Planet Jeffro

Maddy surprised me the other day with a subscription to Spotify premium.  For only $10/mo it offers two huge benefits:

1. No annoying ads.  Nothing cramps your listening like a Spotify ad.  They are often poorly done, and some are even poorly recorded (I can hear ‘pops’ like the voice over person was too close to the mic).  Now there are none!
2. Offline playlists on my iPod Touch for running.  Wow, this is a gamechanger for me.  I can now maintain a playlist of running music and sync it wirelessly to my ipod touch (old, crappy). It’ll download the songs and then I can put it into offline mode (so it doesn’t bother me with ‘no internet’ pop ups) and go running.

I’ve been stuck on MP3s since 1996. When Napster came out I had already accumulated stockpiles of MP3s.  I had been running an FTP server and accessing many servers to download my fair share of Jethro Tull concerts.  I’ve always hated iTunes and instead used Winamp until I switched to MediaMonkey a few years ago. It was the greatest music player I’ve ever encountered.

Then I found Spotify and literally overnight I stopped looking at my MP3 collection, stopped worrying about keeping track of folders, stopped opening MediaMonkey, stopped keeping folders on Dropbox so I could listen to music on my netbook.  I haven’t found a piece of software or website that changed my habits so much in so little time.  Well worth the $10.