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Joel Johnson

AT 9:51 AM
Thursday May 28, 2009

Audio and Portables • Phones and Wireless

android • media • music • spotify

Video: Spotify music app for Android

Eliot Van Buskirk: "If I were Steve Jobs, the video...would scare me senseless."

Spotify is a streaming music service that also now allows caching on supported mobile devices. It is currently limited to Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and the UK, due to licensing issues.

Every song ever instantly available for free. It's getting awful close.

14 Comments

Jeffro

#1 – 12:12 PM May 28, 2009

Does anyone know the name of that application that he is demonstrating on the MBP? Do want plz.

AlisdairC

#2 – 12:44 PM May 28, 2009

@JEFFRO.
Er, it's Spotify...(the desktop app). Maybe you don't have it yet in your terrotory but where I am (the UK) it's been explosive in its growth.

annoyingmouse

#3 – 1:07 PM May 28, 2009

Every song ever? Hardly. It's till got a lot of work to do to make a fully comprehensive library. Admittedly, I've been enjoying Spotify so far but I've found an awful lot of gaps in their catalogue.

lovemoose

#4 – 1:12 PM May 28, 2009

If they get spotify mobile out of the door and it works as shown in the video, I'll change my next phone from an iphone to an android model. It's that good.

Anonymous Anonymous

#5 – 9:21 PM May 28, 2009

Great. As a musician who previously had a record deal (read: viable career) until the label went out of business due to lack of CD sales and overwhelming piracy, I can't help but mourn when I see an app like this. As great as it might be, technology has sucked the money from the business which means less artist development and more amateurs.

"Every song for free anywhere" reads to me "Musicians will never eat again."

owza

#6 – 2:27 AM May 29, 2009

@5 It's not free, artists get payment from advertising revenue or premium accounts on spotify.

owza

#7 – 2:38 AM May 29, 2009

My previous comment does not makes sense, I blame lack of sleep! The free account for the user is funded by adverts, royalties are paid either way.

kaka

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#9 – 2:26 AM August 19, 2009

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kaka

#10 – 2:27 AM August 19, 2009

have it yet in your terrotory but where I am (the UK) it's been explosive in its growth.homeschool online

kaka

#11 – 2:28 AM August 19, 2009

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#12 – 2:29 AM August 19, 2009

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