Jolin Tsai is on Spotify!

August 28, 2009 · 6 comments

Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums with almost no buffering delay. Music can be browsed by artists, albums or created playlists as well as by direct searches.

I think Spotify is a lot like Pandora and Rhapsody that you Americans have, although probably better. Spotify is only available in a handful of European countries so far, but I bet they’re planning to release it worldwide at some point.

Spotify doesn’t have too much Asian music on it right now but every once in a while you stumble upon something that you didn’t think you’d find. It’s kind of like looking for Easter eggs, because I’ve found that sometimes there are Asian artists on it that goes under the wrong artist name, like sometimes you have to search for the composer’s name instead. I found an album by Humming Urban Stereo by searching for Jeereen Lee for example.

Well, this time I did a random search, it’s worth a try sometimes, and found that there’s a pretty good collection of Jolin Tsai albums on Spotify (if not all of them). The only problem with Asian music on Spotify is that the tags are sometimes romanized and sometimes aren’t, something that might annoy tagging perfectionists, I don’t mind though.

If you live in a country where Spotify is invite only (like Sweden), I’d be happy to invite you.

Another thing worth to mention is that the Spotify iPhone app got approved in the AppStore today, so hopefully we’ll all have it on our iPhones very soon. You need to have a premium account to use the iPhone app however! You can sync the songs to your iPhone so if you have a bandwidth cap like me, that’s not a problem.

Have you found anything on Spotify that you thought you’d never find there?

Jolin Tsai