Spotify's Long-Awaited iPad App Debuts in App Store

Or you could spend $9.99 on an album of an artist you like and add it to your collection permanently.

Or you could spend $10 a month and have access to their entire library, find songs, note them, and THEN go buy the album if you like enough of them.

HOW DARE THESE PEOPLE ALLOW US TO HAVE MORE OPTIONS! Their model is dumb and they should feel bad, competition is awful, only iTunes should be allowed to exist!

As long as Spotify requires a Facebook account to work, they can go **** themselves. Not getting a FB for some lousy music rental service.

It doesn't require one to work, it works perfectly well without one.

However if you have one, you can use it to sign up more easily and share playlists & tracks with friends if you want. This can easily be switched off if you're not interested though.

And relax.

have to say that ad was fantastic. actually got a smile out of me with the "just press 2x... just kidding!"

Given that the record labels have demonstrated a willingness to make their content available this way, I'm surprised Apple still has not made a subscription option available -- all you can eat on every device for $9.99 a month.

Same with movies and TV shows.

Or you could spend $9.99 on an album of an artist you like and add it to your collection permanently.

Spotify costs that per month for unlimited music. It's a no-brainer. How is owning ONE CD worth it?

why rent, when you can own

spotify is just a slightly better version of Rhapsody

none of these streaming services pay out artists unless you're getting millions of spins

the only way for musicians to make money these days is to tour

the best thing about my iTunes library is that I'm not interrupted by advertisements every other time I click on a song...

Well, if you get the unlimited or premium version you won't get ads, and you'll get to listen to as much music as your hear yearns for.

I'm a former music pirate and I have stopped pirating music thanks to Spotify. It's that good. Well worth the $9.99/unlimited. I don't go a day without discovering new music.

Why would I pay $10 a month and not own any of million songs, instead of iTunes model of paying $10 a song, and own 10 songs per month for life, I would own my own millions of songs, and on hard-drive based iPods that dont require internet. I can play thaat song that I own for $.99 anywhere in the world, in subways, in caves, and in the boonies, if my road trips should ever take me there.

You get 10 songs you purchased for $10.

or

You get 15 million songs if you pay $10 a month.


Spotify has "off-line" mode for up to 3,333 songs. Which mean you can listen to any of the 3,333 songs you designated without any internet. Save a lot of mobile data.


Look at it this way....

Would there still be a need for buying digital movies on Itunes if paying $9.99 a month for a Netflix-like service that give you access to all the movies and TV shows in the world?



Which is a better choice?


Netflix-like service that has all the movies/tv shows in the world for $9.99 a month (with offline mode for playback without internet connection)

or

use Itunes to download movies and owning the movies

It's amazing how much Hate Spotify generates from those who don't use it.

Spotify is probably the greatest thing to happen to music since itunes.

If you hate spotify you probably think the ipad is just a big iphone...you just dont get it. :p

Ah right. Paying all that money each month

Only £9.99/$9.99

to be tethered to an internet connection

Spotify supports Offline playback on all platforms it has Apps for (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Web OS, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile 6, Symbian)

all so you can stream low quality mp3 tracks.

320kbps Ogg Vorbis tracks

The iTunes Store is lower quality than that.

Looks like someone should do a little research!