Spotify launches a service to sell songs to iPod and directly compete with iTunes

The popular streaming music service Spotify launches a new service making it an alternative to iTunes . The latest move in this direction by Spotify has launched a download service offline for iPod , which is very close to the traditional model that Apple has with iTunes.

While everyone expected Apple to release his music streaming service, which supposedly would move to Google, is this step taken Spotify , he probably was not expected by many of us and can bring this level of service to others if This new feature works correctly. The purchase of songs does not require a premium account and the prices are as follows:

• 10 songs for 9.99 euros (about 1 euro each)
• 15 songs for 12.99 euros (87 cents each)
• 40 songs for 30 euros (75 cents each)
• 100 songs for 60 euros (60 cents each)

With these prices reached a new service for iPod, which also enjoy all the songs they buy can manage all the music we have on our device directly from Spotify , without connecting the USB cable to your computer.

This movement from Spotify, is intended to give more importance to its implementation and this will become the only means we manage our music. We may have an iPhone or Android , and we hear all the music you want using the streaming service, but if one day we take our iPod Nano, which has no Internet connection, we have to depend on another application to send our songs to device. With this step, Spotify solves that problem and all purchases of songs that do to your iPod also will serve to the other devices we have.

The product manager of Spotify, Gustav Soderstrom, has confirmed that this new service is about making a redundant iTunes that want to improve the user experience, because otherwise it will return to iTunes.

Users are juggling two products at the same time and said they really wanted to synchronize playlists with iPods and iPhone.

Thus we see how Spotify has gone from being just a streaming music service with the possibility of listening to songs for free with advertising or a subscription basis and has become a hybrid where we also buy songs from a more traditional . Surely this is something that also will frown on record and may help to enter the U.S. market, which is costing both do. We're talking about songs purchased directly, a model already well known and is an option where users can choose which is what we prefer to use. Now, do you think you can stand up to iTunes?

Spotify launches a service to sell songs to iPod and directly compete with iTunes written in ALT1040 on 4 May, 2011 by David Blonde
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