Spotify launches in the US

Post by rahoulb » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 2:44 PM UTC

pitdesi wrote: post #36

Here's my free passalong for free invites, it should work: http://klout.com/perk/Spotify/SpotifyFreeAccounts?passalong=... First thought: How is this any different from Grooveshark (from a user experience perspective - I know Grooveshark doesn't give a shit about artists rights etc). Edit: So far, search on Spotify is much faster, but the music library is nowhere near as complete... and I like that in Grooveshark whe…

Post by vdm » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

thirdsun wrote: post #119

Great. Now get back to making your service available in germany.

Post by ipstatic » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 2:50 PM UTC

nicolasp wrote: post #96

Here are a few invite codes for those who'd like to try it: aqwPkzBeHqUe64YG c2D3YPErPJy29gPJ (updated to remove used ones - last two!)

Post by tonyskn » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 2:58 PM UTC

Post by ThomPete » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 3:05 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #115

Kuytu wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably don't have infrastructure for that yet and it also might be conscious decision. I've understood that the whole point of Spotify is that it is based on P2P-technology which eases their server load and allows good sound quality for users with fairly low connection speeds.

> and allows good sound quality for users with fairly low connection speeds. P2P is all about lowering their costs, not about making better sound quality for low connection speeds. It doesn't matter if you're streaming from Spotify's data center or across the street, slow is as slow does. You're not squeezing more bits through a slow connection because of P2P.