iTechLog » Last.fm http://itechlog.com Your source to IT solutions, interesting technology news and code snipets. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:05:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Spotify – listen to more than three million tracks legally and for free http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/05/17/spotify-listen-to-more-than-three-million-tracks-legally-and-for-free/ http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/05/17/spotify-listen-to-more-than-three-million-tracks-legally-and-for-free/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 12:00:42 +0000 Alex Costa http://itechlog.com/itechlog-news/2009/05/17/spotify-listen-to-more-than-three-million-tracks-legally-and-for-free/ Spotify is a streaming service, which lets fans listen to more than three
million tracks legally and for “free”, it has more than a million
users in the UK already. The system has 3 packages on offer, starting with “Free” (showing ads between songs), a Day Pass £0.99 (ad free) for 24hrs and a Premium Subscription for £9.99. All 3 packages give you the ability to:

  • Search – Find and browse by artist, title, album, genre, year
  • Specify your own radio channel based on genre, year and artist
  • Share -  Create, share and collaborate on play lists and share links to music

The Premium package also comes with  exclusive access to pre-releases and concert ticket lotteries.

The company plans to expand it’s service to the mobile market and beyond the UK. They also expect to announce a deal with fellow streaming
site Last.fm to provide song recommendations, making it easier for fans
to find acts they like.

Spotify can be downloaded from http://www.spotify.com and currently works on Mac and Windows, and  there’s a tutorial on their site on how to run it on Linux using Wine. Again a company wanting to go global has started by cutting corners with the Linux community, an easy but unforgivable mistake to make.

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