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| Author | Gordon Kelly |
| Published | 22nd Jun 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersIt is understood only a tiny fraction of Spotify's customers sign up to the company's £9.99 per month premium package, but could this be the best incentive yet?
The revolutionary streaming music service will soon roll out a range of extras to paid subscribers including mobile and living room access, bundled downloads, ticketing priorities and at its core: higher quality audio streaming.
What this will entail is a very juicy bump from 160kbps to 320kbps Ogg Vorbis. Now given Ogg is a higher quality codec than MP3 in the first place, this should mean even audiophiles struggle to tell the difference between it, lossless and a raw CD.
At first just the most popular Spotify tracks will be available at 320kbps though it will soon spread through the catalogue. An 'Enable high bitrate' option in the menu will also allow the feature to be disabled by bandwidth conscious users.
So up to now we have happily put up with and even quite enjoyed "Hi, I'm Roberta from Spotify" (Jonathan just isn't as good, is he?) it's increasingly looking like Premium will be £10 of our hard recession earned cash well spent...
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Gordon said on 22nd June 2009
ravmania said on 23rd June 2009
i personally think the free service is great and there's not much value for me in the paid service. also very unsure about the mobile version. it'll eat through data and ... more
ShaunB said on 23rd June 2009
One thing to bare in mind, unless/until there is a big take up of high bit rate tracks you will not benefit from Spotify's lightning fast track start-up and downloads. There w... more
alchobot said on 23rd June 2009
I love Spotify and I'm quite happy with the 160kbps Ogg and even the adverts are not that intrusive but there is a dark cloud on the horizon for the service. there are already... more
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@lifethroughalens It was mentioned in one of the first lines:
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