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Spotify is TUAW Best of 2011 winner for iPhone music apps

by Steven Sande Dec 28th 2011 at 2:30PM

TUAW readers have spoken, and Spotify has grabbed the last iPhone award in the TUAW Best of 2011 voting. The free app (there is a charge for premium access) provides access to over 15 million tracks of music.

Considering that Spotify has only been available in the US for six months, the fact that the app pulled in over 56 percent of the votes shows just how popular it is with TUAW readers.

The second-place winner, trailing Spotify with only 17.9 percent of the votes, is NanoStudio (US$14.99). While Spotify is an app for consumption of recorded audio, NanoStudio is a musician's dream instrument and recording studio.

Congratulations to Spotify for winning the top place in our TUAW Best of 2011 voting for iPhone music apps! This is the last category for iPhone apps and hardware, and tomorrow the results of initial iPad polling begin to appear on TUAW.



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Steve

Personally, I still find Pandora infinitely more usable, accessible, and enjoyable than Spotify. And now that it supports AirPlay, it can fill my house with music all from my pocket.

December 28 2011 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Soluble Peter

A bit puzzled why Garageband wasn't in the finalists- its an accessible and very affordable multitrack recorder/ sampler AND guitar effects unit, all rolled into one!

December 28 2011 at 5:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ken W.

Does the Spotify app do anything for you without a premium subscription? At all, I mean? Twice now I've installed this app, and both times I've ended up uninstalling it.

December 28 2011 at 3:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jesse Virgil

Seriously? This app is so worthless compared to competitors like Rdio and Rhapsody. All the Spotify app allows you to do is browse playlists, which can't even be organized within in the app.

December 28 2011 at 3:23 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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David L

Spotify on my iPhone allows me to organize playlists, search for music, (add said music to playlists), look at news and top songs in my region, see playlists from friends.

Are you sure you are using the latest version?

December 28 2011 at 3:32 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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Jesse Virgil

I admit that I haven't used the newest version of the app and am glad to see that playlist organization is now available to users. However, I would still like the ability to browse my library by artist or album (a function available in the Rdio app) and not be forced to create playlist for an individual artist/album as a work around.

December 29 2011 at 9:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down
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