If you subscribe to Spotify for 10 bucks a month or whatever it is instead of picking and choosing which albums to buy, you can legally listen to all the tracks to your heart's content
You don't have to have an active connection to listen to anything on Spotify. You merely have to remember to download it to your device while you have a connection and you're good to go.
None of these streaming services allow you to download/keep/own the tracks. You have to maintain a subscription for the rest of your life if you want to keep them. I use streaming to preview only.
How long can you keep the downloads or will they only remain active if your account is paid through each month?
To be clear, there's really no concept of "keeping"; They don't give you files that you can play with other software or anything. They just play within the Spotify app, even if you're offline.
You can keep them directly downloaded to your devices forever. But if your subscription expires, you won't be able to play them and if you delete the app, they literally won't exist on that device any more.
Once you download a track to your device, you can play it unlimited times unless you go 30 days without launching the app while you have an active internet connection (it checks to verify your subscription is still active)
Can you import the tracks into iTunes afterwards?
Nope. You have use the Spotify app to play their files.
Even if you can't keep them, I'm more tempted to at least try it out now.
No harm in trying it out! Even if you don't like it after a month and you don't renew the subscription, you're only out a couple cups of coffee or whatever
This is what I do. I am constantly on Spotify checking out new music. Every Friday there's tons of new albums and I try to listen to as much new film music as I can.
Anything I end up really liking, I buy to support the artist.
But I even use Spotify to plays tons of music I have on my CD shelf. For example I made a 500+ track playlist of 90s alternative music that I play on shuffle sometimes.
I made playlists for the highlight film cues of each year. I made a playlist of great film score action music, uplifting film score cues, etc.
Spotify's great!
It's not a replacing for owning music. It's an additional way to listen to music sometimes, and a great way to legally listen to new things before you decide if they are worth investing in your own copy of.
Since this has come up, Jay, what's your method of locating new score releases on Fridays on Spotify? I'm a longtime unpaid Spotify user, but browsing the soundtrack genre and relying on the algorithms of Release Radar has been (ha!) spotty for me. Do you have any tips for finding score releases more comprehensively?
Since this has come up, Jay, what's your method of locating new score releases on Fridays on Spotify? I'm a longtime unpaid Spotify user, but browsing the soundtrack genre and relying on the algorithms of Release Radar has been (ha!) spotty for me. Do you have any tips for finding score releases more comprehensively?
Generally it's from outside sources and not spotify itself; It's threads people create for new scores on this very forum, as well as threads people create for new scores on the JWFan forum, as well as the "What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (2021 scores)" thread on JWFan.
I tend to just kind of be up with new films and scores coming out so kinda know what to expect on any given Friday.
My favorite recent discovery is Christopher Lennertz' Tom and Jerry which I played on Spotify when it came on whatever Friday that was and and now have listened to it at least once a week since.
Other times I watch a show and like the music in it so I check out Spotify to see if it's there. For example my wife and I watched this silly show last year called The Flight Attendant on HBO Max and I loved the opening and closing credits music each week; I found the album on Spotify and ended up loving it.
Back to Spotify: There is many ways Spotify itself does help you discover new music. There home screen will have a "New releases for you" where it recommends new albums based on stuff you've listened to before, as well as a "Based on your recent listening" that is similar except it is older albums instead of only newer ones.
Also if you spent time clicking "follow" on all the artists you like, it will help with recommendations in a variety of areas, including some rows on the home screen as well as the "Release Rader" playlist that it automatically updates every Friday full of tracks from new music by artists you follow or artists it thinks you might like based on who you follow and who you've been listening to.
Also, I just finished the episode 9 score, and there’s an obvious reference to Giacchino’s Dr. Strange theme in the closing bars. Anybody else notice any Easter eggs?
Finally! Christophe Beck uploaded the missing cue from episode 8 "Family TV Night" to his youtube channel!! It's been made unavailable already but I'm sure it will go live on midnight or something!
Finally! Christophe Beck uploaded the missing cue from episode 8 "Family TV Night" to his youtube channel!! It's been made unavailable already but I'm sure it will go live on midnight or something!
