Just bought spotify premium!

rexehuk · 6 Sep 2009 at 03:37

Just wondering has anyone else done this? I have noticed a considerable different in quality especially at high volumes

Do you think 9.99 a month is a fair price?

98p · 6 Sep 2009 at 03:41

hmm 9.99 depends how much you use it, personally i wouldn't because I useually listen to the same song over and over

But if you like all different music then its great, and saving your playlists is handy.

We had a one day pass for my dad's party and it was great, hooked it up to the sound system and people could play the songs that they wished. So i would say depends what for and how often it is used but in some cases it would certainly be worth the 9.99 .

rexehuk · 6 Sep 2009 at 03:51

Yeah I mean if you put the price of tracks to by... 79p? or something. Quickly have made that up tonight.

As for music taste, I like anything from alternative rock / RnB & Hip Hop / Classical / New Age / Industrial metal / trance / dance /chillout so I think I'm pretty well catered for!

GarethDW · 6 Sep 2009 at 03:54

If they integrated with Squeezeboxes - like you can with Napster and Rhapsody - then I'd do it.

rexehuk · 6 Sep 2009 at 03:59

GarethDW said:
If they integrated with Squeezeboxes - like you can with Napster and Rhapsody - then I'd do it.

I want to pass the Spotify stream though iZotope ozone for winamp... is that doable?

clv101 · 6 Sep 2009 at 07:31

£120 a year is too much, I don't spend that much on music. £4 a month, £48 a year I would pay though.

xb8browney · 6 Sep 2009 at 07:44

No it's not worth it in my opinion £10 per year is more like it.

mattyprice4004 · 6 Sep 2009 at 07:48

xb8browney said:
No it's not worth it in my opinion £10 per year is more like it.

They wouldn't even make bandwidths costs up from that. :rolleyes:

EdGey · 6 Sep 2009 at 07:49

i don't know why i would...

it does everything already. i can search for everything i want, listen to everything i want, and the only thing bad is the odd advert every now and then.

your saying the quality is better? i didn't know that, they should advertise that!

id be happy to pay 5 a month.

zinc · 6 Sep 2009 at 08:12

I've been using spotify for a while now and it's now my main music player, it works great in ubuntu. Although I use the free service I don't mind the adverts, I get one maybe every hour or so.

In terms of variety, I listen to pretty much all types of music but £9.99 is too much. £4-£6 and now we're talking!

I've never bought the premium, but the one day pass would be great for a party!

Only artist that I've never been able to find is the Beatles, but their **** when it comes to innovating anyway, are they even on iTunes yet??

xb8browney · 6 Sep 2009 at 08:38

rover416i said:
They wouldn't even make bandwidths costs up from that.

I look at it this way. £7pm unlimited usenet £10pm spotify what you do with your usenet is a different matter

zinc · 6 Sep 2009 at 09:57

XRAY said:
I would never spend for Spotify. It defies the point of using it for me.

One thing you might find interesting though. Spotify it soon to release a version of itself for the iPhone via the app store. But its only available to premium subscribers. So if you have an iphone, you now have pretty much unlimited access to almost any music you want on the go.

Hate they way they only make it for premium users

Also the iphone app will have a offline playlists mode which is interesting!

Take a look:

V4NT0M · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:01

XRAY said:
I would never spend for Spotify. It defies the point of using it for me.

One thing you might find interesting though. Spotify it soon to release a version of itself for the iPhone via the app store. But its only available to premium subscribers. So if you have an iphone, you now have pretty much unlimited access to almost any music you want on the go.

And Android.

For now spotify premium is not worth it in the slightest, if you want to listen to a wider range of music without ads use grooveshark. Maybe if you're a total audiophile I guess, but personally I don't think I can really tell the difference between the ogg bitrates. One question though, does Spotify premium stop your PC being used as a P2P hub for other users?

Maybe when they release the mobile app it might be worth it.

ci_newman · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:02

They are rumored to be making a version for the Android OS too - I am waiting for this tbh

Doonhamer · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:04

I consider £10 a month to expensive for me as I am not really into music all that much. However the iphone app may yet tempt me to part with my cash once its released.

V4NT0M · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:04

ci_newman said:
They are rumored to be making a version for the Android OS too - I am waiting for this tbh

It's not roumored, the announced the Android version before the iphone version:

Christo · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:30

ci_newman said:
They are rumored to be making a version for the Android OS too - I am waiting for this tbh

You can already get Droidify and unofficial Spotify client, works exactly the same as the official client I believe. You need to have a Spotify premium account but the app is free.

Izi · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:38

for £120 a year you could buy 150 songs.

anti5580 · 6 Sep 2009 at 10:51

It just depends on how much you use it. I don't listen enough music to justify £120 a year even though I still find it a little bit steep.