It reassured me but I still tried to change my password. There's something reminiscent of the Napster days about Spotify. It all feels too good to be true and projects like Despotify seem to be remarkably short-sighted.
I'm currently listening to Corinne Bailey Rae's cover of Bjork's Venus As A Boy. It just works.
There are no hoops to jump through. There are no weird restrictions about how often you can listen to a song or what you can listen to (except the legal restrictions on rights per country). I can, effectively, share any and all music with everyone I know via the playlists and the track urls. You guys even provided alibis for anyone caught listening to U2's disappointing new album before the official release date.
All that's missing is:
a sufficiently fine-grained API that would let people build tools like the Apple Genius feature or databases of which songs they listened to on which day.
a more fine-grained payment structure. I'd cheerfully pay a fiver for a weekly pass (preferably through Google Checkout so that I don't have to type my credit card details in) or a weekend pass or a pass for some arbitrary number of days. Basically I want to buy a specific amount of access without making a long-term committment such as a subscription. Of course this would complicate the simplicity of the business model.
Some of my favourite artists: http://jaiku.com/channel/spotify/presence/53395466 or some way to get notified when they turn up. Perhaps some kind of smart playlist that notifies the user when the results change?
I still don't understand the business model. hard for me to imagine that they can cover what must be some fairly exorbitant licensing fees with subscriptions... But maybe I'm not seeing it the right way, somehow...
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double bad news now that wordpress can't access the db, too. I was very pleased with their "for technically minded amongst you" part, however
8 months, 3 weeks ago by termie
It reassured me but I still tried to change my password. There's something reminiscent of the Napster days about Spotify. It all feels too good to be true and projects like Despotify seem to be remarkably short-sighted.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by adewale
@adewale: what do you mean with "too good to be true" ? ;-)
8 months, 3 weeks ago by eldsjal
I'm currently listening to Corinne Bailey Rae's cover of Bjork's Venus As A Boy. It just works.
There are no hoops to jump through. There are no weird restrictions about how often you can listen to a song or what you can listen to (except the legal restrictions on rights per country). I can, effectively, share any and all music with everyone I know via the playlists and the track urls. You guys even provided alibis for anyone caught listening to U2's disappointing new album before the official release date.
All that's missing is:
a sufficiently fine-grained API that would let people build tools like the Apple Genius feature or databases of which songs they listened to on which day.
a more fine-grained payment structure. I'd cheerfully pay a fiver for a weekly pass (preferably through Google Checkout so that I don't have to type my credit card details in) or a weekend pass or a pass for some arbitrary number of days. Basically I want to buy a specific amount of access without making a long-term committment such as a subscription. Of course this would complicate the simplicity of the business model.
Some of my favourite artists: http://jaiku.com/channel/spotify/presence/53395466 or some way to get notified when they turn up. Perhaps some kind of smart playlist that notifies the user when the results change?
8 months, 3 weeks ago by adewale
I still don't understand the business model. hard for me to imagine that they can cover what must be some fairly exorbitant licensing fees with subscriptions... But maybe I'm not seeing it the right way, somehow...
You can even go listen to one of my bands:-)
spotify:album:2eSTpyeAG6IkcBTe1jGW07
I'd never listened to that album after mixing in late-2001/early-2002...
8 months, 3 weeks ago by tolonen
I'm checking out the new U2 and contemplating purchasing the vinyl.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by tolonen
...but the album probably has to many clunkers, as a whole. Like the insufferably crap first single.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by tolonen