Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis (q5) Options

[lameboy]

Hi

Maybe this is old news, but I just read that the new "iTunes-killer" Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/en/ )
uses Ogg Vorbis (q5, ~160 kb/s) for their streaming service.

(reference: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/soundquality )

Nice to see that they're using an open source encoder!

regards
Magnus

[donnie]

Doesn't have a native linux client, although runs fine in wine. Is it possible to download tracks? I don't want to be using their player.

This post has been edited by donnie: Apr 21 2009, 09:12

[kerminen]

Doesn't have a native linux client, although runs fine in wine. Is it possible to download tracks? I don't want to be using their player.

Don't fall into despair:

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/...-to-developers/

http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/

So native linux clients are coming, many developers already, or you can make on yourself.

BTW: over 1,5 million users.... and counting. The UK passed Sweden with most users.

Spotify is using the "invite" system to limit the growing speed, so that their hardware upgrades can manage the traffic.

It's all over the press and media here.


EDIT:
And no, no download tracks, you stream them. Once a song is fully transfered to your thingy, spotify caches it on hard drive (cache from 1GB to 10%of free HDD)

This post has been edited by kerminen: Apr 21 2009, 09:22

[donnie]

EDIT:
And no, no download tracks, you stream them. Once a song is fully transfered to your thingy, spotify caches it on hard drive (cache from 1GB to 10%of free HDD)

Well, that makes it uninteresting to me, means I can't control my music the way I like or listen to it on my portable.

It does seem like an ok concept but the adverts are annoying (both visual and audible) and the sound isn't great; I'm getting occasional interruptions. Don't know if that's my internet connection, that I'm using it in wine, the service itself or a combination of the above.

[kerminen]

EDIT:
And no, no download tracks, you stream them. Once a song is fully transfered to your thingy, spotify caches it on hard drive (cache from 1GB to 10%of free HDD)

Well, that makes it uninteresting to me, means I can't control my music the way I like or listen to it on my portable.

It does seem like an ok concept but the adverts are annoying (both visual and audible) and the sound isn't great; I'm getting occasional interruptions. Don't know if that's my internet connection, that I'm using it in wine, the service itself or a combination of the above.

It's working alright here with thousands of wine/linux-users in Finland
I get one ad per 3 hours, that's a 30 sec commercial.
or 9 euros per month, no ads.

My music? That's kind of philosophical..... Whose music it is.... Is it artist's or is it the label company's?

I can listen to music from
Universal Music Group, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, EMI Music, Warner Music International, Merlin ,The Orchard and smaller
#House of Akira, #Monique Musique, ~scape, 03 Studio, 14th Floor Records, 1CCrecords, 2 Play Recordings, 24 Bit, 2E2L Recordings, and tens of thousands smaller labels more
check
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psn...BWCZA&gid=1
That's only a one day add.
Spotify adds new stuff every couple of days, and publishes it on
http://www.spotify.com/blog/
So thousands of small labels are added each week in addition to those big player catalogues.