About Spotify
Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer streaming music program that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums with almost no buffering delay.
Music can be browsed by artists, albums or created playlists as well as by direct searches. Although it is not possible to save the streamed music for use outside the application, a link is provided to allow the listener to directly purchase the material via partner retailers.
The program/service in its free version is only available in parts of western Europe during the ongoing beta programme although the subscription model should be available in almost all countries.
Info from Wikipedia
So what's the big deal?
The big deal is free music, legally and instantly.
I myself have been using the free Spotify for months now and is amazed over how well it works. The commercials are short, few and far between. The program is fast, easy to use and manage and it allows me to listen to my music whenever, wherever.
If I'm at a friends house or just want to use it on another computer I simply download the program, install it using my username + password and it's all set. It takes 2 minutes.
I can make playlists and share with my friends and I will probably never have to download any music ever again. Not that I download illegally, of course...
Links
- Freshspotify.com - get notified when your favourite music is added to Spotify
- ShareMyPlaylists.com - share your playlists, plain and simple
- Toastify - an add-on to give you track changes and allows global hot key use
