Comments on: Spotify for iPhone: first look

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:50:32 +0000

The paid version of spotify isnt about lack of adverts its about having 3333 offline tracks and being able to chop and change at will.

How good a deal it is depends on how much music you buy/ get a year by how much music you would like to get.

What it essentially represents is bascially a paid extrapolation of piracy thats easier to use and mostly higher quality.

I also disagree about the value, £120 a year is 3 full price videogames. I usually buy at least 5-10 full price games and many older £20 pound games a year.

In terms of entertainment and the fact I listen to music no less than an hour and many days 3 hours looks like a steal to me.

If the service gets established I could see them offering full year one off payments with appropriate discounts to better value perception.

By: James

James — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:40:26 +0000

Here a solution to run spotify in the background just like the ipod application does…

http://www.sugarbean.com/2009/09/running-spotify-in-background-on-iphone.html

By: Sahajesh

Sahajesh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:27:50 +0000

Rasmus: Fair comment. I’m still not sold on the idea due to coverage issues (especially with O2) – may be great in London but not so good outside the M25 area. Either way, it’s not for me.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:55:48 +0000

Sahajesh: what do you mean “your OWN music”? The whole point of Spotify is that you get access to _their_ music collection, which is usually a wee bit bigger than most peoples.

By: Sahajesh

Sahajesh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:24:15 +0000

Really can’t see this taking off – if you have an iPod Touch or iPhone, why would you want to stream your OWN music, plus not being able to multitask while listening and suffer dropouts.

Whoever on the PC Pro podcast said this was a gamechanger is playing the wrong game.

By: wilksy

wilksy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:32:17 +0000

Backgrounding works just fine on spotify and also syncing playlists over 3g or edge with unrestrictor seem to work also.
Hurray. almost got the iphone doing what is should be able to do anyway

By: Noghar

Noghar — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:35:39 +0000

Of course with a jailbroken iPhone you can install Backgrounder which as the name implies will allow you to run an app in the background… apparently. Anyone foolhardy enough to give it a go with Spotify?

By: stu

stu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:45:17 +0000

£10 for as many tunes as you want to listen to in a month with no adverts and you get to have them on your PC and iPod…that’s really not a bad deal to be honest.

OK so you don’t own it but I don’t own the things I watch on Sky either!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:58:20 +0000

The other showstopper is the £10 per month fee. Bloody ridiculous.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:49:52 +0000

I can just imagine Steve Jobs next week: “And one more thing: it now does real multi-tasking”. Woo hoo! All the fanbois have raptures. Not impressed. This is a showstopper for this particular application.