Spotify is an awesome way to consume music, providing on demand access to 6 million+ tracks. The only catch: you can only use it if you're in the European countries already served by Spotify (a US launch is expected soon). You'll also need to be Premium subscriber to use either of the apps.
The most remarkable part of this story, however, is that Spotify has been allowed in the App Store at all: it appears to be a direct rival to iTunes, making us wonder if Apple would find a squirmy way to reject it. That hasn't transpired, meaning that Spotify's impressive feature set is now available to the iPhone and iPod touch addicts among us.
As we wrote of the app last month:
A demo posted to YouTube last week (embedded below) shows off features that include offline playlists: you can store up to 3,333 songs in offline mode, making it ideal for listening to your music on the plane. The core selling point, however, remains the same as the desktop app: on demand access to 6 million+ tracks. Another neat feature: it syncs with the desktop via wifi…no need to hook up your USB cable. Even US reviewers are blown away: Wired’s Epicenter blog claims it’s so good that “you’d have to pry it out of my cold, dead iPhone before I’ll delete it from my phone”.
The app will only be available to those with paid Spotify accounts: with Spotify only available in Europe right now (although launching in the US very soon), that means we’ll get it first.
If you're a Spotify user, what are you waiting for? Go forth and download!