Spotify - free streaming music

[Dasquian Belargic]

https://www.spotify.com

This is finally available in the US. Over 15 million tracks streaming for free (or a small fee if you want to remove the ads or listen to em offline/on your iDevice). I don't buy any music at all anymore since I subscribed to the premium version, since basically anything I ever want to listen to is on Spotify :D

Here's a cool playlist to get you started, with music from Fallout New Vegas and BioShock: http://open.spotify.com/user/xbouwman/playlist/0TZfkY8kYoHtrcmawWbs8Y

[Lilaena De'Ville]

It says I need an invite to get an account. :cry

[Dasquian Belargic]

It does? Huh.

I have 14 invites anyway so just PM me the email address you want one sent to :)

EDIT: I have 12 invites left now.

[Morgan Evanar]

(Please) Feed me a small invite!

[Dasquian Belargic]

I feeded one to your gmail!

Also, here is another cool playlist I found: http://open.spotify.com/user/brokemogul/playlist/2UuoB7p8ZdlgQT8upXwoMl

[Droo]

I'll definately give this a shot. My internet connection has been a little shoddy lately so I'm curious to see how it handles streaming music. But if all is well, I'd be tempted to get a premium subscription, too. Mind throwing us an invite please, Jen?

[Dasquian Belargic]

People in the UK can just sign up for free anyway. You shouldn't need an invite :)

https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/open/

[Sanis Prent]

can I have an invite? :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Sure, which email you want it sent to? :)

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Me!!! :D Send it to my gmail? Pretty sure you have that.... if not just let me know.

[Dasquian Belargic]

You got mail.

[Sanis Prent]

my hotmail one :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

also sent :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

All signed up, username jainhollie

:)

[Vince]

Spotify me, please oh pleasie pleasie!

[Dasquian Belargic]

sent to your gmail, Vince :)

[Vince]

Got it! Though I'll have to run it under Wine, which is not my preferred method of running software, and the Linux preview is only available to premium or unlimited subscribers.

Gah. I'll get it working. Thanks!

[Dasquian Belargic]

8 invites left :)

[Taataani Meorrrei]

It's asking me for an invite code, but my email had no such code in it :uhoh

[Dasquian Belargic]

Your code was cwnaRJVYxBrsd8bT

[Xavier Synik]

I'd love to use this, but unfortunately it's not available in Canada yet.

[Sanis Prent]

ah ok there we go

[Dasquian Belargic]

For fans of Mass Effect, I made a playlist with all of the available pieces from the game soundtracks: http://open.spotify.com/user/furiousboar/playlist/5RY4DcTIX2pDu66sRNRWTq

Right now, it's just ME2. There's nothing from the first game on Spotify :(

[Sanis Prent]

There's original mass effect on spotify too. That's what I'm listening to

[Dasquian Belargic]

There is? Who's the artist?

[Zem Vymes]

I just searched by mass effect. It's under Mass Effect Soundtrack

[Dasquian Belargic]

Hmm... I guess it isn't available in the UK. We don't have access to all the same music/artists.

[Morgan Evanar]

Ministry! :cyduck :wings :crack

[Dasquian Belargic]

I think they basically have like their entire discography on there including a whole bunch of remixes

[Sanis Prent]

Ahh, I'm finding all the gangsta rap of my youth that I'm too broke to buy track-by-track currently

[Yog]

I predicted a long time ago that once Spotify spreads to the USA, it will be the death of iTunes and other per song payment services. A subscription based service with option for free listening with adds, with very fast and instant loading P2P based streaming, and pretty much the entire collection of every record label is simply vastly superior to any other thing out there. A service so good that it makes music piracy an inconvenient irrelevance.

This is what the record industry should have introduced like frickin 10 years ago, instead of suing the crap of Napster, and 12 year old girls for millions of dollars.

The only complaint I have is, there are still some artists / bands which are not represented. The Eagles, Pink Floyd and The Beatles spring to mind (and those are some of my favorites too :(, but I suspect this will change eventually.

[Droo]

You took the words right out of my mouth, Yog. Now if only there was something like this for films and television.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Ever since I started to subscribe to Spotify, the only music I have actually bought on iTunes is a couple of Beatles songs. The fact that even when I am out and about I can just load up Spotify on my phone, stick in an artists name and within 30 seconds be listening to almost any track is fantastic.

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Still have an invite?

[Morgan Evanar]

I have some invites. PM me your email addy.

[Sanis Prent]

Da Chronic isn't playable :cry

I think I finally need to just fucking buy that album. I always need to listen to it. I'm always broke.

[Droo]

Okay, I'm subscribed and in love with this thing. Mahler's Fifth Symphony sealed the deal.

[Figrin D'an]

I'm liking this a whole lot. It's superior to every other service I've tried. I may just decide to do the pay subscription since having access on my Android phone would kill any reason to use an iPod or other mp3 player. It also means that I can potentially ditch a lot of my ripped mp3 files and reclaim some storage space.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

I'm sticking with the free for now so I can at least try out all kinds of music without having to buy anything, and if I just really can't do without something when on the go, I can get it on itunes.

[Dasquian Belargic]

^ That was my stance too, until I realised if I bought one album or more on iTunes, I would have (90% of the time) already spent more than the cost of a Spotify subscription :lol

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

yeah but I hardly ever buy music these days so it's cheaper for now to occasionally snipe itunes