The holy grail of the modern age right at this moment has to be an all-inclusive, all-encompassing, free, ad-supported streaming music service. Spotify almost provides that, and is certainly the closest service to perfection that I’ve used. And now it looks like it could be coming to an iPhone near you soon.

I reviewed Spotify in January, and have been using it every day since. It’s actually become my main means of listening to music on my computer, replacing the need to listen to the actual downloaded or bought and ripped album at all.

It isn’t perfect… yet. There are a number of high-profile artists missing, and the service is not yet available in the States. But if those two issues were dealt with, which I’m confident they will be in time, then Spotify would cement its place as the holy grail I mentioned earlier.

But wait, what is better than a near-perfect streaming music service on your computer? The same thing but on your mobile device. And according to TechCrunch UK, and a video dug up by Tech Digest, that is exactly what we could soon be blessed with.

There have been rumors for a while that Spotify was working on a mobile version of its music streaming software, and the video above seems to confirm this as true. It shows Spotify running on an iPhone, although versions compatible with Symbian and Android are also expected.

As the video shows, the proposed Spotify iPhone app would allow all the same functionality that makes the computer version so brilliant, including thousands of tracks available at the touch of a button, very little lag, and playlists of all your favorites. Even better, playlists can be stored while hooked up to the Web in order to play later on when you’re out of range of a Wi-Fi connection.

At this point, there’s no guarantee Apple would give the iPhone app clearance. After all, a music streaming service as refined and user-friendly as Spotify could, in the end, start affecting business. Would anyone need to use iTunes anymore if Spotify came to mobile devices in this way?

Assuming it gets the OK from Jobs and company, it’s thought that Spotify mobile would only be available to premium customers. At the moment, I only use the free version but if this becomes a reality, I’d be sorely tempted to pay the £10 a month fee.

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Entry was posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 1:53 am under Apple, Cell phones, Internet, Music, Opinion.

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