Comments on: Spotify offers free streaming music; how does it compare to Deezer?

By: spanishgirl11

spanishgirl11 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:44:29 +0000

Well one of the few differences that I can see is the library. Spotify has a much wider library regarding international (non english speaking) singers. I tried a few searches in Deezer and they didn't work.
You say the p2p can consume my bandwith but as a non connoisseur in technological issues I can say that I never had any problems having spotify open and browsing the web.

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:17:10 +0000

I’ve been on Deezer for quite a while – free Deezer – never minded banner adverts and the like, but in the last few days they seem to have started introducing audio-adverts which pop up (the same one, in fact) literally every few songs. You can silence them. But it is a real step backwards. I’d wondered about switching to Spotify, but sounds like they have the same problem and I live in Belgium which is not one of their countries…sooner they can sort out the territoriality issues the better!

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Fri, 28 May 2010 15:45:17 +0000

[...] Spotify is a music streaming application for your PC and for your mobile (with subscription). It’s a new way of obtaining and listening to music. Instead of the traditional “pay per song” model where you would buy tracks from iTunes, Amazon or your local record store, Spotify is a “pay per month” subscription model. Users pay a flat fee of £10/month for access to the Spotify music library – currently 7.6million tracks from 550,000 different artists. All tracks are available “on demand” and with a decent internet connection, you shouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a track physically stored on your computer/phone and a track in the Spotify catalogue. [...]

By: DF

DF — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:08:59 +0000

Deezer is not a comparable service to Spotify.

Spotify works because it is really responsive, with Deezer it is really slow to load up.

Spotify is quicker to load and search music than iTunes so I don’t use iTunes any more.

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Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:01:18 +0000

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By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:35:32 +0000

First time I heard about Spotify I thought more or less like Fernando: it didn’t seem to bring real advantages but when I began to use it… now I only use Spotify.
Quality of sound, ease of use and hight availability makes the difference. And maybe the non-web based interface can be a key og this success. Soptify is used as an application while Deezer works as a sofisticated website, but ultimately a website.

However, I agree that the library will be the most important factor.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:26:51 +0000

I’m from Argentina, Spotify has not been launched here yet. Nevertheless, having done some reading about it, I can say that I can’t see real advantages that will make me replace Deezer as my main on demand music site.
The main disadvantages are audio advertising and having to download software if you will be using Spotify from another computer. Those two items are important enough (not to mention senseless P2P) to choose Deezer over Spotify.
The things you can do with Spotify and can’t do on Deezer are really no big deal, they don’t represent something critical. for example:
multimedia keyboard support: no big deal.
Last.fm scrobbling: interesting but not decisive.
and a spotify: protocol which allows you to directly link your friends to songs you like: good idea, but not critical for overall performance.
The only thing that can be a real step ahead is sound quality, but that may also depend on speakers being used. If speakers are not good, this will not be something you’ll notice. Actually Deezer sounds fantastic on my great Kinyo Speakers. Maybe Spotify sounds a lot better, but I’m more than satisfied with Deezer’s quality actually so I don’t know how much improvement I’ll notice when I listen to Spotify.
What can be considered the most important factor is the library. I haven’t had access to Spotify yet but know that big artist have denied to share their songs. One month ago Deezer had a big big library which could be completed by uploading mp3′s that could not be shared but could be added to personal playlists. Now, since Deezer V3 was launched, a lot of titles are not avaiable. I thought this situation could be temporal, due to V3 launching adjustments, but it has been a month now and still no news. Hope the situation goes back to normal cause I don’t know what to do now…
Regard from the end of the world. I wave my ‘hand of God’ to you all. Bye!

By: Janne

Janne — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:54:13 +0000

I also think that Spotify will win the race due to its wider music selection and user friendlines. And 10 pounds per month isn’t really a bad price to get rid of the Spotify ads.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:50:04 +0000

Deezer really sucks and you can’t compare them with Spotify. When Spotify launches on all mobile phones no one will use Deezer any more.