Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that if you don't already have a Spotify account, you can only subscribe now via a Facebook account?
If that puts you off, then it's worth pointing out that Spotify isn't the only service available. There are alternatives out there with similarly large catalogues.
Deezer have recently extended their coverage to the UK, with over 13 million tracks available. Their mobile service is available FREE on certain Orange mobile phone tariffs (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry) and like Spotify, Deezer support is built-in to Squeezebox, Sonos and other streaming devices.
Deezer Premium Plus delivers "up to 320 kbps" streams, just like Spotify. In otherwords, with both services not all tracks are available in 320 kbps. As recently as July this year, Spotify had less that 35% of its content available at the higher bit rate, although it's been reported that their classical section has recently been boosted to 95% plus. Hopefully this situation will continue to improve over the next few months. I've no idea how much of the Deezer content is at the higher rate?
Another service is We7, still lagging behind but growing with an 8 million plus song catalogue. In addition to the regular services, it's also available on Android and iPhone with Premium Plus. Again, identical pricing to Spotify, however streams are all at and limited to 192 kbps on all levels of service, but that's higher than Napster. Unfortunately, We7 is not yet supported directly on Squeezbox or Sonos.
I recently used up my 30 day free Napster subscription via my Sonos system. Although I found it to be generally OK, for my liking far too many tracks sounded very poor from the low bit rate being delivered. I don't think I'll be spending any money there!
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