Spotify

[Hawkeye]

Thanks MJK!  Worked like a champ.   

[Ruckus]

So this is pretty sweet!  Finally listening to the Frank Turner album and really digging it.

[Crispy]

So this is pretty sweet!  Finally listening to the Frank Turner album and really digging it.

Yes! I am finally able to listen immediately to mjk's, Ruckus's, everyone else's, and my own recommendations! The only trouble now is there are too many. I already have 32 records to listen to on my starred list.

[e_wind]

Invite would be appreciated :)

[vespachick]

Go to the bottom of page one of this thread and follow MJK's link.....

[Crispy]

I think I now have proof for my theory that e_wind does not read prior posts...  ;D ;)

[Jon T.]

How do you see other people's lists?  I like the interactiveness of this, but after a quick 15 minute browse, it looks liks Napster has a better selection at the same $10 a month price. 

[Crispy]

If you connect it to facebook, it will show you your friends who are on spotify. Also, you can search usernames thusly: "spotify:user:"+[username]

Me: "spotify:user:crispyinstilly"

[Hawkeye]

I finally got my free invite today...I think it took 3-4 days...of course after I went through MJK's instructions already.  It looks like the free account is unlimited use though, whereas the "open account" I signed up for has a 20 hour/month limit?  Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm going to try to sign up for the "free account."  So e_wind, if you can wait 3-4 days just go to spotify.com and request an invite.  Think I'm really going to like this, if I can avoid the obsessive "must listen to everything!" mentality.

[mjk73]

Other than the time allowed thing, is there any other difference between the "free" and "open"? I know if you do the pay piece, a shitload of stuff open

[Tracy 2112]

you're pretty cutting edge Crispy,


Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes

http://www.businessweek.com/management/why-spotify-will-kill-itunes-07222011.html

[Crispy]

you're pretty cutting edge Crispy,


Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes

http://www.businessweek.com/management/why-spotify-will-kill-itunes-07222011.html

Ha! That is the FIRST time I have ever been accused of such. Good article, and explains very well why I am happy to hire spotify to supply this service to me -- for the whopping price of $5 a month. And if I were in my car more, I'd upgrade to $10 to use it on my phone.

So far, the availability of music hasn't disappointed me much. Missing that I've looked for include:
Sleepy Sun -- only 1 track available!
Sun Kil Moon -- no Admiral Fell Promises

EDIT: Did you see the counterpoint, Tracy? Also interesting, raising the question of what happens after the inevitable price increase, ala Netflix.

[mjk73]

you're pretty cutting edge Crispy,


Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes

http://www.businessweek.com/management/why-spotify-will-kill-itunes-07222011.html

Ha! That is the FIRST time I have ever been accused of such. Good article, and explains very well why I am happy to hire spotify to supply this service to me -- for the whopping price of $5 a month. And if I were in my car more, I'd upgrade to $10 to use it on my phone.

So far, the availability of music hasn't disappointed me much. Missing that I've looked for include:
Sleepy Sun -- only 1 track available!
Sun Kil Moon -- no Admiral Fell Promises

EDIT: Did you see the counterpoint, Tracy? Also interesting, raising the question of what happens after the inevitable price increase, ala Netflix.

Spotify has been in Eupore for some time and it has NOT hurt Itunes there. In fact this should help build sales. You now have a place to listen to songs/albums in full vs a 30 sec clip and they are yours to keep if you buy. That's the only issue with Spotify. It's streamling only so you cannot add it to an ipod or a portable MP3 player. I'm a firm believer in having devices specific for jobs. I have no desire to have a phone that also plays music. It breaks I no longer have a phone or a music player. I'm fine with keeping things seperate.

[e_wind]

I think I now have proof for my theory that e_wind does not read prior posts...  ;D ;)

i read the thing that mjk posted, but at the bottom of that page it said they took away the option to switch countries so it didn't exactly work anymore



i got my invite from the website today though

[Jon T.]

OK so I think I'm going to do the $10 a month thing to have it on my phone.  Does anyone else do this?  I'm already paying $10 a month for Napster, and I think Napster's selection is a little better (although I have found some stuff that Spotify has that Napster does not), but I really like the sharing capabilities of Spotify.   Anyway, I'm going to drop Napster for the time being and give Spotify a shot. 

[SaraBananaBear]

Sorry, Hawkeye, fresh out.

Sara, Penny -- do you have the social thingy enabled? I wanna see your playlists! crispyinstilly here.

I haven't enabled the social thingy yet, nor have I made all my playlists public, but here's my profile: http://open.spotify.com/user/doholdhands In case anyone gets worried, there's not a lot of MMJ in the playlists, because I normally just play their whole band page when I play them, or local files. If anyone else wants to share playlists, post away! 

[e_wind]

ok guys, signing on for the first time. any tips? how do i find other people? when it says "plug your ipod into spotfiy to sync tunes... that means a one way sync right...

[mjk73]

I don't sync. I'm deathly paranoid that it will somehow wipe out my ipod (which I manually manage). You can search for people by doing spotify:user:USERNAME and the user name should be lower case. If you are on Facebook, you can sync up your Facebook friends with Spotify and it will pull in friends that are on both.

[mjk73]

List your ID's for those not on FB. Shocking, I'm mjk73 on Spotify.

[Crispy]

My userID is crispyinstilly if you don't know me on FB.