Suggest songs for the PC Pro Computer playlist

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Here’s a bit of Friday fun: help us complete a Spotify playlist of computer-related songs.

The rules are simple:

1. The song title or artist must have a computer connection. (Kraftwerk’s Computer Love, or anything by The Commodores, for example)

2. It must be in the Spotify library  

We’ll put the best 12 suggestions into the PC Pro Computer Playlist. Add your suggestions using the comments below. 

UPDATE: Voting has now closed. Thanks for all your suggestions. See the final PC Pro playlist here. 

Can Spotify survive my padlocked wallet?

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

I love Spotify, but quite recently I seem to have become the Lex Luthor to its Superman – the two of us locked in an unceasing battle of wills.

At first this was a simple matter. I refused to pay for a premium account. I’m tight, the music’s free, I don’t see the point. That brought us to a standstill, and then Spotify wheeled out its secret weapon. Jonathan.

Any regular Spotify users will know his 10-song interjections well. If you don’t they go a little something like this: “Hi, I’m Jonathan from Spotify. We all love Spotify, and now you’ve heard me say the same thing five hundred times I’m sure you’d like to cover me in sausages and take me on safari, preferably tied to the bonnet of the jeep.”

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Spotify: free, legal music (honest)

Friday, January 16th, 2009

The PC Pro office is agog this afternoon. We’ve stumbled across Spotify – a genuinely free, legal music service that gives you unlimited streams of pretty much any track or album you can think of from the big four music labels and we’re all left wondering: what’s the catch?

All you have to do is register with the site (use this link, don’t go through the homepage, or else your name will simply be added to the waiting list) and download the desktop software, which is a mere 1.5MB.

Once installed, you’ll be presented with a piece of software that looks so similar to iTunes, I’d be amazed if Apple’s lawyers aren’t already ordering Havana cigars in anticipation. Pop the name of any band, track or album into the search box, and you’ll be presented with an impressive list of matching tracks, any of which can be played almost instantaneously with a double-click. Others can be added to the queue with a right-click. 

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