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Friday, 27 May 2011

A popular Swedish IT-product: Spotify music streaming


Spotify is a Swedish program offering an unlimited music-streaming service from many major record labels such as Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal.  You can also search for Italian artists and groups! Spotify is funded by paid subscriptions, ads on the Spotify player for non-subscribers and music purchases. Unfortunately this service is not yet available in Italy, but when you come to us in September, we will show it to you!

There are four different account types: Open, Free, Unlimited and Premium. The open and free ones are similar. They are both free. The only difference is that Spotify open is limited to 20 hours of listening time a month. Unlimited is the ads-free type for half of the cost of Spotify premium but without the premium features. With the premium type, you can play Spotify ads-free on a cellphone and have some features like higher bitrate and offline mode.

 Spotify is currently only available to certain parts of Europe. It is also available in some countries outside of Europe but the accounts are restricted to people that can purchase premium accounts with credit cards or paypal accounts. Out of the four types of accounts, only the premium one is available in those countries.


Written by Chau

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