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MuGeN

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Anyone think its worth upgrading from Unlimited to Premium for the sound quality? is there a noticeable difference?

(only generally playing through my iMac so the quality might not shine through anyway right?)
 
I'm not sure you would to be honest, I have a free Spotify account and the quality of sound isn't bad through my iMac speakers. Then again, I can't really justify paying £10 a month for just an ad-free service with supposedly better quality!
 
I can't really understand how their business model works... just £5 - £10 a month and I could listed to 100 albums :eek:

Almost seems dodgy :D
 
As you surmised, pushing it through integrated speakers is a bit of a waste so you're probably best saving your money. Put £10 per month towards some external speakers instead.
 
EVH said:
You can't even use the Spotify app, unless you pay :mad:
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but do you not think its a very reasonable price for what it is? in the past I have spend considerably more than £10 in any one month on music... and this is practically an unlimited supply :cool:
 
its well worth it imo, £10 is barely anything for the convenience of being able to listen to almost anything anywhere, with syncing across computers/devices.
 
Just found out that Oasis and The Beatles aren't on spotify at all :( - two of my favourite artists grrrrrr!
 
is the battery issue across the board or just the 3Gs? I ask cuz the 3Gs just has a blanket "battery issue" as far as I can tell...

(when I went skiing a few weeks back, everyone ran Ski Tracks on their iPhones which is a GPS monitoring and mapping app (superb btw) and at the end of the day, the iPhone 4 folks still had 60-70% battery remaining whereas the 3Gs folks had... you guessed it... nada)
 
on the iphone 4 I don't find the battery life a problem, when streaming music it eats battery at the same rate as things like last.fm/GPS apps etc. If you use the sync/offline feature I find it no worse than the ipod app.
 
BUSH said:
its well worth it imo, £10 is barely anything for the convenience of being able to listen to almost anything anywhere, with syncing across computers/devices.
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I really like Spotify and have considered paying for it. However I wouldn't say you can listen to almost anything. I guess it depends on what you listen to, but several of my favorite bands are not on it which has help me back from paying so far.
 
i guess maybe i've been lucky on stuff i listen to being on there, but it always seems to be expanding the library.

For me its the mobile app that makes it worth 10 quid a month
 
I think the Spotify app is fantastic, you can pretty much listen to anything at anytime.
A *POSSIBLE* alternative could Qriocity? It has just launched on the PS3 and is a lot cheaper than Spotify. I can't retrieve the exact prices right now as I'm in Cyprus!
I can definitely see Sony bringing out PSP and Xperia apps for their devices. I'm hoping they will release full blown Android and iOS apps as well but we'll see.
 
I like the random radio mode, but I wish there were a checkbox to exclude sappy foreign language male crooning. Way too much of it :(
 
If Spotify had the same level of iTunes content then it'd be amazing but since a vast amount of artists are missing from it I will not pay for it!

In fact I've stopped using it myself, my collection is better than that of Spotify.
 
I really like it and I am paying the £10/month

OK it may not have everything, but it does have a lot, and I certainly discover new artists easier on this than before.

The iphone app works pretty well, although I don't use the live streaming, I simply use the off-line mode which downloads them to your phone for up to 30 days and play them that way instead, works a treat!
 
MuGeN said:
but do you not think its a very reasonable price for what it is? in the past I have spend considerably more than £10 in any one month on music... and this is practically an unlimited supply :cool:
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The key is that you don't own any of the music. Spotify pays license fees more akin to how a radio station pays.

Personally I though Spotify was alright. Was a premium subscriber for quite a long time but I never really got on with the playlists focus (I'm more of an Album/Artist kind of guy). I now use Zune and it's so much better. A quid less a month for a service that integrates seamlessly in to my Windows Phone handset and will work on both the Xbox and PC. It's not perfect, but the whole system is set up much more like a good music player should be.

I've also got a Napster subscription for the Sonos. Got to say Spotify is definitely the better of the two, but Napster is only £5/month instead of the £10/month needed to get Spotify running on the Sonos (sadly Zune doesn't feature, and I can't see that changing any time soon).
 
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