Spotify

Up until now, the only way to listen to music from Internet, was to download music, buy it from services like iTunes, listen to online radio stations or podcasts dedicated to music. Spotify has nothing to do with this, and it has radicaly changed lot of peoples way of listening to music, because it has given everyone access to one of the biggest music databases in the world, and they can choose what music they want to listen whenever they want, with the only limitation of having an Internet connection.

  Spotify is a project started by a group of Swedish programmers, that is being backed by the majority of important record company multinationals worldwide. The main objective of this project is to offer the general public a system to listen to high quality music using streaming technology. But Spotify doesn't work like the rest of programs that use this technology, like last-fm or blip (that create a music selection of the choosen artist), after searching for the artist, it presents us, using the catalogue of the main record companies ( EMI, Universal, Sony BMG, Warner Music, among many others...) as a reference, all the artists music, allowing us to choose between complete albums or creating our own playback list, with one or more artists. We will later be able to save our play lists to ba able to use them at a later date. It will also give us access to the artists biography, records list and a list of related artists.

  Another one of this applications striking features is it's radio, that uses a rather orthodox, but at the same time very practical, system to choose the music we listen to. All we have to do is choose the decade and the sytle of the music and Spotify will create a playlist that fulfills these parameters, allowing us to access the biography and all the other music of each artist, and going back to the radio session whenever we decide to.

  The expectation that this program has created is only comparable with that created by Naptes in it's day, but with the big difference that Spotify has the complete support of all the major record companies, creating one of the most revolutionary methods to combat piracy.