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From Death Metal to Easy Listening: Why Spotify Is Taking Over the Net
If you spend all day working at a computer, chances are your day improves the moment you pop in your headphones and play some tunes. Unless your entire music collection is on your computer, it can get very frustrating trying to locate a specific track to download from the net. Even when you do find what you are looking for it can take a while to download a single track so imagine how long it could take if you were trying to listen to an entire album. The answer is Spotify, a music lover’s dream that offers immediate access to millions of albums, rare singles and soundtracks. Spotify is free and users simply need to download the program to start trawling through seemingly endless track listings.
Previously Spotify has only been available to those that have received an invitation, giving it an exclusivity factor than many people still associate with the program. Now that the program is open to everyone, Spotify is fast becoming one of the most popular music services on the internet, even warranting prime time TV adverts to entice users to start enjoying the Spotify experience.
Whether you are looking to rediscover an album from your youth or track down that one song that you end up dancing to whilst drunk but can never remember the morning after, the vast amount of tracks means that whatever you need-chances are you will find it. One of the only drawbacks of Spotify is the advertising, but let’s be fair, if you’re being given access to a music collection to rival HMV’s, you can expect to have a few interruptions!
If you are that ‘bothered’ about having a 60 second advert pop up whilst you listen to the latest Phil Collins album, there is a premium service that guarantees an advert free Spotify experience and offers access to brand new albums not available on the free service. Presently, the monthly premium service is priced at £9.99 which still only works out the same as buying one album each month, not too bad if you consider the actual amount of music that is at your finger tips.