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

[kerminen]

I just noticed something that might be interesting to Americans:

https://www.spotify.com/fi/get-spotify/prem...GB_SE_NO_FI_ENG

In "Compare Products", I found a link to "Take your music abroad":

https://www.spotify.com/fi/about/features/use-from-anywhere/

Holiday music

With Spotify Premium and Spotify Unlimited you can connect with Spotify when you’re travelling. As long as you purchased Spotify from inside one of our launch countries, you have the perfect holiday companion.

Spotify Free and Spotify Open users - you receive a maximum of two weeks overseas use, after which you’ll need to upgrade to Spotify Premium or Spotify Unlimited.

So you can use Spotify already in the US, as long as you did the registeration and first payment (9,99€ for Premium per month or 4,99€ for Unlimited per month) in one of the following countries:
Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

So you only need a trip to Europe or proxy or tor exit node from one of the following countries:

Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

And you need to enter an address to one of those countries during registration.

But this hassle is only for the registraton and 1. payment phase.

After that you don't need proxies.

When Spotify eventually launches in the US, you can change your country and address in the program settings.

This post has been edited by kerminen: Oct 3 2010, 09:47