Spotify is finally here in the U.S.!
I’ve been using the service over here in Europe for quite a while and it’s packed with lots of cool stuff: more music than you can ever reasonably listen to, social network features, and more. But one of my favorite features is the way Spotify links out to the rest of the internet.
We figured Spotify might be launching this week; but guess what, it’s already here! Time to slap on your headphones.
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Gadget blog Engadget got wind of the news last night from Spotify’s very own Kenneth Parks, the company’s chief content officer. It turns out all four major …
Free Internet radio is a hit, and Pandora has proof.
Pandora now has 100 million users, 36 million of whom log in to the streaming music service every month. Pandora also announced that it accounts for 3.6 percent of the entire radio market, compared to 2.3 percent at the end of last year.
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Puh-leeze. Google+ was so last week. You better start prepping to get on the invite train for the next big thing–-specifically, for Spotify’s U.S. launch.
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Pull your head out of organizing your Circles or trying to snag an invite, because big European music …
Who’s the search engine that knows the theme to Shaft?
No, not Google. But maybe Wolfram|Alpha can ring in as the savviest search engine out of ’em all, because it knows the theme to Shaft.
Show me another search engine that can do that. Seriously. I’m still waiting.
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Wolfram|Alpha is …
So you’ve maybe heard about Amazon offering unlimited server-based music storage (call it “cloud” if you must—I prefer the apparently retro/old-school term “online”). Like me, maybe you have a massive music collection that you’ve shopped around the online scene without success because of service storage limits (take a bow mostly Google …
(UPDATE: Spotify has clarified that the software made available to me is the U.K. version of the service, not the U.S. version. Therefore, things may change before launch, and these should be considered early impressions.)
Spotify’s U.S. launch has been a long time coming, and now it’s nearly here. Although the subscription music …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
Did you ever think you’d see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify’s exact words per its U.S. launch page.
Spotify distances itself from competing streaming music services by offering a free plan that allows users to stream any of its millions of music …
Like a blind oaf, Best Buy has stumbled into the cloud music arena. What Best Buy hasn’t done is given you any clear reasons to pay attention to this service in the first place.
From start to finish, Best Buy Music Cloud is a mess. Its product page gives you a vague sense of what the service offers — sync your music to the cloud and …
Of all of Apple’s failures, one of the tech company’s more disastrous was its move into social music sharing with Ping. Things got so bad that Lady Gaga, the social network’s face, publically called the results “underwhelming,” while Apple’s once-promising service didn’t even warrant a mention during WWDC earlier this …
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Here’s one way of doing that.
Milwaukee developer John Mills …
