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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 17:10:49 GMT
I'm not trying push or advertise Spotify, but wondered if anyone else has tried their Premium membership?
I've used it for a long time now in order to preview stuff before buying myself, but their library is getting to the point where I'm starting to wonder if this is really going to be the future of music.
You don't own the albums but you can hear anything they have for the fee that you pay. It's all in the 'cloud'.
Not taking quality and the ins and outs of MP3 into account, it is absolutely enormous in quantity of music available and you can stream to Ipod/phone/tablet wherever you have a connection.
It's a pretty good service imo but obviously, for quality you'd have to go for a CD. However, it's coming down at 320, I think.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 17:24:40 GMT
Not sure about this but I think I read on AoS that all the music on Spotify is what their members make available, rather than Spotify having CDs that they play. If anyone is interested there is a thread on AoS just about Spotify. I have a free account from ages ago (complete with ads ) but I don't think they are available any more. Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 17:47:42 GMT
That may have been what used to happen, Dave. Spotify is legit now and they pay performing right. (Up to a point)
It's very convenient for just searching through for relevant stuff and they link genres etc., so you can follow a musical thread and pick up new artists or unknown artists in the same field.
I've had it running all day and gone through all kinds of stuff -
Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Zappa. IQ. Shpongle. Ozric Tentacles. Fairport Convention. Human League. The Tangent. Guy Manning. Yes.
10 albums just today and when I went out, I just downloaded one to my phone!!
It's a useful service but given Hi fi peoples' aversion to mp3 I wondered if anyone else was using the service.
If people can get over the 'quality' issue (Not that it's actually bad) but in their minds, then they'd be able to preview multitudes of albums before buying their high quality version. It's a very useful thing to be able to do otherwise our houses would be up to the attic in CD's.
Amazon are also streaming any albums bought from them in the 'cloud'. So if you download an album from them, they keep a copy for you to access on other devices in the 'cloud'.
They're getting ready for the Kindle Fire that's coming out next month. I'm getting one to review and they're streaming out music for it as well as films. (and ebooks)
It looks like the world is changing into one big cloud whether we like it or not.
If only we could invent a proper compression system that retains all the detail eh?
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