Spotify: You rock
Seeing a review of Spotify on The Register prompted me to comment about it here. It's brilliant.
It's like Yahoo! Music/LaunchCast/whatever they're calling it now, done right. Yahoo announced it would be available ad-free to BT Broadband users (or something to do with paying BT money), but didn't offer an option for non-BT Broadband users. So I stopped using it. It was also "radio" based, so you couldn't control exactly what you listened to just "what sort of stuff" you listened to.
Spotify on the other hand, is brilliant. The free version gives you the odd advert here and there, and the paid for version is damn cheap. Yes, it's subscription model, but at 99p for a day, £10 for a month or £100 for a year, I'm buying!
Pros
It's like Yahoo! Music/LaunchCast/whatever they're calling it now, done right. Yahoo announced it would be available ad-free to BT Broadband users (or something to do with paying BT money), but didn't offer an option for non-BT Broadband users. So I stopped using it. It was also "radio" based, so you couldn't control exactly what you listened to just "what sort of stuff" you listened to.
Spotify on the other hand, is brilliant. The free version gives you the odd advert here and there, and the paid for version is damn cheap. Yes, it's subscription model, but at 99p for a day, £10 for a month or £100 for a year, I'm buying!
Pros
- Sound quality/speed to start playing is very high
- Free version is very ad-un-encumbered
- Pricing model is very affordable. As much music as you want, every day, for less than half the cost of buying a track a day from iTunes
- Some music is still missing / badly categorised
- The player/streamer does not look like a Windows application, just as uncanny valley annoying as iTunes.
- There's no way to integrate the stream into Media Player or show visualisations, etc,.. would be nice in a "playlist/queue has been setup, now the party's starting and I want the screen to look funky" way
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