application of the moment written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 06 May 2009
I know this has been about for some time now, but one of my favourite applications at the moment is Spotify (www.spotify.com) for those of you who don’t know what it is, its an application that gives you the freedom to listen to any song you want when ever or where ever you want. All you do is register for a Spotify account, these cost anything from Free to £9.99 per month, then you download and install the application, and away you go free streaming music direct to your computer.
It works in a similar way to most common music players such as iTunes, and has a lot of cool features such as a list of all your most recent searches, you can set up playlist’s and even share them with friends.
Spotify is a brilliant little application, and it’s so simple to use, however there are a few minor drawbacks, for instance if you sign up to a free account you get adverts playing between songs every half hour or so, but personally as the adverts do not tend to come up that often I personally don’t find this to be much of an issue, the only other real problem I have with it at the moment is that it only currently works on Windows or Mac OS X, and they have yet to develop the application for the Linux platform, there are ways to get the Windows version working using Wine (winehq.og) but this can be quite tricky depending on your system.
I already love this application and happily recommend it to any of my friends, music lovers every where should definitely give it a try.
