Music Services

Jun 21, 2009

Freshen up your Friday nights with Spotify and YouTube

Posted by Mike Evans in Music Services, Social Media, Spotify

I suppose I of all people, being the publisher of this blog, should have realised this some time ago, but the Web is really making a huge difference to people’s viewing habits – including the classic end-of-the-night ‘back to mine’ ad-hoc party. I was at a friend’s house the other weekend, who’d suggested we all [...]


Dec 11, 2008

Nokia and TuneBite inadvertently combine to provide DRM-free music

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous, Music Services, News

In the battle for mobile music downloads, Nokia scored a bit of a hit during the summer with its appallingly-named “Comes with Music” download subscription service. Designed to take on Apple’s iTunes, Nokia’s music store equivalent seemed to have the edge, in that its Comes with Music phones can download tunes directly over the air [...]


Dec 5, 2008

Spotify music streaming review – one go and you're hooked!

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous, Music Services, Spotify

The blogosphere is currently awash with rave reviews about the new Spotify music streaming service. Spotify is a new take on music downloading in that you don’t download music at all – you stream it onto your PC. Now I’m usually skeptical about such things, but Spotify is different – it’s bloody brilliant!