Originally Posted by johnmansley

Yep, that's how it used to be here, too. Spotify are putting the hard yards in now (i.e. free memebrship with adverts roughley every 4 or 5 songs) by building a barrier that is designed to stop you leaving for a rival product.

This barrier is the accumulation of songs in your library and creation of playlists. Say you have 50,000 songs in your library, you would have to add all of them to your new library in a new product should you leave Spotify when they eventually introduce the subscription fee. Nobody can be fucked spending that much time doing that all over again, right? So you end up paying the subscription fee. Very clever marketing on Spotify's part.

I'd skip the elaborate marketing strategy foreplay and jump straight in with Napster. I pay £5 per month for unlimited streaming to my PC of about 8 million songs (Napster has a much larger selection than Spotify, by about 2 million last time I checked). I believe Spotify are charging £10 per month for streaming on any supported device.

I can upgrade to £15 per month to get the streaming through my iPhone, but I rarely get a consistent stream from internet radio stations even when I have full wifi available so it's not something I will be considering until this is resolved.

The crux is that you'll pay twice as much with Spotify for the same service as Napster and fewer songs than Napster.

I also prefer Napster's user interface; Spotify seems harder to navigate.

Originally Posted by xgrafcorex

So far it seems pretty cool. I was so beat yesterday from the flight over that I pretty much checked into my room, ate some food and went to sleep. Was a couple hours from VA to Dallas, then sat there for 1.5 hours before a 13 hour flight from TX to Tokyo. Then sat there for 1.5 hours until I could catch a shuttle to the base. I left at 6:30am on Sunday and arrived here at a about 1:30pm on Monday (time zones and international dateline).

Not sure about the woman thing, been talking to an ex for the last few months before I left and we talk all the time. We saw each other a few times before I left (she lives in a different state than I did). So I'm hoping something comes out of that. I told her I'd pay to fly her out here but I don't think that's gonna happen. We'll see I guess.