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I've been using Spotify since the UK closed beta (a few years ago, now). At first it seemed like the most amazing thing ever, but slowly I fell out of love with it, and now I barely use it. Why? 1) The ads. At first they were reasonably infrequent and unobtrusive. But gradually they became more frequent and more and more obtrusive. Eventually some companies were deliberately producing jarring ads to grab your attenti…
I have been using Spotify in the US in closed beta as well for over a month, so just wanted to give my two cents on these points. I will respond in order: 1.The ads on the free plan are obtrusive, but it's free. I didn't find them any more obtrusive than Pandora's ads. That said, I love the service and wanted to take it mobile, so I upgraded to premium, so I'm no longer hearing ads. 2.I didn't experience disappearing…
Some invites: cNqeAdBR4rnb4T9A , fE2ZrCLVNGfAJXKW , du4YaCBM337ZHnPL , e3NxdL5CnspC42ut , anFKrCMpD9X8ZJEL , dAXGZ8VTPE9Rk7Rx , bTE59B9TCWfHKBSR , cd4nHezZ9SafkmFh , cY4u7E7R2RrWMfca , fMHTqKLC6Z45nEn8 , dFKksMek8xhL2NS8 , eW8HBT75Ab5pDbSc , ca4AtNNmp9Cg77WE , c7BhhM9Z82rccnsd , dDrc38Ungxa9CxP3 , dfSV9B8MdwbAndmf , eW6gJwRrzc38TwEM , aB7UDYuM7cPzWB8Z , aXzrkNaULmeUzKnn , eT4Vy4cbA6DZSHPS , cpSAhfyD6fSZrUKu
I've been using Spotify since the UK closed beta (a few years ago, now). At first it seemed like the most amazing thing ever, but slowly I fell out of love with it, and now I barely use it. Why? 1) The ads. At first they were reasonably infrequent and unobtrusive. But gradually they became more frequent and more and more obtrusive. Eventually some companies were deliberately producing jarring ads to grab your attenti…
If you have the paid version you'll never hear the ads. I find it hard to see why anybody would use the ad-ridden version.
Does anyone have a guess as to why they are doing an "invite only" style opening here in the US? I would think with their success abroad, the infrastructure is strong enough to support the added subscribers... Is this just to increase artificial demand?
They're not - you can pay for a premium or unlimited subscription right now. I've just purchased one for my brother in NY, so I can share playlists with him from London.
List your email and I'll send you one (I've got 10).
Edit: I'll just paste them:
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Does anyone have a guess as to why they are doing an "invite only" style opening here in the US? I would think with their success abroad, the infrastructure is strong enough to support the added subscribers... Is this just to increase artificial demand?
Most of the servers are also located in the UK AFAIK and the first 30 seconds are always streamed from their servers. Managing demand could be a reason.
Edit: Sorry, I am out, didn't think my ~60 invites would go through that quickly, hopefully those who got some are enjoying the service.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been using Spotify in the US in closed beta as well for over a month, so just wanted to give my two cents on these points. I will respond in order: 1.The ads on the free plan are obtrusive, but it's free. I didn't find them any more obtrusive than Pandora's ads. That said, I love the service and wanted to take it mobile, so I upgraded to premium, so I'm no longer hearing ads. 2.I didn't experience disappearing…
The "disappearing playlist" the parent refers to is a licensing issue, not a technical one, as far as I could tell. When I was in the UK (now in the US), whole artists catalogs would go missing all at once. I eventually stopped paying for the service because of this (it wiped out about 10% of the content from my playlists).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the servers are also located in the UK AFAIK and the first 30 seconds are always streamed from their servers. Managing demand could be a reason.
I'd be extremely suprised if Spotify didn't have servers in the US for this release.