Spotify
FREE Enter a universe of music
Once upon a time, you had to be in the same room as a musician to hear music.
FREE Enter a universe of music
Once upon a time, you had to be in the same room as a musician to hear music.
Then you could take an album around with you on tape or CD. Soon you could carry thousands of tracks on an iPod wherever you went. And now? Now, you can take nearly all the music in the world with you.
Spotify on the iPhone gives you access to a huge library of music from the major labels, plus a bunch of indies. As with the Spotify a pp for Mac and Windows, the catalogue's not exhaustive, but it is immense. First, the bad news: although the app for the iPhone is free, you can't simply use it to stream music as you can on the desktop apps - we wish they'd let us pay for the iPhone app if it meant we could enjoy the ad-supported streams. Instead, you'll need to be a premium member. It costs £9.99 a month (£119.88 a year), hence the asterisk next to Free above. The 99p day passes don't work here, unfortunately.
The good news is that you can stream music from Spotify onto your iPhone, but also cache up to 3,333 tracks locally. It's a bit like downloading tracks - except you don't get to keep them - and it means you can listen to the playlists you or others have created even if you don't have a data connection. The app itself is generally well-built, and while you can listen in the background, there's currently no support to scrabble your listening to Last.fm.
Spotify on the iPhone gives you access to a huge library of music from the major labels, plus a bunch of indies. As with the Spotify a pp for Mac and Windows, the catalogue's not exhaustive, but it is immense. First, the bad news: although the app for the iPhone is free, you can't simply use it to stream music as you can on the desktop apps - we wish they'd let us pay for the iPhone app if it meant we could enjoy the ad-supported streams. Instead, you'll need to be a premium member. It costs £9.99 a month (£119.88 a year), hence the asterisk next to Free above. The 99p day passes don't work here, unfortunately.
The good news is that you can stream music from Spotify onto your iPhone, but also cache up to 3,333 tracks locally. It's a bit like downloading tracks - except you don't get to keep them - and it means you can listen to the playlists you or others have created even if you don't have a data connection. The app itself is generally well-built, and while you can listen in the background, there's currently no support to scrabble your listening to Last.fm.
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