I had considered switching from Napster to Spotify but having now
browsed the Spotify database using my free account I was saddened to
see that several tracks I would listen to are only available for
purchase and not streaming. On Napster all of these are available.
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sneeks;602883 Wrote:
I had considered switching from Napster to Spotify but having now
browsed the Spotify database using my free account I was saddened to
see that several tracks I would listen to are only available for
purchase and not streaming. On Napster all of these are available.
andyg;601310 Wrote:
Hi guys, our official version is limited to Touch and Radio.What about
Squeezeplay?
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toby10;601985 Wrote:
Completely agree. ;)
*If* they find the players in the store at all (usually involves
looking it up on their inventory computer) they will be in a different
category / location in every store.
Sometimes they are with computers, sometimes with the iPod docks,
andyg;601310 Wrote:
Hi guys, our official version is limited to Touch and Radio.
Are you people out of your minds!
I have no words...
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I mainly use my Duet for Spotify via Triode's plugin, see
QQ. What does Spotify have over Napster? Spotify=£10pm, Napster=£5pm?
Aside from it maybe working on Friday evenings. ;-)
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simbo;602157 Wrote:
QQ. What does Spotify have over Napster? Spotify=£10pm, Napster=£5pm?
Aside from it maybe working on Friday evenings. ;-)
1. Dedicated iPhone, iPod Touch and Android applications that let you
browse music and create playlists over a wi-fi or cellphone
connection.
2. The
OppfinnarJocke;602151 Wrote:
Are you people out of your minds!
I have no words...
It is a technical issue. They need SqueezeOS to program the DRM rights
protection. SqueezeOS is only available on the Touch and Radio.
I know... I am in the same Duet boat as you! I even run my Server on
a
andyg;601372 Wrote:
It requires a premium account, as do all non-PC Spotify apps.
Technical point Andy, if I have a Spotify Premium Account, can I use
the SqueezeBox Spotify application at the same time as use Spotify on
an Android phone? In particular will I be able to use download playists
TheLastMan;602168 Wrote:
Could somebody who uses this facility comment - if there is a limit to
off-line listening then this problem does not arise.
Apparently it's 3,333 tracks!
http://www.spotify.com/uk/help/faq/offline-mode/offline-sync/
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kidstypike;602175 Wrote:
Apparently it's 3,333 tracks!
http://www.spotify.com/uk/help/faq/offline-mode/offline-sync/
Thanks for the link. You need to read it again though, apparently it is
9,999!!
3,333 on three devices.
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simbo;602157 Wrote:
QQ. What does Spotify have over Napster? Spotify=£10pm, Napster=£5pm?
Aside from it maybe working on Friday evenings. ;-)
Due to requirements from our content licensors, the Service is only
available to residents of the United States. (from
I have heard from AndyG on a couple of things I should share with this
forum:
Me Wrote:
If I have a Spotify Premium Account, can I use the SqueezeBox Spotify
application at the same time as use Spotify on an Android phone? In
particular will I be able to use download playists off-line at the
TheLastMan;602174 Wrote:
Technical point Andy, if I have a Spotify Premium Account, can I use the
SqueezeBox Spotify application at the same time as use Spotify on an
Android phone? In particular will I be able to use download playists
off-line at the same time as I am streaming music over
banananas;601958 Wrote:
Interesting thought,
However you could check these Naim high end networkers
http://www.naimaudio.com/hifi-product-range/579 and
http://www.naimaudio.com/hifi-product-type/577 these are serious
Transporter-killers. They're maybe not worth the price but it would
be
TheLastMan;602174 Wrote:
Technical point Andy, if I have a Spotify Premium Account, can I use the
SqueezeBox Spotify application at the same time as use Spotify on an
Android phone? In particular will I be able to use download playists
off-line at the same time as I am streaming music over
Before replacing my SB3 with a Touch to get Spotify support i would like
to get a look at the Spotify app.
Has anyone seen any video demos?
Google could not find any. It would be awesome if someone using the
beta could record a short clip or take some pictures of the UI.
Regards
/Magnus
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Before replacing my SB3 with a Touch to get Spotify support i would like
to get a look at the Spotify app.
Has anyone seen any video demos?
Google could not find any. It would be awesome if someone using the
beta could record a short clip or take some pictures of the
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I'm not 100% sure but my impression is that the time of fear is over but
the dominant factor right now is overselling growth potentials.
Since iTunes they've seen digital distribution works.
I believe there are a lot of power point presentations out there that
show how much more money you could
andyg;601337 Wrote:
Triode's plugin is able to get away with things that Logitech as a large
company cannot do... if you want ip3k support by all means use Triode's
plugin. In fact we even made it so that the 2 versions will work at
the same time.
As Triode's plugin works on Transporter,
banananas;601893 Wrote:
I'm afraid that Transporter, for example, will drop in sale if there's
no official soultion offered.
Since it's obviously an end of life product anyway that will probably
not give Logitech a headache.
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pippin;601907 Wrote:
Since it's obviously an end of life product anyway that will probably
not give Logitech a headache.
...and a new Transporter with lots of memory and even a color screen
will be released of course (am I wrong?)...but I still like the old
school green screen. It has good
The problem is that this very kind of display is a part that is no
longer available.
There are almost no high quality VFDs being produced anymore.
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banananas;601909 Wrote:
...and a new Transporter with lots of memory and even a color screen
will be released of course (am I wrong?)...but I still like the old
school green screen. It has good readability even from many meters...it
would be nice if the old Transporter coul be updated (more
pippin;601915 Wrote:
The problem is that this very kind of display is a part that is no
longer available.
There are almost no high quality VFDs being produced anymore.
Maybe so, but I can see that Arcam still uses similar types of displays
in their Amps etc.
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toby10;601919 Wrote:
I doubt Logitech has any interest in high end audio devices like the
Transporter.
Hope they do
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banananas;601918 Wrote:
Maybe so, but I can see that Arcam still uses similar types of displays
in their Amps etc.
Maybe they have stock. Logitech is also still selling Transporters.
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toby10;601919 Wrote:
I doubt Logitech has any interest in high end audio devices like the
Transporter.
Yes they do, its called the SqueezeBox Touch! OK, hardly high end
but pretty good hi-fi. Anybody really serious about high end can
team it up with a top notch DAC and get 99% (or more) of
TheLastMan;601940 Wrote:
Yes they do, its called the SqueezeBox Touch! OK, hardly high end but
pretty good hi-fi. Anybody really serious about high end can team it
up with a top notch DAC and get 99% (or more) of the audio quality
available from the Transporter.
I think we will have to
banananas;601893 Wrote:
I'm afraid that Transporter, for example, will drop in sale if there's
no official soultion offered.
I doubt listening to Spotify is much of a driver for selling
Transporters. Very little overlap in customer segments I would expect.
banananas;601893 Wrote:
Isn't there
TheLastMan;601940 Wrote:
Yes they do, its called the SqueezeBox Touch! OK, hardly high end but
pretty good hi-fi. Anybody really serious about high end can team it
up with a top notch DAC and get 99% (or more) of the audio quality
available from the Transporter.
Completely agree. ;)
Hello,
Spotify offers three types of account.
Two of them are paying, and I do not understand why a premium account
is necessary.
Why an Unlimited account is not enough ?
Why the mobile support is needed to listen music on a squeezebox ?
The Linux version of Spotify client support Premium and
Ask Spotify, I would say..
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slayne40;601588 Wrote:
Hello,
Spotify offers three types of account.
Two of them are paying, and I do not understand why a premium account
is necessary.
Why an Unlimited account is not enough ?
Why the mobile support is needed to listen music on a squeezebox ?
The Linux version of
Yes without paying customers they can't pay the record labels and
without payment they do not allow the usage of 'their' music.
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The question wah why it's not available on the (also paid) unlimited
account.
Answer is probably that this is exactly what they want the additional
money for the premium account for.
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hoggis;601326 Wrote:
Hi,
I own a Transporter and a Duet bundle and I'm can't believe what I'm
reading. This new app is designed to support two of the most inferior
Squeezebox products ever released. I'm sorry but to me it sounds like a
joke!!
Luckily we have some serious developers
pfarrell;601512 Wrote:
On 01/10/2011 05:26 PM, andyg wrote:
bluegaspode;601493 Wrote:
Which is kind of funny (stupid?) [...]
Yep, you just described the music industry quite well. ;)
Agree, with the small notice that the music industry is not
interested
in singers, musicians,
On 01/11/2011 02:01 PM, gbruzzo wrote:
pfarrell;601512 Wrote:
Yep, you just described the music industry quite well. ;)
Agree, with the small notice that the music industry is not
interested in singers, musicians, composers, grips or recording engineers.
The record labels are interested
Of course, I love small record labels! I was only talking about the big
ones, the ones that control how companies like Spotify can operate.
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I couldn't care less about record companies making money.
It's all the customer-unfriendly politics they are doing that annoys me
to hell:
Why can't I take my service subscriptions to another country?
I don't buy DRM stuff that doesn't work on half of my equipment.
Why do I get different content
pippin;601831 Wrote:
Sorry, all of this has nothing to do with piracy, unwillingness to pay
or anything. Its just corporate bullshit out of overstaffed strategy
departments trying to sell stuff that isn't there.
I would be willing to pay. At least as much as I paid for CDs back in
the
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1935824/logitech-spotify-music-players
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http://www.last.fm/user/JackieBr/
http://www.last.fm/label/rarenoiserecords
http://www.rarenoiserecords.com
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Unfortunately, though, nothing useful is located at
www.mysqueezebox.com/spotify ... at least nothing related to Spotify.
Did someone send off their press release a bit early?
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oivindi;601300 Wrote:
Unfortunately, though, nothing useful is located at
www.mysqueezebox.com/spotify ... at least nothing related to Spotify.
Did someone send off their press release a bit early?
The app information is displayed when you follow that link.
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Nope, not for me ...
I am located in Norway.
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... and boom, there it was!
Strange, must've been a delay somewhere.
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Btw, it seems this will ONLY work on SB Touch and Radio.
So no way at all to make it work on the SB 3?
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Hi guys, our official version is limited to Touch and Radio.
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That's a shame, was hoping you would be able to do what Wimp did, and be
compatible with all/most SB devices.
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Wimp does not use DRM, Spotify is closed-source and uses DRM... so
that's the best we could do.
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I see - DRM makes things a bit more complicated.
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Hi,
I own a Transporter and a Duet bundle and I'm can't believe what I'm
reading. This new app is designed to support two of the most inferior
Squeezebox products ever released. I'm sorry but to me it sounds like a
joke!!
Luckily we have some serious developers like Triode who are actually
andyg;601310 Wrote:
Hi guys, our official version is limited to Touch and Radio.
Forever, or only for the moment? Will it be possible to use a Radio for
Spotify and stream to other non supported devices as well?
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Triode's plugin is able to get away with things that Logitech as a large
company cannot do... if you want ip3k support by all means use Triode's
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Just curious. What's the main difference between spotify and rhapsody
that makes rhapsody work on booms etc?
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
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Rhapsody appears to not require DRM.
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Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
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Bummer about SB3 support but great that Logitech have made this
official. Nice one.
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NikolajC;601357 Wrote:
Just curious. What's the main difference between spotify and rhapsody
that makes rhapsody work on booms etc?
Rhapsody is DRM but an older and simpler design. Also, they shared the
source code with us, which Spotify doesn't do.
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Will this official Spotify applet work with a free Spotify account or
does it require a paid-for account?
Thanks!
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It requires a premium account, as do all non-PC Spotify apps.
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andyg;601372 Wrote:
It requires a premium account, as do all non-PC Spotify apps.
OK, thanks for letting me know.
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Is there another way of activating the spotify app than through either
the Touch or the Radio? I am a premium spotify user and have both a
Touch and a Radio but my problem is that http://www.mysqueezebox.com
does show the new spotify app in App Gallery! I think it register that
I live in Denmark
hoggis;601326 Wrote:
Hi,
I own a Transporter and a Duet bundle and I'm can't believe what I'm
reading. This new app is designed to support two of the most inferior
Squeezebox products ever released. I'm sorry but to me it sounds like a
joke!!
nothing inferior about the Touch
andyg;601316 Wrote:
Wimp does not use DRM, Spotify is closed-source and uses DRM... so
that's the best we could do.
Which is kind of funny (stupid?) of Spotify, because I guess they will
lose all types of customers to WiMP because of that.
Looking into the sources I see that you have a
bluegaspode;601493 Wrote:
Which is kind of funny (stupid?) [...]
Yep, you just described the music industry quite well. ;)
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On 01/10/2011 05:26 PM, andyg wrote:
bluegaspode;601493 Wrote:
Which is kind of funny (stupid?) [...]
Yep, you just described the music industry quite well. ;)
Agree, with the small notice that the music industry is not interested
in singers, musicians, composers, grips or recording
pfarrell;601512 Wrote:
The record labels are interested only in getting money for their
product.
Then why on earth don't they just do this and instead chose to shoot
into their own feet?
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