Spotify

Spotify: We kick the tyres • The Register

Review Spotify, which opened up to all UK users this week, is a streaming music access service that's gathered an ecstatic response from some users. It's even "made illegal file sharing look like too much hard work" according to one Reg commenter. That's a pretty big claim - but then it's a pretty ambitious service. So what it is Spotify, and how does it stack up? And in an unforgiving commercial environment, will it last longer than a bat of a eyelid?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/spotify_review/

Spotify Set to Take America by Storm

Spotify is coming to America, and like any immigrant, has dreams of making it big here — but no illusions that it will be easy. With an application that seems like a magical, all-encompassing version of iTunes, giving access to over 6 million tracks on demand, Spotify is already the most successful music sharing platform…

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/spotify-set-to-take-america-by-storm/

Advertising-supported music will not save a troubled industry. But it helps

Advertising-supported music will not save a troubled industry. But it helps

http://www.economist.com/node/14140633

Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We've Ever Used

Imagine a music app with instant access to any song you wanted to hear. Imagine creating a playlist from those songs and quickly, easily sharing it with friends. Such an app does exist, it's called Spotify, and it could change music forever.

http://lifehacker.com/5330148/spotify-is-the-best-desktop-music-player-weve-ever-used

Streaming Music Site, Spotify, Has Major Music Label Ownership

Some of the world's largest music companies are among the owners of Swedish streaming music service Spotify, with the record labels buying their shares cheaply.

http://www.techhive.com/article/169811/Documents_Reveal_Major_Labels_Own_Part_of_Spotify.html

Telegraph

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6174078/Spotify-reverts-to-invite-only-sign-up.html

Gigaom

Out of all the startups that have tried to reinvent the way we listen to music over the past decade, few have attracted as much attention as free stream...

https://gigaom.com/2009/09/17/spotify-is-the-new-napster-but-which-one/