Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

Post by juliano_q » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 12:28 AM UTC

psychotik wrote: post #67

juliano_q wrote: post #22

Until this moment no service convinced me to change my 10-year-old habit of buy/download the music, organize the tags and put it on my mobile device. Since I bought my first iPod until today with my Nexus S I am still doing this and it is very practical to me.

Try Audiogalaxy - it might be what you've been looking for. It's still your music, just available everywhere without uploading to any server and without ads. http://www.audiogalaxy.com (Discl: I work on it)

Post by dasil003 » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #92

dasil003 wrote: post #44

I signed up for premium the day they launched in the US. I cancelled the day they required a Facebook account. It may well be that Facebook virality is the only way to grow a music startup. I can't really critique their strategy. But I'll tell you this: I am willing to pay for music services that focus on the music and music-playing experience. I could give fuck all about what track 37 of my friends are listening to,…

If you already had an account there was no requirement to add Facebook. Seems you just cancelled 'on principle'. And all the social integration within the app can be easily disabled in preferences.

Post by jinushaun » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 2:16 AM UTC

Post by psychotik » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 8:04 AM UTC

lukev wrote: post #79

psychotik wrote: post #32

Since you plan to buy music, and seem to have an extensive catalog, give Audiogalaxy ( http://www.audiogalaxy.com ) to have free access to your music from everywhere. It's my startup, so don't let me bias you - check out reviews on iTunes/Android and the web. I'm pretty sure you'll like it. :)

Looks nice. I'll have to give it a try. Do you have any plans to support automatically backing up music between devices? Current solutions seem to solve either the "play anywhere" or "keep your music safe" problems, but not both. Ideally, I'd like something with the following characteristics: * Syncs music like Dropbox, except does it peer to peer between my own devices so I don't have to pay for space. My wife and I…

Post by jarin » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 1:20 AM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #93

jarin wrote: post #87

Spotify seems to have fixed the problem where the desktop app sucks up ALL of your outgoing bandwidth (although it is still bad enough to lag YouTube and other streaming video), so I started using it again. However, would it kill any of these streaming music apps to add an equalizer? Edit: Also, I highly recommend EarBits for music discovery.

I never suffered those bandwidth issues, even on poor connections. Could it have been a problem on your network? And why would you be listening to Spotify and streaming video? :)