7. GETTING SOCIAL
• Create a Spotify profile
• Connect with Facebook - automatically pulls
in all your friends who are using Spotify
• Share tracks you like to friends on Spotify
• Create playlists friends can subscribe to
• Look at The Feed- to see what songs and
albums your friends are listening to
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10. STREAMING MUSIC SERVICE COMPARISON
# of Player How Killer Lamest
Service Price
Songs Options Social Feature Feature
• No Web Client Player
• Send Tracks to
• Socially Limited
Spotify 13
Million
•
•
Mobile
Desktop
•
•
•
Free,
$5mo
$10mo
•
•
Friends
Share to FB
Create and
• International
• Not well developed recommendation
engine
• No Radio Feature
Follow Playlists
• Has an
• Mobile • Diverse
Rdio 9
Million
•
•
Browser
Desktop
•
•
$5mo
$10mo
•
embedded player
for Twitter
Create and
Recommendation
Engine
• It’s interface is not very intuitive
• Set-Top Box • Twitter Player
Follow Playlists
• Can share songs
• Lets users upload
on Twitter,
• Mobile (kind • Free their own media • Inconsistent Naming
Facebook & More
of) • $9mo so great remixes • Unknown audio quality
Grooveshark Unkown
• Browser • $6mo
• Can see activity
and music not • Quasi-Legal
of your friends
• Desktop • $90yr found on Pandora, • No (approved) iPhone or Android App
• Song
Spotify or Rdio
Commenting
• Mobile
Rhapsody 10
Million
•
•
•
Browser
Set-Top Box
MP3 Player
• $15mo • None?
• Can download to
MP3 Players
•
•
Slow on Software Updates
Poorly Designed User Interface
• Mobile • Connect to • Low Library of Songs
Pandora 800
Thousand
•
•
Browser
Set-Top Box
•
•
Free
$36yr
Facebook to see
what friends are
• Using Data from
Music Genome
Project
•
•
Repetitive
Lots of Ads for Free Users
listening to.
• Radio Feature
MOG 11
Million
•
•
•
Mobile
Set-Top Box
Browser
•
•
$5mo
$10mo
• Search Friends
by Genre, Artist,
Mood
•
•
Fast Search
Blog, Review
Information
• Social Features are only so / so
• Great iPhone App
• Pretty social,
Last.FM 7
Million
•
•
•
Mobile
Desktop
Browser
• Free
acts as a social
recommendation
• Scrobbling • No way to save music for later use
engine
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