Comments on: Spotify tips

By: spotify ripper

spotify ripper — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:24:09 +0000

great tips, thanks. I love Spotify music

By: G-A-C

G-A-C — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:57:55 +0000

I disagree. In order to get their music distribution licenses then Spotify must be paying an appropriate amount to “the recording industry” (as an entity) in the same way that physical music distributors do. However, whether they do that with my premium subscription fees or advertising revenue they’ve received is a bit irrelevant. IMO Spotify’s Premium offering is more about making profit for Spotify themselves as they’re only liable for the same fees, the industry don’t expect more for every premium subscriber.

I’m pretty sure the RIAA and chums are getting the correct cut, or else they would have stomped Spotify out of existence by now. And as for “give value to music”, most of the music that comes out (at least in the UK) has little value anyway, I’m certainly not about to go out and buy it. I settle for listening to the radio (in the UK this is either funded by my TV license, or advertising, depending which station I listen to) or Spotify (which essentially also comes with either a license fee or advertising). This model has worked for many many years and still does today, so I don’t see Spotify Free destroying artists’ incomes….

By: Act right

Act right — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:51:19 +0000

So Spotify free use is totally destroying the incomes of artists – I strongy recommend to pay for it and not to use the free version. Artists and their families do need salary and incomes too – they can’t live without. It’s so wrong and selfish to listen free music and to use that money to something else. And people need music companies too, to give work and incomes for other peoples too than just the artists – society needs such economy structures. If music listener just wants lots of cheap or free music, is that right? Is mass-consuming right? compared to give value to music and not just consume it freely as much as possible.

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:09:58 +0000

How to get free Spotify PREMIUM!: http://www.premiuminvites.com/?r=27181

ENJOY ;D
PS. only drawback is you may have to take a survey, just answer no to everything :P

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By: Risto H. Kurppa

Risto H. Kurppa — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:29:16 +0000

@Jackflap: Great tip, thanks!

By: Jackflap

Jackflap — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:31:53 +0000

Another tip: Backups!

You can select your playlists and copy/paste all the tracks into a spreadsheet in order to back them up.

If you do it right, you’ll be able to past the artist/track title as the text and the spotify uri as the target of the link.

That way you can rebuild your spotify playlists or your whole music collection if spotify ever gets shut down.

By: Toni L

Toni L — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:08:09 +0000

Yes, it’s country dependent. I didn’t get an invitation, but I still have Spotify. I got it through one re-direct site which made look like I was from UK, then I just changed my country back to Finland when I had registered.

I think Spotify doesn’t mind too much since I’m just one person more to see/hear their advertising.

By: Risto H. Kurppa

Risto H. Kurppa — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:04:48 +0000

Oh, right, I think it might be country-dependent. I think some solutions even suggest to use UK proxies to look like connecting the Spotify servers from UK to be able to register..

I don’t know how can one donate invitations to Invitify, it isn’t very clear. Let’s see if someone reading this blog want’s to get invitations, thanks G-A-C!