Tag: SPOTIFY

I installed Zune for the first time today (wow, it's pretty!) -- but that's not the news! Here's the news: you can now grab a 12-month subscription to Zune for the price of 10 months. It's $150 for the year (a saving of $30!) or £90 if you're from the motherland. Spotify is currently £9.99 per month, with no 12-month option. This lower price point, when accompanied with the ...

I don't pay too much attention to Apple's App Store antics. I don't know the ins and outs of why they choose to approve App A and not App B. However, I do know that I'm a little surprised to see apps like Mog, Slacker, Rhapsody, and Spotify making their way onto the App Store. Why? Because it just seems odd that they'd want to allow those apps (which allow users to store tracks offline) to ...

Foreword: My dear American brethren and sistren, stop reading now: Spotify isn't available in your country. Rdio should be out soon though! Spotify Chrome Extension is a bit of a misnomer. It's not an official extension, nor does it really utilize any of Spotify's functionality, but it is a whole lot more useful than any other Chrome extension out there. Once it's installed, you can select ...

Spotify is still not available in the US, but it's now available on Linux. The popular streaming music service is known for its mobile apps, but there's also a desktop version, and now Linux users can take advantage of it. Lifehacker says local caching isn't supported yet, meaning everything is streamed live. That might slow things down a bit, but it still works. The Spotify app is currently ...

Last week news broke of Rdio, the new brainchild of the Kazaa and Skype creators. Everyone was very briefly elated until they found out a) it's USA-only, and b) it's still in the middle of private beta testing. Still, thanks to the kindness of a Download Squad reader, and some network hacking (I live in the UK), I can now tell you all about Rdio! If you prefer pictures, there's a high-resolution ...

After popularizing peer-to-peer piracy and single-handedly destroying the conventional-plastic-disc distribution channel, it's only fitting that the creator of Kazaa now plays a part in rebuilding the music industry. Enter stage left: Rdio, flanked by the creator of Skype. Sign up now, because you're going to want a piece of this pie when it leaves private beta testing. CD sales are at an ...

Spotify, the (European) king of music-on-demand, is a real pain in the ass to actually use. I mean, it works, but only just. It's one of those annoying apps that minimises itself to your system tray -- and while that might be OK with Windows XP, on Windows 7 that's just crap. I want Spotify on my SUPERBAR! I want the ability to stop, start and change tracks without having to dig Spotify out of my ...

Citing the renewed competition in the streaming-music sector, paidContent is reporting on Spotify's two new packages: Spotify Unlimited and Spotify Open. Spotify Unlimited -- £4.99/month -- is a cut-down version of the current £9.99/month Premium service. Like the Premium service, all advertising has removed. You don't get offline access from your mobile phone however, nor do you ...

At LAST! Seriously, Spotify is beyond awesome -- and I lament the non-Europeans that can't use it -- but there has always been one missing feature: social sharing. Spotify has always needed a forum; some way to share your playlists, some way to see what your friends are listening to. And now you can... with the omnipotent and omnivorous Facebook Connect! Connect to your Facebook profile and a ...

Last.fm just made a huge change to its offerings, deciding to let partner services handle on-demand music streaming, while Last.fm focuses on the recommendation and discovery side of its business. It's a big loss for users in the US, UK and Germany, who have been able to listen to plenty of full tracks via Last.fm for the past two years. So, why the switch? Last.fm says it's because of the ...

Spotify, the streaming music service that made a big splash in Europe last year, has always been slated for a 2010 launch in the US. Unfortunately, there was a long period at the beginning of this year when Spotify's executives wouldn't say much of anything about when they'd finally bring the service to North America. The hype around the service cooled off a bit, but you can prepare to hear ...

Our main man Nik Fletcher loves Spotify -- along with just about everyone else on the Continent who has access to the awesome streaming music service. And while just a few days ago it was unclear whether Spotify would ever make the trek across the Atlantic, today we've got a definite answer. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has now said that it's coming later this year to the U.S. In an interview with ...

Like all other music-loving residents of North America, I spend half of every day foaming at the mouth with jealousy over Europe's access to the streaming music service Spotify. Well, now I have at least one university full of Europeans to be a little less jealous of: Oxford University has banned Spotify on campus. Was free, legal music undermining the historic school's educational mission? Nope, ...

I admit it, European Download Squad readers: I'm jealous of you. My friends in London and Paris are swapping Spotify playlists like crazy, and we Americans and our brothers to the north still don't have access to this awesome music service. Heck, it doesn't even take a fancy phone to use Spotify in Europe anymore: it's just arrived on Nokia's Symbian phones. This is a huge move for Spotify, ...

Using YouTube to listen to music is nothing new. Search for a song you want to hear, and you're very likely to find it, even if there's no official music video. YouTube isn't built to listen to music though, and that's where TubeRadio.fm comes in. It's a slick music player that lets you create playlists from YouTube, and can even find entire albums at once, using track listings and album art from ...