Spotify
Spotify is a music streaming service with offline syncing for the T-Mobile myTouch and Android. With Spotify, you can stream music, manage playlists, sync with the desktop app, and play songs offline even when you don’t have a signal on your myTouch. You can play around with the app or with other apps while the music is playing live – the player controls are presented via a tabbed option that can be pulled up from the bottom menu bar. You do need a Spotify premium subscription to use this Android application. This myTouch app presents almost everything that you can access via the desktop front-end to Spotify. On the desktop app, dragging a song into the mobile folder will instantly sync the song to your myTouch.
 
The search feature gives you full access to the catalog. Note that this is not a streaming “radio” service like Pandora – you have full access to any song that’s available on the catalog, and you can skip as many times as you want. Streaming quality is top-notch, with no stuttering or lags on 3G or Wi-Fi. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the tabbed interface for the player does well to get out of the way once a song starts playing. As expected, Spotify does have a noticeable impact on battery-life, but this is true for these services on any smartphone. There’s currently no way to automatically generate a playlist for you based on a small sample of songs – a feature available in Pandora and Last.FM. Overall, this is a very polished and comprehensive music streaming application with offline syncing rounding off one of the more feature-rich and useful myTouch apps.


