FootballFan
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Such great news. Really happy to hear.
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Spotify coming to PS3 and PS4; Music Unlimited shutting down.
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On your Smart TV.
JrBaconCheeseburger
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Love Spotify
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Smart TV apps suck compared to console native apps. Never as snappy. I use Xbox One for HBO Go right now, but I don't really like using the console much so I would rather stick with PS4 for all my apps.
Stratosphere
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Is there a good comparison list/article anywhere on these two?
Definitely sounds like Playstation Music is an OS integrated container that might eventually house other music services. Happy with Spotify as the first though:
Things I hope this will lead to:
- More widespread support, or even mandated support, for automatically switching off game music when Playstation Music is active ala Driveclub
- In-game integration with Playstation Music, i.e. if a driving game lets you switch tracks with the dpad that should hook into Playstation Music when it is active, and possibly grab the title/album/artist for display on the in-game music popup if there is one (or an optional system level music notification popup)
- A better, more stable, more snappy app compared to the old Music Unlimited
- A faster way to pause/change track/adjust volume with the controller.
Things I hope this will lead to:
- More widespread support, or even mandated support, for automatically switching off game music when Playstation Music is active ala Driveclub
- In-game integration with Playstation Music, i.e. if a driving game lets you switch tracks with the dpad that should hook into Playstation Music when it is active, and possibly grab the title/album/artist for display on the in-game music popup if there is one (or an optional system level music notification popup)
- A better, more stable, more snappy app compared to the old Music Unlimited
- A faster way to pause/change track/adjust volume with the controller.
Tragicomedy
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This news is awesome. Unless it's a story-heavy game, I play almost everything with my own music in the background. This is a godsend for driving games, and loot games like Diablo 3 and Destiny.
jaydogg691
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Cool and I just started a free 60 day trial for Spotify.
RIP Music Unlimited. Best use I got from it was when there was the $12 for a year deal. Was waiting for similar deals, but nothing ever came through.
RIP Music Unlimited. Best use I got from it was when there was the $12 for a year deal. Was waiting for similar deals, but nothing ever came through.
Agent X
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I sure hope it comes to Vita soon. The fact that they've announced "PlayStation Music" for Xperia smartphones and tablets but not for Vita is somewhat scary, though.
RedAssedApe
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watch_dogs, gta, sleeping dogs, saints, etc. pretty much any open world game that you drive around in has them. was just thinking maybe they'll put less effort into that specific feature of the game to do some cost saving on licensing? i have no idea how much it costs to license a song for use...so maybe its nil.
was just a thought. i usually don't listen like 90% of the stations hah
Omnistalgic
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Do you need premium version to upload your own music?
I have a good 20GB of my own music.
I have a good 20GB of my own music.
Taking a page out of Microsoft's book. Smart move.
Just moved my collection from Rdio to Spotify. I found a somewhat flaky playlist importer that got about half of it over, and then spent a couple hours fixing stuff. It sucked, but holy shit is Spotify's classical music selection better. I should have chosen them all along.
thebigmanjosh
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AyaisMUsikWhore
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Second. On top of that, I love how HBO Go on the PS3 lacks Comcast...How cute.
Tragicomedy
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A big win for Spotify!
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Citizen_Insane
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This is fucking awesome. I thought it would never come because of Music Unlimited.
Now we just need HBO Go.
Now we just need HBO Go.
Stratosphere
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Thank you sir, Spotify get!
Well I'm not fucking happy.
I actually LIKE Music Unlimited.
I'm going to assume that Music Unlimited has songs that Spotify does not have and will not have.
I've spent a lot of time building up my library and playlists on Music Unlimited. This is going to be all for nothing soon.
I have nothing against Spotify. I use it and like it a lot too, but unless everything that was part of Music Unlimted gets rolled into Spotify, I will really miss it.
I actually LIKE Music Unlimited.
I'm going to assume that Music Unlimited has songs that Spotify does not have and will not have.
I've spent a lot of time building up my library and playlists on Music Unlimited. This is going to be all for nothing soon.
I have nothing against Spotify. I use it and like it a lot too, but unless everything that was part of Music Unlimted gets rolled into Spotify, I will really miss it.
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RadarScope1
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Welp. I have just been thinking about subbing to Spotify. I think this seals it. Nice to see Sony cutting their losses on services that don't work, and bringing better and more popular alternatives to their platforms.
Just found this info which is really disappointing, when I read that they had an "Extreme Quality" mode for subscribers a 320 kbps stream really wasn't what I was expecting! It may well be Ogg Vorbis but I was really hoping for CD quality at least with a name like that. 
What bitrate does Spotify use for streaming?
Spotify uses 3 quality ratings for streaming, all in the Ogg Vorbis format.
What bitrate does Spotify use for streaming?
Spotify uses 3 quality ratings for streaming, all in the Ogg Vorbis format.
- 96 kbps - Normal quality on mobile.
- 160 kbps - Desktop and web player standard quality. High quality on mobile.
- 320 kbps (only available to Premium subscribers) - Desktop high quality. Extreme quality on mobile.
The Lone Courier
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Damn you can even play music in game. Thats awesome.
Well I much prefer Google Play, though a big part of that is integrating the locker and sub service into one thing. Plus at some point I assume the youtube music key stuff will be nice.
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Ooph. Didn't even know that. Comcast works on Xbox 360 & One in my area on HBO Go, but the Xfinity app doesn't work on my University's internet because they said it is non-residential.
Side-note: Comedy Central makes it hell to see Broad City now. Can't sign in with Comcast on their own site, and Comcast can't post now episodes until 6 days after air or so -AND Comedy Central sticks a huge opaque banner on the bottom of the Comcast On Demand episode saying 'See more at cc.com' as if I'm not a paying cable customer watching on my official cable site. Why the hell is there an ad banner blocking like 1/8th of a show on my actually paid cable provider's site like I'm some kind of free user who found it on hulu?
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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I am hoping we get the sling TV app on the PS4 like the X1 is getting. You get espn and a few other channels for like a flat rate of 20 a month. I don't plan to ever subscribe to cable tv so I am looking forward to streaming my TV shows more often.
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Just found this info which is really disappointing, when I read that they had an "Extreme Quality" mode for subscribers a 320 kbps stream really wasn't what I was expecting! It may well be Ogg Vorbis but I was really hoping for CD quality at least with a name like that.
What bitrate does Spotify use for streaming?
Spotify uses 3 quality ratings for streaming, all in the Ogg Vorbis format.
- 96 kbps - Normal quality on mobile.
- 160 kbps - Desktop and web player standard quality. High quality on mobile.
- 320 kbps (only available to Premium subscribers) - Desktop high quality. Extreme quality on mobile.
320kb/s is considered to have negligible difference to the human ear from lossless or CDs. Placebo and peace of mind are considered the big drivers behind going above 320kb/s, as otherwise, storage and streaming are great practical advantages.
Stratosphere
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Doesn't Spotify also let you import your own music, or am I missing something?
It really depends what you are listening to it on. You can easily tell the different between mp3 quality and CD on a good system/studio monitors. For most systems though I don't think it will make much difference.
Um... I don't think so. Unless I missed it all this time.
Isn't Sony music one of the biggest labels in the industry? I think more people would know about that then playstation.
And play it on your PC. I know I just tried it and using the iPad client all it said was that I had to sync the music to my iPad. Which is unacceptable.
bill.cosby
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fucking awesome, especially the streaming during games bit. i will get alot of mileage out of this. kinda hope it comes to all systems at some point