I bought my monthly copy of “Stuff” magazine yesterday. It’s about the only monthly publication I buy with any frequency, and it has nothing to do with the scantily-clad women on the front cover. Honest.

I’d heard quite a bit about Spotify before, but I still didn’t really have a clue what it was. I hadn’t been terribly bothered to look, and while I’d heard it was cool, neat, revolutionary, and seriously neat; I still had no idea what it did. Well, no excuse now. A double-page review of it can be found in the current mag… and now I’ve downloaded it, I agree with everything its reputation suggests it is.

Combine last.fm with iTunes, and you’re half-way there. It’s an on-demand, peer-to-peer, 100% legal, streaming service. Give it a track name, artist, album or anything along those lines, and it starts playing. Instantly. It’s entirely free (if you can suffer 60 seconds of adverts for every 60 minutes of music), and advert-free if you don’t mind paying a few quids a month. Personally, I can handle a few ads in an hour!

The interface is simple to use (if you can use iTunes, you can use this without any difficulty whatsoever), and even if you’ve never tried iTunes before, it’s dead simple. You can even create playlists within it to stream your favourite stuff. If you like the material enough, you can pop it into iTunes to buy it, or grab via your preferred means of obtaining music.

This may just change the world. Get your free account today!

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