FIT-1012 Homework to do research on SPOTIFY

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RESEARCH
FIT - 1012
ony Moreira
Professor T
mar Patel
Chiragku

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Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights
management restricted content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner
Music Group and Universal.

4. The system is available for :o
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Android
BlackBerry
Boxee
iOS
Linux
MeeGo
Microsoft Windows desktop
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OS X
Roku
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S60 (Symbian)
Samsung Smart TV
Sonos
Squeezebox
Telia Digital-tv
TiVo
WD TV
webOS
Windows Mobile
Windows Phone

6. Music can be browsed by :o Artist
o Album
o Genre
o Playlist, or record label
o Direct searches

7. Searching songs on Spotify

8. ·On computers, a link allows the listener to purchase selected
material via partner retailers.
·Users can create and share playlists, or edit them together with
other users.

9. Published Playlist

10. ·Spotify also includes a Radio feature available to Spotify Free, Unlimited and
Premium accounts, which creates a random playlist of songs chosen based on specific
genres and decades.
o An Artist Radio feature creates a random playlist of songs by artists
related to (and including) the selected artist.

11. · Spotify allows registered users to integrate their account with
existing Facebook and Twitter accounts.
o Once a user integrates their Spotify account with other
social media profiles, they are able to access their friends'
favorite music and playlists.
· Spotify software is proprietary and uses digital rights
management (DRM) to prevent unauthorized use.
· Spotify offers music downloads in the UK at £0.99 per track.
· The website stated that Spotify paid its artists a per-stream
figure of between US$0.006 and $0.0084 (an average of £0.004).

13. 2. GOOGLE PLAY

14. Songs in Google Music are priced at US$1.29, $0.99, $0.69, and
free.

15. · Music can be played on the Google Play website or via the Google Play Music mobile
app Android and iOS devices.
o Songs can be stored for offline playback.