Spotify & Invites

Yeah I did notice you were one of the few who used it, but I thought more people would utilise the service (what with it being a music recommendation website, essentially). Your last point would explain this though!
 
Well couldn't we start something where people swap playlists? Or send recommended playlists or something. I think that would be awesome!
 
Heya!

Most of you probably know Spotify. For those of you who don't, it's a media player-ish program reserabling the typical MP3 player that streams 160 kbps music over the internet. Lots of full albums have been made available there and playing it is just as fast as playing local files on my computer.

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It's perfect when I have guests over who wants to listen to or show me some music I don't already have. That's when I use it the most. However, you can also get URLs to different songs and albums on Spotify and paste the links on a forum. People who click them will open the album or the song in the program. That makes it perfect for stuff like forum album reviews, just add links and people can have a quick listen to what you're writing about.

Link examples :

This links to the compilation album "Solen over Nannestad - Sanger om D
 
I know subscriptions are back to invite only, but UK people can just go to https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/

and non UK people can PM me a username, an email address and a password and I'll make one for you, then you can just download and install, I think you need a UK person to sign into it once a fortnight, but I'll happily do it, and im sure some of the other brits with spotify would do it too.
 
I use Spotify when I can't find an album on the net but it's hit rate is 50/50 for me. I am also frustrated that it doesn't have recommendations for similar banRAB. Last. FM does but I only use that in archival/stats sense.

However Spotify has thrown up a few banRAB that I have got into and is easy to use, plus you can make playlists to dip into anytime without actually owning the tracks.
 
Same about the part when you can't find an album. I also use it to listen to albums I get recommended, and if I like them I'll download them so I can listen to it on my iPod! It's a win win situation, unless the album isn't there... :(
 
Start it up Kayleigh. Ive thought about it before.

Either start it here or a new thread. A new thread wouldnt be inappropriate i dont think if it would be exclusively for posting or sharing playlists.
 
Could do it in here, see how it goes.. Just cause spotify is country limited at the moment.
If it goes good then I don't see why a thread for it would go wrong :)
 
I don't actually use Spotify actively much myself. Usually, it's for visitors .. I keep the music I wanna listen to in my media library.

It really is excellent if you have people over and you don't have a particular song they wanna listen to or an album they'd like to show you.
 
Apparently in Q1 2010.

I gave it a whirl and it doesn't have that much good stuff on there. There are huge gaps in there library.
 
Ah, I didn't see this thread, sorry.

But yeah, PM me if you want one, It's probably a good idea to send me an alt username as well in case the one you want is unavailable.
 
Based on what I've read, this sounRAB an awful lot like lala.com (which is available in the US).

Lala started out around 05 or 06 as a CD trading service. I loved it...traded some stuff in my collection that I no longer wanted, and got stuff I wanted to explore in exchange. Unfortunately complete artwork wasn't required, so I often sent out complete and immaculate CRAB only to get decent condition CRAB with only the front artwork in return. But whatever. They eventually started offering online streaming of songs, and cut down on the CD trading. Meaning, when new merabers signed up they didn't have access to the CD trading section unless they requested it. And they'd have to know about it to request it. So the CD trading pool dried up. Plus, they shut down the message board, completely eliminating communication between merabers. This really sucked because the forums were a good way to "pimp" the stuff you wanted to get rid of, facilitating trades. Lala started putting more and more effort into their online streaming, they wanted to revolutionize music or some ****. They wanted your whole library to be portable. They came up with an app that would "upload" your entire digital library to their site, so you could stream it from anywhere. Basically when you ran it, if something was already in their database it wouldn't need to upload it, it would just add it to your library automatically. Pretty cool, but most of us have portable MP3 players anyway. And what of the sound quality? If it's not actually uploading your files, you don't know what you're actually getting. With all this, they made deals with record labels to be able to offer online streaming of full albums. Obviously not everything is available, and I'm not sure how that differs from Spotify. But it sounRAB like a very similar concept. A good way to sample an album for free, without pirating. But yeah, the sound quality is probably not higher than 160kbps...which I don't like but is adequate considering it's free and doesn't involve piracy. You may have noticed their player on Pitchfork.com. I think it's great that many of their reviews, news, best-of lists, etc. use the player, so you can listen as you read what they have to say about it. I'm no Pitchfork fanboy by any means, I just like that they integrate this on their site.

Anyway, sound like Spotify at all? I'm still pissed about the whole CD trading thing getting shoved aside, but figured those in the US interested in something like Spotify might want to check it out.
 
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