Hacker News Reader

Then I'm afraid you must have missed something. If, for example (as it was the first net screenshot I found) you enter "bella" into the top left search box, you get back this: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/spotify_deskto...

Double click any of those and it will instantly start streaming the song.

View on HN

Indeed, that's what I was expecting to see. Now imagine you'd typed "bella" and you saw an empty list. That was Spotify when I gave them a shot.

I might have to try again at some point.

It's probably worth giving it a go but unless you have very mainstream musical tastes, expect to be at least somewhat disappointed.

Their catalogue isn't too bad for a free service (probably around 40% of what I search for comes up with useful results) although having to listen to adverts every four songs seems a bit much, and it's certainly not worth paying to get rid of them.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com