You get interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by an advert - surely they make money from that? The article completely misses this...
I havent heard an actual advert for weeks. Currently it is just " from Spotify" telling us how cool it is.
The Great Spotify Mystery
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#12How 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.
(Hey, guys. Downvoting a genuine question is a bit cruel!)
They can use a proxy or similar so "traffic" goes through a server in the UK first.
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#13I was told Spotify pays per play for music licensing. This is interesting because it means as Spotify grows at a crazy rate, so do their costs.
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#14I 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 :)
It isn't that bad, I definitely wouldn't call it a "poor product".
The radio feature is next to useless, yes, and in terms of finding new stuff, it's not great; however the pros (high quality music, practically zero buffering, and everything for free) vastly outweigh the cons.
I'm hoping they do find a way to monetize the free plan, because I for one love the service, and happily pay for it (even though the paid subscription offers basically nothing more over the free plan, which seems like a bit of a mistake if you ask me)
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#15You get interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by an advert - surely they make money from that? The article completely misses this...
The ads are localized. Here in Norway I tend to get an ad or two (excluding the user feedback) during a 7 hour workday.
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#16For some reason it feels like that article completely misses the point.
If the record industry own 30% then they can get access to statistics then they are able to much better target what music to push.
That's just one place that spotify allows for return on investment.
But the biggest problem with the claims is simply this.
The article states that if no one can make money on music then no one will invest in music making.
That's purely and utter nonsense. Art is created DESPITE there being no money in it, further more the artist can instead make good money on live concerts because they have reached a much higher fan-base.
Don't blame spotify for the record industries lack of imagination. Actually blame the record industry for existing at all at this day. Who really needs them.
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#17There'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_.
The record industry have used .torrents to track. Don't seem where the conspiracy should be.
It makes good sense they use that information to know what artists to push and where.
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#18I 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 :)
It isn't that bad, I definitely wouldn't call it a "poor product". The radio feature is next to useless, yes, and in terms of finding new stuff, it's not great; however the pros (high quality music, practically zero buffering, and everything for free) vastly outweigh the cons. I'm hoping they do find a way to monetize the free plan, because I for one love the service, and happily pay for it (even though the paid subs…
ok not poor (your right that was unfair). I think "clunky" is better then. Your correct I cant fault the actual music playback.
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#19I 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 :)
> it seems like there is no easy way to browse about and find suggestions etc
Not sure if you've seen it (and I don't know how Last.fm does it), but try this:
Type in an artist's name and click on the name in the result list to go to their page. There will be a list of suggested similar artists in the top right corner.
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#20"Acquiring it may not be pleasant: doing so may help support a neo-Nazi with a grudge."
What? Is there some news story this is referencing that I missed?