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[kottila]

It guess they just launched it http://www.spotify.com/us/hello-america/

Two invitation codes:
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[Subterranean]

Thank you Kottila for the invite code!

 

[Angst]

I have 20ish EU invites, don't know if they work for the US? I can post them all if they do work.

 

[Majine]

Welcome onboard, Americans.

 

[Subterranean]

Do most of you Europeans that have been using Spotify pay for the service or does free work just fine?

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Do most of you Europeans that have been using Spotify pay for the service or does free work just fine?

Free was fine until they reduced the number of hours (10) and play restrictions (x5).

 

[kottila]

Do most of you Europeans that have been using Spotify pay for the service or does free work just fine?

I pay. Love having off-line access to music both on my ipod and on my computer

 

[Majine]

Do most of you Europeans that have been using Spotify pay for the service or does free work just fine?

I used to use Free when it was basically what I needed, until they changed that model for the worse. I subscribed, and haven't looked back, actually.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

I was lucky enough to get the $3/mo. rate to Grooveshark mobile back when they had a promotion going, so until Grooveshark gets shut down or they raise my price to $10/mo. or above, I'll use it over Spotify.

Does Spotify have a browser app?

 

[JonathanEx]

Generally I have free as it means whenever I want to listen to... anything, I can find it. But for some parties and events I've paid up short time for no adverts.

No Browser app.


But it's great and enjoy it, yankie doodles.

 

[Antagon]

I pay myself. I'm on a premium account now, but not really using it on my phone, so probably going to switch to unlimited soon (unless I get one of those fancy Onkyo receivers with spotify support). It's my main source of music now, so 10 euros a month is very reasonable if you ask me.

 

[Jayayess1190]

I'm not seeing what makes this better than, say Last.fm, aside from being able to pick which specific songs you want to play.

Last.fm scrobbles what music I play at home, then I play a radio station consisting of all the songs in my playlist on the go.

Spotify scrobbles to Last.fm.

 

[kottila]

Invitation overload: Go HERE to register an account

All invitations are taken

 

[BGBW]

10 hours / month and you can only play a song 5 times I think, also you get audio and visual ads in the application.

This is why I stopped using it. I used it with my laptop so I didn't have to store music on it locally. I used to listen to the same songs a lot so putting a restriction of that made the whole program useless to me. I don't use so often that paying for it is worth it. They lost their way in my opinion. Also I don't have a smart phone.

 

[Subterranean]

I could see myself using this a lot. Going to try it throughout today and probably end up buying the subscription.

Also, Kottila you're the man with all those codes.

 

[YuriLowell]

Thank you for the invite!

 

[jorma]

Do most of you Europeans that have been using Spotify pay for the service or does free work just fine?

I used to have the free service. It was awesome. But the current free spotify is just pointless, so most of the people still talking about it seem to be paying users, and my impression is that they are happy with what they get for the money.

 

[Antagon]

One tip for people that get a premium subscription and have a decent soundsystem: Turn on high bitrate in the settings. It doubles the bitrate from 160 to 320 kbits.

 

[kottila]

I used to have the free service. It was awesome. But the current free spotify is just pointless, so most of the people still talking about it seem to be paying users, and my impression is that they are happy with what they get for the money.

Depends on how you use it. I have a playlist of over 3000 songs that is my main playlist and the chance of listening to the same song more than five times in a month is small.
But if you're really into one album or a short playlist, then free wouldn't be that useful.

 

[danootz]

Invitation overload:

amEfF5K9h36RNeP3
cxD5y2SwkaUVWyXd
eLXE4ahkT7HXgVtf
dZB2tZ78GRRg5TUU
bSDDygVXTwJA2ZkW
dFWdq2eb2fVFEAuZ
fnHezcdnEqG6NAMZ
eKALWmyNFE2shdNZ
fBwTGzCcKbms9DDz
bhk6723mnqF422Yn
chGyd4HRAyxcpMhY
bRJ5Hu3a8zncpSSJ
fBYcpxyc9FkLH7bs
aMPMRbKKNXggNX94
a38uKgrShGcCAUyh
enJkqKJksLk5G9EY
bPwJg4VFaVR4sLXp
aReSxtgPkhbPzHUN
bEJGNfex3R6uCBzb
aEUWWNLhGW8WxN6g
ebeTapZFtHfaDMmM
eDd7NJM2ZUDLYbeN
dBf3pmkSLZE8ZwrY
cxtRXkN4xN3kw8RU
emmqUV3k2pnHS4FB
bykUEc3VGE9gAc2A
c6xnrJKRJGVbTbD2
b5f74fNZH2P2H9gu
db5NGHJRCAKESqds
bSVkEqsDwHxekGkg
dT5kdZ2JsyB5hUbV
dseCZ5SeskxhJGF7
fwWfGye8PSGNr964
dnMWLffsYm7gaswh
bsMMJsXsMKySMZ4m
b8CpLfCsq8BSuUb8
cdJYHg5m5uCsLgEc
erTdacE8wtMnTet6
fn9Tx5yW35EE45yc
bpWqTkGPqeZdAJW2
bYY6Z8mUmzhZskR5
b4P37rkPHuTFmfxc

How do you input an invitation code?

 

[kottila]

How do you input an invitation code?

https://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/free/

 

[Stumpokapow]

Using a US proxy, it detects that I'm in the US but when I go to input an invitation code I get "Spotify Open is not available in your country."

hmm

 

[danootz]

https://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/free/

Thank you! I don't know why I couldn't see it on the spotify page.

 

[thefro]

Thanks kottila, can't wait to try this out once I get off work.

 

[Majine]

More codes on the house.

andV79FVthYw2eyN
fm44mbVdnm883E8b
agBMKSPURqDJnLT4
cyaykJKC8VGkaSsn
eKz8e7T48fHdUgDG
eTz8csZfbGrKT8CN

 

[Tim-E]

Claimed bykUEc3VGE9gAc2A, thanks!!

 

[mitheor]

Welcome to Spotify USgaffers.

I´ve been paying the full service (10€/month) for more than two years and is simply amazing.

 

[Midas]

Here are some invites, not sure if they'll work or not. European invites:

aetR7qE2kKcSLxEY
LJsZGgycwhDWHKhB
JwcXGbgHx2ZKAtzp
aTXJs9U7dNcYyJJB
atfu7cALFkLqE6Hf
cyapbG7SneawRZEf
db7cddTTMYyeD73F
fx34bgwUruaFPar8
eS92Ha5dgT32Zsry
byXayD3sEym5T9Yp
cNbpUR5L4cdY8YZF
a8Y7npmFfr8V5yNW
csJA5PgMPrGPZPMB
bqZycMTNHc3BVFyH
cfUGdRzwS3gCcU3M
dzAGT9rqeJ38qWYz
fHFSkSN3gVs2N84B
fdADN5qwNTrTsBcY
cfPMNA6UNgFMXTHW
dbPzDcUcnyYBFAds
byxTcJNEhyP8BD73
a7nP9zb8387wZAJA
aHnDXRdZZ4W6kJzg
eXbEd2Zh5378Ky56
bhsKxP8FtHptCBLz
ehKfNR6r8dXCqDfY
fyNSAaC8ZZAwYkck
cLTxnMczf6JS6VZG
eeWseCkKxfdAeXwf
ewgRR6tkSNZCWUNk
feAL43hAsBLygrkX
b3RXpEYZEF44Dg6V
a2mM6LcWyStgdaYz
d757YK7zYcTNyh46

 

[AwesomeSauce]

More codes on the house.

andV79FVthYw2eyN
fm44mbVdnm883E8b
agBMKSPURqDJnLT4
cyaykJKC8VGkaSsn
eKz8e7T48fHdUgDG
eTz8csZfbGrKT8CN

Used that code.

I loved Spotify when we were still able to trick it using proxies. Ever since they blocked it, i've been waiting for them to come to the US.

 

[Antagon]

Welcome US, time to party!

http://open.spotify.com/track/3aIDD8xtiqse9BSwOJ6DH5

 

[mitheor]

More invites:

bXbrwVWw9FcCNzn6
bT6mssKHzD4C4pXx
d79KWkAdkpBacbSE
atrrSmMsnAkSL7dU
eBBFe9atEmYgsYCn
byK9wzY8Edb7dhPf
bpCZSshGyUAYyhn9
anFzXTY4sPM9zxdH
cR7yRaR5n9kmEmma
bxARcZAprq3szaCS
c6xz5NnFSPmmpSU6
dcFyqcqnw8DHsGHd
dYamF9CZM3x3yqxn
e7ySCugGFKuCnGzB
bZMHHdsR67fydreS
ckGd9tqKg9KewM3p
fMHpUHfp7kfthckd
bqyJqgY62dYBN6Cm
awNMN7b3ZWfFNFzf
eBXXqKsuVYmF4YXx
bpFUNe8fzgcFXuLS
c9qxLW7bZTTPwdhM
d3maqGnt6kLYYGPK
cqtHfms6qKsCxBzL
afaXWnbYuCHVenhq
fDRpXVYVrKGwzGEM
bxbG2P7TB9KbwXGp
dsDZhxaF7eJtpMuy
chV3EZpYfgWTExZm
dhxHX2msEmw3t5Kr
bEszgEcTHZAHS8UA
bmMgSnDECCGzt3WR
eugxBcdPUGW6aZxy

 

[Expendable.]

Used agBMKSPURqDJnLT4. Thanks!

 

[Pand]

Does anyone know a good place to get Spotify playlists? Most of the sites I've found are either out of date or horrible to navigate through.

We need to get some gaf playlists going as well.

 

[Majine]

To get the best possible start (yep), visit my compiled playlist, yanks!

http://open.spotify.com/user/majine/playlist/3ep4HYixdqGZympn7feTmO

 

[Korey]

Will try this later today.

For people that have used both this and Grooveshark, what are the main differences if any?

(please don't put "this is better" or anything like that, I really want to know the differences)

---

So far I see it requires a client? Does it have a web client? Do you HAVE to use the application?

 

[mitheor]

Does anyone know a good place to get Spotify playlists? Most of the sites I've found are either out of date or horrible to navigate through.

We need to get some gaf playlists going as well.

http://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/

 

[kottila]

Does anyone know a good place to get Spotify playlists? Most of the sites I've found are either out of date or horrible to navigate through.

We need to get some gaf playlists going as well.

over 3000 songs compiled over two years used for parties (no boring stuff)
spotify:user:kottilalaylist:2sakjQVYfByOKJ3SBmlDde

Norwegian electronica
spotify:user:kottilalaylist:6rLw8XuVJjCFRKGpKyW8VT

paste into search field.

sharemyplaylists.com is a good place to start

 

[Midas]

Euro GAF is showing it's love?

 

[thegreyfox]

More invites:
eugxBcdPUGW6aZxy

Thanks.

 

[mitheor]

Will try this later today.

For people that have used both this and Grooveshark, what are the main differences if any?

(please don't put "this is better" or anything like that, I really want to know the differences)

---

So far I see it requires a client? Does it have a web client? Do you HAVE to use the application?

You have to use the client, yes.

And, about the other question, Spotify pays the artists; Grooveshark doesn´t.
And 320Kbps.

 

[Hop]

Used dT5kdZ2JsyB5hUbV and I'm in. Huzzah!

...Now I have to wait 'til I get home to try it.

 

[Stumpokapow]

anon.me proxy works for Canadians

SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
YOU GIVE LOVE
A BAD NAME~~~~

 

[Antagon]

Small summer playlist from me:

http://open.spotify.com/user/rikovervelde/playlist/0anR67tZe2P8NPOacyiKHJ

 

[Smidget]

Thanks Kottila, used: b5f74fNZH2P2H9gu !

 

[The Faceless Master]

got dBf3pmkSLZE8ZwrY

thanks!

 

[Pand]

Awesome, thanks guys.

 

[helloresolven]

Invitation overload: Go HERE to register an account
...
fnHezcdnEqG6NAMZ
...

Awesome, thanks. Taken.

 

[Subterranean]

You have to use the client, yes.

And, about the other question,Spotify pays the artists; Grooveshark doesn´t.
And 320Kbps.

I did not know that. Time to stop going to Grooveshark.

 

[Antagon]

I did not know that. Time to stop going to Grooveshark.

It's not completely true as Grooveshark has deals with a few record companies. However, they work under the principle of user uploads, which means that the far majority of music is on there without legal agreements.

 

[Korey]

You have to use the client, yes.

And, about the other question, Spotify pays the artists; Grooveshark doesn´t.
And 320Kbps.

Well the client thing is a negative.