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

[andrew_f]

It seems they're bringing it to the USA soon - bear in mind though that while legal artists get paid virtually nothing: I can't find the infographic but it's something like 0.0000015p / play compared to a few £ per retail album.

Still, it's better than stealing outright and gives an artist the possibility to have a much wider audience. Personally I've found a couple of albums on it I've liked and have gone out and bought them - so maybe artists should look at it as a loss-leader.

[HawkMan]

It seems they're bringing it to the USA soon - bear in mind though that while legal artists get paid virtually nothing: I can't find the infographic but it's something like 0.0000015p / play compared to a few ? per retail album.

well an album is more than one song, and you only get paid once for the album :p

[Kharat]

Send me an invite,please?

[Richard Hammond]

It seems they're bringing it to the USA soon - bear in mind though that while legal artists get paid virtually nothing: I can't find the infographic but it's something like 0.0000015p / play compared to a few £ per retail album.

Think of how many thousand, tens of thousand or even hundreds of thousands of people who buy the album they dont get extra money every time the album is played, now say 100,000 people play one of your songs from one of your albums per day on spotify and for arguments sake say your figures are correct thats 15p per song then times that by how many songs are on the album just think how many times your album will be played over months/years, then tell me they get paid virtually nothing. You dont have the added costs of reprinting an old album, no marketing, no wages to pay, its free money.

Then look at the alternative, piracy. 0p for a long long time.

[andrew_f]

Sent out a couple of invites. I'm heading off out for a bit, keep sending requests I have 8 or 9 remaining. When I get back this evening I'll send them out first came first served.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I don't have any more invites!

I said earlier in this topic, sorry folks, but stop pming me :p

[TheBlueRaja]

Spotify used to be good (not great as there was quite a bit of music they didnt have), but nowadays instead of maybe 1 advert every 30 minutes it seems like there is a 30 second ad every other song and to make matters worse its usually the same annoying ad - over and over again.

As a result i've moved on - shame though..

[Guest]

I'd love to use Spotify, but I can't.

Been looking for a good alternative, but can't really find a good one!

[Guyro]

its updated

can now use your personal library (on hdd) on it and friends can access your personal library on it (i think)

best program ever lol

ive got an account - Glp1992

i want to give an invite to my friend james, i have 0 invites

can someone spare me an invite?

[BGM]

Spotify used to be good (not great as there was quite a bit of music they didnt have), but nowadays instead of maybe 1 advert every 30 minutes it seems like there is a 30 second ad every other song and to make matters worse its usually the same annoying ad - over and over again.

As a result i've moved on - shame though..

harsh.. i thought it so good that i paid for it (and that's a rarity i can tell you!)

do the same?

[Guyro]

TheBlueRaja

i dont have that problem of the adverts changing coz it was always every third song for me not every 30 minutes

[hotdog666al]

If anyone needs an invite feel free to PM me, I've got like... 8

[Guyro]

hotdog ive pmed you

in relation to the comment on the last page

[BGM]

i've got loads of invites too if anyone wants one..

just pm me an email address

[BGM]

can i just caveat my above post in that if you are not located in Finland, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, or the UK then don't bother asking for an invite..

will only work if you are based in these countries :)

[ViZioN]

harsh.. i thought it so good that i paid for it (and that's a rarity i can tell you!)

do the same?

I think they've definitely increased the frequency of the adverts. Totally understandable from a business point of view though, that's where they get their income from.

Once the new update rolls out for me, I'm thinking about subscribing and adding my locally stored music. That was the one major feature blocking my full time use of Spotify.

[coresx]

Got the update the other day. Local Library feature seems quite cool but does that list follow me on another computer ?

[LiquidSolstice]

Or I can just use Grooveshark, which I can access on any computer in the world that has flash, and I can upload my ENTIRE music library onto it, and it's all free with no advertisements.