If you and your friends love music then chances are you already subscribe to Spotify’s services. It is cheap, has a vast library of tracks and the quality of audio is as good as CD encoding. Yep, this music streaming service delivers high quality audio for a low price of £10 a month –and if you have yet to sign up for it, you might want to grab that Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 offer from 3 Mobile and sign up for Spotify to fully utilize the new Mediascape feature on the Android smart phone.
Anyway, moving on to the topic at hand; Spotify is bringing a new element to their service –social networking. Users can now link to other users in order to share playlists. Many consider this the new face of mix tapes in the digital age. No longer do we need to sacrifice a cassette tape to record low quality recordings of our favorite songs so that our friends can listen to our recommended tracks, they can just take a quick look at the songs we currently have in our playlists.
Aside from connectivity with other users, Spotify has also been busy enhancing the way users can organize their favorite songs and tracks. A new ‘starred’ option has been enabled –similar to Gmail’s “starred” function; it allows you to instantly get a quick list of all tracks tagged with your star.
Also, if you happen to have songs that are not included in Spotify’s library on your device, the playlist will instantly recognize your locally stored music files so that you can include them in your current playlist. This is a great convenience for those who purchase music from different sources. With all these new updates, Apple’s iTunes really feel outdated.
Read more about the new features on Spotify at Pocket Lint.
