Spotify

Revolutionary music streaming software.

The music industry is living a real revolution in the last few years. Up until a few years ago, Internet only offered the possibility to download music, buy it from services like iTunes or to access radio streams and podcasts. Nevertheless, Spotify has supposed a revolution in what regards to the way that we enjoy music, providing an immense database loaded with music that can be listened to whenever you want.

Music revolution

Spotify is a music service that allows you to access any song whenever you want. It is a system that allows to listen to music via streaming with great sound quality, having the approval of the big companies of the industry and that, unlike other similar services like Last.fm or Blip.fm, allows the possibility to customize the playback and to create your own playlists with the songs and albums of your favorite artists.

To be to use Spotify you only have to perform a search for an artist or song in the integrated search engine. From the moment onwards you will be able to select the playback of the songs of your choice, without any restrictions.

A new way to listen to music.

Features

• Catalog with more than 13 million songs, that increases each day.
• Create your own playlists or collaborate in lists together with your friends.
• Without any time to wait and accessible from any PC with an Internet connection.
• Share the music you like with your friends: it has integration with Facebook and Twitter.
• Read about your favorite artists: biography, discography, related artists...
• Discover new artists depending on the music that you play or listen to the radio of an artist or the tastes of other users with similar tastes to your own.
• Buy the music that you want to have in property with maximum quality and download it between 3 and 5 times based on the company that owns the rights.
• Play your own music library from the program. Join your catalog and that of the application to create a last music library.
• Synchronize Spotify with portable devices with Android, the iPhone or iPod.

But is this legal?

Spotify was created by a group of Swedish developers. The platform has the full approval of the big companies of the music industry like Sony BMG, EMI, Universal and Warner Music to name just a few. Spotify is a totally legal service and its music isn't protected by means of DRM. In fact, it has become one of the best existing methods when it comes to fighting piracy.

The software is free, even though it includes publicity jingles every certain amount of time, and only allows the possibility to listen to a maximum of 10 hours of music each month and play a single song five times. Nevertheless, it also offers various subscription options for those users that are interested in making the most of the service.

Latest changes:

• It is possible to buy any playlist over Spotify.

Requirements:

• This application requires that you register, and in some cases to receive an invitation.

Note:

• You can only enjoy Spotify in Sweden, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Holland and USA.
• The free version allows to listen to a maximum of 10 hours of music a month and play 5 songs a month.