How bad is your Spotify?

Re:How bad is your Spotify? by CuriousSkeptic on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:45PM (#25523162)

> Pandora is only available in the U.S. right now – but we are working on bringing our music service to other parts of the world.

I guess Spotify is still the only game in town :(

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by Alupis on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:47PM (#25523176)

I didn't realize Pandora was region locked - what a bummer!

The rest of the comment still stands for all US based users, however.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by andruc on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:57PM (#25523269)

I last used Pandora's radio in Canada around 2005. I'm questioning what it is they're "working on" for so long.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by Alupis on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:05PM (#25523330)

Probably license agreements with the labels... but that's pure speculation. Spotify seems to have solved that problem by throwing tons of cash at them.

You can see here[1] that Spotify has made agreements with specific labels for international rights. What a thing... only licensed to stream a song in some select set of countries... absurd in 2020/2021 and being an internet based service - but that's record labels for you.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203324/spotify-warner-ag...

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:53PM (#25524081)

Spotify is too, just not as drastically. I opened an account in Prague and found when I got to the US that it wouldn't play anything. Curious how they knew I wasn't in CZ anymore, yet instead of just letting me play the US version, it wouldn't let me play anything.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by adarshaj on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:03AM (#25525193)

This isn't true, may be got to do with specific set of songs? I've an US account, which I use in UK, India and Japan.

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