RIP Spotify?
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- Projectile
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/techno…
Basically you'll only be able to listen to a track 5 times, and be limited to 10 hrs a month. It's already quite limited in terms of what you can listen to... Beatles, Metallica etc aren't on there. I'll be fucked if I'm gonna pay for a limited service, ads or no ads.
Might still be good for discovering new music but will have to download+playlists etc like the old days
bugger.
- abettertomorrow0
"The economics of ad-supported music services just don't add up and Spotify can't survive long-term while it haemorrhages money from its free service,"
Yup...I was saying about a year ago these streaming music services don't really add up. The fees per song are just too high.
How long before Grooveshark suffers the same fate?
- Stugoo0
The arse is falling out of the music industry in general and they know it.... I just hope spotify stays up for as long as my premium is running
- abettertomorrow0
It all has to do with the fee the music industry charges per streamed song which is ridiculously high. If you think about it, there should be a huge market for internet radio, but the labels pretty much priced it out of existence.
- haga0
Well, the changes and the "5 times a track" limit will only affect the free service, not the premium. So if you pay for Spotify, it's business as usual. As far as I've read anyway.
- DaveO1
Er, why don't people just fucking pay for it? I don't even think they should offer a free service any more. It's a fucking tenner per month to get pretty much anything you want out there. I've been using the paid service for a year and I think it's totally worth it.
People are so cheap these days, they can't stand the idea of paying for something intangible but totally legitimate.
"yeah, but I like to feel the packaging etc etc etc"
Piss off.
- < You just brightened my day no end. Like your sentiment!dee-dubs
- ernexbcn2
Pay the fucking thing, it's 5 or 10 euros a month FFS.
- 3030
It may take a while when Grooveshark does something similar. Grooveshark is not limited to the location, Spotify is: http://www.spotify.com/int/why-n…
- Projectile0
considering how often I turn to youtube to find a specific song because it isn't in Spotify, I won't pay for it on that basis.
Maybe if you're into pop and r&b and Biaber you've got all the access you want.. buut for me, I'm not paying for that.
I'd be happy to pay double for a service that has everything..
- microkorg0
yeah stop bitching and pay the monthly fee to get amazing quality advert-free broadcasts.
I agree that what you get for a tenner a month is totally worth it.
I use spotify for about 8 hours a day at work then when listening to music at home for a good few hours through the course of a week.
- microkorg1
and theres plenty of crate-digging to be done on spotify.
its not all beiber and pop.
i've actually been quite surprised with some of the old soul and funk stuff i've found on spotify - proper collectable stuff thats hard to come by on vinyl.
- NickInfozure0
The library on Spotify has opened me up to loads of very niche music genres and groups. If all 16 million users pay their way then they will be able to offer an even better service and more labels will agree to adding their tracks. Plus if they get the American agreements it will be a perfect service of non stop musical joy.
- desmo0
The amount of content you get for 10 quid per month is well worth it's value. Since i already pay for the service, i Don't mind this at all
But I can see how students or people with no money to spend can get upset about this
- DaveO0
Lots of sense being spoken on here.
There's loads on spotify, and the iphone app makes it even more worth it. I play it all day in the studio, take requests etc, and then all weekend. Not bad.
- shapesalad3
Wish there was a way to browse by label on spotify.
- < !jagara
- https://community.sp…BaskerviIle
- ^ you canBaskerviIle
- does that actually work for anyone?scruffics
- works for me
eg: label:[EMI]BaskerviIle - label:emi
I wonder what other 'label:' you can search for in that engine.uan
- CyBrainX0
Interesting comments from 10 years ago. I guess they dropped that limitation? (5 listens to any one track per month).
I never had Spotify but I don't know why people don't use YouTube Music instead. for about the same price you get most of the music ever made and you won't ever see a YouTube ad before videos ever again.
The one thing I miss is Google Play instead of YouTube Music. It was much more user friendly and your library would load right away.
- YouTube Ads? I can't recall the last time I saw one. Which browser do you use?Nairn
- I heard YouTube still isn't up to the same quality as Spotify or Apple Music.monospaced
- I have AdBlock Plus and still can't figure out how to get rid of YouTube ads. It doesn't seem to work, at all.monospaced
- @Nairn. I use Chrome. I think YouTube will show a 15 second ad before any video unless they stopped that since the last time I logged out of YouTube Premium.CyBrainX
- youtube has ads?GuyFawkes
- spotify's quality is total shit, different tracks have different volumes, its as if they let anyone upload anything without quality controlGuyFawkes
- listening to it now lolGuyFawkes
- I use YT music cause it came with premium but i’ve found that no matter what i ask to listen to eventually it will always play africa by totoscarabin
- omfg, Apple Music does that "Africa" shit with me too, wtf?monospaced
- Install uBlock if you're using Chrome, peeps.
<twat>Also, don't use Chrome! </twat>Nairn - Use Brave.grafician
- If on Android: vanced for streaming and newpipe for downloading.sausages
- cannonball1978-2
They are stuck in the dark ages without two-factor authentication. Lost years of playlists when some kid cracked my password and deleted them.
I'd be happy for a reason to leave them.
- sausages0
Fuck Spotify.
I was on premium for ages, used a gift card which should have been good for 3 months free and I didn't get anything credited to my account. When I let support know they cancelled my account on the spot.
Bunch of cunts.
- I don’t know, but this doesn’t seem to add up.monospaced
- Yeah, why would they cancel your account because of a gift card?CyBrainX
- I have the entire support conversation saved mono so you can doubt as you like. They said I can sign up again but fuck em. Not worth the time/effort to sort outsausages