Comments on: Spotify vs iTunes vs Omnifone

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:52:00 +0000

OMNIPHONE? RAAAANDOM =P

By: keith willey

keith willey — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:47:55 +0000

Why dump iTunes? Convincing! Esp with recent android demo. Also We7 are contenders and probably closer to proven revenue http://bit.ly/U85iN

[Original tweet, Topsy page]

By: keith willey

keith willey — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:47:55 +0000

Why dump iTunes? Convincing! Esp with recent android demo. Also We7 are contenders and probably closer to proven revenue http://bit.ly/U85iN

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:24:00 +0000

But it has the same problem as Napster had; control. Albums disappear, and so does your ability to hear them. And you need an active connection. I’ve been using it as a review process. But it is a great facility, I would have been in love with this when I was a teenager.

By: jamesbody

jamesbody — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:33:37 +0000

But of course iTunes offers much much more than just a means of buying the latest 'Girls Aloud' and 'Sugar Babes' tracks that I know you love so much Ewan. I forcast that you will still be using your iTunes for many months to come.

I use mine to drop big lumps of new media (such as the Mobile Industry Review video podcasts – I will miss them) each evening – as well as managing big globs of third party material that transits to and from my iPhon/iPods.

Having said that – I really do like the simple, clean and easy to understand interface – I was amazed to find my 9 year old son using Spotify to sampe 20 different versions of 'Smoke on the Water' n order that he can play along with his guitar! He is a convert to Spotify – and so am I!

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:29:40 +0000

I really, really enjoyed MusicStation, Mark. I tried it out on a classic Sony Ericsson handset — I forget the actual model — but it was running on Vodafone. It was a rubbish, rubbish Sony. The kind that is super slim and does nothing but make telephone calls and send text messages. Everything else — especially the bollocks Sony music software was hugely painful to even consider using. You could put MP3s on it.. but the handset didn't handle them very well.

So when I tried out the MusicStation service on that handset, I was really impressed. I could easily search, download and play a good range of music over the air. It was something I could really see consumers actually *using* and getting value from.

That said, it was a good year ago since I last tried it — and the market has been changing fast. I'd like to see something like Spotify working on a bog standard Sony or LG.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:18:07 +0000

for the last few years the pieces have begun to fall into place for the world to shift away from consumers buying and owning entertainment media to a rental model whether through subscription/one-off or ad-supported

The many opponents to this view had a range of argumentation including claiming that people liked to own their media collections and show off their walls of vhs/dvd/cd/books to visiting guests. With the shift to digital in full swing it is becoming clearer that there are real consumer advantages to the rental model. Spotify is a great implementation of a music rental service. Napster has provided a similar service for years. Having access to the PLANETS music for Â£10 a month or a few adverts an hour is an amazing offer that is only now starting to get the recognition it deserves. It also has the added bonus of no problems about drm/piracy – if you can access all the music anytime anywhere why bother file sharing it. Whether spotify can actually make the economics work is still to be proven and they may need a dramatic increase in ad minutage. Apple is surely going to add subscription/ad funded model at some point in the near future (It recently improved the payment options on its appstore)

I am amazed at your views about Music Station. I tried it when it first came out on Voda and was really disappointed – terrible user interface/customer experience. Maybe it has improved since then??

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:59:51 +0000

That's going to be brilliant…

By: South77

South77 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:12:23 +0000

Spotify works with Last.fm as well

By: Matt Radford

Matt Radford — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:44:28 +0000

Spotify have already demo'd an iPhone app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oNXBCmHtko

Also features caching of tunes for offline listening...

By: jamesbody

jamesbody — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:33:37 +0000

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:29:40 +0000

That said, it was a good year ago since I last tried it — and the market has been changing fast. I'd like to see something like Spotify working on a bog standard Sony or LG.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:18:07 +0000

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:59:51 +0000

That's going to be brilliant…

By: South77

South77 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:12:23 +0000

Spotify works with Last.fm as well

By: Matt Radford

Matt Radford — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:44:28 +0000

Spotify have already demo'd an iPhone app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oNXBCmHtko

Also features caching of tunes for offline listening...