BeatleMatt
Senior Member
I have a free account with Spotify, the music streaming service. In essence, it is only somewhat different from satellite or terrestrial radio. You get to listen to the music you want and hear advertising as well. The best difference is that you have great control over what music you listen. But do most of you know that if you have the Spotify program on your laptop or even a tablet, because of the difference in coding, you can listen to entire albums in sequence?
Listening to Spotify with a free account on a mobile device such as a phone, the coding only allows for sort of random or partial playing of albums. Or a profile generated playlist. Songs are picked based on your listening preferences. But with Spotify on a tablet or laptop, even with a free account you can choose to listen to an entire album.
Sure, Spotify will continue to try to push "today's top hits" and an excessive amount of rap artists, things I have zero interest in, but I can live with that. While I am at work, if there is anything I want to listen to, I can either choose from the 28,000+ songs from my iTunes library, ripped from my personal music collection or, fill in the gaps by listening to entire albums or self created playlists on Spotify.
Listening to Spotify with a free account on a mobile device such as a phone, the coding only allows for sort of random or partial playing of albums. Or a profile generated playlist. Songs are picked based on your listening preferences. But with Spotify on a tablet or laptop, even with a free account you can choose to listen to an entire album.
Sure, Spotify will continue to try to push "today's top hits" and an excessive amount of rap artists, things I have zero interest in, but I can live with that. While I am at work, if there is anything I want to listen to, I can either choose from the 28,000+ songs from my iTunes library, ripped from my personal music collection or, fill in the gaps by listening to entire albums or self created playlists on Spotify.