Spotify works kind of like iTunes, but you stream songs from a "rented" catalog of online music.
It’s hard to escape buzz about Spotify this week — especially since Britney Spears and others are “so excited” about it.
The music catalog is huge
First, a little background: Spotify — the name is a combination of “spot” and “identify” — is a music streaming service, which means it lets you play songs off the Internet. So it’s kind of like Pandora, except that you can search for songs and create playlists from a catalog of 15 million tracks.
It’s free
Well, mostly. With an invitation, users in the U.S. can play songs with some ads sprinkled in for good financial measure. For $5 per month, the ads go away and you get unlimited streaming.
“I’ve been using Spotify for a year and a half here in England, and it’s been a real test: I left my CD collection packed up in boxes,”CNET’s Stephen Shankland says.
It works like iTunes
iTunes, Apple’s hugely popular music player, is easy to use. So is Spotify. In reviews, tech writers note how fast the system works, and how easy it is to find music and add songs to your playlists.
It lets you take music anywhere
If you pay $10 a month for the premium service, you can listen to all of your Spotify play lists. You can download Spotify songs into the company’s app and listen to them offline — for no extra charge.
Any drawbacks?
Some analysts say Spotify will have a hard time busting into the U.S. market, which is already full of music streaming sites that are popular. Pandora says it has 100 million users, which makes it a particularly formidable foe.
Artists earn only $0.004 when you listen to one of their songs,according to analyst Mark Milligan, quoted by the BBC.
But, as the Twitter chatter shows, some artists support this alternative.
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