/ Streaming Music, Technology (Posted in Danish, 2012 Januar 16th)
EDIT: There have been major changes in Spotify Apps, the following article is outdated, but check the musicvideo below. There will be a new article on this later ... link will be posted here: later
An apostate YouSee Play user confesses :)
I have for some months had the pleasure of comparing YouSee Play with Spotify. Spotify was an alright streaming solution, but Yousee Play did the same thing for free, if you were a YouSee costumer, so why bother, I thought ...
Then I discovered Spotify Apps and I was sold - since that I haven't been using Yousee Play, although it is of no cost to me. For those who don't know Spotify yet: it's a service that streams music, for free with commercials every 4 tracks or without commercials for dkr. 50,- per month ($ 7,19) or in higher bitrate and for mobile and so on for dkr. 100,- per month ($ 14,39). They have 17 million tracks right now (EDIT! Now more than 30 million tracks). You must have email or facebook account.
Now what's up with the Apps? ... people who don't know them ask (and the rest nods their heads) ... explanation follows below after this video with the band called Feed Me, which I did not know until I tried the app "We are hunted", where you discover new music in several ways.
The number of apps are growing...
Here's some interesting ones:
123 Toplists - Danish charts.
Radio - drag a song on the icon and you hear music based on the song's style and so on.
Billboard - Billboard charts from the USA.
fuse - today's short music news combined with relevant playlists.
Gaffa - Scandinavia's biggest music magazine, news, reviews, tracks, concerts and playlists.
Moodagent - drag a song at the icon, select your mood and whether the intensity should be increasing, decreasing or have another curve. Then you'll get a personal playlist.
Pitchfork - Reviews of albums, with playlists.
Rolling Stone - great music and lifestyle magazine. Lots of reviews, recommendations, and top-lists etc. From the past "many" decades til now.
Share my playlists - super area with all kinds of playlists from all sorts of people and places with every kind of music. Exciting.
Songkick - find concerts with your favouriet bands? Never again sold out!? Maybe not ...
Sound Drop - throw a playlist and invite friends into the listening room - across the country / world. Or go into a listening room - area is divided into genres.
Top10 - make your own top10 lists (maybe top10 songs on Copenhagen / winter / of an artist etc.) and listen to others.
TuneWiki - super app that finds and displays lyrics for the songs - if there is no lyrics yet, you can add your own.
We are hunted - as mentioned above, discover new music within areas and genres.
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