Sunday, 4 January 2009

Spotify.. legal music service

Well this is a first. A free, legal music service sanctioned by the recording studios. It looks like iTunes but works like an on-demand radio service. You just search for the artist or track that you want then click play, thats it. What amazes me isn't that it works in Linux under wine, but they actively help Linux users, showing them how to get it working under wine. While not as good as a native version, I am not going to get all whiney and complain, it works like a charm. In addition, I read that advertisements interdesperse every six songs or so, well so far I haven't heard one ad. Maybe because I am not playing albums, but single tracks, maybe because it detects it's in Wine and it wrongly assumes Linux users won't pay for anything, or maybe I am lucky, but I recommend you give it a try. No USA version for now, but if you are in the UK, give it a try.

http://www.spotify.com/en/

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