I’ve been using my girlfriend’s Spotify for about a week now (having never used it before) and I have some thoughts:
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Although it doesn’t have ‘everything’, it has a far more comprehensive database than I had expected. I Was pleasantly surprised.
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Ironically, I find this counter-intuitive. With access to so much stuff I can never think of what I want to listen to. There is too much choice.
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I think it is reasonably priced.
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Personal preference, but I hate using my phone to listen to music. I have always carried a separate ipod with me. Partly for battery reasons, but mainly just because I like to have my music stored in a self contained unit. Also, I deliberately use an older generation of ipod with a clickwheel so I can skip tracks without having to get my ipod out of my pocket (as you can just push the buttons through your pocket). When using the touch screen on a phone this isn’t possible and is an inconvenience.
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For listening on a laptop with earphones (when at work for example) it works well.
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I still like to own a physical product, even if I mainly listen to an album digitally. This is something which I don’t think will ever change (though this isn’t Spotify’s problem I guess).
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It’s interesting, and rather nice, to see even relatively obscure bands racking up thousands of listens.
Conclusions:
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I can’t get over the feeling that i’m just ‘sampling’ the music - kind of like Spotify is no more than a try before you buy service. It can be used like this I suppose, but I just don’t feel emotionally connected to Spotify and it subsequently has an impact on my enjoyment of, and personal connection to, the music i’m listening to as a result of not owning it (I can’t think of a better way of describing this, but maybe that makes sense?!).
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I will continue to use it and would consider getting my own account, particularly as i’m going to working from home a lot more in the future with much more time to listen to music.
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If there is a way to download tracks to ipod this would be the ideal situation for me, but I don’t think there is?
Thanks for reading.