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Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Cool, maybe this means they'll finally be able to afford to implement the ability to play through a non-default sound device on Windows. You know, like the USB DACs a lot of music lovers have.

Am I missing something here? Can't you just change the default sound device to the DAC?

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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As much as I love competition, I can't see this ending any better than it did for Pandora. Its hard to make money by selling someone else's content, and Big Music seems content with leeching as much as they can from music providers, short of actually killing them.

Perhaps if they went with the Netflix model and signed artists themselves, but thats also extremely capital-intensive. Netflix is apparently 20B in debt [1]

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-netflix-d...

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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post #9

Cool, maybe this means they'll finally be able to afford to implement the ability to play through a non-default sound device on Windows. You know, like the USB DACs a lot of music lovers have.

Am I missing something here? Can't you just change the default sound device to the DAC?

I have a USB DAC, that's exactly how it works for me...it'll happily switch between the builtin audio and USB DAC while playing, too.

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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post #9

Cool, maybe this means they'll finally be able to afford to implement the ability to play through a non-default sound device on Windows. You know, like the USB DACs a lot of music lovers have.

Am I missing something here? Can't you just change the default sound device to the DAC?

Maybe elfchief doesn't want chord.wav to play on the hi-fi system, so doesn't set the DAC as the default device

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Spotify has become one of the few subscription services that, barring a large price increase, I have no plans to cancel. I listen to content for at least 4 hours each day and I'm more than happy pay $10 a month for offline storage and no ads. The additions of Discover Weekly and daily mixes made losing What.CD slightly more bearable.

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in less than a year, while it’s taken Apple Music more than a year and a half to make that progress. Spotify now has 60 million subscribers, compared to Apple Music’s 27 million (as of June)

https://19216811wiki.com/

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Google recently started aggressively marketing Youtube Red. When you watch a youtube video, a small popup asks if you want an ad-free experience, consider upgrading ..

This is worrying as Spotify has no moat. Youtube Red is definitely a better value as you ad-free + offline youtube with music. I am a paying Spotify customer and if they improve their client, I might jump ship.

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I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking out the "Related Artist" section, and started discovering new music after such a hiatus of music discovery since my younger years. But where Spotify has really just excelled, and dare I say chan…

Yeah I agree that Spotify is the best in the game right now. Discover weekly has been spot on consistently since it was released but for me 30 tracks is barely enough. I've been using turntable inspired https://www.jqbx.fm for a little while. The social part of it gives it the extra push of randomness I need to discover music I wouldn't have stumbled on otherwise.

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Google recently started aggressively marketing Youtube Red. When you watch a youtube video, a small popup asks if you want an ad-free experience, consider upgrading .. This is worrying as Spotify has no moat. Youtube Red is definitely a better value as you ad-free + offline youtube with music. I am a paying Spotify customer and if they improve their client, I might jump ship.

I was using Spotify then jumped ship to Youtube Red and used Google Music for about a year. But their music curation wasn't good so I jumped back to Spotify. Then I got tired of watching Youtube ads so now I just pay for both...
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