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Google music. Who cares? Oh right, you guys don't have Spotify. I don't know anyone that has it that bothers with iTunes or actually buying music anymore. Get

Google music. Who cares? Oh right, you guys don't have Spotify. I don't know anyone that has it that bothers with iTunes or actually buying music anymore. Get the free version, and get any music anytime and the occasional ad. Pay a few bucks a month, and you get any music anytime with no ads.

Disparity 16y ago
Well, we do have Grooveshark. But it probably won't last. :(
- DevX101 16y ago
  If it's lasted this long it will probably keep going for some time yet. They have a pretty clear song takedown policy, so any music being shared on grooveshark is likely being done so with the full consent of the label. Grooveshark is also paying the music owners royalty from a share of their ad revenue.
  - Disparity 16y ago
    IIRC, Grooveshark only pays EMI royalties, and UMG is taking them to court. Sony and Warner have no deals. I'd be curious to see what Sony and Warner choose to do.
    - jmtulloss 16y ago
      It doesn't matter. UMG is the elephant in the room, they'll do whatever UMG does.
  - jfornear 16y ago
    The clock has already been ticking... [1] [1] Universal Music Group Now "Declaring Legal Jihad" Against Grooveshark... http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg
    - DevX101 16y ago
      Thanks for the link. I stand corrected.
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thehodge 16y ago
Spotify is excellent, I love it but more and more I get tracks in playlists that are 'not playable in your country' or 'the record label has chosen to make this track unavailable'
- barrym 16y ago
  Or even/sometimes worse - tracks which you were able to play previously, which this week are now not available.
  - dlib 16y ago
    This week I played a track only to find it had actually changed since last time I played it. The original was retracted and instead I got an alternative version. Nonetheless I'm happy with Spotify, although the number of unavailable records is increasing
- moe 16y ago
  'not playable in your country' Reminds me of youtube. I'm in europe and about half of the time I click on a youtube link I get this friendly message about the content being property of UMG|Sony|Warner|whoever and I'm not worthy to see it...
yesimahuman 16y ago
While not free ($5/mo), mog.com has been awesome for me. The only time I buy on iTunes is if I have gift cards and need to burn a CD for my old car stereo.
mitjak 16y ago
Spotify is great as long as you don't step out of the narrow scope of the music offered. Try finding anything released <6 months ago and report back. rdio and MOG are even worse in that respect. Grooveshark is the only service that has a decent though a Kazaa-like chaotic catalogue.
- eru 16y ago
  Pandora has been quite nice. Especially since they added some classical music. They don't have a lot of, say, German music, yet, though.
- Tomek_ 16y ago
  It isn't that bad, I would say I'm listening to pretty broad spectrum of music, most of it being not very popular, and Spotify has roughly 75% of what I need. OK, when something that was there disappears after a while then it's seriously irritating, but still, the true selling point of Spotify is the quality of the program itself: it's super slick, fast and has the best interface ever in the category of music players. Personally, I ignored a bunch of artist just because they don't have their music in Spotify; "you want me to listen to your music? let me do that the way I want, otherwise go screw yourself" type of thing.
  - mitjak 16y ago
    ..except availability on Spotify of their catalogue is not artists' business but their label's, regardless of degree of indie-ness. My attitude is the complete opposite: "I can listen to Madonna but not to Tallest Man on Earth, who is from Sweden? Kthxbye".
    - Tomek_ 16y ago
      Well, the truth is in somewhere in the middle - I suppose it's not that Spotify doesn't want Tallest Man on Earth to be in its' catalog, nor that Tallest Man on Earth doesn't want to be in Spotify. (Worth to note: Spotify actually has Tallest Man on Earth in its' catalog, I'm now listening to the guy)
- 16y ago
alexophile 16y ago
There's http://www.rdio.com http://www.rdio.com -- The library isn't exactly mind-blowing, but they put up fresh music every week (Recently: Maximum Balloon, Engineers, Ice Cube's new independent album, Neil young, Lil Wayne, Clapton, Mark Ronson...) and seem to work with some decent independent labels (Ghostly comes to mind.)

Disparity 16y ago

Well, we do have Grooveshark. But it probably won't last. :(

DevX101 16y ago
If it's lasted this long it will probably keep going for some time yet. They have a pretty clear song takedown policy, so any music being shared on grooveshark is likely being done so with the full consent of the label. Grooveshark is also paying the music owners royalty from a share of their ad revenue.
- Disparity 16y ago
  IIRC, Grooveshark only pays EMI royalties, and UMG is taking them to court. Sony and Warner have no deals. I'd be curious to see what Sony and Warner choose to do.
  - jmtulloss 16y ago
    It doesn't matter. UMG is the elephant in the room, they'll do whatever UMG does.
- jfornear 16y ago
  The clock has already been ticking... [1] [1] Universal Music Group Now "Declaring Legal Jihad" Against Grooveshark... http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/090310groovesharkumg
  - DevX101 16y ago
    Thanks for the link. I stand corrected.
- deleted 16y ago
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thehodge 16y ago

Spotify is excellent, I love it but more and more I get tracks in playlists that are 'not playable in your country' or 'the record label has chosen to make this track unavailable'

barrym 16y ago
Or even/sometimes worse - tracks which you were able to play previously, which this week are now not available.
- dlib 16y ago
  This week I played a track only to find it had actually changed since last time I played it. The original was retracted and instead I got an alternative version. Nonetheless I'm happy with Spotify, although the number of unavailable records is increasing
moe 16y ago
'not playable in your country' Reminds me of youtube. I'm in europe and about half of the time I click on a youtube link I get this friendly message about the content being property of UMG|Sony|Warner|whoever and I'm not worthy to see it...

yesimahuman 16y ago

While not free ($5/mo), mog.com has been awesome for me. The only time I buy on iTunes is if I have gift cards and need to burn a CD for my old car stereo.

mitjak 16y ago

Spotify is great as long as you don't step out of the narrow scope of the music offered. Try finding anything released <6 months ago and report back. rdio and MOG are even worse in that respect. Grooveshark is the only service that has a decent though a Kazaa-like chaotic catalogue.

eru 16y ago
Pandora has been quite nice. Especially since they added some classical music. They don't have a lot of, say, German music, yet, though.
Tomek_ 16y ago
It isn't that bad, I would say I'm listening to pretty broad spectrum of music, most of it being not very popular, and Spotify has roughly 75% of what I need. OK, when something that was there disappears after a while then it's seriously irritating, but still, the true selling point of Spotify is the quality of the program itself: it's super slick, fast and has the best interface ever in the category of music players. Personally, I ignored a bunch of artist just because they don't have their music in Spotify; "you want me to listen to your music? let me do that the way I want, otherwise go screw yourself" type of thing.
- mitjak 16y ago
  ..except availability on Spotify of their catalogue is not artists' business but their label's, regardless of degree of indie-ness. My attitude is the complete opposite: "I can listen to Madonna but not to Tallest Man on Earth, who is from Sweden? Kthxbye".
  - Tomek_ 16y ago
    Well, the truth is in somewhere in the middle - I suppose it's not that Spotify doesn't want Tallest Man on Earth to be in its' catalog, nor that Tallest Man on Earth doesn't want to be in Spotify. (Worth to note: Spotify actually has Tallest Man on Earth in its' catalog, I'm now listening to the guy)
16y ago

alexophile 16y ago

There's http://www.rdio.com http://www.rdio.com -- The library isn't exactly mind-blowing, but they put up fresh music every week (Recently: Maximum Balloon, Engineers, Ice Cube's new independent album, Neil young, Lil Wayne, Clapton, Mark Ronson...) and seem to work with some decent independent labels (Ghostly comes to mind.)