Spotify

[ESPNdeportes]

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Arcade Fire finally is on board.

I've got to say, Spotify Premium has been worth every cent of the $9.99 per month I pay. I've listened to a ton of new music I never would have touched before. I've got about a 40 minute drive each way to work, so I load up an album before I head out and I'm good to go. Love it.

Now I just need some White Stripes. One of the most glaring omissions for me.

Probably has more to do with the artists holding out, I would guess (too lazy to google it). The Black Keys chose not to put their new album, El Camino on there. I think artists get paid like $0.009 per stream or something like that, so its not necessarily all that lucrative

[Fresh Tendrils]

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White Stripes is worth buying anyway.

Does anybody make playlists?

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I somehow went all this time with never downloading "Equalify". It's an equalizer that will be embedded into Spotify. Such an amazing difference.

I also can't believe so many don't know of Spotify yet.

[slickdtc]

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There was a good discussion about Spotify happening in the OT thread, but it's been a week or so I figured I'd fill anyone in here who missed that talk.

Spotify on mobile is free for the radio feature as well as allowing you to shuffle an artist's discography. I thought it would just shuffle by album as it allows you to choose an album, but it mixes in other albums as well. Still, better then just using the radio feature, for a grand total of 0 bucks.

This thing will EAT data like a fiend if you aren't on wifi. I went from 75% data usage to 90% data usage in the span of about an hour and a half. I wasn't even messing with it besides to switch the artist a few times. That's the biggest deterrent to buying a subscription for me. It'd be useless to me because I only get 2GB data a month.

[elgreazy1]

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Fortunately, for me, it doesn't eat a lot of data and also on a 2GB plan.

On the Paid version, you can download playlists onto your phone so you don't have to stream them, instead they're stored "Offline". So I build my playlists on the computer and then download them onto my phone when I'm in a wifi zone (home, the office, library, etc). If you're in a non-wifi zone you can go into "Offline" mode and play any playlists you've downloaded. This pretty much knocks data usage down to zero.

The biggest thing for me was just having new music for the gym and rides on my bike and the commute to work. As much as I love my music library, the same playlists and songs gets pretty old from time to time.

EDIT:
Seems like Xbox Music is going to go with the same route. If it functions the same, I may switch over to that so I can sync all my playlists across my computer, mobile, and console devices.

[thaima1shu]

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Fortunately, for me, it doesn't eat a lot of data and also on a 2GB plan.

On the Paid version, you can download playlists onto your phone so you don't have to stream them, instead they're stored "Offline". So I build my playlists on the computer and then download them onto my phone when I'm in a wifi zone (home, the office, library, etc). If you're in a non-wifi zone you can go into "Offline" mode and play any playlists you've downloaded. This pretty much knocks data usage down to zero.

The biggest thing for me was just having new music for the gym and rides on my bike and the commute to work. As much as I love my music library, the same playlists and songs gets pretty old from time to time.

EDIT:
Seems like Xbox Music is going to go with the same route. If it functions the same, I may switch over to that so I can sync all my playlists across my computer, mobile, and console devices.

Yeah the fact that you can download the playlists onto your phone and not have to use any data was a big factor for me. Definitely makes premium worth it.

[kingkilla56]

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Im so glad im grandfathered into a legit unlimited plan. I have no complaints for this app. Especially when its free.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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There was a good discussion about Spotify happening in the OT thread, but it's been a week or so I figured I'd fill anyone in here who missed that talk.

Spotify on mobile is free for the radio feature as well as allowing you to shuffle an artist's discography. I thought it would just shuffle by album as it allows you to choose an album, but it mixes in other albums as well. Still, better then just using the radio feature, for a grand total of 0 bucks.

This thing will EAT data like a fiend if you aren't on wifi. I went from 75% data usage to 90% data usage in the span of about an hour and a half. I wasn't even messing with it besides to switch the artist a few times. That's the biggest deterrent to buying a subscription for me. It'd be useless to me because I only get 2GB data a month.

You might want to check your settings an make sure the streaming quality isn't on extreme or anything like that. I have a 2gb plan, can stream Spotify for hours and I've never hit anywhere close to that. Especially in 1 hour.

[slickdtc]

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Just checked, I'm on normal (the lowest setting).

I get text alerts when I hit 50, 75, 90, and 100% of my data usage. Sometimes it is a bit off, but I got an alert for 75 at 9:15am and an alert for 90 at 10:23am. I get pretty decent 3G service here at work too, so I don't know what the deal is.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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My Spotify year in review. To get yours it's at the very end of - https://www.spotify.com/us/2013/#



Actually surprised it's not more as that only comes out to about 40 minutes a day.

[Leon]

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That's pretty cool. Here's mine.

[jb12780]

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I have Spotify premium. It is awesome.

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[Fresh Tendrils]

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The most played song in a day was Daft Punk's Get Lucky with 1.5 million streams. Interesting.

Mine:

[SuperBowlNachos]

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Anyone know if it tracks while in private or offline mode?

[mrpotatohead5]

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Here is my year in review