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by whizzkid 4524 days ago
This looks to me more like an app designer/developer company's showcase than a music service (sorry for being negative, i might still have the monday feeling)

What are the advantages I will gain if I switch from Spotify?

- The answer seems to be the nice layout!

What are the disadvantages?

- Spotify gives me limitless account (with ads) for free, this one not.

- Spotify is even available as a web app,and desktop client which i use most. This one???

- "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish Store, but it is available in the U.S. Store."

I am not trying to be disrespectful to what these guys had done. It looks beautiful.

Music industry is really really tricking area when it comes to application development. Even Spotify had hard times to make its service up and running for years.

I might be totally wrong. That's why if you believe in something, just don't mind negative people. keep going!

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>> "- Spotify gives me limitless account (with ads) for free, this one not."

I'm happy about this. Maybe they can convince people music is worth paying money for and instead of wasting time selling ads they can spend time and money building a good product.

>> "- Spotify is even available as a web app,and desktop client which i use most. This one???"

It's available on Android, iOs, Windows Phone AND the web at http://listen.beatsmusic.com

>> - "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish Store, but it is available in the U.S. Store."

Like most music/video services it's launching in one location (US) and planning to expand to others soon. e.g. iTunes Radio is still US only. Spotify took years to branch out of Europe.

>> What are the advantages I will gain if I switch from Spotify?

After a few hours of use the main benefit seems to be playlists. I've described how they work in another post on this thread so won't repeat but they seem infinitely more useful to me on this than playlists on Spotify (which I've been using for around 5 years).

Reasonable arguments I have to agree except the first one.

Spotify takes my time which is valuable to me instead of my money for the free version, and I like listening those ads about the new released albums, not really annoying. So "music is worth paying money" and they are getting money from those ads because Spotify users listen them. Like youtube, but there you don't earn anything though :)

Other than that, It is always good to have competitors and i wish them good luck :)