The Spotify Playlist Thread

[LordMorpheus]

I use it in its free, desktop form. Too expensive for mobile use, and they don't have a whole lot of what I'm looking for anyway.

I'm a zune owner (holy shit, they actually exist!), but I use Linux on my office machine, and Spotify runs well in Wine so I use that for music at the office (the linux client is only for paying members).

I think it's pretty cool. Here's a playlist of stuff I've been listening to recently:
http://open.spotify.com/user/fshavlak/playlist/6pB80dm6r0KhQuaeU4Q9cK

 

[JS80]

What's the difference between Spotify and Grooveshark?

 

[Scouzer]

What's the difference between Spotify and Grooveshark?

Grooveshark is user uploaded content with the same shitty drawbacks as traditional P2P: Sometimes low bitrates and such.

Spotify.. everything is 100% quality and awesome.

 

[JS80]

Grooveshark is user uploaded content with the same shitty drawbacks as traditional P2P: Sometimes low bitrates and such.

Spotify.. everything is 100% quality and awesome.

What's the difference between Spotify and Amazon MP3 Cloud?

 

[shocksyde]

What's the difference between Spotify and Amazon MP3 Cloud?

No need to purchase (or steal) new music with Spotify. Ends up being much cheaper for me. Social aspect is huge, as well.

 

[shocksyde]

Gonna give this another bump.

 

[Ns1]

Things I learned today: you are limited to one spotify stream at any given time

I'll add my playlist here when I get home.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Goddamn it, why did you have to bump this thread? Now I'm listening to this again.

4 minutes down, 56 to go...

 

[shocksyde]

Anyone have some actual playlists to share? Thread derail fail.

 

[Madwand1]

Spotify, if you don't already know, is unbelievably awesome. A new word that is more awesome than "awesome" needs to be invented to describe it.

One of the major pluses of Spotify is the social aspect of it. You create playlists, and other people can view/listen to them. You can even do collaborative playlists.

Rdio is similar to Spotify, and has the social element as a core part of it from the start.

Me, I'm on Rdio for the time being (and love what that gives me for finding material which I might not have otherwise heard), but would switch to whatever service is the best at the time for me (i.e. has the best catalog of music I like), and am wary of user jails such as a community or followers or whatever which might hamper that freedom of movement.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/14/showdown-spotify-vs-rdio-vs-grooveshark-vs-pandora/

In conclusion….Pandora is for those who want an easy, lean back experience. Spotify and Rdio are for those who want to curate a collection of cloud-based music and want access to awesome mobile apps with mobile syncing. The only real difference at the moment comes down to four factors: UI, social, amount of tunage and regional differences. Rdio has an incredible UI and great social features. Spotify is available in both Europe and the U.S. and has 4 million more songs. No matter which service you choose to curate your main music collection, Grooveshark is awesome for on-demand music, available worldwide. We just hope it sticks around through these troubling legal times.