Anyone here use Spotify???

I know it has gone invite-only now, and I failed to sign up to it before it went invite-only. So now I am trying to find out how to get an invite (other than 'sign up to the Spotify really long waiting list'). A friend of mine with Spotify, well, I asked her and she couldn't find any way of issuing an invite, but she wonder if she's just not looking in the right place. So I said I would ask the knowledgable people here, at least one of whom would no doubt know how one goes about issuing/receiving an invitation

You can sadly only issue invites if you're a Spotify Premuim subscriber (which I'm not, at least at the moment). If your friend is a Premium member, get her to click 'help', then 'your account'. A new window then appears, and she can then click 'share Spotify', and then she can get you on board.

Aha, thanks Baz, that makes sense (after all, if anyone could issue invites, then it pretty much stops being invitation only, doesn't it?!)
I shall have to hunt down a premium member then (as my friend isn't) - there are a few places I can ask around, so fingers crossed

Is there a minimum sign-up period...just thinking that worst case I can sign my husband up for a month, and then invite myself from his account which I then cancel...!

Hmm, ingenious. I got an invite from a non-premium but long-term member, who just happened to have some invites left. Spotify is ingenious (possibly the future of recorded music) but patchy at present - some surprising lacunae.

Also the adverts on the free service - especially Green Bee home insurance - will get on your nerves.

i had the same problem with Spotify, not wanting to sign up for a premium account, so instead i use we7, which is basically the same thing.

Thanks river, will check it out when I get home.

My teacher finds stuff on Spotify in my lessons from time to time.
When I go home I don't have Spotify but I do have iTunes. The problem is, iTunes seems to have lots of flute versions of the things we've been listening to on Spotify on recorder. I'd happily pay for the recorder music, but it grates a little to pay iTunes for music being played on the wrong instrument

(No, teacher's not a premium member either!)

I'm really confused, I just downloaded it from the website
I didn't have an invite or anything :/

it's only recently that they started requiring an invite for UK users.

I wasn't over impressed with it.
I didn't find it particularly easy to find what I wanted to listen to and when I did it was as likely to be a exercise in finding how I wouldn't want to play something than how I would.