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A comment on the problem "Paying by PayPal requires credit card so I still can't buy Premium" in Spotify:

But why? What is wrong with an ordinary PayPal account that has credit?
I know you are going to say it is because of security reasons, but security against what?
The amount of money involved is only £10 / 99kr per month, so Spotify is hardly an efficient method of trying to get rid of money obtained by illegal means. So what are you securing yourselves against, I don't understand? It's as if you don't actually trust PayPal. – digithed, on November 12, 2009 10:11

A comment on the problem "Error message: "Offline access for this computer/device has been withdrawn."" in Spotify:

Ok, in that case your developers need to work extra hard to make sure that upgrades don't fail, otherwise you will have a lot of annoyed and irritated customers. – digithed, on November 11, 2009 17:00

A comment on the problem "Error message: "Offline access for this computer/device has been withdrawn."" in Spotify:

Does upgrading on iPhone or Android or PC/Mac count as reinstalling?
Does this mean that everytime Spotify pushes out an upgrade to any platform that all of the off-line tracks will need to be re-synced on the upgraded device? – digithed, on November 10, 2009 16:03

digithed replied on November 06, 2009 14:16 to the idea "Add an indicator to show high-bitrate content" in Spotify:

Ever since Spotify messed up the user interface (in many peoples opinions) by adding the buy track and buy album buttons, they don't really hold the moral ground any longer when they try to say they will not implement a feature to display if a track is streaming in high-bitrate or low-bitrate because they want to keep the user interface simple and uncluttered.

A comment on the question "Discography of Red Hot Chili Peppers?" in Spotify:

It's strange that when a band or artist owns their own catalogue and does not use a record label that it's actually more difficult for you to secure streaming rights. It seems counter intuitive that it is more difficult when you get rid of all the middle-men and only have to deal directly with the band or artist themselves. What is it in this process that I am not understanding? – digithed, on November 06, 2009 14:06

A comment on the question "Can you get more than 5 downloads once you've bought a track from spotify?" in Spotify:

What a pointless exercise, since a user can just send the tracks, by various means, to other people anyway since they are DRM free.

I am not saying that doing this is legal, just that the limit of 5 downloads is useless and achieves nothing other than frustrating and annoying the paying customer. – digithed, on November 03, 2009 12:28

A comment on the question "Can you get more than 5 downloads once you've bought a track from spotify?" in Spotify:

Then what's the point of limiting the number of downloads? – digithed, on October 29, 2009 08:35

A comment on the question "Can you get more than 5 downloads once you've bought a track from spotify?" in Spotify:

"The tracks are yours to do with as you please."...
Until 7Digital turns off their license server. – digithed, on October 29, 2009 08:10

A comment on the question "Play Purchesed tracks from all locations?" in Spotify:

It isn't hard at all. Like I already said, it's just that for unspecified reasons the music industry does not want to allow it. I know, it's stupid. I quite often find myself not understanding what is going through the minds of music industry executives. – digithed, on October 21, 2009 18:55

A comment on the question "Bought songs but can't play them on spotify" in Spotify:

Andres - Are you inferring that to play purchased tracks in Spotify you must already have installed another music application that can play mp3s? Does the Spotify applicaiton itself not play the purchased tracks? – digithed, on October 21, 2009 18:34

A comment on the question "Is anyone from Spotify still answering questions?" in Spotify:

Since many of the questions come up again and again, why don't you update the FAQ or write some articles on the main website to address these most popular questions so people don't keep asking them here, or if they do, you or someone else, can just point them at the FAQ or main site article? – digithed, on October 21, 2009 17:18

A comment on the question "Play Purchesed tracks from all locations?" in Spotify:

Of course technically it can be done, in fact it's rather trivial. The reason you say it can't be done is due to the short sighted views of the music industry and their refusal to give customers what they want. – digithed, on October 21, 2009 11:06

A comment on the problem "I am SO mad!!! 1/4 of all my tracks GONE!!!" in Spotify:

The amount of money they make may be small, but some money is better than no money, which is exactly what they will get if some annoyed user pirates a track because it is no longer available on Spotify. – digithed, on October 19, 2009 20:56

digithed started following the idea "Make "Top lists" automatically link to regional version of album if listed one is not available for you" in Spotify.

A comment on the idea "Listen to Spotify while doing other stuff on your iPhone" in Spotify:

Jailbreaking your iPhone is NOT ILLEGAL, you cannot go to prison or receive any kind of fine for doing this. The worst that can happen is that you void your warranty with Apple. Please don't call things illegal that are simple an arbitary set of rules thought up by a company and have nothing to do with the justice system. I repeat, it is NOT ILLEGAL to jailbreak your iPhone. – digithed, on October 18, 2009 14:30

digithed started following the idea "Make the purchasing interface optional" in Spotify.

digithed replied on October 09, 2009 17:23 to the question "Signing up for premium in countries with no support" in Spotify:

This doesn't need to turn into a discussion about DRM or net neutrality, it's much more clear cut than that. The music industry is simply forcing Spotify to do the equivalent of a shop in France not accepting payment with credit/debit cards issued in any country other than France. Which, as I said, I believe is against EU regulations on the free movement of goods and services.

A comment on the question "Signing up for premium in countries with no support" in Spotify:

It doesn't really make sense at all. It's just yet another way in which the music industry is ignoring the fact that the internet is global (and it is the music industry which is imposing this, I'm sure that Spotify would be happy to take your money wherever you happen to live).

It is also debatable if it actually breaches EU regulations on the free movement of goods and services within the EU. Just because I don't have a credit card issued in the country where I live should not be any barrier to buying goods and services, especially between to EU countries. – digithed, on October 09, 2009 16:02

digithed replied on October 09, 2009 11:03 to the question "Signing up for premium in countries with no support" in Spotify:

Your credit/debit card must issued in the country that you sign up for.

You can spoof your location, but if you don't have a credit/debit card or paypal account at the same location it won't work.

digithed replied on October 08, 2009 17:06 to the praise "Thanks for the Android update" in Spotify:

Great update seem much faster.

Would it be possible to implement on Android the function to pause when the earphones are unplugged like you have done on iPhone?