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Falsey wrote:I wouldnt pay for Spotify now unless they had a properly bangin 'More like this' or 'You'd like this' function.

That is the one thing it is sorely, sorely missing. I like to use it as a tool for finding new music, and the current methods really arent great.

It can however scrobble to Last.fm, which does that job much better than Spotify itself is ever likely to.

Seeing as I'm too lazy to Google it...what does "scrobble" mean? It's something I've been meaning to ask for well over a year :lol:

Ginga wrote:Seeing as I'm too lazy to Google it...what does "scrobble" mean? It's something I've been meaning to ask for well over a year

I only recently realised it was a "real" word, and not just something Last.fm made up. It means to capture, basically, and in this context it means that Last.fm "captures" a record of what you listen to.

Grooveshark will now be my new music home

Looks to be identical to Spotify and you can listen to music in a browser

Mogster wrote:
Ginga wrote:Seeing as I'm too lazy to Google it...what does "scrobble" mean? It's something I've been meaning to ask for well over a year

I only recently realised it was a "real" word, and not just something Last.fm made up. It means to capture, basically, and in this context it means that Last.fm "captures" a record of what you listen to.

Ah, brilliant. Thanks for that

Actually it was just a word that Audioscrobbler made up.

PostRe: Spotify - by **Mogster** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:36 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:Actually it was just a word that Audioscrobbler made up.

That's what I thought, but amazingly it's much older than that:

Urban Dictionary wrote:3. Scrobble
Verb: To kidnap or capture. In particular to throw a bag or cloth over the head and bundle the victim away.

The term was coined by John Masefield in "The Midnight Folk", published in 1827, and is used extensively in the "Box of Delights", published in 1937, where Cole Hawlings is 'scrobbled' by throwing a black bag over his head and bundling him into a car.

Neil Gaiman also used scrobbling in the same sense in “Neverwhere”, published in 1996. Gaiman acknowledges the Box of Delights as the origin of the word.
"... Kay are waiting to scrobble the treacherous cats" Midnight Folk

"We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her ..." Mr Croup - Neverwhere

If I understand the update correctly, you can just create a new account every six months right and just get the current service.

If I understand the update correctly, you can just create a new account every six months right and just get the current service.

Anyone else use mflow?

Can't see why people wouldn't.

Rogue Tomato wrote:If I understand the update correctly, you can just create a new account every six months right and just get the current service.

I might have to give this a go, and simply forward the playlists to the new account each time :shifty:

I think everyone should listen to Avey Tare + wife's album Pullhair Rubeye right now. Stop whatever you're doing - you won't regret it!!

8 -)

Trelliz wrote:
Rogue Tomato wrote:If I understand the update correctly, you can just create a new account every six months right and just get the current service.

I might have to give this a go, and simply forward the playlists to the new account each time

But won't it still be capped at a 20 hour limit? I don't think the full free version has been available for a long while now...

strawberry float. That.

I've started using the £5 service. It was that strawberry floating Portal 2 advert that forced my hand.

I swear I read somewhere that they were planning on doing a month long Premium trial for everyone in May... Or was that all just a beautiful dream? :cry:

Theres a £5 one? I thought it was £9.99.

Ive been a free unlimited user since day dot so its a bit of a nark.

Definitely wasn't a dream!

Spotify blog wrote:For anyone who thinks they might reach these limits, we hope you’ll consider checking out our Unlimited and Premium services, neither of which will be affected, plus we have a 7-day free trial for Spotify Premium that we’d love you to try. Throughout May, we’ll also have a pretty nice 30-day free trial for Spotify Premium – more details on that in the next few days.

Source

Although, saying that, no more details emerged since... :cry:

So I can now only listen to 10hrs a month? :shock:

If you can only listen to a track 5 times then that makes the starred/favourites list pointless too.

Think I'll leave Spotify and just stick Jackfm on instead.

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