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Apple approves Spotify app
The Telegraph from the UK reports (via Paid Content) that after more than a month in limbo, the music-streaming app Spotify for the iPhone has been approved. Spotify is to Europe what Rhapsody is to the U.S. -- and we even took a look at Rhapsody's iPhone offering just a couple days ago. Spotify will allow access to the service's full catalog from the iPhone, create playlists from it -- and allow offline use of those playlists. The YouTube video above gives insight into exactly how the app works. It is available for paid subscribers only. A subscription costs £9.99 per month or £119.88 per year.
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Paul Mensah said 5:56PM on 8-27-2009
When he exited the app to turn the airplane mode off I thought he was going to play the song in the background I had my fingers crossed ;-(
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kmcgrady90 said 6:44PM on 8-27-2009
No background apps. The only music apps that can play music when closed are ones that utilize your iPod music library (such as tune wiki). The basically act as a front while all the playing is done by the iPod app.
iGlad said 8:39PM on 8-27-2009
I wouldn't waste my battery on it especially not for £119.98 per year they are taking the P*ss. better off going to FOPP and buy some CD's.
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HB said 5:09AM on 8-28-2009
In my opinion, not that exciting for several reasons:
1. Does not play in the background! - huge issue, not their fault I know but a MASSIVE disadvantage.
2. Quite expensive for what you get. Unlimited music is nice but I'd rather own my tracks.
3. Question mark as to whether this will work over 3G. My current phone really struggles to stream internet radio over 3G here in the UK and pauses to rebuffer the whole time which really ruins the experience. I'd be worried that it would be more of the same.
4. Just as a general matter I don't like the way Spotify works. It's great for listening to new tracks that you just heard about or things that come to mind but terrible when it comes to rediscovering old bands and albums. Looking through Coverflow kind of gives you an ability to do that in a vaguely sensible way. Spotify's playlist system is a very very poor second best solution imo.
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Dom said 7:38AM on 8-28-2009
I like Spotify, but £120/year for the premium version is approaching "rip off" territory.
People who spend that much on music are the kind of people that want to 'own' a copy of the music. And casual listeners who only buy a few albums a year at most aren't even going to consider spending that much.
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samuel said 2:05PM on 8-28-2009
Its so nice to hear a familiar accent. I can't believe Apple approved this app, with what one hand can give the other can take.
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James Burton said 4:25PM on 8-28-2009
Love how they placed their App where the iPod icon originally was.
I'll stick with buying my music off the iTunes store / play.com cause I'm certainly not paying their ridiculous subscription prices!
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Steven Mohler said 5:57PM on 8-28-2009
Not to sound dumb, but has anyone thought of the fact that when Spotify is released in the US, Apple will likely pull this from the app store like Google Voice saying that it alters the core program of the phone and confuses the user?
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