Spotify announced this week that it’s finally coming to the US.
Spotify offers three plans: Free, Unlimited, and Premium.
So far, I have been extremely impressed with the service!
The above screenshot shows the Spotify landing page.
This page shows you the latest popular albums and allows you to begin streaming them for free.
you could stream all of these tracks right from the charts.
This doesn’t really provide any useful features on my iMac containing the iTunes library.
This is MUCH more useful to me.
Spotify claims to have over 15 million tracks in their library.
This is very apparent, and a huge majority of my music collection is available in Spotify for streaming.
They have basically every new release and an impressive collection of older albums from many artists.
Apparently, Spotify will also get some exclusive albums for streaming before they are released to the public.
Spotify Mobile
Spotify is available on the iPhone and many (although not all) Android phones.
It works pretty well, but not perfect.
I’m still planning to keep some local Mp3s on my iPhone.
Social Features
There are some impressive social features included with Spotify.
Unfortunately for me, many of those features are closely tied to your Facebook account.
I think this is something they are planning to change in the future.
It shouldn’t affect too many people since nearly everyone has a Facebook account.
Once shared, your friend will see an incoming message in their Inbox containing the shared track.
I’m not sold on the Spotify iPhone app, yet.
