Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Anyone else heard the ads for this crazy German band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxzu8EFBVY

ugh, no, thankfully i upgraded to premium. The world doesnt need a german housemartins

guess i was asleep when the housemartins covered r&b hits in a rockabilly style.

Ruh-roh:

First up is Spotify Unlimited, which offers you round-the-clock, ad-free access to Spotify on your computer. Create playlists, build your own library, share music with friends - and all for only €5 a month.

Also available from today is Spotify Open. Open offers new Spotify users the chance to try out the service without the need for an invite, giving access to millions of tracks for up to 20 hours every month - that’s equivalent to listening to 25 albums or 300 tracks EVERY month!

users who are happy with their current plan won’t be affected by these updates.

...if you're already paying, surely?

Looks like the free service will now be restricted to "up to 20 hours per month".

Maybe not. If you haven't already signed up, looks like you lost out (unless you can get an invite): http://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/overview/

No "available offline" or spotify mobile with Unlimited (doesn't that make it Limited?) and it's got the same bitrate as free but £5 to get rid of the ads is tempting.

im signed up but don't seem to have n.e. invites to give out :/

If you have Free now, you'll fallback to Free when your Premium or Unlimited expires.

^good news for anyone wanting to try out Unlimited.

Day pass is no longer available!
We recommend Spotify Premium or Spotify Unlimited instead.

:(

boo

the beginning of the end

Surprised it's taken them so long to do this.

spotify unlimited for half the price is a pretty reasonable deal though.

i have two invites for anyone who's interested btw

the beginning of the end

£5 for unlimited is pretty good value, Premium (which you're already paying for?) isn't changing, people on Free get to stay on it. Losing the day pass is a loss but I think this is a better price structure overall.

£5 is remarkable considering what that would have bought in Our Price when i were a nipper

a 10 pack of TDK's?

£5 at Our Price would at least have gotten you something in decent quality and without horrible compression.

I've been moaning at them on Get Satisfaction for the past month about how I can't get a decent stream in the evening: after 5pm it starts stuttering terribly. After a while I realised that everyone with the same problem was using BT as an ISP: fair play to Spotify, they've had several chats with BT about it and tonight -- for the first time in months -- it seems to be working properly, after they persuaded BT to tweak something technical I don't quite understand.

All of which is a long-winded way of saying: I like Spotify. A hell of a lot.

Is the compression on standard Spotify really bad? I don't remember it being atrocious, but I went premium ages ago so might have forgotten

£5 at Our Price would at least have gotten you something in decent quality and without horrible compression.

Aye, a poster.

compression on Free causes me no problems, although admittedly it's only through headphones or a cheap-ish 2.1 PC speaker kit. Never had a single stutter on Free either (am on a LLU ADSL2 connection with very low contention ratio though, it sounds like grimly's problems are with BT rather then S/ify themselves).

Disappointed at the end of Day Pass, I've bought this a few times recently when I've been off work decorating etc. I've still got a psychological block about paying a tenner for it on a recurrent basis rather than a quid every so often, I guess.

Utterly addicted to this, thanks to sonderangerbot for the invite.... it's sort of a problem for me though as 95% of my listening is home listening while typing up essays or just perusing through the internet, so now I see no need to ever buy an album ever again. Unfortunately they don't have a lot of stuff from Warp Records, :(

Listening to 'God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It' and it's jumping like a dodgy vinyl record. Having never heard the album before I wonder if it's supposed to be like this.

In the early spotify days I heard quite a few vinyl rips - I figured they were just throwing in everything they could hoover up from anywhere but I haven't heard anything like that for ages.

I was listening to a song that skipped a lot, making me think it was just a CD rip.

Bill: it was far more BT's fault than Spotify's, yes, though the fact it seemed to affect Intel Mac users more than PPC or Windows users (though not exclusively) pointed to something slightly more complex -- as Spotify admitted. Fair play to them: they could have just said "lol BT fuck off", but they stuck with it and it all seems to be good now.

For the moment, at least.

As for the pricing: the tenner a month is worth it for me because of the iPhone app, pure and simple. I'm at the stage now where Spotify's simply an integral part of how I listen to music: I'd be screwed without it.

Not entirely convinced it's BT at fault as that's the only thing I've had problems with. The stuff I listened to before and after played fine.

There's a track on My Dying Bride's "Turn loose the swans" (title track, I think) that turns into a completely different song in the middle. Spotify guerilla mashup, I assume.
Rather, uh, disconcerting. A bit amusing. Turns out, incidentally, that that album isn't as enjoyable at 29 as it was at 19.

2 gripes: signing up to the day pass isn't/wasn't as easy as it should be. we tried to sort this for a party last weekend and ended up paying £10 for the month, bit irritating. second gripe, listening to it during the day and songs constantly pause and skip, im guessing because of the increased bandwidth needed to stream 320 mp3s. i use bt too but this was still happening late last week. they should at least have a setting to bump this down to 128 as my only workaround is to log in with an old ad-supported account - the idea of (mistakenly) paying £10 for an unusable service is kinda ridiculous

My questions upthread answered, I just got an email from paypal saying I'd paid for premium, so it does do it automatically!

2 gripes: signing up to the day pass isn't/wasn't as easy as it should be. we tried to sort this for a party last weekend and ended up paying £10 for the month

1st gripe is down to the day pass no longer existing

I got an email yesterday about some kind of free account they're introducing, but I only glanced at it then and my webmail isn't loading now. I'll be back with info soon, promise.

oh okay it was the already discussed Spotify Open. Nevrrrrrrmind.

1st gripe is down to the day pass no longer existing

no we did this the other saturday, 8th may i think, so it was still available at that time

I did it that day too - it's been scrapped since, as discussed upthread.

http://www.spotify.com/int/get-spotify/day-pass/

Day pass is no longer available!
We recommend Spotify Premium or Spotify Unlimited instead.

Wanted to have a listen to a new release album today and it's greyed out with This is a Spotify Premium exclusive. It will later be made available in Spotify Free message. Considering I've paid for a Spotify Unlimited pass this month this irks me - wonder if it's yet another Sign of Things To Come.

Hey, since when did the iPhone app start scrobbling to last.fm? I've just noticed that you can now switch this on via the settings. ALL MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE.

Oh, and the latest version of the iPhone app now has multi-tasking, if you've upgraded to iOS4.

^ so awesome. Also works with the headphone buttons, the lock-screen double-tap controls and the swipe-left-on-switcher-bar controls.

Think Farnborough fucking airshow and The Boy Who Trapped The Sun might have finally made me crack and move to Unlimited. Still worried I'll move from Free to Open if I cancel payments. Anyone done that yet?

is this true? spotify works in USA now?

http://twitter.com/KellyeSue/status/19081467285

this person has protected their tweets

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT spotify works in the US now!!!!! My life just got 30% better.

hang on what

WELCOME

Uhhh, it doesn't though?

okay i asked KellyeSue how it's working and all I got was:

" I don't know how it's working.I just did an update, and then it started working again.I'm terrified it's going to stop working."

I thought you were in the UK? afaik if you use it in the uk, you can use it for 2 weeks abroad.