Spotify adding apps, finally saves us from lyrics websites

Dan Seitz Contributing Writer, Tech

It never fails: a song is stuck in your head, but you can’t remember the lyrics, and it’s driving you crazy. So you type the chorus into Google, and suddenly there are a dozen websites…all of which want to sell you a ringtone and bombard your desktop with pop-ups. Fortunately, if you use Spotify, this will officially be a thing of the past. Along with just about every kind of information about an artist you could ever need.

Spotify Logo 135x95 Spotify adding apps, finally saves us from lyrics websitesThe apps in question cover pretty much everything you could ever want from music: lyrics that scroll as the song plays, a list of upcoming concerts by the artist, reviews of the album the song comes from.

And more are coming: Spotify is opening the platform up to outside developers. Just don’t expect these on the smartphone; it’s strictly PC right now.

What will you pay for these apps? Zilch. Spotify is ensuring that all apps are offered for free and covering the costs on the back end. Of course, this also means that they get to vet absolutely everything put on their platform, so there won’t be any fun viruses…at least until a hacker figures out a way past their protocols.

Why is Spotify turning to apps, though? Pretty simple, really: Google just got into the streaming game, and that’s absolutely free. Apple and Amazon want to get into streaming, in addition to selling you MP3s. They’ve got to figure out a way to compete, especially since they’re tied to Facebook and kind of have all their eggs in one basket.

Either way, it’s going to be nice to get those lyrics without having to resort to using malware software or a Java interrupter just to make the pop-ups stop.

Spotify To Offer Apps [Wall Street Journal]

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