Using Spotify

edited December 2009 in General
I'd been holding back from paying for Spotify, but recent developments there convinced me to give it a try. You can now download your playlists onto your iPhone or iPod Touch using the special app, and listen to them off-line, and since last Monday, that's what I've been doing. I don't know how many playlists they let you download at a time; at present, I've been loading up two or three albums for the day. The sound quality is excellent, the choice is very good indeed (I check out the recommends you people have been making, and most of the time I find them), and for 10€ a month, I think this will be replacing eMu from February when my contract comes up for renewal.

The only drawback so far has been that if you're listening on-line, the music breaks off from time to time. But the facility to make a playlist available off-line gets round this particular problem. Very nice.

Comments

  • Here's an instance where as an American I get to whine about something not being available in my country. When I was on vacation in London, I tried Spotify at the hotel and loved it. Now, I wish the US companies would get in gear and give it to us here.
  • Love Spotify. Since all samples have stopped playing for me at the other place I've been using it to check out new albums before I buy. The selection is increasing all the time but I have yet to take the plunge and pay for the premium account. Call me old fashioned, but I just can't get used to the idea of not owning the music and being tied to a subscription in order to continue listening.
    No such concerns for my daughter, I hear Spotify coming from her bedroom 24/7.
  • Tim,

    You say: "The only drawback so far has been that if you're listening on-line, the music breaks off from time to time.". Do you mean there's a pause of say a minute between tracks sometimes, or what? I've been using Spotify for some time on the standard free package, and the ads are making me feel that it might be worth paying to get rid of them. Do you think the pauses are where the ads are in the free version?
  • edited December 2009
    @JFLL

    No - the gaps are longer than the adverts, and probably a function of signal strength. It's more likely to be due to my wifi set-up than to Spotify itself (we have a house with very thick concrete walls and this causes problems). Although if you Google, you'll find that some people have had interruptions when feeding Spotify through in iPod, which is what I've been doing (computer upstairs, music downstairs)
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