https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2009-11-10T14:22:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2009-11-10T14:22:00+00:002009-11-10T14:22:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2009-11-10:/~alex/blog/2009/11/10/spotify/

<p>I was all set to fire up the free <a class="reference external" href="https://www.spotify.com/en/">Spotify</a> client listen to one of the suggested albums from a previous post. I was ready to accept the rather grating adverts every few tracks when I noticed the people at Spotify over a 0.99p day pass which I duly …</p>

<p>I was all set to fire up the free <a class="reference external" href="https://www.spotify.com/en/">Spotify</a> client listen to one of the suggested albums from a previous post. I was ready to accept the rather grating adverts every few tracks when I noticed the people at Spotify over a 0.99p day pass which I duly signed up to.</p> <div class="line-block"> <div class="line">Getting the client to work on my office machine proved to be a little more of a challenge as running through Wine it seemed to be having issues playing sound. My work machine is on the current Ubuntu LTS so getting a little long in the tooth but I eventually found the &quot;padsp&quot; emulation function that allows programs to think they are talking to an <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System">OSS</a> sound device while using the new schizzle that is <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio">PulseAudio</a>. For reference the correct solution to running is:</div> </div> <pre class="literal-block"> padsp wine spotify.exe </pre> <p>The Spotify experience is different from that of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.last.fm/user/stsquad">last.fm</a> offering as it does complete control of the playlist. However if I really want the music I will most likely buy the music and add it to my various distributed digital devices. Having said that I can certainly see me paying for a day pass every now and again to listen to albums before I buy them. So any releases from the last year I should be listening to on today's pass?</p>