8 Dec 2011

Spotify, you complete me! Three reasons why.


I love the whole process of discovering new music. Always have.

Growing up, I could spend hours at a record store flipping through bin after bin of albums. Then, in college, it was all about sitting around a dorm with roommates playing obscure tracks for one another on a CD player.

In more recent years, technology has opened up a whole new way to discover new music.  First, there was satellite radio. Then there were music services, like iTunes, Pandora, even Shazam … and I’ve loved them all.

But I have to say my favorite music service of all time is Spotify. Here are three reasons why:

  1. Practically every song ever recorded is available within literally seconds (Spotify has access to a library of something like 13 million tracks) 
  2. You can share music with friends by creating playlists and making them viewable on Facebook
  3. Likewise, you can discover what your friends are listening to by checking out their playlists

I also like the ability to see what people I don’t even know are listening to. The site www.sharemyplaylists.com gives you access to some awesome playlists created by regular people who appreciate good music.

It’s an amazing new way to get songs whenever you’re in the mood and share music with friends. It sure beats the days of having to drive to a record store and waiting until you get home before you can rip open the album and start listening to it. And even though I’ll always reminisce about dorm life with college friends, sharing music with them via Facebook is not a bad way to keep the nostalgia alive.

Check out these links and tell me what you think: