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The Spotify client for download, which allows you to listen to free music on Spotify to your heart’s content, create your own playlists and share them with your friends and let you listen to the randomly selected music adapted to your personal tastes by Spotify Radio.

Note: If you prefer to use Spotify without downloading in the web browser, you can access the Spotify Webapp. Spotify is also available as Spotify Music as an app for Android and iOS. There is also the client for Mac:

With the Spotify download you get the Spotify client, which allows you to access the Spotify service from your computer. This provides you with over 20 million pieces of music that you can listen to without download. Search for your favorite songs with the Spotify download, playlists with your favorites, spot on Spotify many of the music you’ve listened to, and listen to the Spotify radio, which randomly plays your songs according to your listening habits.

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Listen to your favorite songs with the Spotify Download

After the download of Spotify you also have a lot of ready-made playlists available that you can listen to. These may include, for example, current charts or selected pieces of certain genres. Even playlists, in which different pieces of music for different moods have been put together, are available.

The Spotify Premium account

Spotify can be used completely free of charge, but then you have to accept that while listening to songs advertising is displayed. If you do not want to, you can buy a premium account for 9.99 euros per month. With a premium account, there are no more commercials, you can also download high quality music and listen offline. You can also sync downloaded music to Android and iOS devices, for which you need Spotify for Android or Spotify for iOS. Regarding your playlists and other preferences stored online, you can also access them in the free version of your smartphone or tablet.

Connect Spotify with Facebook

On request, you can also connect Spotify with your Facebook account. If you do that, you can see what your Facebook friends, who are also on Spotify, are listening to and accessing their playlists.

Spotify Music: The app for enjoying music on the go

The app Spotify Music gives you access to the extensive music offer of Spotify on smartphones and tablets, on smartphones in the free version, however, only in shuffle mode.

In Free mode gives you the app Spotify Music Access to the entire Spotify music offering, but only on shuffle mode on smartphones. In this you can listen to playlists, songs of certain artists or certain events. On Tablets, there is no limitation of the Spotify Music app, here you can listen to the desired songs directly. Both on smartphones and on tablets, the Spotify Music app works in the free version with commercial breaks.

The Spotify Music app provides you with a search function, with which you can specifically search for artists, songs or even podcasts. The library gives you access to your favorite playlists, artists, albums and podcasts.

Spotify Music is available for Android and iOS:

In the settings of the Spotify Music app, you can also activate the Data Saver if you wish to save your mobile data volume. However, then the quality of the music playback is lower. You can also set various playback options such as crossfade.

In the premium version of the Spotify Music app works without restrictions and advertising, but this is also subject to a charge. Details can be found in our article on Spotify Premium.

The Spotify Music app requires iOS 9.0 or higher in the iOS Verion, and for Android devices, the required version of the operating system is device-dependent.

Spotify and Apple Music: More variety, but less diversity

I used to collect CDs and create mixes on minidisc, today I do it all online and via app. Was listening to music 25 years ago just awkward and limited? A few thoughts on Spotify, Apple Music and Co. – this time without technology.

Actually, I am an Apple Music user. But having been upset over the chaos and hearing only good things about Spotify, I’m currently testing this service to get to the bottom of it. For a technical comparison of the two competitors, it should not go at this point – I can summarize only in one sentence that Spotify for me is not significantly better than Apple Music. To be discussed.

Change through music streaming: two theses about change

While listening to music, I noticed that both services are very similar and that they lead to a new kind of consumption. In the 90s, I lived my hobby no. 1 in a completely different way. But where exactly is the difference and in the past everything was better?

Generally speaking, music streaming services change our listening habits. Even the music itself adapts to these changed conditions: The new songs are now optimized especially for Spotify, as much hit potential as possible is packed by the producers in the first 30 seconds. You can find more on my reading tip, below in the sources.

Back to the change in the user. I think the changes can be outlined with two theses:

1. The variety is infinite

No one could ever hear all the available songs in the great music streaming services – there are literally endless. In addition, clever algorithms help you to hear a never-ending stream of new songs that match your own musical tastes. To put it bluntly: theoretically, you do not have to listen to a song twice, because there are so many others that are just as great.

That’s the problem.

2. Diversity is inhibited

In 1997, when this Internet was not yet dominating the world, a few things were still different. When listening to music, the selection was much smaller. Apart from the radio and Viva + MTV, there was especially the own CD collection and the CDs (or records, cassettes and minidiscs) of the friends. So I had a smaller compared to today “movement radius” with always available music. That’s why I listened to a lot of albums very often, even though I did not like it that much the first time. Anyway: I’ve listened to albums and no playlists. Today, due to endless variety and selection no one has to do an album at a stretch or even listen to a song that does not rock within the first minute.

This creates a new problem – and that has something to do with the nature of music itself: sometimes it just takes time and patience to feel it, to understand it, and finally to love it. With endless rows of “songs you might like”, you will surely discover exciting new stuff – but only those that appeal to the listener immediately. The “difficult” rest is dumped away. This loses part of the possible diversity.

Music, the undiscovered land

So many a journey of discovery in my youth was anything but easy fare: works like “Bitches Brew *” by Miles Davis or “Selected Ambient Works Volume II *” by Aphex Twin are bulky – they require the listener’s willingness to adapt to the sound and not the other way around. This also applies to great albums in the fields of rock, classical, reggae, punk … sometimes the spark ignites only after the tenth time listening.

We live in an on-demand society and have more choice in every respect than before the digitization of the media. This does not only apply to music, but also to films, series, video games – what does not immediately cast a spell, does not get a second chance. In doing so, many a masterpiece escapes us, outstripping everything else. Breaking Bad needs a few episodes of start-up time – you might not even find that out because you just look at something else.

Everything bad today? No, we live in a grandiose time and music streaming I feel as a clear comfort gain. Nevertheless, I would like to plead with the younger generation: Listen to something “from the other shore” and not just the first 30 seconds of a song. Spotify may know what you like now – but not what could extend your horizon in the long term. As a Wu-Tang listener I could not do anything with Nirvana’s “Nevermind” at the time – but if the buddy does not hear anything else and has nothing else to do, then you get to know Grunge the hard way. This was an important experience in retrospect.

Conclusion: Listen to over 20 million songs for free, lots of well-stocked, ready-made playlists and much more – there’s nothing wrong with Spotify.

How do you listen to music?

Thanks to streaming services, you can access your favorite music anytime nowadays. But in the hectic Internet age, few people feel they really have the time to enjoy music and run their playlist in the background as a continuous sound. We ask the GIGA community: How do you hear music??

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