[singlepic id=42 w=213 h=160 float=left]For those of you who are not yet familiar with it, Spotify is a nice (free) music streaming application which gives (free) access to 6 million+ tracks. Generally speaking, Spotify offers a better, easier and more optimized way to enjoy your favorite music online than other services like Lastfm, Deezer and Pandora.
The big news here is that Spotify has launched its mobile version for iPhone and Google Android’s owners! This is somehow surprising, knowing Apple’s usual protectionist habit, that it finally decided to let it in its AppleStore when we know that Spotify is a direct rival to iTunes. Is it a demonstration of good will or did Apple finally realized that the future of music lies within its ability to remain available anytime, anywhere and for free?
The free app allows you to stream any of its nearly 4 million tracks over WiFi or 3G and syncs playlists for playback while disconnected. However, it is available exclusively to Spotify Premium members in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France and Norway (a US launch is expected soon).
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In one of its articles published last month, Mashable highlighs that it is possible to “store up to 3,333 songs in offline mode, making it ideal for listening to your music on the plane. The core selling point, however, remains the same as the desktop app: on demand access to 6 million+ tracks. Another neat feature: it syncs with the desktop via wifi…no need to hook up your USB cable. Even US reviewers are blown away: Wired’s Epicenter blog claims it’s so good that “you’d have to pry it out of my cold, dead iPhone before I’ll delete it from my phone”.
You just read it well: The big attraction of the Spotify app is its ability to store your playlists so you can listen to them while completely offline – on the Underground, on a plane, or wherever. Needless to say that this is a revolution in the music industry. For this, you definitely need wifi, and the foresight to remember to sync your playlists before you leave.
My feeling? I just can’t wait to have Spotify made available for Nokia S60 users… windows mobile users (Kerolic kindly shared a link to a video on which we can see Spotify running on a Nokia S60. It is just gorgeous!)
Read — Spotify on Android
Read — Spotify on App Store
Read — Spotify on Symbian S60
Spotify – one of the best music plateform for natural born mobile worker !
Too bad they haven’t released yet a version for Nokia (on S60 symbian OS) …
Not yet !!!
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/16/spotify-mobile-s60-client-previewed-on-video/
The future of mobile applications looks bright, shiny and with music !
@ Kerolic: Wow, thanks for the link!! I’m sure that now S60 Symbian OS users feel like they’re almost part of that exclusive and lucky club of Spotify mobile users! This is definitely changing the way we used to listen to music on the go…
I’m adding your link to that post to share for Symbian OS users. Thanks again Kerolic!