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Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by eyko »

jsherry wrote: post #50
sambeau wrote: post #42

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…

I have been using Spotify in the US in closed beta as well for over a month, so just wanted to give my two cents on these points. I will respond in order: 1.The ads on the free plan are obtrusive, but it's free. I didn't find them any more obtrusive than Pandora's ads. That said, I love the service and wanted to take it mobile, so I upgraded to premium, so I'm no longer hearing ads. 2.I didn't experience disappearing…

2. Probably a month may not be enough to experience the disappearing playlists (actually, that should be called disappearing tracks, as playlists are still there, just tracks are greyed out and you cannot play them anymore). I've got whole disks greyed out from my playlists and created a ticket on getsatisfaction about a year ago. Their answer was that this is not their fault, but the industry's… copyright, etc.

I don't blame them, we know what the industry is like.

3. Beatles not so much for me (I've got their discography on cassette, cd, mp3… so I sync it with spotify), but Metallica… sad but true.

4. Never had a problem with Spotify + Skype, but I would suspect it's Spotify's fault. Why? Because on OSX I use BetterTouchTool and I get this message everytime I resume from sleep: http://cl.ly/1Z1u2n0R3H3o0w27243d ← I believe it could be related.

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by citricsquid »

markerdmann wrote: post #159

Spotify seems less exciting than Grooveshark, which has been available in the US for a long time. http://www.grooveshark.com

If "exciting" means "Actually paying artists and not fucking them over constantly and abusing the DMCA to get away with it" then yes, it certainly is less exciting.

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by eyko »

sambeau wrote: post #64
bergie wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have the paid version you'll never hear the ads. I find it hard to see why anybody would use the ad-ridden version.

As I said: I wanted to pay for it but baulked when my playlists started to disappear.

I've thought about bailing out because of this… but they've "promised" that it won't happen again. Still, some things are not available and I'm tired of paying premium for a limited catalog. La Roux suddenly disappeared for no reason even after they promised to behave.

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by invisible »

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…

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/

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by elasticdog »

uggedal wrote: post #161
estel wrote: post #20

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.

Thanks from me as well...I used dfZx4U2xCTqe9Vsh.

I'm starting to think it would be nice to have a service where people could share invite codes and keep track of which ones have been used.

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by eyko »

Some invites here…

    eCHNmfHZuqF9TmD3

    afszECXK8CW5tCJs

    cEnYXD7WVKWpDKB3

    ctecqyA3qAGB5UAs

    aYZ8B7PdrmGHN68w

    c2hPAbDfttNkYULz

    dmMwezXMt95tr4ud

    byaEuB7qBq8e9sd7
Got some more left if they run out…

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by jackolas »

estel wrote: post #148
estel wrote: post #20

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.

Edit 1736: removed all the used ones Edit 1740: all gone.

Grabbed ca8ThDaEsrYfZYH2

a9f6JVzTXAr5Kb2c was already used.

Re: Spotify launches in the US

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Post by msabalau »

uggedal wrote: post #161
estel wrote: post #20

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.

Thanks, used bB5dPAekaCJw3f8f
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