Heya!
Most of you probably know Spotify. For those of you who don't, it's a media player-ish program resembling the typical MP3 player that streams 160 kbps music over the internet. Lots of full albums have been made available there and playing it is just as fast as playing local files on my computer.
It's perfect when I have guests over who wants to listen to or show me some music I don't already have. That's when I use it the most. However, you can also get URLs to different songs and albums on Spotify and paste the links on a forum. People who click them will open the album or the song in the program. That makes it perfect for stuff like forum album reviews, just add links and people can have a quick listen to what you're writing about.
Link examples :
This links to the compilation album "Solen over Nannestad - Sanger om Dæhlie"
This links to a song on that album
However, although Spotify already works quite well, it's still in beta. Using it is free, but you need an invitation. Because it's handy and likely a big piece of the future of music, I thought we could collect some links here to sites that hand out invitations to Spotify for those who don't have it yet.
So if you know a site which gives away invites, paste them here and I'll add it to this post!
How to get Spotify tip #1
The
norwegian site I was going to post has stopped handing out invites (I think). Instead, it says you can get an invite by following these steps (translated by yours truly) :
- Click this link
- Click "continue anyway" on the page that opens
- You should now see the Spotify registration page. If there's annoying advertisement there, you can click "fermer" to close it.
- Fill in your information. Where it says postal code, use the number : 90112
- Make sure "France" is your country (you can edit this later)
- Complete registration and create account!
- You can now download spotify and log in ..
Of course, now Spotify thinks you're french. Try logging in on the
site with your new login/pass and then click the "edit profile" link up to the left. In there, you can should be able to change country to the right one.
I have my Spotify, but could someone else perhaps try this and see if it works?
And post more ways to get invites please
How to get Spotify tip #2
Appearantly, some guy is handing out invitations to people over Skype. Try calling user "spotify.invite" and hope he picks up!
How to get Spotify tip #3
If you have an IRC client, head to the channel #spotify on QuakeNet. Appearantly, you can get invites there. If you need help getting on the IRC (Internet Relay Chat), just check out our own thread "
http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/39...-chatroom.html".
How to get Spotify tip #4
Surf to
this UK proxy service. You can enter URLs there, but first click "option" and uncheck the "Remove Scripts" option. Then write spotify.com in the URL field.
Make your account! Choose England as your country and "SW1A 2AB" as your postal code.