Spotify – first play

Spotify comes with around 15M songs in their library, not counting the 10,000 songs added daily.

First impression after a quick download and install, is how quick it seeks out all your existing audio files, and presents them all to you in a single command center, the Spotify application. After that, it’s just point and listen – search for a song you want to hear, and Spotify plays the song or the entire album for you – for free!

The free version, is ad supported. There is also the social media integration – facebook and twitter – platforms to share your playlist. There is however a trial period of 6 months. Afterwhich, the free version lets you play a track 5 times a month, and 10 hours of streaming a month. The upgrade to $5/ month removes these restrictions and ads.

Music streaming, using the Ogg Vorbis format has streaming quality set for the free user at q5 or 160 kbps and with premium users able to opt for q9 or ~320Kbps.

Since I am a blackberry user, I cannot test the Andriod or iPhone playlist integration (sync) wifi features..

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