Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Week 3 EOC: Spotify

Spotify is an account that you can sign up for so that you can get access to streaming music to your own personal computer.  When you do sign up, you will gain access to about 15 million different songs that you can listen to anytime that you choose.

This is important due to the fact that it is a cloud music service, Spotify is able to give users access to their playlists from anywhere and also offline. Even if you’re stuck in the subway and there’s no wifi, you can access your Spotify account, so long as you still have battery on your device.

Many record companies are going to feel that their business is going to vastly threatened by spotify due to the fact that this can basically negate the reason to even buy tangible CDs, which could put them out of business or at minimum have a serious impact on the amount of income the company can possibly generate

Some industry watchers see Spotify's offering as the end of the music download business. But Daniel Ek — the company's Swedish-born, 28-year-old founder and CEO — feels differently.

The business started with a few people discussing ideas of how to make something that would cater to people when it came to an htpc machine, they even discussed the issues that came with Napster and the problems it had

What I did find that was rather surprising was the fact they had the soundtracks to the newest movies out on the top lists and based on what I've seen in the music industry which isn't much that the soundtracks unless it's a pop song that everyone likes they tend to end up on the back end of the spectrum.  But I did find a spot where you could listen to the soundtrack for the new movie "Hunger Games"


http://www.spotify.com/us/

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