Talk:Spotify

Compatible with C?

Somebody's on drugs here. You can never talk about operating systems being compatible with programming languages. Especially when you mention POSIX in the same sentence. Get a clue.

Other language versions

There are no links to other language versions of this article - I know Swedish [[1]] and German [[2]] versions exist, not sure about other languages. How would one go about adding links to these other articles? MMad (talk) 14:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Read Help:Interlanguage links. --τις (talk) 21:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Past tense

Is there any reason that this article is written in past tense? Calibwam (talk) 19:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Not available in the US

According to their site, It's not available in the US. Probably should be noted in the article. Bios Element (talk) 08:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Why? How does that matter?

Example American thinking the US is the only country that matters in the world.

It lists what countries it is available in, it's not worth mentioning the longer list of where it isn't. Duke toaster (talk)

Why put linux?

It says it is for mac windows and linux (on wine). Well a lot of windows apps work for linux in wine, I am going to remove it from the little chart thing but keep it in the article. If anyone objects speak out.

Out to catch those vandals (talk) 11:06, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Because Spotify under Wine is officially supported! 86.138.133.4 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 20:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC).

Wrong. https://www.spotify.com/en/download/other/: "We are sorry, but currently we only support Windows and Mac." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.167.76 (talk) 11:04, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Availability

What countries is this available in? 79.97.217.231 (talk) 18:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Most of Europe - and that's in the article. Duke toaster (talk) 21:15, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

The article does not explicitly state that it is only available in Europe, I don't see any harm in making it clearer that it is currently not available in the USA or Canada, so I have done so. Does anyone know what the deal is in Asia or Australasia? Does Spotify work anywhere outside of Europe? It's probably worth mentioning. Teenagelicks (talk) 04:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Download songs

You can't download songs in this program. It simply streams them. Please fix the article accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.158.160.75 (talk) 02:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

there is a link to itunes, but you cant buy directly from spotify. change it ;). By the way I am a fat lazy person who can't change it for myself. Just like the guy above me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.182.129.53 (talk) 17:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

There's a right click "buy" link on mine but it is blanked out. Where is the iTunes link? Jellypuzzle | ^Talk 11:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

The iTunes link seems to be greyed-out on some tracks and not on others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.199.179.35 (talk) 18:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Just checked and for me everything I look at currently seems to have the buy link greyed out including ones that worked last time I tried. Perhaps a temporary bug. Citizensmith (talk) 18:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

References

I've added a few references to the article but there are still a few things I can't find information for. Most importantly the list of countries the software is available in. Can anyone help out with that? Jellypuzzle | ^Talk 10:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Legality

It would be nice to see a section on whether this is legal (I have no idea). -- Amber388

I read an article about Spotify and they have deals with the major labels which provide their content. No users can provide content so they're clearly pulling from a catalog that is distributed through the "proprietary" cloud computing software (aka P2P). As a result of their licensing it's not currently available in the United States and is thus only available in select European countries as their market grows. I'll attempt to find more articles on this in a week if I can but someone else can likely elaborate on it if they have more information than me. --139.78.10.16 (talk) 13:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Looks legit to me, judging by this Guardian article from the UK. 86.132.138.159 (talk) 19:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Some artists song have been removed per their requests. So any artists who doesnt want to be streamed can ask. The catalogue is being managed separately for the different countries, so the rights issues are dealt with. The catalogue has been supplied by the copyright-holding music companies. The spotify about box prominently displays the logos of the big 4 - Universal, Sony-BMG, EMI and Warner as well as some others. So how exactly is it illegal? Peer-to-peer media applications are not INHERENTLY illegal, you know. --90.218.44.2 (talk) 21:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but they are often illegal and so it's quite natural to want to make sure, and make this explicit in the article. Just be happy Amber didn't burst in and kindly inform us all loudly that is is all very illegal without actually checking anything, as I've seen quite a few people do. --Jonnty (talk) 00:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Recent content removals

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-important-changes-to-the-spotify-music-catalogue/ Apparently, a significant number of artists didn't want their music streamed and their content was removed from Spotify. This might be worth mentioning in the article, along with a list of affected artists. --217.76.87.120 (talk) 10:33, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Latest version

Your picture is of Spotify running on horrible Windows. The "latest version" doesn't match that found on Mac OS X. The build number therefore has to be removed. Once again: DO THE RESEARCH BEFORE WRITING. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.227.114.140 (talk) 11:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry but most people don't check every single thing that they think is correct. Also, congrats on getting ripped off by Apple. Also, are you saying that the latest version of Spotify is only on Windows, or only on Mac?

Availability

From the article: "Spotify Premium is available in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the UK. The free version is only available in Sweden, Finland, the UK, France and Spain, and in some of those countries an invitation is required."

As far as I undestand invitation is required everywhere other than UK (and that was only made invitation-free on 2009-02-10). At least in Finland, an invite is required. Can anyone confirm this for the other countries? Perhaps ask Spotify about it? --ikajaste (talk) 12:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

History section

I just expanded the history section of the article to include the launch of the service. I wrote "the launch meant that paid subscriptions were opened to everyone". I would however appreciate it if someone could confirm this, as my information is only from the Spotify blog post. The blog post says that "premium access to Spotify has now been made fully available" (emphasis mine) - so I'm not sure whether paid subscriptions were in fact available before the launch, and if so, what the launch actually changed.

On a different issue, doesn't the potential security breach of Spotify user data get a disproportionally large section on the history? While it may indeed be worthy of mention, being over 1/4 of the history text and expanding to two paragraphs seems a bit aggressive. Opinions? --Ilari (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

The data is incorrect

The data on availability for Spotify Premium is incorrect. Please consult the Spotify site and get this right.

Added Norway to availability of the free version

I added Norway to the list of country where the free version is availible. I'm a norwegian user of the software and I'm using the free version. 81.166.40.211 (talk) 23:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Merge with Despotify?

No thats like merging: the windows xp and Linux article, cause both of them uses Internet or cause both are operative systems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.100.152.146 (talk) 17:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

It's not really anything like merging the Windows XP and Linux articles. Despotify is a reverse-engineered version of Spotify. It uses the Spotify catalogue, the Spotify servers and would be nothing without Spotify. If Spotify shut down its servers today Despotify would not work. It has recently been banned from use on anything but Spotify premium accounts which is a sign the two companies, positive or not, are working together. Its article is also up for deletion/merging here. Jellypuzzle | ^Talk 08:27, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

I do feel as though the Despotify section needs some clarification as to what precisely Despotify actually does. You could search for a separate Despotify article, but I feel it is important to give a brief description of the software here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.67.160 (talk) 12:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, the Despotify section doesn't mention at any point what it does, just that it exists. Anylayman (talk) 01:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I think also at the moment there's much too much on Despotify in proportion to the amount of text about Spotify - Spotify is much more notable and at the moment it could be inferred that Despotify is as important, which it isn't. Thanks a lot, Drum guy (talk) 14:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Do the artists gets paid?

I was wondering if the artists available on Spotify gets paid, and if they do, in what matter. Is it based on numbers of listenings to the respective artist's songs or will it be compensated in form of a one time sum? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.100.208 (talk) 19:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I think it is royalty based form the adverts. Don't quote me on that though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.21.31 (talk) 09:56, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

This was among the first questions that came to my head when I heard about Spotify and I still haven't really found out. Does it all depend on the artists and their contracts? Can I ask Spotify to add the music I've created myself? We really should say something about the licenses Spotify has with the record companies or tell explicitly that the contracts are secret if this is the case. At the moment this article seems just like an add for the users. Malitsu (talk) 12:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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This is exactly the question I had in mind when I searched for the article, but got no answer. It would be interesting to read about copyright fees. 82.181.84.89 (talk) 12:17, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

About missing bands and regions

Some bands are only available in Spotify when listening in certain regions. For example Oasis which is not avaiable in UK at all, but is in other countries. This should be mentioned on the page. I believe it's wrong to say Oasis is missing because of just one or a few regions. Colorred (talk) 10:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Is this article actually an ad?

Reading the text, this article seems like PR for the company/site/app. Anyone else shares this view? Rabend (talk) 16:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. I don't think it quite rises to being G11'able, but it needs an advert tag at the very least. – ukexpat (talk) 16:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Do we need more consensus in order to take this action? Rabend (talk) 09:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I would be bold if I was you and stick the tag on. Then editors can have a bash at improving it. 89.243.156.225 (talk) 11:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I just read this article and, at the moment, it doesn't seem to read like an ad at all, while actually being comprehensive and well referenced. I will remove the tag in a couple of days unless an issue is raised. LjL —Preceding undated comment added 00:54, 12 June 2009 (UTC).

The article seems perfectly ok to me. It provides much useful information and I don't think it's written as an advert. My vote is to have the tag removed. Perhaps if anyone has any verifiable criticisms of Spotify they could add them to the article. John259 (talk) 11:36, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

In my opinion, costs should not be included in an encyclopedic entry, as well as feature "advantages" (in the Features section). To me, it reads like a "why should i sign up section". Rabend (talk) 12:01, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Virus

McAfee (And I think some other virus software) thinks that Spotify is or contains a virus. When I opened it today, it popped up and effectively uninstalled the program. When I tried to re-install, it popped up with the same thing. The virus is W32/IRCBot.gen.z Should this be included? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.89.15 (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2009 (UTC) After more research - it's a false positive: http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=2057&id=TS100682 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.89.15 (talk) 19:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

See official announcement regarding this issue: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/05/22/spotify-and-mcafee-a-little-mix-up/ Bricklayer (talk) 12:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Under-represented or completely missing artists

Hi. My edit was undone, so I'd like to raise a discussion here. I took away this sentence from the features section: "However, some major bands are either very under-represented or are completely missing from the library, including AC/DC, Oasis, The Beatles, Metallica, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd." My argument: I CAN find all those artists in Spotify! The person who undid my edit said that I should first find prove before I can take that statement away. But how can I find prove for it?? Can't you just confirm my view by typing those names into Spotify yourself? Oh and about the existing reference: Yeah, it says that those artists are missing, but maybe Spotify added them after that article was written. I definitely can find those artists in Spotify! --Tilmanb (talk) 06:23, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I must admit, I found in the Spotify FAQ that they write themselves that they don't have those artists. But why oh why can I find those artists if I type whem into the search field of Spotify??? --Tilmanb (talk) 06:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, ok, I think I understand now the situation. The mentioned artists' original songs might not be represented in the Spotify catalog but what I find are some kind of reproductions, no idea what exactly they are... To me, they sound like the real Beatles etc. I make a note of this into the main article. Please let me know (here or somewhere) if you disagree. --Tilmanb (talk) 07:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)