MSE News: Spotify cuts free music benefits

justanotheruser_2

"Instead of the minimum 20 hours a week of streaming, users will get 10 hours once they've been a member for six months. In addition, they will only be able to play each track five times." - minimum of 20 hours? I believe it's maximum

Stuart_W

Presumably it will only be a matter of time before we7 announce something similar.

[Deleted User]

Time to find other sources of free streaming music...

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/10-best-free-spotify-alternatives-943172

I quite like http://beta.mflow.com and http://www.deezer.com

DJ_Mike

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Looks like i'll be digging out my ipod again.

What's the point in having a playlist if you can only listen to it 5 times?

I would happily pay a small amount to keep the service how it is

You can... It's £4.99 a month!

The freeloading attitude people have towards music streaming always astonishes me... I don't agree with the huge amount of money record companies keep for themselves but I refuse to rip off the good work of artists just because of big business 'getting in the way', and by all means streaming services don't just operate at zero cost!

la_madonette

Spotify, what are you doing???? Your free/open music has been a wonderful way for us "oldies" to try and keep up with the latest music as well as taking us down "music memory lane". What will I be able to do without my very diverse playlists???? Whats the point of a playlist if we can only play a piece 5 times???? Generally speaking our generation are "light users" and wouldn't benifit having to be paid up members. I have so loved Spotify and shall be so disappointed. La Madonette

DCFC79

Stuart_W wrote: »

Presumably it will only be a matter of time before we7 announce something similar.

and last fm as well

Mikey17

You can always use a small tool like audacity. This will record the song/s. Its a bit of a pain, recording each song individually. But once your done, save the song as a wav file , name it, then import it into windows media player. Then you have it forever

http://www.filehippo.com/download_audacity/

HandsInTheRuck

Mikey17 wrote: »

You can always use a small tool like audacity. This will record the song/s. Its a bit of a pain, recording each song individually. But once your done, save the song as a wav file , name it, then import it into windows media player. Then you have it forever

http://www.filehippo.com/download_audacity/

It's also illegal.

corbyboy

People's reaction to this seems amazing. Spotify can't subsidise you listening to free music forever.

The probably can't make enough money with the adverts. Most of them seems to be for Spotify itself anyway.

But the service is only £5 per month! You couldn't even buy a new CD each month for this price.

There does seem to be a flaw in the new plan in that new users receive the service as it currently is for 6 months. What is to stop people signing up for a new account every 6 months?

Mikey17

HandsInTheRuck wrote: »

It's also illegal.

Illegal ! :rotfl: Get a life. What sad planet do you live on ? Wake up, and see whats happening in the real world, there are millions of people committing proper crime. Recording a song, that your allowed to listen to, is hardly going to hurt anyone.
If i wanted to do it 'illegally', i would get it from any of dozens of torrent sites.
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