Is Spotify the best free online music app ever?
Every so often an application comes along that simply blows you away and the free version of Spotify is definitely one of the best music apps I’ve ever used. You know you’re dealing with a serious piece of software when a band as big as U2 decides to launch an exclusive preview of their album on it. The closest equivalent I can think of is Pandora (which is now unavailable in Europe) but this is on a whole new level and far better. At the moment, the free version is in beta stage and you need an invite from the developers or a friend to use it. Spotify is basically like having access to a huge amount of commercial music, in a format as elegant as on iTunes, but available to you for free, wherever you go. It’s simple to use, beautifully presented, the amount of music available is unbelievable and the quality of streaming is superb. What’s the catch? You just have to put up with a few non-obtrusive ads inside the Spotify interface and occasionally in between songs. At the time of writing
