Comments on: Review: SpiralFrog’s ad-supported music download service

By: Ed Nichols

Ed Nichols — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:46:03 +0000

I really like the site. Found songs that I could’t find anywhere else. No problems so far.

By: christina

christina — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:56:40 +0000

Hmmm, It worked fantastically for my little sister (she had one of those supported mp3 players) - and I had no problem downloading anything. However, I wasn’t impressed by their selection- it wasn’t my style. (Again though, my little sister loved it)

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:03:53 +0000

Is this site still legal(spiralfrog?)

By: Kitcat

Kitcat — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:23:42 +0000

I tried to go on this site from the UK but still couldn’t, even though old newspaper articles said it would be up and running here in the spring! It’s a bit rubbish!

By: Rascal

Rascal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:15:29 +0000

Been using Spiralfrog for a month. Just did the renewal of membership thing, and it was pretty easy. Probably about 10 questions related to the site (like, how did you find the site? rate this, rate that, etc.). And that’s all I had to do to renew every license of all the songs I downloaded. Pretty good setup, I’d say!

Highly recommended.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:41:46 +0000

Yeah, it works perfectly for me. The site is really fast. I don’t know what you other guys are talking about. Maybe your flash players are clogging up your RAM with excess data, but mine works fine. From reading Kurt’s post, its easy to tell that he works for We7…. That one doesnt have a very large selection at all. For now I’ll stay with Spiralfrog for my mainstream needs and torrents for more underground stuff.

By: DAve

DAve — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:57:22 +0000

I have no problems with downloading :)

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:36:07 +0000

From reading blogs and own experience the website is just so slow! And the opinion is generally negative. I found a UK based model backed by Peter Gabriel called We7 or aka as I like to call it, “the Frogstomp”. Its a similar model in that its free music, paid for by advertising but thats where the similarities end. The tracks are DRM free, they are to keep, they work on all formats (ie Mac and PC) and mp3 players, good news for ipod users! The site isnt slow like Spiral frog and it doesnt require you to come back to the site. The advertising is delived in the form of a 10 second audio clip before tracks, but as I understand it, they are to be targeted to the applicable user. The catalogue is much smaller but I read its only been around since May and it has over 100,000 tracks. It works in all countries, check it out!

By: my music blog

my music blog — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:44:51 +0000

I checked it out and I think that is really nice… however, there are only some countries that can download their music. But that’s understandable since they just started.

By: Becks

Becks — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:39:00 +0000

So I tried to check this out but, I’m sorry, if you’re not in the apparently uberhub of music in canada or america then you’re not invited to the party.
so no way is this going to take over from itunes. at least people from other countries can get to itunes!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:59:54 +0000

Hey, I’ve been using this for about a month now, and I really like it.

By: Mom

Mom — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:23:08 +0000

I, too, checked out the site today, and it was painfully slow until after 5 PM EST. But I’m betting traffic slows post-launch and/or SF buys more bandwidth and it’ll speed up. As far as the DRM, once you’ve installed http://analogwhole.com/ or http://www.soft29.com/freeware/fairuse4wm.htm, it’s no longer an issue and you can use the music you’ve downloaded how you want, when you want.