Discussion
I use it round the house, premium account, on Sonos and from iPhones, iPads etc. and in the car.
I think it is great, sound quality is passable for most listening, with albums that I really love I just buy the hi res version, but that is only a handful, the albums where I sit down between the speakers and really listen are few and far between these days.
Sonos and Spotify has got me listening to music again, rather than listening to my system, and that can only be a good thing.
I think it is great, sound quality is passable for most listening, with albums that I really love I just buy the hi res version, but that is only a handful, the albums where I sit down between the speakers and really listen are few and far between these days.
Sonos and Spotify has got me listening to music again, rather than listening to my system, and that can only be a good thing.
HOGEPH said:
I use Deezer which comes as part of my mobile package. My car has a CD player that will never see any use!
I have no CDs in the house now, and have changed to streaming films rather than filling my shelves with watched once crappy DVDs.
Me too! What film steaming do you use? I have Apple TV but a lot of major films take ages to become rentable.I have no CDs in the house now, and have changed to streaming films rather than filling my shelves with watched once crappy DVDs.
garyhun said:
Me too! What film steaming do you use? I have Apple TV but a lot of major films take ages to become rentable.
I literally binned a few hundred DVD's earlier this year, stream nearly everything now apart from a few rare DVD's or Blurays I've kept because I couldn't find online.I use iTunes with a US account, with a DNS service for US Hulu+ and NetFlix
Very rare to find content that is not covered by the above.
I got the premium service free for a year when I took out a new contract with Vodafone, It had never occurred to me to use it before but I wouldn't be without it now, its really good, the benefit of the premium service is that you can download all the music so if you are on the tube in a plane etc you can still listen to your music.
The only slight downside is that they don't always have the albums i'm after.
The only slight downside is that they don't always have the albums i'm after.
I also have the Premium stuff, after having tried the free month and thinking that it wouldn't convince me before trying it.
It's just so easy, all your music is available on all your devices, in good quality.
Additionally, Spotify Connect lets you play the music from your smartphone or tablet on your amp, if the amp is compatible. (it's also coming to the desktop version btw, current version already has it and it works brilliantly).
Try it for a month & see for yourself, I bet you'll stick to it :-)
It's just so easy, all your music is available on all your devices, in good quality.
Additionally, Spotify Connect lets you play the music from your smartphone or tablet on your amp, if the amp is compatible. (it's also coming to the desktop version btw, current version already has it and it works brilliantly).
Try it for a month & see for yourself, I bet you'll stick to it :-)
I use spotify as my primary source to feed my fairly decent hi fi setup. Arcam rDAC to Arcam A18 amp to B&W 684s2 mini towers.
I am a premium member so its 320kbits ogg vorbis. I can only tell a very very subtle difference between this and FLAC source on my setup. The FLAC has a tad more depth. I have to listen hard to spot it though so for me its certainly good enough.
If you use it on a good setup remember to turn the normalisation off in the settings,less tampering with the source the better.
I am a premium member so its 320kbits ogg vorbis. I can only tell a very very subtle difference between this and FLAC source on my setup. The FLAC has a tad more depth. I have to listen hard to spot it though so for me its certainly good enough.
If you use it on a good setup remember to turn the normalisation off in the settings,less tampering with the source the better.
I really like spotify and use it a lot in the car and the gym on an iPhone and it's great, and have the premium membership.
For the home stereo I don't think the quality is that great. On the best quality 320kbps setting you can still hear compression and I would happily pay even more for a better quality sound. It's a shame really. A cd still blows it out of the water.
For general use or if you're not that into hifi etc then you can't beat it.
For the home stereo I don't think the quality is that great. On the best quality 320kbps setting you can still hear compression and I would happily pay even more for a better quality sound. It's a shame really. A cd still blows it out of the water.
For general use or if you're not that into hifi etc then you can't beat it.
Been a premium subscriber for about a year (or is it longer?). Great for use with the hi fi at home with the Sonos for the adhoc stuff and also handy to save playlists for use on your phone etc.
I will say its brilliant for introducing you to new music (I kind of use it as a taster and buy anything I really like and rip it to flac).
for a tenner a month it ain't bad. Spotify are a bit sh!t with royalties though, a mate who manages his son's band gets thousands of plays and gets around £1.50 a month!
I will say its brilliant for introducing you to new music (I kind of use it as a taster and buy anything I really like and rip it to flac).
for a tenner a month it ain't bad. Spotify are a bit sh!t with royalties though, a mate who manages his son's band gets thousands of plays and gets around £1.50 a month!
We use it on the Ipad and have no issues. I think it's superb it could have been made for me. I wouldn't say I prefer any particular type of music, I don't have favourite bands, love the features that introduce you to a band that you might like because you have selected one artist by the end of a night i've no idea who i'm listening to or how I got there but it's all good.
I just signed up.
I bought The Sunday Times digital edition for £ 8.67/month which came with a free Spotify premium account. I think Spotify is 9.99/month unless you're a ginger student.
It was really Spotify I wanted, the ST is just a bonus and it was cheaper. The print edition is the same price.
I bought The Sunday Times digital edition for £ 8.67/month which came with a free Spotify premium account. I think Spotify is 9.99/month unless you're a ginger student.
It was really Spotify I wanted, the ST is just a bonus and it was cheaper. The print edition is the same price.
Is anybody paying for Qobus ? I'm half way through the 15 day trial period and I'm pretty smitten. After using ITunes for so long the format has taken a bit of getting used to but I find I prefer it now, it makes discovering new (to me) music quite addictive.
But it's the sound quality that spanks ITunes and Spotify into a cocked hat that does it for me, makes a good system sound great.... Makes a great system totally blooming marvellous .
20 quid a month though. Seems a lot when you can stream music for free so easily ...but not that much when I think how much I would spend on CDs once up on a time. Not to mention the amount spent on hard wear over the years....
See how I'm talking myself into it.
But it's the sound quality that spanks ITunes and Spotify into a cocked hat that does it for me, makes a good system sound great.... Makes a great system totally blooming marvellous .
20 quid a month though. Seems a lot when you can stream music for free so easily ...but not that much when I think how much I would spend on CDs once up on a time. Not to mention the amount spent on hard wear over the years....
See how I'm talking myself into it.
Yes I've got Quboz and sound quality excellent. Still haven't got the hang of how to use it properly though - offline playlists hit and miss as to whether they're offline or not! Tend to revert to Spotify when it gets stuck. Probably user error more than anything as I've not spent enough time getting used to it.
Blackpuddin said:
I've just got a Sonos which now comes with free Deezer premium for a year but I'm blowed if I can work out how to use it. Just too old I guess.
Same here -old that is, just download the app onto desktop, tablet or phone- or all three. Now using auxilary in car to play thro phone- but just today found how to make playlists availabe offline so can use in car without gobbling into data limits.Love it -got trial from Telegraph premium account 3 months free.
Gassing Station | Home Cinema & Hi-Fi | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff