Sky Songs

[Woodruffe]

Just signed up for a free 1 month trial for the new Sky Songs service as I am a Sky Broadband customer and it is an offer they have at the minute. Seem to have quite an ok choice of albums and the one I downloaded is coming up in iTunes as 320kbps! Similar to 7digital they have a downloader app but this pops them into iTunes when they have finished. Haven't really tried the streaming option yet but at first glance Spotify and Lastfm seem more intuitive.

Figure a bit more competition wont do any harm in the digital music sector

Ben.

 

[idc]

Hi Ben, please keep posting back with your impressions of Sky Songs. I posted a thread when its arrival was announced in the What Hifi news section and it died a death after about three replies. I wonder if Sky and their otherwise dominance in the media market means that this product is going to be ignored almost on principle.

 

[daveh75]

idc: I wonder if Sky and their otherwise dominance in the media market means that this product is going to be ignored almost on principle.That's certainly the line i'll be following.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm having a snoop but got to say Im not all that impressed with the service in general. The one feature that I do like which admittedly is a little lame is the recommendations. Now, I know Napster and Spotify have these but it genuinely tossed up some Alternative music from new acts I havent even heard of which is a genuie novelty for me considering I probably own or know or 99% of "alternative" music released in the past decade or so.

If you dont already subscribe to a service I think there could be a lot to like here but as I currently subscribe to both Napster and Spotify I see nothing to make me want to cancel one or both of these in favour of Sky Songs. What i will say is that its UI seems to meld Napster and Spotify which is no bad thing. I mentioned on another thread that I thought Spotify excelled at playlist creation and Napster excelled at listening to albums and your library easily. Sky songs seems to cater for both a little better in my opinion.

Looking forward to what apple eventually offers.