Goodbye Spotify :mad:
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I just miss sky songsfar better than spotify especially since the change of payment. At least on sky songs as well un limited streaming, you got to keep 10 songs a move drm free. Only if there was a similar service and it was only 6.40. 1.40 more thanspotify and you cpget to keep songs.
Zune Pass. £2.59 over skysongs but it will do exactly as you say....
Or Napster... and it's cheaper!
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I moved to we7.com ages ago, entirely web based with no program to download. means i can use it wherever i like phone, linux, windows, ps3 etc. I dont think the library is quite as extensive as spotify but never found that to be an issue.
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People complain and pirate stuff no matter the cost, I know people who pirate android/iphone apps that cost less than £1.
It's all more amusing on a forum where people pay £100's for hardware.
Pandora was amazing, such a shame they stopped it here. Nothing comes close to discovering new music. The Spotify radio thing is pants, last.fm isn't very good either.
Stopped using Spotify a few months ago because of all the ads. I understand the need for ads and if I used it a lot I would probably buy a subscription but I don't use it enough to justify the cost.
As I mentioned in the same thread over in Music section;
I'm in two minds about subscripition based music services, because if they ever go bump you've invested a fair amount of money for nothing to show, and if your personal financial situation changes and you can't afford the monthly payments, you've got nothing to show for it at the end either. I know £10 a month on these doesn't seem a major amount for what initially seems like lots of music, but if you just bought 1 or 2 albums a month retail, you'll never loose the ability to listen to them.
I was just thinking, for example, if you really like listening to music, and have subscribed to spotify for say 2 years at either £5 or £10 a month, thats £120 - £240 over that time, then spotify come out and say, "sorry guys, the idea isn't working, we're closing the service down"
You've got nothing left to show for it, all your favourite albums and songs, become useless. Where as if you'd have used that money to buy an album or 2 a month, you'll at least have something to keep listening to, I know it wouldn't be in the same quantity of songs/albums you'd have listened to on spotify, but in my opinion, i'd rather have a few albums, and not run the risk of paying out a monthly fee for the chance it could all be taken away at any time.
I'm in two minds about subscripition based music services, because if they ever go bump you've invested a fair amount of money for nothing to show, and if your personal financial situation changes and you can't afford the monthly payments, you've got nothing to show for it at the end either. I know £10 a month on these doesn't seem a major amount for what initially seems like lots of music, but if you just bought 1 or 2 albums a month retail, you'll never loose the ability to listen to them.
I was just thinking, for example, if you really like listening to music, and have subscribed to spotify for say 2 years at either £5 or £10 a month, thats £120 - £240 over that time, then spotify come out and say, "sorry guys, the idea isn't working, we're closing the service down"
You've got nothing left to show for it, all your favourite albums and songs, become useless. Where as if you'd have used that money to buy an album or 2 a month, you'll at least have something to keep listening to, I know it wouldn't be in the same quantity of songs/albums you'd have listened to on spotify, but in my opinion, i'd rather have a few albums, and not run the risk of paying out a monthly fee for the chance it could all be taken away at any time.
See Mopidy. Not a nice GUI client but an MPD style server that can sync with Spotify. Paired with an MPD client (available on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac) it works pretty well.
i also prefer owning. there have been times in my life where i've had to get rid of my computer and internet when in the **** money wise. i'd cry if i had no music.
i also like to think that by buying CDs, more money goes the artists i like.
as i mentioned in another spotify thread recently, these changes don't affect the way i use it. i only use it to preview new albums by artists i haven't heard before. it saves me being a naughty boy as i always try before i buy. it's very rare there's something i'm interested in that isn't on there.
I use Spotify for listening to songs that I've not heard before, or to search for similar artists. I usually go to Play.com and have a look at what's been newly released, then head on to Spotify for a quick listen.
I never hit the time allowance, but I don't like the fact that it limits you to 5 listens of a song. (Think that's what I read)
I probably would pay for it, but I'm not a heavy user and to be honest, I can most likely just go to YouTube and listen to the songs on there before deciding to purchase any CD's, etc.
Plus one here too. I like to choose what I listen to, and I don't buy huge amounts of CDs (although I am defined as fifty pound man!). Spotify was great for letting me avoid turkey albums. Ripping them myself gives me high quality on the hifi, and bitrate of my choice on the move. Plus no DRM, and with the CDs on the shelf, I can always get to them and won't delete them accidentally.
Not sure what to use next
YowChowb will do I suppose.
But you don't own anything on Spotify, you stop paying your membership, you dont have access to the music any more. Buy 1 album a month for the same price, or buy albums on offer etc and that music is with you for life no matter what
+1 for www.we7.com
Been using that for ages, and the fact that its online means i can listen anywhere with no program to install.
Zune pass seems really good value too.
Been using that for ages, and the fact that its online means i can listen anywhere with no program to install.
Zune pass seems really good value too.
What a funny way to look at it, I pay £10 a month to be able to legally access a good selection of music (at a good bitrate) anywhere and can login from any PC and have my playlists, etc. immediatly to hand without having to carry my music with me.
It's not "your" music. You know you could simply copy mp3s to a usb hd, plug it into a router and access it from anywhere for nada? Some people pay for spotify and understand fully what they're getting, but most don't which is annoying.
Thing is, you can't access it anywhere. The reason certain people have bastardised spotify is so that they a. gain control of what it can be played on b. run p2p in the background to increase their profits at your expense (like bit torrent dna) c. make more money, because spotify charges for a service that other places offer for free, which work on anything browser capable i.e. everything and don't use your bandwidth in the background.
The internet is a complex place but the jist of it is thus. Spotify was intended to be a viable alternative to p2p which people* would use because of it's sharing nature - although it never got any p2p controls and messed up peoples home networks. Instead it's been bullied into making a massive profit for certain bodies while those same people are attempting to turn the knee jerk reaction in laws which will take at least 5 years to fix i.e. give them 5 more years of gouging.
The speed at which the bills passed through the US senate this week would suggest it's working, although private companies with more power than state courts is a profoundly worrying thing indeed.
Thing is, you can't access it anywhere. The reason certain people have bastardised spotify is so that they a. gain control of what it can be played on b. run p2p in the background to increase their profits at your expense (like bit torrent dna) c. make more money, because spotify charges for a service that other places offer for free, which work on anything browser capable i.e. everything and don't use your bandwidth in the background.
The internet is a complex place but the jist of it is thus. Spotify was intended to be a viable alternative to p2p which people* would use because of it's sharing nature - although it never got any p2p controls and messed up peoples home networks. Instead it's been bullied into making a massive profit for certain bodies while those same people are attempting to turn the knee jerk reaction in laws which will take at least 5 years to fix i.e. give them 5 more years of gouging.
The speed at which the bills passed through the US senate this week would suggest it's working, although private companies with more power than state courts is a profoundly worrying thing indeed.
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
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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