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Just ran out on my 10hours of music. Spotify has become an utter joke.
Anyone else uninstalled it?
Anyone else uninstalled it?
Goodbye Spotify :mad:
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No, when my 10 hours is up I'll purchase the £5 a month membership.
Why do you deserve free music?
Be grateful for what it was, and either pay up or use something else.
Why do you deserve free music?
Be grateful for what it was, and either pay up or use something else.
yer iv got about 2 hours left, after thiking about it im going to pay for unlimited membership aswell tbh, its worth £1.25 a week all day long.
itunes charge for music aswell, now think how far £5/£10 a month would get you on there compared to unlimited on spotify aswell as some other nifty features thrown in to!
itunes charge for music aswell, now think how far £5/£10 a month would get you on there compared to unlimited on spotify aswell as some other nifty features thrown in to!
God damn these companies trying to make money and music not being free, how dare people be rightly rewarded for their talents.
Spotify premium costs as much as one cd a month, ONE CD! And there are even cheaper options than that, for the service you get and a massive music library at your fingertips, it is well worth it, most the people I know complaining about this change spend 5-10 times this amount on booze a month.
Sure it is everyones choice if they pay it or not, but the sense of entitlement some people have is a bit sad. Me though I love my premium.
Spotify premium costs as much as one cd a month, ONE CD! And there are even cheaper options than that, for the service you get and a massive music library at your fingertips, it is well worth it, most the people I know complaining about this change spend 5-10 times this amount on booze a month.
Sure it is everyones choice if they pay it or not, but the sense of entitlement some people have is a bit sad. Me though I love my premium.
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Your post is an utter joke.
Just pay the fiver, I know I will when mine runs out. I think it is pretty damn good value for money.
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Spotify is awesome, happily pay my £9.99 a month...
- Sonos support
- Sync loads of music offline on phones
- High quality streaming
Well worth it...quite sad tbh when people consider 4.99 or 9.99 too much to have access to millions of songs legit...
- Sonos support
- Sync loads of music offline on phones
- High quality streaming
Well worth it...quite sad tbh when people consider 4.99 or 9.99 too much to have access to millions of songs legit...
The music isn't free on Spotify though, don't know if you've noticed but there's advertising and quite a bit of it.
Not sure if this new move is legitimate in that they've not covered their costs with in-application advertising or whether it's a push to try and corner people into a subscription for what is a good service. Until the libraries are bigger [a lot of big artists completely missing], I wouldn't consider paying on a subscription-basis
Not sure if this new move is legitimate in that they've not covered their costs with in-application advertising or whether it's a push to try and corner people into a subscription for what is a good service. Until the libraries are bigger [a lot of big artists completely missing], I wouldn't consider paying on a subscription-basis
Stop being so tight and pay a fiver for unlimited music!
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I've uninstalled. They didn't have enough of the music I like and ended up adding most of it from my collection anyway.
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There are no adverts on the paid for accounts.
Besides, how does a few adverts stop the music being free. You don't have to pay to listen to adverts.
My biggest problem with Spotify is that they are so incredibly dependent on the major labels and what they allow Spotify to do. As shown with the recent downgrade of the free accounts.
As if I'm going to put my trust in them. I'd rather buy the CD or download from 7digital (320Kbps MP3) and know that I will be able to play that music, without any further investment, forever.
As if I'm going to put my trust in them. I'd rather buy the CD or download from 7digital (320Kbps MP3) and know that I will be able to play that music, without any further investment, forever.
The problem with spotify is two fold.
First, the labels have them by the nuts which is what's caused it to go from free, with some adds supported by almost zero bandwidth because of users caching.
Second, it's essentially a sell out. It successfully provided an alternative to torrents that encompassed the sharing aspect, the problem here is there are plenty alternatives that don't have adds. Also, all of the additional devices "supported" are just thing which work out of the box with a cd/mp3 that isn't riddled with drm. At some point people are going to realise someone can just flip a switch and remove all their music.
My personal problem with spotify is their use of my bandwidth. Using p2p was a way to reduce their costs so they could run an add based service. What happened (and most people seem utterly oblivious) is the music industry bullying spotify into charging people for a service but continuing to use their bandwidth (not providing the user any controls) in order to boost their profits. It's like BitTorrent DNA. Did you know some of the uTorrent team were behind spotify yet there are zero bandwidth controls. Fine for most people, until you remember that most people have other people in the house who like to watch videos, play games and use voip without something creating random spikes.
The thing is, since firefox added app tabs I've had that little grooveshark icon at the top right of my browser for ages now. It's more convenient, doesn't bombard with adds and it easier to manage via qos. I'm happy to suffer adds (most of spotifys here were nhs ones in scotland, or related artists) and use my bandwidth to make it possible, but the majority of people who took part in the beta the other year did so because of it's p2p sharing aspect.
It worked, it reduced the number of people using torrents but the same people who created the torrenting problem originally have only be destroyed, thus pushing the very people they successfully removed from the problem, back to the problem. Have problem, create spotify solving problem, slowly bully solution until it replicates original problem but at a price point equal to high connection vpns....
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
First, the labels have them by the nuts which is what's caused it to go from free, with some adds supported by almost zero bandwidth because of users caching.
Second, it's essentially a sell out. It successfully provided an alternative to torrents that encompassed the sharing aspect, the problem here is there are plenty alternatives that don't have adds. Also, all of the additional devices "supported" are just thing which work out of the box with a cd/mp3 that isn't riddled with drm. At some point people are going to realise someone can just flip a switch and remove all their music.
My personal problem with spotify is their use of my bandwidth. Using p2p was a way to reduce their costs so they could run an add based service. What happened (and most people seem utterly oblivious) is the music industry bullying spotify into charging people for a service but continuing to use their bandwidth (not providing the user any controls) in order to boost their profits. It's like BitTorrent DNA. Did you know some of the uTorrent team were behind spotify yet there are zero bandwidth controls. Fine for most people, until you remember that most people have other people in the house who like to watch videos, play games and use voip without something creating random spikes.
The thing is, since firefox added app tabs I've had that little grooveshark icon at the top right of my browser for ages now. It's more convenient, doesn't bombard with adds and it easier to manage via qos. I'm happy to suffer adds (most of spotifys here were nhs ones in scotland, or related artists) and use my bandwidth to make it possible, but the majority of people who took part in the beta the other year did so because of it's p2p sharing aspect.
It worked, it reduced the number of people using torrents but the same people who created the torrenting problem originally have only be destroyed, thus pushing the very people they successfully removed from the problem, back to the problem. Have problem, create spotify solving problem, slowly bully solution until it replicates original problem but at a price point equal to high connection vpns....
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.