A word of warning, about Spotify music service

**Michael Weatherhead** · 7th November 15, 07:07 AM

I recently broke my phone, so I bought a refurbished one, to get by, until my contract expires. The new phone doesn't have the storage space of the old smart phone, so I bought and installed a 32 GB SD card. I then proceeded to download all my spotify playlists onto inlo it. I had two playlists successfully loaded. About half way through the third playlist, it stopped the download. I lookded up reasons why this could be, and learned that on one spotify account, you are allowed up to 10,000 songs/tunes. But any one device (phone, etc) is only allowed 3,333 songs, and you're allowed up to 3 devices. So even though I have the space in my phone, for all my music, Spotify won't allow me to download all of it onto my phone. So, my phone has two playlists: Mike's Mega Celtic Mix, and Mike's Rockin Hits. Just wanted to pass this along.

**John_Carrick** · 7th November 15, 07:09 AM

Thanks for the information. Another reason to like CDs and vinyl!

**Jack Daw** · 7th November 15, 08:14 AM

I recently upgraded my "Home Theatre" with a Yamaha AVR that will play Spotify, XMSirius, etc. I've toyed with it a bit, but, I'm a die-hard CD audiophile. So, I bought a new CD player to replace my old Sony.

**ctbuchanan** · 7th November 15, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by John_Carrick

Thanks for the information. Another reason to like CDs and vinyl!

I like my CD and LP collection and I know this isn't what you were thinking John, but it would be pretty awkward carrying around 333 LPs (Avg LP contained 10 songs) or 222 CDs (15 songs each). Not to mention the device to play them.

All in all getting over 3,000 songs on a single device is pretty amazing coming from my day when I carried my 45s in a small case to my girlfriend's house. How different it is today.

But just a note - I use Spotify and literally never download to my phone. I just stream the music and it is never ending.

**Mathew MacKillop** · 7th November 15, 09:32 AM

I'm just glad that I ripped all of my old CDs to digital versions, and have kept them all on my external hard drive ever since, to be loaded into whatever device I choose. I have something like 125GB of music, and have never had to purchase any of it from itunes, spotify, or any other online service. I purchased all the CDs in stores long ago, and even though I no longer have most of the discs (that's the problem with CDs and the old car CD players...the discs get lost and damaged!), I still have the music that I paid for, and can digitally preserve my collection and anything I add to it. Let's just hope my hard drive doesn't die on me before giving enough warning for me to transfer that huge file!