1.9.09
Spotify on the iPhone
The iTunes App Store has finally approved the Spotify App for the iPhone so anytime soon it should be downloadable from the UK iTunes store. The app will be free but you will need a Premium Spotify account to access the music. £9.99 per month. Now that sounds expensive until you consider that it's really only the cost of 1 music CD per month and for that you get to listen to bucketloads of music of your own choosing. If that was the end of the story that still wouldn't sound too great but this talk of an "offline" mode so that you can download tracks to your Spotify App and play them without a network connection of any sort (not 3G, not Wi-Fi etc) suddenly sounds much more appealing. It sounds like you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want from your iPhone. It's now sounding just like a portable MP3 player. Am I right? Have I missed something? Is this the future of paying for music? Pay a 'once a month' fee and download whatever you like? If so I like it! Please discuss......
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I guess it sounds good however it was only about 18 months ago that record companies (led by Universal) were going to offer unlimited "downloads" for around £10 per month - that way you can do what you want with the tracks - the only thing was that adverts would be shown when you downloaded tracks. It never got rolled out in the uk in the end. If you can, as you say, "save" music onto the iphone for use later (i.e. where there's no WiFi then that sounds good) - you should get offered a substantial discount however if you actually then want to buy the track. I'll keep a look out for it!!
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