On the Web we communicate, work … and entertain us through many music and video services, some free and some pay, offering their streaming content to not even have to take our hard drives.

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Spotify is a new way to listen to music

Millions of tracks, any time you like. Just search for it in Spotify, then play it. Just help yourself to whatever you want, whenever you want it.

A world of music awaits

Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac, home audio system and mobile phone. Wherever you go, your music follows you.

And because the music plays live, there’s no need to wait for downloads and no big dent in your hard drive.

Music is social

It’s now easier than ever to discover and share music with your friends. Thanks to Spotify and Facebook, you can see and hear what your friends are listening to – just hit play on any music post.

You can also share music with a flick of the wrist. Send it straight to your friends, or post tracks on social networks. It’s how music should be.

Step 1. Looking for new lists

One of the main features of Spotify is the ability to have our own lists in the program, with the songs you want. But to fully exploit this Characteristics, is not enough only to create lists of songs we know, but it’s really interesting is that we can subscribe to lists of other users. For example, there are many that are updated every week with the top songs from a radio or new artists in a genre we like … it’s all starting to prove it.

Where can we find the lists? SpotyList and Spotify Playlists have the access options. When we entered them, we see the main genres in the top bar. Open any of them, or simply in the main section, we have at our disposal the latest list increases and the most popular . Simply press you want to start Spotify.

Step 2. Follow your artists

So much music on Spotify is sometimes hard to remember all those artists we like. And it is not unusual to launch a new album and publish it in Spotify but we learn. Against this, the most logical seems to be constant monitoring of the artists to be aware of their new releases.

But that task with each of the musicians that we like would be very tedious. Fortunately, Fresh Spotify, a service in which we checked, we added a number of soloists or groups preferred, and the system takes care of sending us an e-mail every time they have new songs on Spotify.

Fresh activate our Spotify account is easy from http://freshspotify.com/alerts , although it will require that we have a Google account . Once we are off the page, we’ll have to click sign in With Your Google account . So if we have already begun earlier session with a Google account, press Allow . If we have not login to access the options of adding a new artist or even import our Last.fm favorite artists .

Step 3. Extensions for the browser

To get Spotify to the fullest and make the most of it will be almost an obligation to have some plug-ins or applications for the browser. These add some functions that can be interesting. An example is Spotify Search (in this case Firefox ) which allows us to make a portion of text, open the context menu and select Search in Spotify .

Step 4. Connect with Facebook

music services and Internet movie No one can create an account in the musical service if it does the social network before, because of a deal that closed Spotify with Facebook . One advantage of this is to go live audience every song we hear . Some think that violates privacy, but it was what many were calling for some time and also can activate the private session from the menu File Spotify.