What is it: Pandora has been on the rise in the last couple of years. While not only streaming music for free, it will change artists in the same genre after every song to open your options. While this is a great program, it lacks one major thing. The ability to play a specific song by who you want and when you want. Spotify picks up where Pandora left off. Spotify also gives you the ability to make play lists to share with other users over the internet. Spotify gives you three options. You can either use it for free with ads, pay 4.99 a month for a ad free service or pay 9.99 a month for a ad free service and have the ability to listen to CD's before release and store music for use while offline. Online streaming music service Spotify has excellent audio, easy playlist formation, Facebook integration, and over 15 million tracks, but it is creates a massive drain on mobile devices and occasionally refused to play my WMA tracks.
Impact on the market: While it seems like such a service would impact the industry in a negative way, its actually making the music industry money. Much like YouTube, it gives the content away for free. While being played for it, it adds advertisement into the mix. Spotify also gives the option of purchasing music for you your own personal collection as well. Its almost the same model of giving away free samples at a grocery store. A very smart move on Spotify's part was teaming up with Facebook. Its a endless stream of free advertisement. As long as you have users using the software, it spams the Facebook to say what you are listening to. A app for the Ipad is also in the works.
Weird Find: While the internet is full of weird things, the one I found was Weird Al was still making music. He release a album in 2011 with of course various parodies. While the CD was released in 2011, hes now pushing a DVD of the tour that ensued after the album was released last year. No matter how old you get, you are never to old to enjoy some Weird Al.
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