on-line music sharing service Spotify dropped its invite - only status in the United States , start the door of the service to everyone .
Music listeners who signalize up for the service will pick up unlimited memory access to its subroutine library of more than 15 million tunes for six months . After that , the standard limits on a free subscription will kick in : 10 minute of listening per month , and during that period no one song can be listened to more than five time .
Spotify music serviceThe service also hastwo paid plans . For $ 4.99 , it has no time limits and no advert . For $ 9.99 , you have the add welfare of being able-bodied to download the birdsong in your on-line playlists to a nomadic machine and flirt them offline .
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Spotify ’s CEO Daniel Ek leaked the news of the move to TechCrunch author Alexia Tsotsis at the Facebook F8 developer ’s conference .
Dismantling of the invite - only systemwill take some time , Ek told Tsotsis , but people can obtain immediate admittance to the fling by registering for Spotify through Facebook .
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Spotify ’s partnership with Facebook was announce yesterday at F8 . Ek , writing in a company blog , explain why Facebook integration was a natural for the service . “ We have sex that the service had to be free to draw mass off from piracy , ” he wrote . “ To do that , we also knew that the service would have to be inherently social . There could n’t be a better place to do this than Facebook . ”
What Facebook user will start control in their news feeds are Spotify medicine posts from their admirer . get across on the spot , and a song will play . Other Spotify Facebook features include a music dashboard and a actual - time ticker to see the trending music tastes of your Facebook buddies .
There are some interrogation , though , about just how integrated Spotify is with Facebook . PCWorld ’s Mark Sullivan made this observation after view a one - on - one demo of Spotify working within Facebook : “ When the Facebook guy giving the demonstration chatter on a song that one of his friend was listening to on Spotify … the desktop Spotify app pop up to bet the music . ”
“ He told me , ” Sullivan keep , “ that there is no ‘ canvas tent app ’ for Spotify , which , he explained , entail that there ’s no Spotify app that run for entirely inside Facebook , as Farmville [ does ] . That means you have to have both the Spotify desktop app and Facebook run to achieve the nerveless music sharing / syncing whoremonger show up at F8 today . ”
In hisblog station , Ek suggested that bringing Spotify to Facebook could resuscitate the music industry . “ Social discovery on Facebook means that we ’re land people back to bear for music again , ” he wrote . “ And that ’s how the brilliant artists who make this euphony can continue creating it for us to revel . ”
We wonder if Ek is mindful of the irony in that argument . One of Facebook ’s founder is Sean Parker , who , with the dismissal of Napster , bug out the precipitous coil the music manufacture is in now . How ironic it would be if a company connected to Parker could be a Jesus of the industry he helped destabilise .
