and to most, I'd have thought. Without the mobile app there wasn't enough differentiation between the freebie and the subscription service - I can understand it better now.

But they might have problems dealing with demand - probably explains why it kept dropping out on me this evening.

I was going to pay £9.99 for the new Prefab Sprout album today, but instead I chose to take a punt on Spotify.

First impressions are all positive. I've got the new Prefab Sprout album synced to my iPhone, and can now listen to it anywhere. I can cancel at any time, so happy days!

The only problem I've found so far is that with so much choice I just can't think what to try next.

Can there ever be too much choice?

I also synced Prefab Sprout to my iphone along with a few other new releases and this to me for £9.99 is great value and gives more choice than an emusic subscription.

for a legal, all-you-can-eat music buffet you can scoff any time, any place, anywhere, ad-free, at 360kps* quality if you tick the option box your preference settings?

I believe the phrase is "get on the end of it".

*edit: er, I suspect my number/acronym may be a bit wonky.

It seems like a bargain - cheaper than the old 'Napster to go' subscription, which let you download tracks to a MP3 player for as long as your subscription lasted, but cost two or three quid more and obviously wasn't iPod compatible or as user-friendly as this application.
As mentioned in an earlier thread, I want to subscribe but can't because Spotify don't take Maestro. According to their website they are looking at introducing other payment options, but meantime it is a bit of a ball-breaker. Anyone else been stopped in their tracks like this?

is more than reasonable.

I don't like what the whole concept of "free" music is doing to my record collection though, so I'm going to try to resist. Although, I very much have the sense that resistance literally *is* futile.

This ap has been the clincher for me. A tenner a month for unlimited access - at home or on the move - to the largest collection of music of all genres, from all eras, that has ever been assembled? (They quietly added a further 184,000 tracks the other day, as they do most weeks.) Hell, yes.

It's like having God's jukebox in your pocket.

Can you stream over 3G , Edge ? Or just WiFi?

And are there any limitations on offline usage apart from the capacity on your iPhone?

Have found the streaming to be great over 3G and wifi. Does work on edge but this can be jumpy.

The offline mode works a treat and is just like playing your ipod. Can be a bit slow syncing offline but this I think will be down to numbers bombarding the servers with the thrill of having a new toy to play with.

In general the app works better than expected.

Enjoyed Spotify earlier in the year when it first came to my attention but have given up recently as its connection keeps dropping out - probably due to my poor broadband ( I have similar problems with streamed video). I believe Spotify does something clever in a peer to peer way I don't understand
I am tempted to subscribe on my iPod Touch.
Can any techno savvy person tell me whether I will have the same problem?

One of things I love about my iPod is being able to put it on shuffle and get any of my stuff at random (I also have a playlist for "not listened recently" stuff which drops the tracks off as they are played). Great because I don't know what's coming next (it's a big iPod) but, of course, I put it all on there in the first place so I pretty much know I'll like it.

Leaving aside the pro's and con's of the shuffle feature, do those of you using Spotify just put up with not having this feature or do you have to work to get alternatives ?

This, and potential connection issues, is what puts me off signing up but I agree this feels like an idea who's time has come (only now with the mobile version, mind you) and, having bought the Sprouts album this morning for the cost of a month's subscription, it's getting more tempting.