Spotify revisited.
I first encountered Spotify about a year ago when a friend sent me a link to the then fledgling website. At that time there wasn’t a great deal of music available and I decided (somewhat hastily it now transpires) not to use it.
A few work colleagues have recently been telling me how much music is now available and how great the site is. Unfortunately, registration to the free service is now by invitation only, so I was starting to think I might have missed the boat (having failed in every attempt to resurrect my old account).
Lady luck was smiling on me though and a colleague of mine was able to secure an invitation through a twitter user he follows and I was by that means able to register today and to start using the free Spotify service.
Regular updates mean that there are songs being added on an almost daily basis, another 40,000 or more today alone. It’s like having the whole of the iTunes store available to listen to, for free, from any PC where you have the client software installed.
I’m going to stick with it this time because if nothing else, it’s a great way to find and listen to new music (quite legally) before committing to a purchase.