What is spotify?
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Topic: What is spotify?
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Subject: What is spotify?
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 13:18
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I wasn't really sure where to post this. Anyway, I'm wondering if someone could tell me a bit about Spotify. Is it similar to youtube? Do you pay monthly or per song or is is it free etc. Also, does it take a long time to set up. I've never used it so I'm wondering and thinking about checking it out. Thanks. |
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 14:05
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It's free, but you get certain perks for paying. Set up is real quick, or non existent if you want to use it through your browser.
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 14:48
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The free version has ads from time to time but you can mute on the browser version without stopping the ad. On the Android free version you can only listen albums on shuffle, so I uninstalled it. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 19:20
| Ok so then I take it that it's similar to youtube but without the videos then. I mean you can't download any of the music right? |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 20:26
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Yeah, the music isn't downloadable. The artist gets a very very small cut with each play or something like that. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 20:46
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You can download with the paid version but you have to use their app to play the tracks. I've been a paid member for a couple years now and use it every day on my phone and laptop. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 21:22
| It's like any other radio service, i.e. compared to traditional radio it has the single advantage of letting you skip tracks a certain number of times in a certain time interval. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 06 2014 at 08:01
It's not really a radio service. I used the paid version (£9.99 per month) and I think it's really good, There is a lot of prog on there if you look around, I've already discovered some great bands such as Balloon Astronomy.
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Dayvenkirq wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 06 2014 at 08:02
You can mark tracks as available offline but they are stored in a proprietary format so yes, you have to use the Spotify app to play them. There is a limit on the number of tracks you can store offline, I think it's 3000.
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: July 06 2014 at 08:21
| And of course the sound quality is excellent compared to youtube. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 06 2014 at 11:18
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 06 2014 at 14:17
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 09 2014 at 20:14
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oh yeah i use it alot from time and time again, at first it was the browser version but then the desktop version (can be accessed from the start menu or start page with icons for IE or GC (or the bottom of the screen on Windows 8). ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 10 2014 at 02:18
Note that scrobbling doesn't work on the browser version.
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 10 2014 at 08:35
...wat? besides, i don't even use the browser version much anymore.
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Posted By: josuu
Date Posted: July 10 2014 at 08:38
| I have the paid version, and use the app quite a lot on my iPhone & iPad. I like to listen to an album before actually buying it and definitely prefer Spotify over YouTube. At least the artists get some compensation for the plays, although it is very minimal. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 10 2014 at 09:27
You're ok then. Apparently there is a bug in the browser version (I'm assuming it hasn't been fixed yet, it wasn't last time I checked but there's been a couple of updates since) that stop scrobbling working. That's why I use the thick client version.
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