Spotify......kindly educate me

Grunfeld

RocknRollDave said:

but if you listen to a song as many times as I've listened to some of the songs on some of my CD's and divide the £x I spent for the CD by the number of tracks, then again by the number of times I've listened to each track, you're probably getting less than from Spotify

But what about people like Eric Burden? 
I bought one of his CDs for £8.50, played one track for about 20 seconds before remembering that he can't sing and sounds horrible.  He's earned the equivalent of £10,200 an hour from me.  I hope he's grateful. 

TheBlueWolf

I avoid Apple like the plague but Spotify seems like a great app. I'm off to ask Google ay nicely

d8m

I have just signed up for premium.

I don't have a lot of data on my phone contract so I find the option to download albums over wifi useful.

The price per month is about the cost of 2 albums so I think it's good value.

duotone

d8m said:

I have just signed up for premium.

I don't have a lot of data on my phone contract so I find the option to download albums over wifi useful.

The price per month is about the cost of 2 albums so I think it's good value.

Yeah that's my view as well.

Currently am using Google Play Music, which is pretty much the same thing, although I think Spotify edges it for getting hold of the new releases first.  

Frank Ocean's Blonde album arrived on Google Play Music around 3 weeks after it was available on Spotify. 

MattBanshee

The weekly personal recommendation playlist is the only reason I get in the car and drive to work on a Monday.

ToneControl

how do you get it for £5?

TimmyO

All of Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music, and (as of a a week or 2 ago in the UK) Amazon Music Unlimited offer a very similar core service at similar prices.

For me the reason that Spotify wins (I trialled them all) is how good the 'Discover Weekly', weekly 'New Release Radar' and the 4 different Daily playlists it creates for you based on things you add to your library or listen to. 

That said I'm trialling Amazon Music Unlimited because its integration with Alexa is so good. I am leaning toward sticking with Spotify though currently. I pay for a family account so that Mrs O's and the lads' listening doesn't screw up my suggestions and Spotify-generated playlists.

Just pay it - easily worth it. 

Grunfeld

ToneControl said:

how do you get it for £5?

Hmmm, it was called "Spotify Unlimited" but that option seems to have gone.
You could only get it at home, not on your phone or anything -- which suits me. 
So I guess my £5 a month sub's days are numbered.  Boo!

thomasross20

Yeah I only see a £10 option.

TBH free isn't bad.

Blueingreen

I was an early adopter and have had the premium for several years.  Haven't bought a CD in 5+ years.  I probably used to spend at least £50 a month on CDs so it's saved me a fortune while giving me a much wider range of listening options than I had before.  Very occasionally an album I'd like to hear isn't available but I can't motivate myself to buy it when I know there's hundreds of interesting albums available at the click of a mouse that I haven't heard.

Easy to make playlists, and if friends are round you can make a playlist to play during a meal and then let them have their own choice of music after.  And your living room isn't strewn with open CD cases when you wake up with a hangover next day.

One great function people new to it may be unaware of, is that you can make hundreds of songs available for offline listening.  Means you can store albums or playlists on an IPad or phone and then play them back through headphones on a train, plane or when out for a walk, without needing a 3G or other connection.

It's true it means you don't own music but I have about 2,000 cds stored in the house that never get played and are probably worth very little now, so ownership isn't something I value or miss.

Sporky

TheBigDipper said:

It's great for the consumer. Not so good for the artist.

Depends how you look at it; Spotify pays less than CD sales but more than radio.