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Stronger is one of the tracks on Kanye West’s coming album, but people are already going crazy over it since a radio show clip was ripped and spread on the internet. The clip featured a DJ talking over the awesome song, but there seems to be a full version out there now, spreading fast. The song is based on Daft Punk’s Harder Better Faster Stronger and it’s quite intact actually. Kanye’s rap over it and his changes made are just perfect. I wasn’t too fond of his latest album, Late Registration, but I really liked The College Dropout and the new album, Graduation, looks very promising.

I got an invite a couple of days ago and I wanted to write something about it. It’s mostly positive. Almost only positive things, but lets take the bad first. Not all my music was available (no surprise) which is a bit annoying when it’s more like a music player than a radio (like Pandora or last.fm). You can’t really use Spotify as your only music player when you can’t listen to missing songs, free songs found on the internet or any other general sounds that you might find/have. You’re limited to what they have to offer. This was mostly annoying in the beginning when I wanted to listen to specific songs in my old playlist. After a while I more or less stopped listening to them, because it was too much work to switch between Spotify and my other music player.

Now the good stuff. What really impressed me at first was how fast the songs started and how jumping in the song really is as fast as your ordinary music player. No delays whatsoever. The interface is nice, iTunes-looking. There are of course some things that could be smoother, but I won’t go into them here. Even though it’s negative that not all my music was available on Spotify, they had a lot of stuff that I didn’t expect to find. I wonder if they agreements cover the same amount (or more) for a released product, or if the content is just for the beta.

The radio is so-so, but does its job I guess. You select zero or many genres and they try to play music from those genres. Sometimes you don’t really agree with the genre set for a song, and sometimes it’s plain wrong, but most of the time it makes reasonable choices. You can also select from which decade it should play music, which was something that I liked playing with.

Time to go back to listening to Dilated Peoples again (though some of their albums are missing in Spotify).