ian jenkins

I recently started using spotify after I saw someone I was following on twitter rave about it, and all I can say is…awesome.

Spotify is basically a music player, much like itunes, where you can search tracks and listen to music. The greatest thing about spotify is that you can listen to (almost) any track in the world! It is just like having your own personal radio. You even get the annoying adverts, which in actual fact, aren’t nearly as annoying as you might think. You hardly notice a short audio advert, and I much prefer it to having a great big flashing banner hit me in the face whilst searching for tracks.

It’s catalogue of tunes is seriously huge, imagine having an ipod with every song in the world (almost) on it and that’s what spotify is. What makes it even more great, is a sweet ass interface and search.

it even scrobbles!

Yep, after numerous requests and attempted plugins, spotify finally added last.fm scrobbling support. This is a killer feature for me as I am a keen user of last.fm. Would love to see more last.fm integration, such as being able to ‘love’ a track directly form spotify, but then we get in to the realms of just recreating last.fm, which is not what it’s trying to do.

If you haven’t checked out spotify then I urge you to, invite only at the moment for the free version (I got 4 invites left, drop me a comment if you want 1). If, like me, you spend all day at a desk, listening to tunes whilst you tap away at a keyboard, then this is perfect for you.