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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hands On With Spotify: Here's Everything You Need To Know

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At last! Spotify has officially landed in the U.S.

Spotify is a European startup that offers streaming music from a library of 15 million songs.

The basic service is free, but paid users get unlimited, ad-free streaming and access to mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

The mobile apps also allow you to download songs to your phone so you can listen offline.

So what does the U.S. launch mean for you? It means you can finally take advantage of the hottest and most-hyped online services around.

If you have an invite, that is.

To request one head over to Spotify's home page. In the meantime, we'll whet your appetite with our full tour of the music service.

We've been using Spotify for a few months now, and still think it's one of -- if not THE -- best streaming music service around.

Click below to see what all the fuss is about.

When you download the desktop app, you have to log in with your Spotify account

Make sure you agree to the Terms of Service before you continue

You can listen to music stored on your computer or search Spotify's library of streaming music

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How You Can Start Using Spotify RIGHT NOW

Spotify founders Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek

Spotify's U.S. release is starting as an invite-only for those who want a free account.

But if you're impatient and want to try Spotify right now, you can sign up for one of the two paid premium accounts. Click here to sign up.

All together, Spotify has three plans to choose from. Here's a breakdown of what each plan gets you:

Free: Free accounts are invite-only right now. Free accounts give you access to Spotify's desktop app which lets you stream music (with ads) from a library of about 15 million songs. You also use the desktop app to play songs already stored on your computer. Click here to request and invite.

Unlimited: The Unlimited plan costs $4.99. You get everything in the Free version plus you can stream an unlimited number of songs to your computer without ads. Click here to sign up for an Unlimited account.

Premium: The Premium plan costs $9.99 per month. You get everything in the Unlimited plan plus you can access Spotify on your phone by downloading the iPhone or Android app. You can also download songs to your phone and listen to them online. Click here to sign up for a Premium account.

Want to know more? Click here for our complete tour of Spotify for desktop and mobile

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Spotify Is In America!

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After more than two years of anticipation, subscription music service Spotify launches in the U.S. on July 14.

And based on an early report by Peter Kafka, it will have one feature that will absolutely blow every other subscription music service away: you can listen to 20 hours a month for free, with a few ads thrown in.

That's more than the service now offers in Europe -- there, Spotify recently cut it back from 20 to 10 hours.

The real goal is to get users to sign up for the paid tier at $10 per month (for full ad-free mobile access) or $5 a month (for Web-only).

It will be fascinating to see how Spotify survives with all that free music -- because of the way music licensing works in the U.S., Spotify will have to pay a higher rate (the rate that subscription services pay) even for the free songs. Unlike online radio services like Pandora, which pay a much lower statutory rate.

But whatever -- Spotify is like a unicorn. We've been waiting forever and now it's here.

So where can you get it?

Well, you can't quite yet. Right now, it's by invitation only so you have to enter an email address. They'll send you an invite code.

Stay tuned -- as soon as we get our invite we'll be posting all the details.

For those of you who can't wait to see what it looks like, Tom Warren of WinRumors -- a lucky U.K. resident -- gave us permission to post this screenshot he took:

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Spotify Is In America Tomorrow!

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After more than two years of anticipation, subscription music service Spotify launches in the U.S. tomorrow.

That's more than the service now offers in Europe -- there, Spotify recently cut it back from 20 to 10 hours.

The real goal is to get users to sign up for the paid tier at $10 per month (for full ad-free mobile access) or $5 a month (for Web-only).

But whatever -- Spotify is like a unicorn. We've been waiting forever and now it's here.

So where can you get it?

Well, you can't quite yet. Right now, it's by invitation only so you have to enter an email address. They'll send you an invite code.

Stay tuned -- as soon as we get our invite we'll be posting all the details.

Update: For those of you who can't wait to see what it looks like, Tom Warren of WinRumors -- a lucky U.K. resident -- gave us permission to post this screenshot he took:

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