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Title: Spotify
Post by: PH on Tue, 2016-04-12, 17:19:30
OK guys, Spotify was mentioned a few times last couple of days so I was wondering. What's so great about it?

I registered for an account and now have seven days to try premium. I must say it's really nice to have this kind of service. I can listen to full albums before I decide to buy something, which I like.

But after this seven days, I fall back into a free account. Which means I can only listen to bands and artists in shuffle mode. And after 30 minutes I get advertisements. It's still okay, but when an artist has released twenty albums it can be a bit tiresome.

Also, some artists don't have that many albums on it. Biggest example for me is Neal Morse. So it seems there's a lot missing.

What do you think of it? Is it helping the artists? Or is it ruining the music industry? Is it worth the 10 euros per month? Or should I stick with the free account?
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: Teunis on Tue, 2016-04-12, 19:12:56
I also have a free account, for me it's also a way to hear (just released) albums and to decide if I will buy it or not. Don't know if it's temporarily, but the last two weeks I haven't heard commercials anymore. Indeed, some artist won't share music on Spotify. Some (Prog)streaming sites are linked to Spotify and I do use these a lot. I really like this way of discovering new albums and some artist's backcatalogues.
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: PH on Tue, 2016-04-12, 21:57:48
What do you mean by streaming sites that are linked to Spotify?
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: Nicky007 on Wed, 2016-04-13, 10:39:15
Ms 007 got Spotify Premium. (She's Swedish, lives in Malmö - remember?) Like it a lot. I can find pretty much all the stuff I'm interested in there, and as you guys say, one can test - and enjoy - music before buying cd's.

So with this and that, I haven't bought a dull cd for ages :)

- Nicky
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: Teunis on Wed, 2016-04-13, 19:30:17
Quote from: PH on Tue, 2016-04-12, 21:57:48
What do you mean by streaming sites that are linked to Spotify?
E.g. Allstreaming.nl (http://allstreaming.nl). If you want to play an album, you are directed to Spotify. You must have an account to hear the album.
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: PH on Sun, 2016-05-15, 18:23:03
I think I'll try a premium account for one month (30 days for free). And if i like it, I'll extend.

Anyone with a premium account?
Title: Re: Spotify
Post by: Nicky007 on Mon, 2016-05-16, 21:06:07
Yeah, Paxi, as I wrote: Ms 007 has a premium account. I find it very useful, I can find almost all the stuff that interests me there, and I definitely appreciate being able to listen to full albums without interruptions. I can recommend it to you, I'm sure you'll be using it a lot :)

Spotify has Wintersun Time, but not Kalisia Cybion - probably because Spotify is Swedish. Both these albums are very much ignored - yeah, people just don't want to risk their comfort zone :(

I found Cybion on YouTube. Seems to me that YouTube has pretty much everything, even very obscure stuff, some of the popular stuff even in several copies.

I simply don't get how all this information is stored :o

- Nicky