{"id":9909,"date":"2011-01-10T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:39:04","slug":"spotify-everywhere-now-on-logitech-squeezebox-as-well-as-sonos-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9909-spotify-everywhere-now-on-logitech-squeezebox-as-well-as-sonos-smartphones.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify everywhere: now on Logitech Squeezebox as well as Sonos, Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify, the music streaming service, has announced<\/a> a partnership with Logitech to enable subscribers to play music via Squeezebox. Logitech already has a partnership with Napster for a similar service, but Spotify is winning in terms of usability, ubiquity and mind share.<\/p>\n

It follows a similar agreement<\/a> last September between Spotify and Sonos, a Squeezbox rival. The company has also announced support for Windows Phone 7<\/a>, which joins Apple iPhone\/iPad, Google Android, and Nokia Symbian among supported smartphones.<\/p>\n

Spotify is available for free on a PC or Mac, but supported by advertising, making it like a commercial radio station where you choose the music. However only paying subscribers get the benefit of using the service from these other platforms.<\/p>\n

In my view<\/a> streaming is the future of mainstream music distribution, so I see this as significant. Why pay for downloads, when you can choose from a vast catalogue and play what you want when you want?<\/p>\n

The main snag with Spotify is that some artists are not available on the service, and some countries (including the USA) cannot get Spotify. Still, if it builds a big enough customer base, the music industry may find it cannot do without the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotify, the music streaming service, has announced a partnership with Logitech to enable subscribers to play music via Squeezebox. Logitech already has a partnership with Napster for a similar service, but Spotify is winning in terms of usability, ubiquity and mind share. It follows a similar agreement last September between Spotify and Sonos, a Squeezbox … Continue reading Spotify everywhere: now on Logitech Squeezebox as well as Sonos, Smartphones<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,56,1148],"tags":[158,561,1349,856,863],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-mobile","category-music-industry","tag-apple","tag-logitech","tag-music-streaming","tag-spotify","tag-squeezebox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}