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Spotify has: About two million songs currently available The license to add about another four million songs(they claim to be adding around 10,000 new tracks a day) Over 1,000,000 subscribers world-wide Over 250,000 subscribers in the UK Over 5,000 record labels on-board Everybody’s favourite voice: Roberta from Spotify Sources: Spotify staff recent interviews and publicly available documents. Photo from Flickr

I posted recently that “out of my Top 20 Albums of 2008, Spotify only has a measly two of them” Well, a mere two weeks later and it’s starting to look a little better: Spotify now has the following 6 excellent albums available in the UK: My Top 20 Albums of 2008 1. Parralox – “Electricity”2. Kelley Polar – “I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling” 3. Padded Cell – “Night [...]

Here are five recent SF/Fantasy TV shows that I tried to like but gave up on (perhaps too soon in some cases): Fringe - Admittedly I only watched the pilot, but that was enough for me: all the characters seemed to be stereotypes and the plot’s revelations were ludicrous and full of psych-babble. I was never a fan of The X-Files (for similar reason to Richard Dawkins) and this seemed to be re-treading far too similar territory. Sanctuary [...]

Here’s a quick check on 80s tunes and especially 80s British synthpop bands currently represented on Spotify: Depeche Mode (11 albums, about 30 CD singles, live albums, best-ofs, compilations) Yello (10 albums, 2 compilations) OMD (10 albums, 4 compilations including the excellent Peel Sessions 1979-1983) Ultravox (8 albums, 7 compilations including Rare volumes 1 & 2) Human League (9 albums (including the Fascination EP and [...]

I’ve been looking for the perfect music streamer ever since I got my G1 Android phone and decided that carrying a smartphone and an MP3 player into the shower was just excess baggage. I love my music: at home I have about 200GB of MP3s and a few hundred CDs (not forgetting the boxes of vinyl now in the loft). On the move, I used to take my 30GB MP3 player to listen to at work and on my 30-min walk home every day. I listen to a large [...]

Click the pic below to see my current favorite Google Android apps. This will take you to the photo on my Flickr page, where you can hover over the apps then click the hotspot notes to find out more:

Go to a record shop to buy music Go to Blockbuster to rent a movie Buy a newspaper Miss something on TV I really wanted to see Read a top-shelf gentleman’s magazine

Google Android’s Market is currently free, so here’s what I’ve grabbed and rate: 5 apps to impress my friends with: ShopSavvy - scan a bar code (e.g. scan a book or CD or a game), displays item details, links to cheapest price on the ‘net, links to maps to show you the closest shop that’s selling it. Friends go “Ooooh that’s clever!” Shazam -Hold the phone up to some music playing on the [...]