spotify

Anybody use it? Any good? Can you download full albums?

 

Me. I think it's fairly fantastic. If you use the free option you can stream whole albums or whatever you like at home. If you want to download to play out and about you need to use one of the pay options.

 

How does it work? Can you get free music using wifi?


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Yes. As long as you are internet connected you can access the full library if you don't have internet connection then you can only listen to downloaded stuff which you have to pay for.

 

I'd second that. The catalogue is amazing. It's brilliant value.

 

I love it, the best app of its kind IMO. I use the free version but am seriously considering upgrading to the pay version.

 

Definitely recommend the pay options. Especially of you can get your hands on a student card or have a kid who has one. Cuts the top one to a fiver a month. Well worth it for unlimited access and no adverts.

 

A fiver a month does sound like great value.

 

I had it free for 6 months on virgin and since then have had it for a fiver using student ID. It is great value. Let's you test music you might like. Like you I think it's the best app of it's kind around. Unless you go down the illegal route which can be dodgy.

 

I subscribe to the premium service, I've had it for about 12 months now. Works really well for me.

You get access to the full library online, which has catered for pretty much anything I've ever wanted. Maybe if you have very niche musical taste it won't, but I can't test that.

You can create and save playlists, share them with friends, use those created by others, and subscribe to ones created by organisations such as NME etc. I've found that pretty good for discovering music I otherwise wouldn't have.

If you have a smartphone, you can download the app onto multiple phones and store playlists in offline mode, which means you don't need to be connected to the web to listed to those tracks. You can have something like 8000 tracks, so that's never going to a problem for most, the only issue is storage space on your device. But I think I have around 100 albums available offline on my phone and it takes up around 3GB, and it's easy enough to change them, so space isn't a killer.

Before I signed up I remember reading and considering some articles that discussed the implications of these services for artists, and I know some have withheld their music (Radiohead are an example I think?) on that basis. My conclusion at the time was that the music industry has shifted so far from when I was a kid, that I found it hard to evaluate whether this is a hard luck story or a genuine threat. It didn't stop me buying.

So yeah, I like it.

 

The impact on the artists I worried but I still buy any album that I really like.

 

Nothing beats owning a physical copy of an album you love...

 

I don't think I've ever illegally downloaded and with Spotify at a fiver (once i get my daughters student card) and iTunes I think I'll stick to being a square.

 

Now you're talking; I am pretty old fashioned and still love my old CDs and vinyl.

 

I'm with you MK. I just love the original CD's and reading the inlay info. To me download copies is not the same. Plus I'm too auld and computer illiterate to down load anything. LOL

 

I must admit that I like iTunes and I've bought loads of tracks from it but the majority are tracks I already have on vinyl (33 & 45). The main downside of iTunes and electronic music in general is that I just love the sound of vinyl, even more than CD. Oh some of the album covers were works of art.

 

You can't download anything. Which is kind of the point. You stream stuff, you don't download it. Give it a go, it's free.

 

You can download if you use the not free version.

 

It's awesome, the only way I listen to music these days.

Been a premium subscriber for over a year now having used it free for about four years. I actually get my premium as part of my mobile phone contract for two years.

Could never go back to adverts every 3rd or 4th song when listening to an album.

The greatest feature of premium is undoubtably the offline content. Create a playlist, make available offline, it downloads it to somewhere on your device but you never own it, and there you go hundreds and hundreds of tracks all available offline, no wifi needed.

Great when you about to take a 8hr flight, just add about half a dozen new albums to listen to.

I've got it on my iPad and iPhone. It's effectively superseded my iPod touch