Is Streaming Music Our Shambhala?
Found an article by Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired that basically gives an update on the state of streaming music services, and whether or not they’ll fly in the US.
Spotify Overthrows iTunes… for UMG… in Sweden…
It’s being reported that Universal Music Group, the largest label in the world, has earned more money from Spotify in the past 5 months than it has from iTunes Sweden.
Spotify Everywhere… Except The U.S.
Imagine every song carried on iTunes, beamed for FREE to your phone, PS3, XBox, SlingBox, and whateverelseBox comes out next. Yeah. It’s kinda like that.
Spotify iPhone App
I first wrote about Spotify a month or two back, as a potential game changer in the world of music distribution and P2P sharing. Though not yet available in the U.S. (which I’m more than bummed about), Spotify has taken another big step forward by launching an iPhone app that will let users stream music [...]
Spotify: Legal P2P?
Though not yet available in the U.S., the new music player Spotify looks to have all the makings necessary to create a new paradigm in music acquisition.
Spotify is a music player that allows users to stream any songs they want, without downloading the songs onto their computer. In that regard, it functions much like Pandora, and the sound quality is comparable. Where it one-ups Pandora is in the fact that’s so much more than a music discovery tool. Spotify lets users select the specific songs they want to hear, create playlists from songs hosted on other users’ computers, and share their playlists with other users. The GUI looks a bit like Songbird, a mashup between iTunes and last.fm.
