Spotify

We all like to get something for free and fortunately there are some useful web applications which are free. My favourite is Spotify, which I can best describe as an online streaming jukebox.

http://www.spotify.com/en/products/free/

Just download the software from the link above, and once installed you can select songs from a catalogue containing over 3 million tracks. You would expect the catalogue to contain only old material but surprisingly there are newly released CD’s included, but no Beatles tracks. Do a search by song or artist, drag the track you want to hear to you playlist, and listen to the streaming music through your PC’s speakers.

In between tracks you will be subjected to audio advertising, but if you are willing to pay £10 per month you can get the service adverts free. Just call me tight, but I’m happy to save £10 each month and endure a few adverts.

You can’t save the songs to your hard drive for loading onto your MP3 player, or to burn to a CD. You just have to be online to listen to your favourite songs.

Just download the software and try it, even if it’s just to listen to some music before buying the CD from somewhere like Cdwow or paying for the track through a site like i-tunes.