It all comes down to choice, i guess. It's great that we live in a time where all these options are offered. Im old enough (and damn proud of it) to have owned and played records that spun at 78rpm and if you dropped them you were screwed. At one point I owned the entire Rolling Stones catalogue save one disc, "Their Satanic Majesties Request" with the hologram cover. Never my home stood a small, dust record store with bins and bins of records ranging from 45's, 33's to 78's, (sorry no Edison cylinders). In this record lover's paradise stood a huge Stones section. I dove in like a kid at a candy pool only to discover that the majority of the recording were bootleg or from companies like Rhino Records. I have nothing against Rhino Records, the press great Stan Freberg stuff, but when it comes to The Rolling Stones not so much. As I've said, it is a matter of choice and if Spotify fits your needs play on. I still listen to the service from time to time but not as a main outlet for my music. I am proud to say that I found the hologram album I was looking for and it is still sealed and in a safe place some 40+ years later. I guess what I am saying here is for a purist Spotify is a nice place to vist but I would't want to live there. Happy Christmas to all, my present awaits NFL saturday? oh well, peace.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Kevin Mattingly <[email protected]>wrote: > Song writers are the ones who hurt more from services like this. They do > pay royalties but like Ricardo says, they aren't making much. The quality > of the stuff I've been listening to is pretty darn good and the selection > is huge. You can listen to a song as much as you like, so its just like > purchasing the music for a lower price in the long term. > > It asked me to sign in using my facebook account but I chose not to share > and so on with friends. That will keep the noise down. There is a 48 hour > trial that I decided to use and I've been impressed. > > Kev > On Dec 24, 2011, at 5:23 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > > lol, > > > > To some it is. I honestly thing they are getting there moneys worth > anyway. Artists basically give away there music on streaming services. a > song has to stream 100 times for the artist to get payed a dollar. So, for > a penny a listen, it is what it is. Don't get me wrong, the record > industry had a blank check for decades. But very little of that money > trickled down to the artists even when business was booming. > > > > Ricardo Walker > > [email protected] > > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > > www.mobileaccess.org > > > > On Dec 24, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Charlie Doremus wrote: > > > >> Lynn I would like to take a few moments of your time to explain just > how Spotify works. You can us the service in conjuncion with Face book but > that seen to lead you into a jumble of low quality pressings of re-recorded > vinyl discs with very pool audio and track arrangements of albums you > thought you knew and others you've never heard of on you life. > >> With Spotify you are forced to listen to ads from other artists promo > their own music right in the middle of you two of your favorite cuts. > >> Given that a large percentage of the music Spotify is bootleg material > and audio quality is lacking. > >> > >> I am of the understanding that if you upgrade to their premium service > the pesky ads vanish but the low quality will not change. I wonder if ad > free bootlegged music is worth $120.00 a year. > >> > >> I would be more then happy to discuss this issue in more detail (off > list) at a time of your choosing. > >> > >> 'Tis the season, have a great celebration. > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Lynn Schneider <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Kevin, am I correct that you need a Facebook account to use Spotify? I > don't have one, but I'm finding the selection on Pandora a bit lacking > these days, so have toyed with the idea of creating an account on Facebook > just for the purpose of using Spotify. > >> > >> > >> On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:16 AM, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > >> > >>> I downloaded it on my Mac Mini and the accessibility was certainly > lacking a lot. I decided to try it on my IPhone 4S and I have to say it is > awesome. 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