I don’t normally listen to music when working unless I’m working from home like I was today. Rather than having iTunes on shuffle I tried Spotify today. It’s a free music streaming application with quite an extensive catalogue. It works on a combination of streaming and Peer to Peer (P2P) technologies. You do need to install a client which has a built in cache. It’s that cache that’s used by the P2P network to distribute the content. It works well and isn’t glitchy. You can hear whole albums for free. The only catch is the occasional adverts which are used to fund it. There is a paid version too though, that des away with the adverts. It also scrobbles your listening to last.fm if you so choose. No iPhone client yet though so it’s only any good when in front of the PC. Hopefully there’s one on the cards.
Today’s link will open up the track to listen to in Spotify. Give it a go.
Death y ‘69 is one of the old tracks that came up on Spotify. Another great track I’d forgot about. It refers to the Manson Family murders of Sharon Tate that happened in LA in 1969.
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joebuck // February 5, 2009 at 23:20
There are so many treasures to be found in Spotify.