Free Music With Spotify?

Spotify requires a Facebook account. No thanks.

EDITOR'S NOTE: True, but you can create a dummy account on Facebook. After you set it up, you won't need to login to the Facebook account.

And to think that US users have been WAITING for Spotify...

...only to learn, now, that it's even more restrictive than Pandora, what with it having recently lifted many of its restrictions for free/non-paid users.

"RadioSure" for Windows desktop/laptop machines, and "TuneIn Radio" for Android users, remains my choice. Indeed, Spotify and Pandora are different because they program their own content, and one can choose same by genre. But RadioSure and TuneIn also carry such things as 1.fm, and .977, and 100Radios, and 181.fm, etc...

...all of which do thheir own programming, which can be selected by genre. Add that to the ability to listen to just plain radio stations, locally and around the world -- some 17,000 of them -- and such as RadioSure and TuneIn end-up being, overall, far superior to the likes of Pandora and Spotify... or so, at least, it is my opinon.

You correctly described how Spotify works but you might mislead some people in your second paragraph when you state "You can download all the songs you want from Spotify to your computer for up to six months, free of charge."

I only consider it downloading if you can save that song as a file to play later. As you later stated, Spotify is a streaming service. I'm sure that there are ways that you can 'capture' a streaming song, but it isn't easy for the casual user.

What i like best about Spotify is that I can search by artist and create a playlist of an entire album or several albuns.

You do not technically download music from Spotify, you only stream it. Once it plays it's gone.

From a musician's perspective, Spotify pays particularly dreadful rates to the artists who's songs are streamed. If Spotify becomes the "Walmart" of streaming music, then it will be a blow to independent musicians.

I recommend you also check out mog.com. They have a free trial. I prefer their GUI and for $5/month, you can get unlimited high quality streaming to your computer.

I am using Grooveshark to listen and have no problem with it except the impossibility of hearing Beatles songs by the Beatles.

I suggest you look into Grooveshark, another streaming service - great selections by genre and the ability to zoom in to only one particular artist or even one album. I listen to them free (without joining) and don't get ad interruptions (AdBlocker plug-in for Firefox really works). They will stop playing after a couple of hours if you don't sometimes nudge the mouse or something, but otherwise with HTMI connection to stereo amp it's "house music". My son listens on his Android phone.

I use mp3million. I download singles 99% of the time and each one is only 10 cents.

There are far too many strings attached to using Spotify for me. You actually have to have a FB account to use it, or make up a dud one? Boy, that's sure sets the red lights blinking in the back of my brain. Perhaps something is going on behind the scene they are trying to hide? I use RadioSure which offers tens of thousands of songs/stations for free, any kind of music you can think of, in very clear stereo, and no strings attached. You can download/record to your heart's content and not break any laws.

I suggest you try http://www.gogoyoko.com. There you can listen to all the great music young artists and older are making and it's not only Icelandic. It's a great place to discover new artists!
They say it's a "fair play in music" - you can stream for free, or buy music directly from the artist.

Spotify is not too bad! There are some artists / labels that are still not participating but darned near every Bobby Sherman is available, lol. Also my favorite obscure British 60's, girl group, the McKinley's have a song or two, on it(check out "Someone Cares for Me").

Here are two sites for older music.
http://www.tropicalglen.com/ 1950 to 1990 music
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ library of congress historical recordings 1900 to 1925

Apart from the Beatles and Pink Floyd, I'm hard pressed not to find what I want with Spotify, from Allegri to Tupac. The negatives are the integration with Facebook, and more, if you are not careful how you set your account preferences, your music choices are published on Facebook for the world to see. So use a dummy account. You also have to be able to spell correctly to search, but it's otherwise easy by artist, album or track.
Your choices don't disappear if you create playlists and log in once a month.
I use it combination with Sonos, which seamlessly connects my music system to Spotify or other services. Every room in the house can play different music. I create permanent playlists with either, I can control everything with any Android smartphone or Iphone, and so can anyone else in the house with a phone and a free software download. I can "download" 3,333 tracks to my smartphone. I will never have to buy another CD. With Sonos/Spotify I can organise a whole evening's music in about 5 min, or change my mind in 10 seconds
I never have to get up from my chair to change a CD. Songl or Deezer may be direct competition,(I haven't checked yet) but many of the others are just glorified radio stations. I'm not in love with Spotify, and would be delighted to find something better. But the integrated system creates a whole new world, in which you can forget scratched vinyl, chewed up cassettes and jumping or freezing CDs. This comment may be too long to publish, but check it out, Bob, starting from the Sonos end. You only need to buy one small box from them to achieve music Nirvana, (CONNECT $349, and if your router is not close enough to wire to your amp, BRIDGE $49) although the sound quality and the whole experience are so good overall that I don't regret having bought more than the minimum. Goodbye timewasting Itunes store. Pay $60 a year without regret and hope the big music owners don't work it all out next week.

If you want to get free music on Spotify, you can try this way. I had ever tried it before. But this way needed to use a tool DRmare Spotify Converter.

I download Spotify to MP3 by using Tunelf Spotify Music Converter without Spotify premium.