Well, Spotify has Stompin' Tom Connors, Ian Robb, Stan Rogers, and Figgy Duff, so they'd better be available in Canada forth with! LOL
I've purposely looked for quite obscure stuff, and Spotify had what Rhapsody did not. I think there was only 1 artist in 100 that Spotify didn't have in my search list, so I was very happy. Teresa "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks > On Aug 21, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello to all Canadian list members, > > Spotify is now available in Canada. I had signed up a couple of years ago to > be notified when this was the case and I received the email with an invite to > try it out about 2 weeks ago. I am not sure if you can already sign up > normally on the website or if it is still by invitation only, but even if > this is so I assume it will be available for all to sign up shortly. > > Initially I wasn’t using it much because Spotify did not yet show up as a > service in my Sonos app since of course it used to be not available. I called > Sonos and when I just checked this morning it was now added and I was able to > sign up for a Spotify Premium account and authorize it on my Sonos system. > You get to try the premium subscription for free for 30 days, after that it > is $9.95 CAD a month which is the same as the price in the US. The sound > quality via Sonos is very good, I believe it is a 320 Kbps stream. > > As for music availability it is hit and miss. I only just scratched the > surface, but searching for example for Dire Straits only seemed to give me 1 > complete album. Of course the service here is new so they may not have all > deals in place yet with respect to copyright and the fact is that while they > may not have everything, I dobt you’ll ever find yourself not finding > something to listen to. All in all I would probably say that Spotify is > probably the best subscription based service available in Canada. Rdio is not > bad, either, but while it’s pretty good via Sonos, I found their website was > quite messy at least about a year ago when I tried it. I also think at the > time their premium service was $14.95 Canadian and that is entirely too much, > $10 is already the most I’d want to pay. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
