Earlier this year I waxed lyrical about the free music service WE7, which I still believe is a really useful source of free music. Recently however I have been seduced by the charms of Spotify which I mentioned in another posting.

While there some things I can’t find (Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin) on Spotify it does have the following advantages over WE7:

Firstly there are fewer adverts – in fact many fewer that you’d get with commercial radio. WE7 on the other hand has an ad after every track. I suppose the real benefit of this is if, like me you want to listem to an album which is a collection of linked pieces where one segues into another – for example Caravanserai by Santana. While you don’t get through the whole album with out an ad you at least get a better feel for the flow of the music.

Secondly, once you’ve chosen the artist you want to listen to and are then presented with a big list of tracks/artist/album, click on the artist and you then have a list of the artist by album. Set this rolling and Spotify will work its way forward from you chosen starting point going on album by album. So you can listen to hours of your favourite band/artist without having to click another button.

Now if they would only get all Dick’s Picks of the Greatful Dead on there I’d never need to click another button again!