Spotify is basically the best of iTunes and Pandora all rolled up in one. If you're familiar with iTunes then you're aware that you have to purchase content and there's a pretty decent sized library to do so. Pandora is basically a "music-matching" service that matches the types of music that you like based on genre, artist or song choice. You have no control over which songs Pandora will choose but 9 times out of 10, you're generally pretty satisfied with the selection.
Spotify, combines these two otherwise awesome services all into one application. If you decide that you would like to listen to 'Cinderella Man' by Eminem, you type it in and Spotify streams the song to your PC via their desktop based application. If you decide, "wow, that was a good song", you can just as easily type in 'Recovery' by Eminem and listen to the entire album! You can listen as much as you'd like to the same song or album but with such a VAST library of content, I'm not sure why you'd want to.
To date, the only album that I've requested and is not available is '21' by Adele and I'm not quite sure why it's not available but it's driving me absolutely insane!
Anyway, if you have a smartphone, namely iOS, Android or Blackberry device, you can carry your content with you on the go! BUT, you have to pay a fee of $9.99/month to do so. Now, I purchase at least 1 new album per month so the monthly charge is waaaaay worth it to me. But don't forget, it's 100% free to continue listening on your computer.
The only downside (if you wanna call it that) with paying the $9.99/month is the moment that you stop subscribing, the content is no longer available via your smart phone device to stream. However, as soon as your re-subscribe, all of your previous content becomes available almost immediately so technically you never lose anything.
The other cool thing about using your smartphone is that you can choose your favorite songs or albums for "offline listening." Basically, what that means is Spotify makes the content available for you to listen to via your smartphone without using any of your monthly data. How awesome is that?! It's pretty frickin' cool.
Anyway, Spotify is only available via invitation for the time being, so if you're interested in checking it out, let me know and I'll shoot you an invite.
-G
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