Spotify on iPhone 4

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Much excitement - my first post using new phone!

Can I get spotify on it? I use it free on my PC but when I try to get it as an app I seem to need a premium account, and it says that safari can't download it. Does anyone use it free on an iPhone and if so how?

Anyone?

You can use it on ipod/iphone but u need the premium account.

As PaperView has said, to use it on iPhone / iPod, you need a premium account.

Also, you won't be able to download it through Safari, it's an app that you get throughout the app store.

*through the app store

Thanks. Will have a look and see how much the premium account costs - it's great when it's free but I'm not sure how much I'm willing to pay for it.

You could always use itunes to download songs and play thru that?

A premium account is a tenner a month, from memory. Not sure whether Napster still is a fiver a month, nor whether it would meet your needs.

Additionally there are two categories of free use on PC, recent accounts are limited to 20 hours per month, older accounts have no time limit.

So if Napster offers unlimited use for a fiver, it would seem sensible to use pay for just that use on the iPhone and be able to use it on the move, or via wireless at home, while still being able to seek alternative music from Spotify (though only at home).

Thanks Network Guy. PaperView, I do use itunes, but they're not free

Unfortunately, thse firms have costs too :) which is why Spotify changed its model from allowing unlimited listening (in return for playing infrequent ads) to playing those same ads, but limiting new 'free' access users to just 20 hours a month of listening.

I think they've also considered that if people are spending upwards of 25 pounds a month for some phone contract to get a fancy Android or iPhone, then they will also have to pay for the privilege of streaming music.

I suppose the better option is to record MP3s and simply store them in the phone.

I've only used some low end phones which can play MP3s but so far don't seem capable f handling whole folders of music tracks (so I have been listening to hour-long chunks of Ian Rankin books). I was given a T-Mobile MDA (which has wi-fi facility) so created a web page with links to BBC radio that will play using Windows Media Player (the mobile has an old version of Windows Mobile OS, not the new Windows Phone [cut down Windows 7] software).

Since I'm using home wi-fi, I can listen for hours without any problems using up web traffic on the phone (it is a PAYG SIM so it is not in the same league as most contract phones, just getting used for incoming e-mail, texts, a bit of limited browsing and radio, of course :)

If you like a song so much that you listen to it often you should consider paying 79p (ish) and supporting the band and writers :)

DH and I have a Spotify premium account and we think it's worth it. We both use it, although we can't use it simultaneously online (we both have a few play lists on our phones we can listen too offline). You can have 5 devices registered I think and we have three currently - our iphones and our home computer.

Sometimes we do look at our total bill for things like this - Spotify, Sky etc and think "SHITE" but it's a great service all round.

Over Christmas, the office enjoyed Christmas tunes courtesy of Spotify plugged into a portable speaker!

ANd the above post is why it's shite living with a working musician. People would rather listen to stuff for free than pay for it

Artist do get paid by their label for each listen on spotify but it's around $0.0002 per play.

Paperview: DH is also working musician, who has to work a sales job on top to bring in some actual cash currently. He regularly buys music in both old fashioned CD form and on iTunes. However, we use spotify for convenience and for variety.

In addition, he accepts that the music model is evolving again and ironically, returning in some ways to a very old fashioned approach whereby live music is in fact where the money is. He also regularly lectures me about how music merchandising is an increasingly important revenue stream for big bands. And he is very interested to see how music for gaming and other technology could become a significant revenue generator for musicians.

Also, I think we can assume that if I hadn't had spotify, those christmas tunes would not have been played in the office as I certainly wouldn't have paid 79p per tune. Those artists surely are happier to get a user like me using them once, and getting paid their tiny amount, than nothing at all - on the basis that hopefully, at times like Christmas there are also other users who wouldn't dream of buying multiple christmas songs but thoroughly enjoy listening to one or two.

I felt sure Spotify Premium allowed 3 devices and each can have up to 3,333 tracks stored (which allows lots of offline music), BICBW.

I would and often do buy songs or albums that I want listen to again . But spotify is great for listening to new stuff before taking the plunge and buying. I take the point about musicians' earnings, but I think there is room for iTunes and something like spotify -they are not mutually exclusive.

What your internet usage though. A friend went 5GB over her allowed usage because she uses spotify a lot.

It is best to ensure any Spotify traffic is via home wi-fi (or office wi-fi if you own the firm!) and play only from the allowed 3,333 tracks (add 8 or 16 GB microSD storage to the phone if you can [don't think there are memory expansion options on the iPhones so better to get one size 'bigger' than you think to ensure you have space for Apps and Video and Music])

For non-iPhone users (eg Android), I think you can store music/video and Apps to microSD/ similar storage so can move the whole lot to a new Android phone with minimum effort, and probably no need to purchase any Apps a second time.