This is going to sound like an advertisement but I’m just trying to ramble my thoughts. Forgive me.

The mysterious name Spotify is currently making rounds in music forums and discussions at an alarming rate. You hear people praising it and worshipping its name, and if you cannot be arsed to find out what it is yourself or already know, you’re most likely pretty confused or pissed off at the fact that it’s currently only working in a certain small selection of countries.

I was pretty doubtful at first about it. I mean, it’s essentially a free online iTunes. So what, I’ve already got my music collection, why would I need to go through the hassle of rebuilding it for a gigantic playlist I’d play whenever the extremely infrequent event when I don’t have all my music collection with me would happen. I gave it a test though because I figured it’d be cool for Indie Paws to have a playlist featuring the music we dig.

For the past week, I’ve been using Spotify quite a lot. You see, when I thought about an online iTunes, I only thought about the personal music library. What I didn’t realise what the Spotify music archive is essentially a hugeton of free music, free to stream in great quality. No more pesky torrents with crap seeds – I’ve introduced myself to several artists during the past week with Spotify. I’ve finally heard the one final Guillemots b-side I hadn’t heard before (excellent, by the way). All for completely free and easily in my grasp from any computer I can install stuff to.

I mean yeah, the library’s not perfect. While I was searching for stuff for the Indie Paws playlist (which’ll be linked to at some point in the future), I did hit quite a lot of empty searches. Obviously, the most indie stuff isn’t there. However, the selection’s constantly growing and pretty much every album that’s talked about in some manner is going to be found from there for testing purposes.

I’m digging this shizz.

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