For those of you currently using Spotify; you know what a great tool and source of music this program offers to your world. For those of you that have no idea what the program is, or you have been reluctant to sign -up and use it....well your simply just missing out with the best way to listen to music. So Sign-Up already!
For those of you who already know about Spotify skip this long drawn-out paragraph and get to the new details.
To give a brief overview of the service, Spotify was first exclusive to only Europe, dating back to 2006. With it's great success across the pond, Spotify was made available to the US this past July. The service operates in a similar manner compared to Grooveshark, however there is more of a social aspect to Spotify, where you and your friends can share tracks and playlists among one another. There are different payment plans that you can choose from while using Spotify. (1) First the one everyone loves; Free. This plan lets you listen to any song or album you want for free. The one downside to free is that you are hit with a radio AD very 4-5 songs. (2) The second plan is Unlimited, which will cost you just under $5/month. This plan gives you unlimited access to all the song you can possibly listen to without the hassle of an AD popping up during your experience. (3) The third plan is call Premium, this costs $9/month (highly worth it if you have a smartphone). You get everything the Unlimited member receives, but you also can travel with your Spotify playlists on the go with your smartphone. I jumped straight to this plan the day it was released in the US and found that it completely made my iPod insignificant. I use Spotify on my phone everyday and the service is fast and easy to use.
Anyways, back to business. Today Spotify released 12 new apps that are definitely worth checking out. These apps are part of Spotify's objective to better service their consumers with their music experiences. This past November Spotify introduced their "App Finder" to the world and found that in just 4 short months, Spotify users spent a total combined time of 1,500 years on spotify apps alone. (This is the only statistical fact released by Spotify regarding their App Finder).
With the first apps introduced back in November I have found some of them to be very useful. The top apps from before that I strongly suggest trying out are Tune Wiki - This App will display the lyrics to the song you are listen to on Spotify at the exact moment they are said. ShareMyPlaylist - This App I have found to be useful while driving, working out, or lounging. The app is a community of people who share and subscribe to user's playlists. This is helpful when you are just too lazy to put together a playlist. Lastly checkout Billboards Top Charts App, which will give you the top tracks of the week. I find this helpful while trying to keep a group of buddies in a good mood with music everyone knows. (Nothing worse than that anxiety of trying to please everyone with one song)
The New Apps (That were released today) come about from Spotify giving developers the freedom to create some new, well thought-out applications that range from the typical Spotify playlist to new music posted on Twitter apps.
To see my Top 3 Spotify apps keep reading......
Now for my top three apps from the new list that was introduced just today.
1.) Digster - A series of playlist likely to fit anyone's mood or environment. These playlist stretch from Party/Dance tracks to Classical music. What I like the most is the study playlists which will definitely be useful for all you college students cramming in the next month or so.
2.) TweetVine - Every new song on Twitter will appear on a playlist that saves you time from searching and digging to find all the new tracks.
3.) Filtr - This app will allow you to make playlists based on what all your friends are listening to. It even reads into your likes and dislikes on Facebook to provide you with better tracks that you will take a liking to.
Since Spotify released the option to develop apps for their program, record labels came into the game as well to create apps that allow you to listen to all the tracks that that label produced in the past. Some of the labels include Def Jam Records and Warner Music Group.
Now go and try out these apps and let me know what you think about them. Tell us your top Three apps too if you had time find three.
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