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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by MaxGabriel on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:21AM (#5437447)
Have you seen it recently? I was very happy with it the last few flights/road trips I've used it on. A year ago it was awful--crashing all the time--but now it feels quite polished.
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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by SoftwareMaven on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:27AM (#5437487)
It's OK. It drains battery like mad and doesn't stream worth crap (I get maybe one song in five to play). But other than the battery issue, offline mode works reasonably well.
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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by iddqd on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:36PM (#5437934)
My theory about the battery usage is that Spotify uses Vorbis for encoding their files, and iDevices lack a hardware decoder for that.
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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by jgross206 on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:22PM (#5437846)
It's pretty good, but it's astonishing to me that it still lacks type-ahead
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