Comments on: Spotify: Life Without iTunes

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:19:18 +0000

Not all songs are on spotify. The Beatles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc are missing. So it’s not all go-go-go.

However, it is damn good at “mythbusting”. That is, you can genuinely see if you like a tune before you buy an album.

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:42:18 +0000

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By: lloyd

lloyd — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:29:15 +0000

No, I’m sorry to correct you on that but I feel it’s necessary. Spotify streams songs to the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android platform (to this date) at 160KBPS which is more than a standard MP3 track playing at 128KBPS. For premium users on the desktop version you receive 320KBPS at high signal and 256KBPS at a standard wi-fi signal… so they use a variable bit rate.
It’s best to support your answer with backing (I hope you do the same) so here it is; http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/#mobile (view the technical information section to the bottom of the page)

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Microsoft Considers Zune On the Mac and Apple Should Offer iTunes Subscriptions — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:01:20 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:28:43 +0000

Personally i am chuffed that a service like spotify has come around. I used to work in the digital distribution industry so have a fair idea of how hard it can be for new artists to make their music accesible whilst not simply giving it away. Spotify bridges this gap. I can listen to new artists with no cost to myself and yet the artist will still get paid. Brilliant!

Lets be honest. No one has enough money to purchase all the music they really want. I have in the past been a peer to peer user simply because i had no money. Not an excuse, but a reason. Spotify now allows me to satisfy my love for music without (a) breaking the law or (b) feeling terrible about robbing artists.

Am am an Android user and an iPod touch owner. I am seriously considering purchasing the premium subscription. Surely the most appealing feature of spotify is that is is multi platform syncable! I can sync my mac at home, my pc at work, my android phone and my ipod touch with absolutley no messing around!

Come on people. Spotify is what we (music makers and music lovers) have been waiting for.

By: Mike from Spotilinks

Mike from Spotilinks — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:34:07 +0000

I developed a social web-app to let members receive and manage playlists, albums and audioblog-posts from within their personal jukebox

Feel free to try at http://www.spotilinks.co.uk

Thanks in advance for your feedback and contributions :-)

By: Olly Farshi

Olly Farshi — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:52:34 +0000

I think there are a few assumptions several commenters are making. We need a little clarification before we continue to discuss this:

- Subscribing to Spotify means access to their platform and service. Therefore ending a subscription doesn’t result in ‘the loss’ of music per se.

The logic that some of you are using is like claiming that canceling your membership to Netflix means that you’ve lost all the films. Of course, you never owned the films in the first place and, if you’re familiar with the service in both cases, you would have never been under the impression that you actually owned anything.

- My final point was that Spotify may not supplant iTunes, or indeed any other media player. As a service though, it offers a listening and discovering experience different to that of a standard media player.

At no point did I claim that Spotify was an ‘iTunes killer’, it’s probably best I don’t try to defend a statement that I didn’t make.

And finally, with regard to the Spotify and artist royalty discussion, as I mentioned before, I’d love to see some good solid references for this. As a recording artist myself, I’m certainly interested to find out more.

However, misquoting Torrent Freak and taking the article out of context (Ksbja, I’m looking at you here), won’t help advance the discussion. The salient quote from the article is surely this,

“He says that Sony Music, after “suing the sh*t out of The Pirate Bay” is acting just like them by not paying the artists.

“I would rather be raped by Pirate Bay than by Hasse Breitholtz and Sony Music and will remove all of my songs from Spotify pending an honest service,” he says.

Sony? Dishonest? Surely not…”

Point being, as I mentioned earlier, it sounds more like it was Sony who were being dishonest here.

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Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:10:10 +0000

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By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:25:19 +0000

I just hate how Spotify rips off artists. One of them sad that they’d rather “get raped by The Pirate Bay than go with Spotify” (http://torrentfreak.com). If I want free music, I go all the way to get something that’s free (CC music) or something shared (not encouraged). Alternatively, there’s iTunes store. That is, either be “fair” and buy/DL something free, or be “unfair” and get for free anything. Just don’t pretend to be “fair”.