Now I expect that most people will have heard of this by now, but if you haven’t then I will briefly explain, spotify is basically a free music, the only difference is you don’t own the music you simply listen to it. So it’s like your own radio where you decide what you listen to. There are different modes that you can listen to it in either, you can do it for free in which case, every 5 or so songs you get a brief advert. Just a short 1 minute plug of a film or a music event stuff like that. Or you can pay a daily subscription where you get the whole day of music free of adverts or, you get monthly subscription where you get uninterrupted music absolutely no adverts. As far as I am concerned the odd advert does not as yet annoy me enough that I am willing to pay a tenner for the sub but I suppose that will partly depend on whether the adverts start coming on more frequently.
But come on. This is possibly the most awesome thing I have ever heard of, I was never one for buying music online, I much preferred downloading it illegally, I don’t like paying for things that I can’t then hold in my hand, like drinks. But seeing as the whole pirated music thing seems to have become a thing of the past, I needed another option. I am not adverse to buying cd’s in fact I am one of the few people probably who still does it, I do quite like the ability to actually have music physically but that is probably very old fashioned of me. But the ability to listen to loads of different music that I can’t really be bothered to buy the whole album of and the ability to not have to go onto I tunes to download it, that I like, that I really like. I mean this is actually useful technology… don’t get me wrong, I love twitter and facebook and all that shizzle as much as any other blogger but this…this is just awesome. I have been sat for the past two hours listening to all this music that I had forgotten that I wanted and I haven’t had to pay a dime. And so far no annoying emails, no one asking me to find friends or update my profile, I don’t need to add a picture, it’s incredibly un-obtrusive.
It does make me think what have I been doin with my life I could have come with an idea like this…why didn’t I come up with an idea like this? This is easy as a concept goes, the techie stuff I am sure is slightly more complicated but I have geeky computer minded friends who can deal with that kind of crap. You tube for music this is the easiest idea in the world, they have already managed to monetise it, unlike all these other social media sites which leaves marketers helplessly floundering as they try to find a way to use it as a revenue stream. This is the best idea in ages, the guys who did this must be sitting on top of piles of money looking at the fools that created twitter laughing and pointing. The other thing is this isn’t going to grow old, people are already predicting when the twitter bubble is going to burst facebook already has as far as some of us are concerned. Ut who is going to get tired of free music there is always new music coming out and no one is about to stop making it…this idea actually has legs.
That and while I have been writing this I have a listened to a collection of Florence and the machine, badly drawn boy, Camille, Beirut and Vampire weekend, so therefore this thing can do no wrong…
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