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Title: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 25, 2009, 07:54:31 AM
http://www.spotify.com/en/ (http://www.spotify.com/en/)

Online free juke box.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: gingataff on March 25, 2009, 12:47:46 PM
Apparently it's not available in my country :?
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Post by: indysmith on March 25, 2009, 02:44:25 PM
Yeah - been on it for a while now. It's very good and very quick, but they need more music!
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Oli on March 25, 2009, 09:15:25 PM
It's really good, the selection is pretty big too, which is nice for checking out artists, and for when i'm too lazy to go and get the CD from the shelf :)
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: _tom_ on March 25, 2009, 09:21:09 PM
I use it a bit but theres not enough stuff on there.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 25, 2009, 10:11:59 PM
I'm sure that will change in time. The record companys are apparently giving it their blessing so hopefully it won't die 'cos of some legal bollocks.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: AndyR on March 25, 2009, 10:34:29 PM
AMAZING!! Thanks guys :D

Tom, you're just too bluddy young :lol:

There's tons of stuff on there that I want to hear.

An hour or so ago I was in tears listening to Glen Campbell's version of "If you go away" - I haven't heard that since I was 12 or so, and I know every word, every inflexion...

And then we found...

Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
Andrew Gold - Never Let Her Slip Away
Le Chic - Le Freak
Lindisfarne - Run for Home
Manfred Mann - Davey's on the Road Again, Pretty Flamingo
The Searchers - Needles and Pins
The Loving Spoonful - Darling Be Home Soon

the list goes on and on, and I haven't heard these things for YEARS...

This is monster...

Bit of an omission though - no Frog Chorus :(
(actually there are several "Frog Chorus", but they all really are, er,  choruses of frogs, or a bunch of Green Berets singing some sort of marching song :lol:)
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: 38thBeatle on March 25, 2009, 11:16:05 PM
Looks great- when I get a moment I will look into it.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 25, 2009, 11:20:01 PM
No Beatles material or so I heard on the news.

I've had a line-out of the laptop into my stereo all day, you don't even need an ipod now!
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: AndyR on March 25, 2009, 11:20:22 PM
You'll need more than a moment 38th!

I registered, er, when Alan Whicker had just started - er, 2 hours ago, after searching for songs I remember from when I was at school, I moved on to finding all sorts of stuff that I'd meant to check out soon...

The missus was vaguely impressed, but I think she's given up and gone to bed :lol:

I think I need to do the same...
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: AndyR on March 25, 2009, 11:24:38 PM
No Beatles material or so I heard on the news.

I've had a line-out of the laptop into my stereo all day, you don't even need an ipod now!

Lots of McCartney, Harrison, Starr...

No Beatles (doesn't worry me, I got them all), and no Lennon apart from lots of interviews...

Hmmm... some sort of pattern I feel? :lol:

It's superb, but I have to go to bed...

EDIT: I lied - not much Harrison neither - looks like it's all tribute stuff and interviews... (sorry Yoko, if you thought I was implying anything! :lol:)
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Post by: Afghan Dave on March 26, 2009, 01:21:12 AM
Brilliant!!

I'm listening to stuff I forgot I liked from WAY back....

I love it!!
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 26, 2009, 08:29:14 AM
Andy, I'm having a Glen Campbell moment myself now  :D I've just found a cover of the Foo's Times Like These which is really good.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: juansolo on March 26, 2009, 10:27:25 AM
Really liking it for try before you buy. Very handy.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: zf on March 26, 2009, 03:22:48 PM
Spotify is excellent! Love the interface. Even works in Ubuntu through Wine quite nicely.

Paid for the first month, now using the free version with some semi-annoying ads between songs every now and then.

I didn't continue the paid subscription since some of the music I already had listened to disappareard a while back. For example, all but one Arch Enemy album disappeared. No Floyd or Zappa. No Sikth or Textures - but plenty of Meshuggah etc.

Found plenty of new bands through Spotify, and re-discovered old ones. Great stuff all in all.
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: Johnny Mac on March 26, 2009, 08:40:46 PM
I've been using this all day its constantly impressing me.  :D
Title: Re: Spotify. Anyone using this?
Post by: AndyR on March 27, 2009, 08:56:50 AM
Yeah, I had another quick look last night - even more impressed now.

At the moment it looks like this will prove a "life enhancing" freebie for me... :lol: