's classical in there, though Spotify does not allow you to search by Genre which a shame, cause it is indeed a wonderful little application, Also remember the music you can find on it varies by country, so people in the UK might find stuff not available to Spain users and vice versa.

You can kind of search by genre if you find a classical artist you like, it will show you some related tags at the top and if you click one which is related.

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I have 4 invitations, first four people to quote this post get one (PMing is too much hassle :p). I'll check this topic each time I'm on Neowin till invites are used.

edit: I know you'll want to keep your email private, so I'll PM you after you quote. I just can't be bothered with a flood of PMs.

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Sucks that it still isn't available in the US yet :/

I am in the US you can use spotify BTW.

Just use a proxy website once you get an invite to registrar. After reg its all gravy my dude! Use this proxy http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/

Cheers

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I would love an invite to Spotify if anyone could throw one my way. Now that 1WayJonny posted that proxy, I can actually register and use the service here in the US omg!

:p

As I said above I have 4, PM me your email address and I'll send you one.

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