I will always prefer CD's to downloads.

 

I mean if you buy a cd, you can make the songs into download files anyway so why not have both?

it is available everywhere but not for free... you can pay 9.99 Euros per month and get it...

believe me i tried it, it's a complete waste of money, most of the good popular songs are not available....WHAT A WASTE!!! :puke2:

 

Even premium isn't available in the US.

I will always prefer CD's to downloads.

 

I mean if you buy a cd, you can make the songs into download files anyway so why not have both?

 

And, if you burn the downloaded files onto CD, you have both as well. (And it's not like CD-Rs are expensive - I got a spindle of 100 for about £8 on Sunday.)

Edited February 27, 200916 yr by DitzyNizzy

Even premium isn't available in the US.

I'm pretty much shocked. Russia is very obviously not to be in the radius of Spotify access, but US... :( Still, licenses stuff...

And, if you burn the downloaded files onto CD, you have both as well. (And it's not like CD-Rs are expensive - I got a spindle of 100 for about £8 on Sunday.)

:o It's TOO cheap :( [/envy]

That boss is an idiot. People making music will soon not be able to make music.

A CD is better. You can build a CD collection and see it grow, you can't with mp3 files and streaming.. their not even your own and it feels weird when they are not yours. Plus a CD is pretty and shinny :lol:

Edited February 27, 200916 yr by Spiral

No way! I care about physically owning music. -_-

That boss is an idiot. People making music will soon not be able to make music.

 

You do realize that artists get roughly 10% of the sales their music makes once it gets passed out to record company heads / people who rarely have any involvement with the actual process of making the CD?

 

If you REALLY want to support an artist, go see them live.

And, if you burn the downloaded files onto CD, you have both as well. (And it's not like CD-Rs are expensive - I got a spindle of 100 for about £8 on Sunday.)

 

yes but instead of a Nice looking CD with a great design and booklet and CD-Rom featues and extra-videos, you get an awful CD-R :puke2: !!!!

It's not the same at all!!!!!

Even premium isn't available in the US.

 

i live in Beirut, Lebanon and i subscribed to it a few days ago for 9.99 Euros , believe me , it's pointless...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7925455.stm

 

 

Maybe instead of making glib statements to the press the boss should improve his security

 

 

 

 

 

The music streaming service Spotify has been targeted by hackers.

 

The Swedish company says people's personal details, including e-mail addresses, dates of birth and billing addresses, were all stolen.

 

However, it is thought credit-card details, which were handled by a third party, have remained secure.

 

Spotify has apologised for the security lapse and advised users who registered on the site before 19 December 2008 to change their passwords.

 

It is thought hackers gained access to user data at the end of 2008, although the security breach only came to light at the end of last week.

 

 

Spotify's communications manager, Jim Butcher, told BBC News the company had only become aware of the attack after receiving a message from the hackers.

 

"We haven't had direct contact, it's all via third-party sources, so we don't know who they are and we don't know where they are from.

 

"This wasn't some kid playing on a computer, someone has spent hundreds of hours looking to hack into our system."

 

"We're still trying to find out the reasons they actually hacked our site, so it's difficult for me to say what they want at the present time."

 

 

Launched in 2006, Spotify has more than one million registered users.

 

Instead of receiving a pay-per-download service, users can access the music for free, with tunes interrupted by advertising, or they can pay £10 a month for an ad-free service.

 

It is thought there are more than 250,000 users registered in the UK, but Spotify stressed that the number of compromised accounts was small.

 

"We think about 10,000 accounts [could be] at risk, although we are 95% sure it is a fraction of that," said Mr Butcher.

 

In a blog posting, the company explained how the hack actually took place.

 

"The information that may have been exposed when our protocols were compromised is the password hashes [codes].

 

"As stated, we never store passwords, and they have never been sent over the internet unencrypted, but the combination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering of our encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders access to individual hashes."

 

The company has apologised for the security lapse and promised users that it was making efforts to ensure the hack was not repeated.

 

 

 

 

 

"Fans don't need CDs", then? Then I obviously didn't need the best part of £90 that I spent on them yesterday.

 

There was also a bit about this in the Sun today. It said, basically, "is this the end of CDs and downloads?". Am I, then, the only person who doesn't spend her entire waking day on a computer?

Edited March 6, 200916 yr by DitzyNizzy