![]() The catch? As I mentioned above, you’ll hear occasional advertisements between tracks, and you’re restricted to 20 hours of music streaming a month in the first six months of your membership. Meanwhile, we’ve also got Napster and Rhapsody, which offer for-pay streaming music starting at $5 and $10 a month, respectively. Two other sites- Slacker, and Last.fm-do much the same thing. There’s Pandora, a popular music site that lets you create instant (and free) radio “stations” based on, say, your favorite artist or a particular song. OK, so what’s so special about that? Aren’t there already websites that stream music for free? Spotify offers three membership levels: a free service that lets you play up to 20 hours of music a month (as noted by the New York Times) with occassional advertising, a $4.99-a-month Unlimited plan that lets you stream unlimited music, without the ads, and a $9.99 Premium service that offers downloadable or streaming music for your smartphone. Spotify has been up and running in seven countries-including the UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, The Netherlands, and Spain for some time now, but it’s only making its (long-awaited) U.S. Launched back in 2008, Spotify is an online music streaming company that serves up more than 15 million songs from all the big music labels, which you play through a peppy, easy-to-use desktop application (similar to iTunes). ![]() ![]() So, what’s so special about Spotify? Aren’t there already music sites like Pandora and Slacker (more on them in a moment) that stream tunes to your PC for free? Well yes, but Spotify boasts a key twist that sets it apart. ![]()
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