The Great Spotify Mystery
theregister.co.uk
The Great Spotify Mystery
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#2I think one of the major problems is that it's hard to use. I struggle to find songs or artists on there - and it seems like there is no easy way to browse about and find suggestions etc. They could lear a lot from Last.fm's way of doing all that.
Plus the "radio" stations are useless - set it to metal and you get 90's punk......
So, I'd say their main problem is a poor product :)
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#3You get interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by an advert - surely they make money from that?
The article completely misses this...
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#4I think one of the major problems is that it's hard to use. I struggle to find songs or artists on there - and it seems like there is no easy way to browse about and find suggestions etc. They could lear a lot from Last.fm's way of doing all that. Plus the "radio" stations are useless - set it to metal and you get 90's punk...... So, I'd say their main problem is a poor product :)
Admittedly I like a lot of mainstream music, but I easily find huge wodges of music I like on there.
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#5There's an interesting comment about "passing information back to record labels" especially given: "It was stated that the labels own 30 per cent of Spotify through equity investments. It may be higher."
I'm not implying it's some big conspiracy, just that keeping user data private when you're (part) owned by the companies a lot of your users are scared of is _hard_.
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#6How can a person in Canada "simulate" an IP address seeming to originate in the UK to get access to Spotify? It currently rejects visitors from Canada.
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#7You get interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by an advert - surely they make money from that? The article completely misses this...
From the sound of it they don't make enough money to cover the costs of licencing the songs from the labels... though I'm just guessing this based on the article.
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#8Arctic startup has a go at success of Spotify and what it could mean to the future of iTunes.
http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/05/12/the-future-of-spotif...
IMO, Spotify's popularity means that they're already a prime acquisition target.
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#9For those who don't know, Phorm, from Wikipedia:
Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a Delaware, United States-based digital technology company known for its advertising software. Founded in 2002, the company originally distributed programs that were considered spyware, from which they made millions of dollars in revenue. It has since stopped distributing those programs after complaints from groups in the United States and Canada, and announced it was talking with several United Kingdom Internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver targeted advertising based on the websites that users visit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm
The article implies that Spotify will essentially turn into something similar to survive.
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#10For those who don't know, Phorm, from Wikipedia: Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a Delaware, United States-based digital technology company known for its advertising software. Founded in 2002, the company originally distributed programs that were considered spyware, from which they made millions of dollars in revenue. It has since stopped distributing those programs after complaints from groups in the United St…
(Not to get off topic but...) I do find it amusing that there is SUCH an outcry over phorm (again, not passign judgement either way, just observing) and yet when companies do something like this hardly anyone is bothered or notices...