Goodbye Spotify :mad:

Beasty said:
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.
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CDs are massively overpriced as it is, what happened to artists making their money of merchandising and playing gigs?
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Check out Mflow.
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Awesome! Thanks for that. I'd never heard of Mflow until now.

I use Spotify Mobile to sync music onto my iPhone to listen out and about and at work. However, I think I can now get rid of that and use Mflow for free.

Mflow doesn't yet have an iOS app or mobile website but the main website works fine on my iPhone 3GS as it's all HTML 5. Coupled with the Three all-you-can-eat-data SIM plan I will get next month, this looks like a free alternative to Spotify Mobile.

Brilliant!


EDIT: Have just cancelled my Spotify Premium membership after using the service for about 2 years.
 
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Mattus said:
Paying for an ongoing service rather than a physical product isn't exactly a novelty! You do it all the time for your internet connection, your mobile, your TV...

Take satellite or cable television. If you stop paying the bill, it gets cut off and you can no longer watch the TV shows which you can watch whilst you pay the subscription. If you cancelled your TV now, you'd have absolutely nothing physical to take away from it. But that doesn't make you cancel the subscription and buy a few DVDs instead, does it? I don't see why Spotify would be any different.



That isn't remotely as convenient or accessible as Spotify, and you know it.
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I record stuff off Sky all the time using my DVD recorder, so if I stop Sky, I can still watch what I've taped.

Music to me is a whole different ball game, I watch movies probably once or twice, then never again, where as I can listen to one album multiple times a month.
 
ljt said:
Each to their own, I wouldn't call it a "funny way of looking at it" When I part with cash I like to actually own something in return.

Questions: What happens if Spotify goes bump tomorrow?

What happens if for financial reasons you can't afford to pay £10 a month for 6 months as you're income has dried up due to losing your job?

Answer: You can't listen to the music, if you'd have physically purchased those songs, then the above wouldn't matter, you could still listen to the music you've bought
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If spotify goes bump tomorrow, I'd have to find another source for listening to music ad lib, I have all my favorite tracks purchased, it would have cost me far far more than £10 a month to purchase even half the tracks spotify gives me access to - which is why I say its a funny way to look at it, be different if I was paying ~£130 a month or so it would cost me to purchase all the music I listen to via spotify.

If I couldn't afford the sub ostensibly I'd be back on the limited account with a restriction on how much I could listen to, tho in my case all I'd lose is mobile access and higher bitrate due to the type of account mine originally was - before I paid monthly for premium.
 
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the service/quality etc is bad, or that nobody should subscribe.

It would appeal to me, if there was a service where you pay £10 a month and you could access music like Spotify, but you could keep 5 - 10 songs a month DRM free, to keep forever.
 
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