This post was long overdue. The next big thing, after JC’s Second Homecoming in Wall·E, was launched as a private Beta months ago and invites were hard to come by. You had to come up with a great excuse to get access to the newest, bestest and fastest music application, Spotify.
What is Spotify?
Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.
… There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.
Seems like I have heard that before. Pandora? Music recommendation platforms, nowadays as easy to find as social networks.
So what’s special about Spotify? It’s fast. At times. The sound quality is highly acceptable and they have a huge library. MOD. You can listen to complete albums() at once, without having to click every track like at Last.fm. You can skip as many tracks as you want unlike with Pandora. The radio service is not too bad. You can build your playlists and share them() online.
But I miss things, I love the recommendation platform from both last.fm and Pandora. especially because I can listen to ‘similar artists’ station. I love having a profile I can submit everything I listen to. And most of all, even though last.fm has not announced the pricing structure for unlimited MOD, Spotify seems expensive. Right now, all you need is an invite code to access the platform. Some days you might see the occasional ad in the player, other days you might not see advertising at all. If you want an ad free platform it’ll cost you $.99/day or $9.99/month. I just can’t see why I would pay (yet). Maybe if more features are implemented in the near future I might change opinion, until then I will stick with last.fm().
To be entirely honest… what’s the hype about Spotify about? And no I have no Spotify invites.
This post was long overdue. The next big thing, after JC’s Second Homecoming in Wall·E, was launched as a private Beta months ago and invites were hard to come by. You had to come up with a great excuse to get access to the newest, bestest and fastest music application, Spotify.
What is Spotify?
Seems like I have heard that before. Pandora? Music recommendation platforms, nowadays as easy to find as social networks.
So what’s special about Spotify? It’s fast. At times. The sound quality is highly acceptable and they have a huge library. MOD. You can listen to complete albums(1) at once, without having to click every track like at Last.fm. You can skip as many tracks as you want unlike with Pandora. The radio service is not too bad. You can build your playlists and share them(2) online.
But I miss things, I love the recommendation platform from both last.fm and Pandora. especially because I can listen to ‘similar artists’ station. I love having a profile I can submit everything I listen to. And most of all, even though last.fm has not announced the pricing structure for unlimited MOD, Spotify seems expensive. Right now, all you need is an invite code to access the platform. Some days you might see the occasional ad in the player, other days you might not see advertising at all. If you want an ad free platform it’ll cost you $.99/day or $9.99/month. I just can’t see why I would pay (yet). Maybe if more features are implemented in the near future I might change opinion, until then I will stick with last.fm(3).
To be entirely honest… what’s the hype about Spotify about? And no I have no Spotify invites.