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By: Astro

Astro — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:05:19 +0000

Whether Spotify Premium is worth it really does depend on where you live.
For example, I live in the country side where my broadband speed is about 1/16th of what I pay for. Edge network connectivity is very rare, let alone 3G. Although my home computers stream music via Spotify very well for what they have to work with, I can’t justify spending £9.99 per month unless some new features are introduced. I studied at university in Brighton last year. For twenty-four hours per-day I had fantastic 3G connectivity. That is the perfect time to have Spotify Premium. Walking to and from university, studying, shopping or doing whatever I wanted I could have an endless (for as long as my battery would allow) stream of new music.

I will definitely consider it in the future as network coverage increases and connectivity speeds rise but, for now, the free version is faultless.

By: David James

David James — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:02:34 +0000

Thanks for the review Sam.

I’ve recently tried out the Spotify Premium service. Mostly because of the offline playlists for my iPhone.

I totally agree with your verdict in regards to the downsides.
Though, it’s kinda Apple’s fault for not allowing applications to run in the background. This is going to be fixed with iPhone OS 4.0 which will be released this summer.

So hopefully we’ll be able to enjoy our music while doing other stuff on the phone.

All in all I’m very pleased with the Spotify Premium service. And I hope the music industry will take note of Spotify’s hopeful success, cause I haven’t spent a single dime on music for 10 years, and now I may end up spending 120£ a year.

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:17:58 +0000

Good example, Matt – thanks for commenting.

By: Matt Treg

Matt Treg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:04:34 +0000

An alternative user model.

I work on my home computer a bit at the weekends, while I’m doing so I’m constantly looking for new stuff that looks interesting and drop whole albums into individual playlists to bookmark them. Then, whenever my ipod touch is charging or I’m just about the house, I download them to listen to on the move (no iphone so no 3g). So I get to listen to new albums on my itouch every day, keeping the ones I like and getting rid of the ones I don’t. All with no ads. I love it. Well worth £10 a month.

It does suck that it can’t run in the background but I think that is an Apple limitation, isn’t it?

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:48:47 +0000

Thanks, Chappas! You’re right, not every network offers true unlimited internet (mine seems to be pretty patchy in terms of 3G and pretty slow when WiFi-ing at home, too).

Good point about the Symbian version… I think the iPhone playlist download continues in the background too…

I’m not trying to be ‘down’ on Spotify. I’m just documenting my experience. If it turns out that Premium Spotify doesn’t work for me on the iPhone because of a combination of a) crap 3G coverage and b) lousy home broadband bandwidth, then it’s worth reporting. I’m a punter, like everyone else.

Spotify works great at home on my broadband (even thought it’s only 450kbs). That’s cool – nice to have music without ads. What I’m really testing here is the iPhone-friendliness of Spotify Premium.

By: Chappas

Chappas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:03:09 +0000

erm, the offline playlists function is there because not every network offers true unlimited internet, & maybe i dont want to kill off my data allowance when i listen to loads of music every day. Why stream the same song over and over when you could download it once.

as for the downloading, ive got a 20mbit connection which gives me between 5-9MB/s actual [accordin to speed test anyway] and it takes about ten mins to download 100 songs.

oh yh, and on the symbian version which is the one im using the downloading does continue in the background : lets not blame the app for our jarg internet & phones limitations folks.

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