Monday, December 15, 2008

Spotify

I have been fighting iTunes DRM on my machine for the past few days, because of an old email address that some music was tied to and now will not play. That made me look into alternatives. I need my Ozzy!!!

While Apple tech support tries to help me (they are very responsive BTW), I have started to look at alternatives. I got an invite from Spotify. Amazing selection of music, streams incredibly fastly and the quality is pretty good. The spotify team is smart... they started by focusing on the basics... music and will probably add a lot more features as we go forward.

What I would like to see more of in Spotify, which I think could make it become a worthy contender to iTunes. (except for iPhone support)
  1. Much better social. Hook it up to Google's open social or to facebook and let me share my music!
  2. Support for AirTunes
  3. Link the song titles to Billboard history
  4. Don't let it take 10 % of a core2 duo while idling (on mac os x). If you are caching... then say so!
I have no clue how to make spotify portable... or how to have my playlists move from iTunes to Spotify (product idea!!!) . I think that as they get adoption, they will figure this out.

Great service... go Spotify!
Anyhow, here is my first Spotify music list!

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