Spotify WTF
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- Horp
I'm a technoluddite. I have recently discovered Spotify and like it, but what the fuck is it with it constantly needing to connect to my computer every 30 seconds from all manner of places?
How does this work/why does this happen?
Can anyone enlighten me? I feel like my parents trying to grapple with the quantum leap required to understand how a fax machine manages to send pictures down a phone line.
- Nairn0
In three words or more - what does Spotify do?
- Its like Pandora. It gives you musics to listen to for free.Horp
- Christ, I don't even know what Pandora does!Nairn
- Hahaha, online music streaming. I suddenly feel all powerful and wise.Horp
- It's like grooveshark.com but not web-based. Stand alone app, pretty damn cool tbh.Raniator
- Raniator0
It does that?
Maybe that is why my internet connection at home is sooo fucked up. I was blaming Airport but maybe it is that?
- Horp0
Get little snitch on and see how many times it needs to connect from loads of different locations. Mental!
- When did you become so goddamn l33t, spooks?Nairn
- I was using LS, but disabled it. Will check it out. Cheers for the tip-off.Raniator
- Hahaha Nairn, since I took that course in Alpha-Spandex coding for the Unimax backshelf system. You know about that, right?Horp
- right?Horp
- I'd heard about some young bit throwing down binary back around photon alley - I just didn't know it was you.Nairn
- I try to keep it on the downlow. I don't want the netfuzz on my back when I'm splicing B-Trees for dirty coin.Horp
- ( I now have the feeling you were quoting something I really ought to recognise but don't )Horp
- Nah, just mangling the sort of thing George Lucas might purvey as an excuse for believable jock banter.Nairn
- Fat, memory-wringing toad that he is.Nairn
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHorp
- I did think afterwards 'was that a Han Solo quote?' so you have the form down perfectly.Horp
- Horp0
In my own naive ludditious way I wondered if it was having to connect to lots of places because the database of music available is stored on lots of people's machines, as I believe it was on Napster (?) and therefore its about 'sharing' files across a network.
If so, I'll be doing hard chunks in music prison if anyone needs me.
- Raniator0
I've never really understood how these things work, and how they can get away it really... I just assume legit because it's freely and easily available. It's a great service, but the 'multi-threaded' sharing (or whatever it's called) kinda makes sense... millions and millions of tracks stored in just one place? iTunes it ain't...
1 advert per half hour of listening or £9.99 a month... pfft, yeah right!!!
- drgss0
different servers? like most streaming services have
youtube has 10.000+
- Yeah, that'll be it then...
*looks around
*gets coatRaniator - Oh yeah I knew that Drgss.
"Ahem"
= DHorp - Thing is though Drgss, I'm denying all the connections and it still plays the music.Horp
- loldrgss
- = DHorp
- could be peer-to-peer thing, ie. you become a streaming server yourself for other usersdrgss
- and so spotify doesnt have to pay for bandwidthdrgss
- check what happens to your upload when u use spotifydrgss
- Ah right, will do. I had a feeling it might be this because the connections are all really odd, like domestic broadband addresses and such.Horp
- addresses and such.Horp
- Yeah, that'll be it then...
- psenso0
no ACDC
no ZEP
no fun
- osk0
works like a bit torrents but er..legally...
- invisiblechamber0
the last.fm standalone software keeps sucking on local drives for several minutes after starting up. interupting this violently also doesn't affect the playback at all. ehm... this no usefull information i guess.
- fiesta0
good if you don't have a waffles/what account, if you do then its shit