{"id":1479,"date":"2009-05-28T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1479-spotify-demos-mobile-music-streaming-with-offline-option-for-android.html"},"modified":"2009-05-28T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T09:09:44","slug":"spotify-demos-mobile-music-streaming-with-offline-option-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1479-spotify-demos-mobile-music-streaming-with-offline-option-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify demos mobile music streaming with offline option \u2013 for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have any interest in the future of the music industry, I recommend taking a look at the following video:<\/p>\n

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There are a couple of reasons why this demo of streaming music to a Google Android<\/a> mobile is interesting. First, if Spotify<\/a> delivers the kind of performance and quality it has on the desktop, this will be a great facility for music fans. Second, it is interesting to see how it handles the offline problem, such as when you are in London and descend into the London Underground train network. Simple: just mark a track for offline use, and it downloads to local storage. I\u2019m presuming this is encrypted in some way in order to prevent you from converting it to a standard MP3; but if it is always available anyway, who cares?<\/p>\n

Will this be free, or a premium service? I\u2019m guessing the latter but don\u2019t yet have any more details.<\/p>\n

Of course everyone is asking for an iPhone version. See for example this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s interesting that Spotify has chosen Android as the mobile debut, rather than iPhone – although it\u2019s safe to assume the company is working on Apple\u2019s handset too, among others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm, I wonder what chance this would have of getting past Apple\u2019s iPhone app censorship<\/a>? It seems to me that what we are seeing is the beginning of the end for the iTunes download model.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: apple<\/a>,spotify<\/a>,android<\/a>,multimedia<\/a>,mp3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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