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Oh, well. I'll go back to Rdio, Rhapsody, MOG, and all the other established services that do the same thing for cheaper.
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…
Your point number 5 is interesting because it's been backed up with that link. It shows that Spotify is at the bottom of the list but really you're comparing apples and oranges. iTunes sales are a one off amount but Spotify is a revenue stream. I imagine that I would listen to some of my favourite tracks 1000 times over the next 10 years. That adds up to pretty much the same amount of money going to the Artist. That…
I (and I guess any other EU subscribers) have a number of invitations if anyone here wants to try the Free version before committing to Unlimited. Anyone interested in one? Edit: can only send if your email address is on your HN profile, of course. Edit edit: http://www.spotify.com/us/amanda/ will be less hassle for all whilst it lasts.
My invite codes: All of my 32 invitation codes are now used. Edit: removed the used ones.
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…
Your point number 5 is interesting because it's been backed up with that link. It shows that Spotify is at the bottom of the list but really you're comparing apples and oranges. iTunes sales are a one off amount but Spotify is a revenue stream. I imagine that I would listen to some of my favourite tracks 1000 times over the next 10 years. That adds up to pretty much the same amount of money going to the Artist. That…
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Yes, I agree. MOG has been ahead of the competition for almost a year and yet you never hear anything about it. Total, epic marketing fail.
I disagree that Mog is ahead of the competition. For me, while Mog has more songs, they lose to Rdio in their UI, their iPhone app, and the social aspect of the service. When I was comparing them, it was neck and neck between the two, but I couldn't stand Mog's crashy AIR player compared to Rdio's rock-solid AIR player. The Rdio website is much more intuitive and usable, IMO. Also, the new Rdio for Mac app is crazy a…
Also, MOG just finished a HTML5 redesign anyway.
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I'm an Rdio user and I've been trying Spotify today. I'm not thrilled with their music library. There are a bunch of bands that I love that Rdio doesn't have (Arcade Fire, Shins, Ramones, Pink Floyd, older Flogging Molly, newer Eisley, etc.). There are only a few albums that I really want that Rdio doesn't have, by contrast. I feel like Spotify's UI is just a gray iTunes, whereas Rdio's UI is more in line with how I…
It's true that most of the bands you listed were not available a while back, but I believe all of them are available now. We are missing some Pink Floyd though. If there's something missing that you really want to see, make a request here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/rd.io/viewform?formkey=dHd... And thanks for sticking with rdio!
You guys have a fantastic product. It's easy to stick with it.
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Grooveshark does care about artist's rights tremendously (just a few examples): http://www.grooveshark.com/labellist http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/7090813892/grooveshark-anno... http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/7543767530/breakthroughradi... http://artists.grooveshark.com/
They care about THEIR artists' rights, and by that I mean that they only care after an artist comes to them and agrees to their license. Until then, they'll play that artist and claim DMCA, even though it should be very straight forward to ensure this music doesn't end up on their platform.
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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.
I don't know if I expressed myself any more clearly :)
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Same thing here. I don't have any MP3s any longer. Kindle is doing something similar to my book reading. We ditched all paper books sometime last winter (they're now in the office library), and I'm actually reading a lot more because all my books are with me all the time.
But don't you own those books on your kindle? (Ignoring the arguments about whether you truly own something they can delete remotely, etc.) If you bought them, access didn't replace ownership - it supplemented it.
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