Spotify

[gatso]

new feature that I've found out about today

I'm crap at finding new music that I like but have similar tastes to a mate who's a dj and is very good at finding new music. he can just set up a playlist and send me the link and when I click on it it opens up in my client. I like very much

Can you post the links? What sort of music? Dance/House?

no, 'fraid not. my hopes for getting lots of new music have been dashed as he hasn't bothered to do any more after the first trial attempt. lazy bastard

[Bongo]

Did any of you try last.fm for recommendations?

[Geff.H]

I really like this, it's very simple, seems to have a large db and nice and quick.
As it's p2p though you may need to be wary of it's brandwidth use though, i stream more and more these days so had to upgrade my connection with bt because they limit usage.
If you regularly go above the limit it can get very very expensive, even with unlimited they have a fair use policy (all isp's have).
Not that spotify uses too much but in conjunction with other programs it adds up.

It does store the tracks locally albeit scattered, i assume to prevent the tracks being saved, i dare say some ckever sod will write a program to intercept the stream and enable you to save the tracks.

I currently use songza and orbit, check out the tracks on songza and grab them with orbit
Though for those who have morals spotify is cool!

[barhell]

Spotify was hacked. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7925455.stm.

[Jon MW]

Spotify was hacked. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7925455.stm.

Poor old Bob - nobody ever takes any notice of him

Whoops!

Dear Spotify user,

Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise
our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group
had gained access to information that could allow testing of a
very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.
The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and
fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware
that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.

Along with passwords, registration information such as your email
address,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt
details were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are not
stored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handled
by a secure 3rd party provider.

If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,
we strongly suggest that you change your password and strongly
encourage you to change your passwords for any other services
where you use the same password.

When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator of
the password strength to help you choose a good one. To change
your password please visit your profile page on our website.

https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/

For the technically minded amongst you, the information that may
have been exposed when our protocols were compromised is the
password hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and they
have never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but the
combination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering of
our encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders access
to individual hashes.

The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.
Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable to
offline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individual
users, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, there
has been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete user
database has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it was
possible to access the password hashes of individual users had
you reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew the
username.

We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.
We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in order
to prevent anything like this from happening again.

Regards,
The Spotify Team

As the article points out though.

There are about 250,000 users in the UK and only about 10,000 were even potentially at risk.

[barhell]

Spotify was hacked. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7925455.stm.

Poor old Bob - nobody ever takes any notice of him

Whoops!

Dear Spotify user,

Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise
our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group
had gained access to information that could allow testing of a
very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.
The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and
fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware
that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.

Along with passwords, registration information such as your email
address,birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt
details were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are not
stored by us and were not at risk. All payment data is handled
by a secure 3rd party provider.

If you have an account that was created on or before December 19th 2008,
we strongly suggest that you change your password and strongly
encourage you to change your passwords for any other services
where you use the same password.

When choosing your password we provide you with an indicator of
the password strength to help you choose a good one. To change
your password please visit your profile page on our website.

https://www.spotify.com/en/account/profile/

For the technically minded amongst you, the information that may
have been exposed when our protocols were compromised is the
password hashes. As stated, we never store passwords, and they
have never been sent over the Internet unencrypted, but the
combination of the bug and the group's reverse-engineering of
our encrypted streaming protocol may have given outsiders access
to individual hashes.

The hashes are salted, making attacks using rainbow tables unfeasible.
Short or otherwise bad passwords could still be vulnerable to
offline targeted brute-force or dictionary attacks on individual
users, but you could not run attacks in parallel. Also, there
has been no known breach of our internal systems. A complete user
database has not been leaked, but until December 19th, 2008 it was
possible to access the password hashes of individual users had
you reverse-engineered the Spotify protocol and knew the
username.

We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies.
We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in order
to prevent anything like this from happening again.

Regards,
The Spotify Team

As the article points out though.

There are about 250,000 users in the UK and only about 10,000 were even potentially at risk.

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[TheChipPrince]

Does any have an invite spare please?     

[sweet potata!]

Does any have an invite spare please?     

+1

I've just downloaded it myself i assume that means i still need this elusive invite?

[phatomch]

you dont need a invite i dont think

[gatso]

you dont need a invite i dont think

I thought this too, I never used one, but if you do need them I have a couple left so can sort you both out if you pm me your email addy

[sweet potata!]

you dont need a invite i dont think

I thought this too, I never used one, but if you do need them I have a couple left so can sort you both out if you pm me your email addy

Cheers will pm now.

[Scottish Dave]

you dont need a invite i dont think

I thought this too, I never used one, but if you do need them I have a couple left so can sort you both out if you pm me your email addy

Cheers will pm now.

the very last post on the first page of this thread has a link that you can click on to get access without an invite.

still having problems, i have 3 invites left if anyone needs them they can also PM me.

[TheChipPrince]

you dont need a invite i dont think

I thought this too, I never used one, but if you do need them I have a couple left so can sort you both out if you pm me your email addy

Cheers will pm now.

the very last post on the first page of this thread has a link that you can click on to get access without an invite.

still having problems, i have 3 invites left if anyone needs them they can also PM me.

Thanks also, will try later and see how I get on...

[lucky_scrote]

I just got premium for a month so that I can use it on my iphone whilst playing cash at the vic...

[pokefast]

Have they got any Neil Diamond on it?