A word of warning, about Spotify music service

[Michael Weatherhead]

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]

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

[Jack Daw]

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]

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]

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!

[MacEanruig]

What? Nobody has a collection of records anymore?

[unixken]

What? Nobody has a collection of records anymore?

What? People still have turntables? LOL

[Blupiper]

What? People still have turntables? LOL

Yes and some of us stored them with the turntable locked in the late 1980's. Everything still works, but can't find the owner's manual or remember how to unlock the turntable. There's your LOL.

JMB

[chewse]

I recently uninstalled Spotify from my computer. The streaming music (as well as spyware/ads in the service) was causing my computer's performance to degrade to a point where I couldn't to any other work on my computer without long delays in response. Loading my CD on my computer to listen to works better for me.

[tundramanq]

I ripped all my CD's and am still working on my LPs. I back up to DVD and pocket drive. Just the music, which took several weeks, scarfs up 8 DVDs to rip and transcribe. But keeping all the original stuff safe as the ultimate backup. My hard drive is 3/4 terabyte so that it isn't crowded. I will not upgrade to Windows 10 from 7 as Windows (universal) Media Player is not included in 10 and the available apps aren't universal ( video, audio (in several formats) and pictures ) and are not working well with W8.1 nor W10.

For the automobile, I burn my playlist onto CD and wear them out, lose'em, or give them away and burn more.

Well done audiophile LPs, many of mine are "direct to disc" - no tape mastering still sound much better that the best available PC digital software due to slow sample rates that are used. Music does not look like sine waves on an oscilloscope, but more like square and sine combined. The sample rate needs to be at least 10 times the highest audio frequency you want to record to be accurate and without creating digital artifacts that my hearing can detect with my audiophile system.

If music played at "live levels" gives you a headache, it is due to your brain trying to process non-coherent artifacts that were not present in the original live music. I was getting them with CDs and researched why.