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- vawksel, on 08/06/2009, -30/+492Shameless Plug --
Hey, if you're in the USA and can't use Spotify, you can try JukeFly. It has a very similar feature list to Spotify with some key differences, mainly on how music is sourced. We have a really tight integration with YouTube.
You can make playlists really fast with drag-n-drop, and share URL's of those lists with friends, play millions of songs. We just launched the site, we're a tiny company just a few friends, but we're growing quick. We made it on the front page of reddit a few days ago, but can't seem to get momentum on Digg.
http://jukefly.com
If you like it, please feedback us, we need some thoughts. We don't have the huge marketing dollars to do ads and usability testing, so any help is much appreciated. Thanks! :-) - beautifulbeast, on 08/07/2009, -4/+241Now you understand how the rest of the World feels about Hulu.
- LANjackal, on 08/06/2009, -14/+216Cool review, but ... a desktop player lacking the ability to play local files? Hmmmm
- crapiolio, on 08/06/2009, -6/+205Good luck having that app approved for iPhone.
- Jarasmen, on 08/06/2009, -6/+156Those "not available in your country" services can just bite me. I feel discriminated.
- TheBadWolf, on 08/07/2009, -3/+149I'd love to bury you, but damn that is an awesome site. Good luck with what I imagine is going to be some pretty hardcore legal issues.
- chrisbeh1, on 08/07/2009, -3/+107How to sign up even in the US (taken from Dr. Vrein from the comments on lifehacker):
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I don't live in those countries, but I got it to work.
1. Go to [www.daveproxy.co.uk]
2. Enter URL and proxyfy!
3. Sign up. Say that you are from the UK and use "A9 9AA" as your postal code.
4. Download application.
5. PROFIT!
The app doesn't check your IP, only when you sign up, so we're clear.
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I'm using it now, no problems. It won't become my default music player, but it's nice to have an on demand alternative for tracks I don't have yet. Good review, lifehacker. - vawksel, on 08/06/2009, -6/+87http://jukefly.com is a similar player to spotify in a lot of ways, lives in your browser, and can play local files, and stream your music as well. My friend and I made it an launched it recently, looking for feedback and criticism. :-)
- Griminald, on 08/07/2009, -2/+77You sir have defied expectations in plugging a site that doesn't suck. In fact, I'm impressed.
- Jarasmen, on 08/07/2009, -0/+70Hulu is "not available in my country" as well, so I guess I understand quite a bit.
But thanks. - Battlecry, on 08/07/2009, -3/+65I was getting ready to bury you, but I admit it. I'm impressed. It was a little weird at first having all the controls on the top, but the video load to the right. It took me a few seconds to figure out how to fast forward and change the volume. I might be a little slow, though ;)
Overall, pretty cool. - vawksel, on 08/06/2009, -3/+60You can also play local files, and even stream your whole personal music library to any browser. We're living in the web only right now, but if we get enough requests for an AIR app, we will definitely make that happen.
- bitcloud, on 08/07/2009, -0/+52I hate the fact that i searched for an artist and then all the albums came up and then i could play them...
no wait.. not hate.. the other one... - vawksel, on 08/07/2009, -0/+46I voted you up, even though you kind of slammed me :P... Because you are right, we aren't good at UI, none of us here have ever designed a UI before.
Thankfully, a designer in Canada offered to donate his services for free from our Reddit post to help us clean it up. We're going to get started early next week on that. - EllisSpice, on 08/07/2009, -1/+46We get Spotify, and I love it.
You get Hulu, and I hate you.
(Please swap over if you are American) - mgbuddy, on 08/07/2009, -0/+45Or Pandora....
- Benno, on 08/07/2009, -0/+39Every time something that uses a relatively large amount of bandwidth is invented, an ISP CEO somewhere dies inside a little.
- warbird, on 08/07/2009, -0/+38The app definitely checks your IP. I moved from Norway, where I could use it, to japan, and now I cant use it anymore.
- skepnaden, on 08/07/2009, -2/+39I've been using it for 6 months (i'm swedish) and I'm absolutely sold on it. I don't use anything else and I can access my playlist from anywhere. Everybody uses it over here and I'm positive it's the future of media playback (via streaming).
- realillusions, on 08/07/2009, -2/+35My only complaint is that the tooltips popping up instantly seems a little bit obtrusive to me. If they had some delay on them, it'd be nicer, since you really only need them initially to figure out exactly what to do
- arc100, on 08/07/2009, -0/+32Yeah according to their faq after 14 days of use in a non authorized country it wont let you login until you login at least once in an authorized country.
https://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/ - GamerX, on 08/07/2009, -0/+31Are you a fly or what?
- sladek, on 08/07/2009, -1/+30you fail so hard, you've completely missed the point of Spotify
- thinboyslim, on 08/07/2009, -1/+29This truly is an amazing app, there was loads of hype surrounding it here in the UK at first, which really put me off trying it but once you realise the vast library they have it becomes a no brainer for any music lover. It regularly makes front page of the BBC News website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8169971.stm and is constantly covered in the music press too http://www.nme.com/news/spotify
Since Pandora closed its doors to international users Spotify has become the number one music app. - eTronicGaming, on 08/07/2009, -1/+29Wow, I thought this would be the typical "spam advertise your site", but checked it out, and it's really nice! I'm loving the user interface. Good job and I hope it keeps up! Would love to see an app for this for the desktop.
EDIT: Nevermind, I see you already have a downloadable app. =] - zanvann, on 08/07/2009, -0/+26Spotify is one of the best things to happen to music in a while. That might sound a bit OTT, but I've been using it for a couple of months now, and all my friends have started using it as well. We all share playlists with each other/start colloborative playlists along side each other that are based around a theme/genre. (That's the real fun side of Spotify IMO)
Sharing music is a very social activity and Spotify is such a simple way to do that. On top of all this, the amount of new music I have discovered is just amazing. Go Spotify. - skinflute, on 08/07/2009, -1/+26- The desktop version doesn't work offline, contrary to what the article says.
- The catalog is big but has some gaping holes (Metallica, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, ACDC and Led Zeppelin have "opted not to be added" and lots of small bands are missing).
- It's a P2P app but lacks a way to limit upload bandwidth. Don't leave it running if you have a bandwidth cap, it keeps sharing the music in your cache even if it's not currently playing anything. It also transmits data in big chunks that will ruin low latency gaming and possibly disturb VoIP.
It's still a good service, but not as great as the article author seems to think. - MarkOfTheDead, on 08/07/2009, -1/+25it depends, what material is your hat made of?
- eTronicGaming, on 08/07/2009, -0/+22I believe he means that you can't play your own music files IN the program itself. Not the saving part.
- vawksel, on 08/07/2009, -0/+21That's a valid comment to me, I don't know why you got burried.
- FitteMas, on 08/07/2009, -1/+22Hm how can i top that.....
perhaps some sort of death clock - adscorp, on 08/07/2009, -0/+20Personally I'm a big fan of grooveshark as spotify isn't available in my country.
- Rkstar, on 08/07/2009, -0/+20www.daveproxy.co.uk says "The requested resource could not be loaded. libcurl returned the error: couldn't connect to host"
- FrankieAngels, on 08/07/2009, -1/+21I love Spotify - it saves me wearing out my MP3's.......
- vawksel, on 08/07/2009, -1/+20### Thank you everyone for your support.
If you really want to help though, please throw a digg on our story.
http://digg.com/software/Best_YouTube_Music_Player ...
I don't know if we're too slow to make a front page or not because we're over a day old (not exactly sure how the algorithm works). Thank you everyone! - Nishnabotna, on 08/07/2009, -0/+18That's OK with me.
- mmockett, on 08/07/2009, -1/+19Premium Spotify members can play songs back at 320kbps. I think it's more the idea that you'll never have a hard drive large enough to store as many songs as a streaming service, let alone the money to buy them.
- mikepictor, on 08/07/2009, -0/+18done
- pfranz, on 08/07/2009, -2/+191) So you can manage volume in a consistent way (like muting Firefox but still listen to your music app).
2) Because Flash is an incredible waste of resources (needlessly uses too much RAM and CPU). Separate my web browsing and music playback.
3) Browsers crash, and heavy pages seem to freeze things playing back in other tabs. Chrome may be exempt since it has different threads per tab, but i think Flash still uses a single thread.
4) Websites go down or DDOSed, local apps dont. This doesn't exactly help with remote content, but their website could be on a different server than their webpage.
I'm not saying local apps are always better. A webapp would definitely add portability. I use Linux at work and doubt I'd be able to install the Windows app and Wine. But for an app that's running a lot in the background, like a music app, I'd like it to take as little resources and be completely separate from what else I may be doing. The iPhone app would work for me, though. - Fury69, on 08/07/2009, -0/+17ya, just do that once every 14 days and you will be fine
- weatherman2, on 08/07/2009, -1/+16yeah we all know about VLC but if you actually read the story you might see they are two completely unrelated products...
- warriorscot, on 08/07/2009, -0/+15Not much but I don't want to have to eat up all my bandwidth for music when I have 2Tb of local storage and enough music for me to listen to something new every day for a month.
- MacParrot, on 08/07/2009, -4/+19You do realize that Spotify has little choice in this.
- fireashes, on 08/07/2009, -1/+16just used it and mind was f.ck.d
- ShadowFusion, on 08/07/2009, -0/+15From story's commentor:
1. Go to [www.daveproxy.co.uk]
2. Enter URL and proxyfy!
3. Sign up. Say that you are from the UK and use "A9 9AA" as your postal code.
4. Download application. - pixelstromgo1, on 08/07/2009, -5/+19Spotify FTW!
- jeriqo, on 08/07/2009, -4/+18bwahaha
the rest of the world laughs at you - Brabus, on 08/07/2009, -0/+13I like it!
- darkism, on 08/07/2009, -0/+13Everybody has The Pirate Bay.
...for a few more weeks, at least. :'( - randoof, on 08/07/2009, -0/+13excellent
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