Spotify – anyone else tried it?

KS · Post by KS » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:30 am

Had never heard of Spotify until a couple of days ago – it's a free totally legal music site which allows you to listen to a massive rage of music of all age and genres. Create a playlist and away you go... It's legal as you can't download any of the tracks and all have been given the OK by the record companies.

You can pay a monthly fee (about £10) and get it advert free or you can ask for an invitation from Spotify to sign up for a free service with (very) occasional ads. The problem is that Spotify admits the waiting list to receive your free invitation is long... However...

I was given the link below and, guess what? It works! Takes you straight to the Spotify sign-in page and was using it within a couple of minutes. It's all very clever (and leaves your conscience free, too).

Click here

Apologies if this is not considered PC on here, but if you like music in the garage, you'll love this.

OK, back to my Neil Young playlist...

Evil J Guano · Post by **Evil J Guano** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:33 am

Most certainly the way forward for those dinosaur record labels.

Well worth it! Nice one Keith.

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:47 pm

I'm a huge fan of spotify - its a great idea and works really well.

havent upgraded to the permium version yet as i can only listen to it on my pc at the moment and i dont spend that long sat on there to warrant it really.

I have heard though that you can listen to it via iphone? that could be good as i could plug my ipod into my garage music box and listen away. i'll have to do some research....

KS · Post by KS » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:05 pm

You can only get Spotify on iPhone if you're a Premium user... Sniff

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:17 pm

sod it, i'm signing up for a premium account to give it a go...

I'll let you know how it is on the ipod....

Bladesman · Post by **Bladesman** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:35 pm

I have been using Spotify (standard freebie version) for about four or five months now and it is a brilliant way of listening to bands and genres of music you might not ordinarily listen to or buy albums/tracks.

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:57 pm

right, i signed up and can now access it on my ipod - its brilliant!

My wifi even reaches my garage so can listen in there too.

I'm impressed

KS · Post by KS » Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:17 pm

Mr Pharmacist wrote:My wife even reaches my garage so can listen to her too.

I'm depressed

So, is the iPhone connection OK? Wonder what the download costs are on the O2 network (are there any?).

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:30 pm

haha! the garage is a no go zone for my missus - she knows better than to venture there!!

i only have an ipod touch, so can only use spotify in range of my wifi (and so far its been faultless) so dont know about the iphone.

abm914 · Post by **abm914** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:10 pm

Signed up, downloaded and listening to it now.

Thanks uncle keith.

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mullerice · Post by **mullerice** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:12 pm

Spotify is ace. You can also link your spotify account to last.fm so that you can get some pretty decent recommendations of other artists based on what you listen to. very cool

saxon · Post by **saxon** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:35 pm

I use it all the time it's fantasic

Bladesman · Post by **Bladesman** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:25 pm

Linked in with Spotify is

http://www.sharemyplaylists.com/

Roddavies · Post by **Roddavies** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:49 pm

Spotify is great. Also if you do sign up to the premium service and use it on your iphone, you can also download the tracks you want to you iphone library in itunes, so you don't have to be in a wireless zone.

How the hell is this legal??

the end of itunes is nigh............

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:06 pm

Roddavies wrote:Spotify is great. Also if you do sign up to the premium service and use it on your iphone, you can also download the tracks you want to you iphone library in itunes, so you don't have to be in a wireless zone.

How the hell is this legal?? the end of itunes is nigh............

Wow, i didnt know that! definitely worth a tenner a month then!