Comments on: Spotify: free, legal music (honest)

By: janice

janice — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:37:27 +0000

Spotify is by far one of the best portals for discovering and listening to music in this day and age. This is reinforced by the fact that the ONLY catch is a few ads in between, totally worth it considering it’s free and legal. Check out this interesting article on the key to making free music services work.

http://www.themusicvoid.com/2010/02/the-key-to-making-free-music-services-work/

By: RouteNote

RouteNote — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:43:07 +0000

If your in a band and want to get your music onto Spotify then check out RouteNote (http://routenote.com). They are already the leaders in the UK for digital music distribution.

By: Mia

Mia — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:33:46 +0000

I downlaoded spotify today after my music teacher using it in lessons and my youth club using it too. There are lots of tracks that I wouldnt of thought would be on there, and its perfectly legal!! 9 and a half/10

By: Chris Shennan

Chris Shennan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:15:05 +0000

After losing my entire MP3 collection a while ago (computer and MP3 player both died on me!) I was rather gruding having to start again but spotify has solved that for me… with the exception of the odd cd I’ll need for the car.

By: Poppy

Poppy — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:22:06 +0000

I use it on windows vista and its amazing, i even registered direct through the homepage, I love love love love love it, the adverts just make me laugh ” HI ITS JOHN FROM SPOTIFY” lolololololLOLLOL.
I hope all you dudes and chicks out there just laaaaaaaave it as much as mee

By: Tom Hyde

Tom Hyde — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:28:35 +0000

The Spotify software works perfectly with Windows 2000 despite only XP and Vista being mentioned in the download requireDetroitments.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:45:16 +0000

Yes, I’ve been using Spotify for a couple of weeks now and its great. Even if the ads do get more frequent it still beats the radio and what’s £0.99 if you want to ditch the ads for an occasional evening party. I think this a very significant development in the availability of music to the consumer. All we need now is for them to produce a player for the iPhone/G1/etc and we can enjoy it wherever we are!

By: Charles Marsh

Charles Marsh — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:17:43 +0000

An agog reader here too. Lightweight. Doesn’t require you to be administrator to install, although that hampers you being a sharing peer, as the installer then can’t modify your firewall settings. The P2P with fallback central servers seems to work perfectly. I couldn’t describe Spotify as anything other than instant, even straight after install, before any P2P connections had been made.

There was zero chance of you finding any MP3 files kicking around. Spotify uses Ogg/Vorbis.

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2008/07/02/spotify-030/

For the bit-rate used, it’s better quality then I remember Vorbis being able to provide, a couple of years ago. Back then, the best encoding available sounded very rough and I gave up on it. The worst that could be said of Spotify is that it sounds a bit soft.

I don’t think the Apple lawyers have ordered any Havana cigars. It’s illegal for an American to provide material assistance to Cuba. However, I wouldn’t be surprised at some dirty tricks. The competition must be very worried. My only worry is that the free service might currently be a bit of a loss-leader and the frequency of advertising will increase, either for Spotify to break even or with the hope that it will push people towards the paid-for services.

By: Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:45:54 +0000

Maybe they’ve negotiated an “on demand” radio license. Cunning

By: James

James — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:44:49 +0000

did try deezer at one point, but this is much better