Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Understand that is the only way to locate yr Denny Vertigo albums.

I thought those were only available on MOG.

can anyone tell me how i can stop spotify of starting automatically after turning on my windows xp computer?

go to spotify preferences (edit > preferences)

way down the list, you'll see "open Spotify automatically after you log into the computer"

set it to "don't open automatically"

thanks!

I've always heard of Spotify ever since it started, but is it really that good? I've yet to try it, but I've heard it has ads in the middle of a song, unless you pay to remove them. Is this true?

If this is so, I'd much rather stick to 8tracks, even though Spotify seems to have more variety, people on board and, thus, a higher potential to discover new music.

The free version has ads in between every few songs, not in the middle of songs. The pay version doesn't have ads. It gives you access to a huge library of music. The premium version allows you to download up to 3333 tracks on a single mobile device, 10000 across 3 devices.

and they have higher bitrates if you pay £10 a month

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm sold. I will create an account right now.

At one point it had ads in between songs that were like 15 minutes or longer, but that doesn't happen anymore.

Have any of you tried the iPhone app? Thoughts?

It works really well if you have premium. I currently don't have premium so I can't use it. You get a 48 hour free trial of Spotify mobile when you start a free account.

I played around with it for that 48 hour window and it was much better than say, Pandora... obv cause you can choose exactly what you want to listen to.

App is frustrating as hell. Buggy.

My user is 573v3n on there. Please feel free to add me, guys!

I like the iPhone app, it seems to do everything the Mac version does.

The Spotify plug-in for SqueezeCenter has the ability to show recent searches and recently played artists and albums. It seems strange those features aren't available in the iPhone or Mac apps. Maybe I just haven't found them?

SqueezeCenter? Is Logitech still supporting that?

I don't know what level of support is available any more ... I haven't seen any updates in a while. It's still working fine on my system.

I guess I'm actually running Logitech Media Server now.

Spotify and attempts to reinstall have been crashing on me for about 2 weeks now. Is it an OSX thing, as I'm still on 10.5.8?

Maybe ... it hasn't crashed for me on 10.8.3, though it loads slowly.

i had problems with it crashing, then with its becoming unusable after it updated itself, so i de-updated it and blocked it from updating per instructions above in this thread; but now it's back to crashing on startup again. worst piece of software i've used in years.

it's been slower for me since the update but not crashing, thankfully. aren't they supposed to be offering a browser-based version at some point?

You rang? https://play.spotify.com/

Are you buying everything on CD or on iTunes? Because as someone who was a big illegal downloader for a long time, I pretty much feel like there's no justification whatsoever for it unless you're trying to hunt Dow something that is completely out of print and otherwise impossible to find.
$10/mo is nothing. If you can't afford it, you can spend $5/mo for ad-free streaming. If you can't afford that, you're a loser.

At the moment, I'm also subscribing to MOG because I really want to ECM catalogue as well. So that's $20/mo, which is--gasp--$240/year total. Which probably equals a couple of months of what I used to spend in a pre-P2P era.

When you consider that you are getting instant access to virtually every record you ever wanted, have some principled stance against the idea of subscription services because they pay so little to artists (a fair criticism), or don't buy $120 worth of music per year, it's a no brainer, really.

― Naive Teen Idol

There has not been a year in the last 25 that i haven't spent between $1-5k on music. I don't stream for any other reason than to preview the desirability of some titeles (or i'll do an illegal dl -- but again, only for preview -- or if the material is hopelessly unavailable through legitimate means). Grooveshark still shows ads, but i'm not forced to read to them like you are forced to listen on Spotify. The FCC has done a huge injustice to public airwaves by making both radio and television a simple rubber-stamped commodity.

My mobile music is comprised mainly of items i've pre-sifted; and i save album listening for the home stereo -- streaming the bulk you listening is yet another form of instant gratification that makes many of so shallow. Fight.

Your last sentence makes no sense.

his last sentence is "Fight."

exactly

lol *hi-five*

Spotify, or streaming to multiple devices simply does not apply to the manner in which i choose to listen to music. If the only advantage for opting for the pay version of Spotify is the absence of Ads, than i can attain the same with the free version of Grooveshark.

- bob marley

lol

I'm glad there are still some people like suspecterrain who purchase the artifact (cd, record, etc), because I'm definitely not one of those people. After building a cassette, then cd, then vinyl collection between the ages of 14 and, say, 35, I'm honestly glad I don't have to lug that shit around with me from address to address anymore and I can just pay for access rather than ownership.

How frequently do you move?

Twice in the last three years.

But that aside, I sort of love not owning all that stuff anymore.

owning a shit-ton of CDs is 95% awesome, 5% "oh fuck, which case did I put that Speed Limit 104+ BPM comp in when I was being lazy"

i love buying stuff

i'm a huge vinyl collector person, all you ppl that never hear analog sound are missing out on music basically! it's true! how snobby do you want me to get??? i can do it

but spotify is fucking amazing, there's no question

Does I Heart Radio not compare to Spotify? Or does it have its pros?

On another note, I'm torn between owning records and having a huge music library digitally, because I not only move frequently, but have had to move countries a few times.

Also, what happens when your external HDD goes kaput? I'd hate to lose thousands upon thousands of tracks.

Does I Heart Radio not compare to Spotify? Or does it have its pros?

i heart radio is basically just for listening to clear channel corporate stations online right?

On another note, I'm torn between owning records and having a huge music library digitally
^^thankfully this is not actually a choice you have to make :)

Also, what happens when your external HDD goes kaput?

had this happen twice now

this is why spotify

Can I ask you guys that don't have cds and records etc what you use to play digital dl and streaming on? Not just your computer with headphones right? I do a lot of listening like that, via my laptop - usually late at night but if I can I'll pump cds and records from my separates system but the sound is 20 times better.

Can anyone recommend a speaker set I can plug straight into my laptop - or is there more to it than that?

My car stereo has a usb port, so I just dump mp3s on a thumb drive once every month or two and hit shuffle. It goes on forever without repeating. Most of my Spotify use is at work through headphones. I don't listen to much music inside my home, which is why I guess I felt okay selling off my physical collection(s).

laptop speakers

YOLO

God, I miss ripping off Columbia House.

Haha otm

iPhone via Bluetooth to DAC to hi-fi. The DAC is essential.

i'm a huge vinyl collector person, all you ppl that never hear analog sound are missing out on music basically!

Can I ask you guys that don't have cds and records etc what you use to play digital dl and streaming on? Not just your computer with headphones right?

lol, I listen to vinyl and cassettes through my computer! Everything goes into an AD converter, then out through the DA converter into a volume control and to active speakers. I could even listen to a record, a tape, itunes, and spotify simultaneously this way if I wanted to!

theoretically I could listen to CDs too, but why? fuck those things.

I've been trying to buy more new vinyl so long as it comes packaged with free mp3 downloads. Sometimes it's great, sometimes not. Just got a vinyl copy of Purity Ring's Shrines and the mp3s sound better.