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The Romulus X Records catalog will soon be available on SPOTIFY.com.
Never heard of SPOTIFY? You will.
It is the FUTURE of streaming music download purchasing.
For a better understanding of how Spotify is changing the music industry, please read the blog below.
We are HONORED to be working with Spotify!!!
We look forward to the future of MUSIC streaming and the ability for the fans to thoroughly enjoy it!!!
from Adrian Hayter
As I write this, I’m listening to random tracks in Spotify. The quality is great, the music choice is vast, and the program is lightning fast (literally). So what is Spotify?
Spotify is an online music player that you can download and install
on your computer. I’m prohibited to post any screenshots by the TOS of
the beta, but I can tell you what it does. Once installed (yes, it runs
through wine as well), Spotify allows you to search for music. I type “The Killers” hit Enter, and 0.5 seconds
later, my search results are returned. To put this is perspective, I’m
on a relatively slow network (3MBit), my laptop is using wireless (that
slows down the connection a bit already), and my search has to go
through 9 hops to get to the server in question. When my search reaches
the server, it has to process it and get the list of results and then
send them back to me to be processed in the program. Considering the
amount of music Spotify has, this is amazingly fast.
So now I have a list of results, and I click on a song, “Mr
Brightside”. The most astounding part of Spotify is now presented to
me. I thought the search was fast, but the song starts playing immediately
after I click on it. The delay is so minute I could swear that I am
playing the song from a local file on my computer, but I’m not. The
song is streaming across the internet and playing on
my computer, without any delay or lag. What is even more astounding is
that the program doesn’t seem to buffer the songs at all, because I can
click to the last 10 seconds of the song in question and it will play
that part immediately, with no delay.
When my friends and I started using it, everyone in the room was
astonished, and considering we are all Computer Scientists and know how
networks work, that is saying something. We were absolutely convinced
the program relies on magic to operate, because networks simply do not
allow that kind of speed and efficiency. Florian, the guy who invited
me into the beta, swears blind that he ran the program without any
problems on a 56k modem in a crappy hotel, where the internet was so
bad Google was taking it’s time to load.
We were so impressed by this technology that I phoned up the company
to say so. They revealed nothing about how it worked though, so I have
to go get a job with them now.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, this program is entirely legal.
They pay the licenses for all the music by putting in 30 second ads
every 30 minutes of music you listen to. If you pay a fee though, you
can remove the adverts completely. This program has everything it needs
to head the new era of digital music; unlimited songs, speed,
usability, and freedom.
At the moment it’s invite only, so if I get some invites I’ll let you know! Until then, you’ll have to sign up to the mailing list which will tell you when Spotify becomes public.
1:40 PM
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