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"The British are coming! The British are coming!"

Not that it technically changes anything, but Spotify is Swedish.

Also, saying "Dog and Bone" anywhere outside of London will get you laughed at. I'm presuming this is mostly the case in London too. Cockney rhyming slang != British, and no - we don't all use it.

Spotify is awesome, so much so that even though their recent restrictions were a little upsetting - I decided I love the service too much, and started paying. Two months in and I'm still very happy with it. If you sign-in from a mobile device the 7 day trial extends to 30 days, so you can make your own choice with plenty of time too.

Is it a little annoying they don't have everything on there, sure... but it's a damn good service. And for everything else, you still have your old methods.

I'm sorry you guys across the pond haven't got to try it yet, but the tech blogs are excited about this one for a reason.

I used a Norwegian friend's Spotify account for a bit, and I'm now using rdio. I don't see any significant difference between them, other than the client, which ... eh? Rdio works in my web browser, and it works on my phone. That's pretty much all I care about.

The only advantage an actual app could have is responding to my hardware play/pause/next buttons, I think.

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