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Spotify app for PS3/4 was installed by more than 1.5M people in 24 hours
- Thread starter chadskin
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pixelation
Member
Well i don't think it's exclusive... is it?
bananafactory
Banned
Yes, it is.
pixelation
Member
Oh, my bad then... thanks for replying.
Premium is worth it if you want to save songs offline on your phone, if you're just using this stream music on PS4, the free tier is great.
For now.
pixelation
Member
For the time being i'm just streaming so yeah... free does it for me now lol.
Yeah, that's what i thought...
Listening to Spotify while you play a game is exclusive for the "foreseeable". I'm sure that's what the Sony spokesperson meant to convey when he emphasised "gaming" exclusivity.
A key feature.
www.spotify.com/playstation
A key feature.
www.spotify.com/playstation
MemoryHumanity
Member
The Xbox 360 music player is still superior; it would automatically mute the in-game music when you had your own playing. With this, you have to go into the settings and do it yourself 
The Xbox 360 music player is still superior; it would automatically mute the in-game music when you had your own playing. With this, you have to go into the settings and do it yourself
not every game; it auto deactivates my music in Bloodborne for instance. may be a game to game case
The Xbox 360 music player is still superior; it would automatically mute the in-game music when you had your own playing. With this, you have to go into the settings and do it yourself
The spotify app mutes in-game music aswell, and continues the in-game music once you pause spotify.
omnislayer
Member
It does mute the music though. Some games apparently dont but it does when the game allows it.The Xbox 360 music player is still superior; it would automatically mute the in-game music when you had your own playing. With this, you have to go into the settings and do it yourself
Exclusive for the forseeable future.
Which is problably until summer, when universal apps launch on xbox.
Well I'd consider the existing Xbox music option (now that you can also access music from onedrive) superior. well aside from the fact there is no free tier.
Noisepurge
Member
Regarding consoles it means you can watch your illegally downloaded tv-shows and movies on the console media player via streaming from your PC in the same network.
(which is also the reason Sony is not in a hurry to give support to it)
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Spotify + Driveclub = Match made in heaven.
DriveClub officially supports it too. But since essentially all games let you mute music audio it might as well be custom soundtracks.
DriveClub officially supports it too. But since essentially all games let you mute music audio it might as well be custom soundtracks.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Yeah, but the xbox music app snap can't be removed from the screen. So while you can play background music you can't get rid of the music player snap from taking up the screen.
DOWN
Banned
Really? Even though they have their own competing Xbox Music service?
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Twitch is exclusive on Xbox One, Spotify on PS4.
thelurkinghorror
Member
So why I can watch streaming and stream to Twitch from my Ps4?
michaelius
Banned
Well no suprise they put the stupid icon in front of games and it's free so even I've dowloaded it.
Spiritwalker
Member
Been using Spotify for 7 years or so. I see no reason to stop now.
Spotify launced in October 2008. How the hell could you have been using it for 8 years?
Edit: ooh, that stealth edit.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Because the browser can do that. But no dedictated app for playstation plattforms.
Spiritwalker
Member
Yeah, I wasn't quite sure when it launched.
toastyToast
Member
Kind of sucks you've gotta suspend a game to actually go into it. It's fine for some things but it would be a hassle with an online game
flatearthpandas
Member
No, the app is just pretty shit.
Kudo
Member
Live from Playstation shows Twitch streams as far as I know.
I downloaded this program and trying Spotify for the first time in my life, It's pretty nice and can see why lot of people like it.
BladeSinner
Neo Member
Good job Sony I guess? From a business standpoint this is awesome for them. I just wish my Xbox brethren could also enjoy Spotify. Bottom line though I guess I dislike exclusivity things, unless they are first party features/games.
kitschbeam
Member
Nice. Playing Driveclub is sooo much better now with my own playlist.
Is this true? If so anyone spouting that Xbox Music is superior can really stop posting rubbish
Never understood why multi tasking things like TV on XB1 forced you the have a chunk of screen used up and there wasn't a resizable picture in picture box for TV for instance with the game still running full screen behind it. The things touted as features of the XB1 never felt very well thought out to me and seemed cool but a hindrance ultimately.Such a great addition.
Tried it last night in GTA V. Just driving around listening to my favorite music.
Tried it last night in GTA V. Just driving around listening to my favorite music.
The key thing is that anyone with a smartphone can use the Spotify app (or from a laptop as well I believe) to control tunes and playlists etc without needing to enter the Spotify PS4 app. Which depending on how you look at it could be an improved experience, if your phone is always at hand, or you could have an iPad or laptop setup with Spotify open beside you the whole time if you like to chop and change music quite often.
The PS4 app is always going to be a slow and clunky way of finding music to play vs these methods.
When you stream from PS4 you can choose to stream to Ustream or Twitch.
What are you talking about, man?
Sangetsu-II
Member
the downplaying in this thread
Probably means watching streams outside of PlayStation streamers.
DOWN
Banned
What are you talking about? Because it's definitely not the numbers the rest of the thread is talking about.