mflow, a reasonable spotify alternative?

HumanShield · 7 Mar 2011 at 13:18

Anyone else been trying out mflow? Currently using it rather than spotify to stream music while at work, and I have to say I'm impressed.

Much better catalogue than Spotify on first impressions. Couple of things not there, but seems to have a better selection than Spotify.

I'm not 100% sure on how the licensing works, as there are no adverts either at the moment!

www.mflow.com

I wont post up my referral link, but should you want to sign up, you can earn myself, and yourself, £1 to buy music with on the site, should you want to!

TriedandTested · 7 Mar 2011 at 17:58

Look good to me. Somehow got a couple of free songs to download after I shared it on Facebook.

Good quality.

Lysander · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:21

Hmm I'm skeptical. Looks like the musical equivalent of Lockerz.

HumanShield said:
I'm not 100% sure on how the licensing works

There ain't any, is my guess.

THMRK · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:24

Grooveshark is pretty good, I find.

Rroff · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:26

Woody__ said:
Grooveshark is pretty good, I find.

It looks very similiar to groove shark - afaik groove shark is still on very shaky legal grounds tho.

Lysander · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:27

Woody__ said:
Grooveshark is pretty good, I find.

Grooveshark isn't totally legal either.

EDIT: Indeed, Rroff.

THMRK · 7 Mar 2011 at 18:31

I know. They're only legally supposed to have tracks by EMI artists on there, but having the facility to upload tracks will inevitably bring them into some kind of legal difficulties.

Interestingly, though, it's impossible to get anything by The Beatles on there. Even if you try to upload it, it never actually appears in the library.

EDIT: Interestingly, mflow appear to have licensing deals with EMI, Universal, Ministry of Sound, Sony Music and PIAS Recordings.

HumanShield · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:01

Lysander said:
There ain't any, is my guess.

That was my initial thoughts, but the guy who is in charge (on Twitter, I think it is @oleg_mflow) seemed pretty happy to answer any questions regarding the licenses. Find it quite suprising that it can be offered for free. Not complaining at the moment though!

THMRK · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:10

The legal issues arise, in part, due to the ability to upload songs. The terms of use state that you must either own the music, or have permission to upload it.

flibbage0 · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:52

Is it me or does it sound better(in terms of audio quality) compared to Grooveshark?

THMRK · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:56

I think Grooveshark is fine, but because people are uploading songs sometimes you just get dodgy versions of songs.

Jingo... · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:06

I don't really see what the issue with Spotify is? I haven't been able to find Pink Floyd or Metallica (suprise suprise) but apart from that the catalogues are fairly substantial and adverts fairly minimal, although have ridiculous 'targeted marketing'.

flibbage0 · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:19

Jingo... said:
I don't really see what the issue with Spotify is? I haven't been able to find Pink Floyd or Metallica (suprise suprise) but apart from that the catalogues are fairly substantial and adverts fairly minimal, although have ridiculous 'targeted marketing'.

Use grooveshark, pretty much everything is on there.

HumanShield · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:20

Jingo... said:
I don't really see what the issue with Spotify is? I haven't been able to find Pink Floyd or Metallica (suprise suprise) but apart from that the catalogues are fairly substantial and adverts fairly minimal, although have ridiculous 'targeted marketing'.

I don't have an issue with spotify, have an unlimited account, just checking out the alternatives

Jingo... · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:37

flibbage0 said:
Use grooveshark, pretty much everything is on there.

I don't really see the need :confused:

THMRK · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:56

Jingo... said:
I don't really see the need

I can't find a whole bunch of my favourite artists on spotify.

HumanShield · 17 Apr 2011 at 20:54

seemed like a good time to have this back on the front page, as I am sure a number of people are thinking of opening an account somewhere other than spotify with the changes being made.

I am still using mflow and spotify together, but have been considering more and more to ditch my unlimited spotify acount and go solely on mflow

Amp34 · 17 Apr 2011 at 22:37

Jingo... said:
I don't really see what the issue with Spotify is? I haven't been able to find Pink Floyd or Metallica (suprise suprise) but apart from that the catalogues are fairly substantial and adverts fairly minimal, although have ridiculous 'targeted marketing'.

Why suprise suprise?

They are both avaliable to stream with Zune (pass).

Sinny · 18 Apr 2011 at 01:40

flibbage0 said:
Use grooveshark, pretty much everything is on there.

As above, finding the quality pretty shaky :\.

I'll give mflow a go, in the end I might have to do the £5 a month for spotify

edit - Nope Quality is poor compared to spotify which is really annoying considering Spotify goes up to 320k on paid subs :\. Looks like I may have to sub.... which will pull down me actually buying music... rather than buying it which is what spotify has made me do.. ARGHHHHHHH

MikeHunt79 · 18 Apr 2011 at 02:02

I'm using SimplePlayer Pro for iOs, seems to have quite a nice collection of songs, but it's a shame you can't download songs for offline mode...

Still, no ads and it's free, I can't complain.

mflow, a reasonable spotify alternative?

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