Spotify has been providing an excellent alternative to traditional ways of buying individual albums with an impressive streaming service that allows you for £9.99 (UKP) a month to download whatever you want as long as you keep paying.

Spotify has it’s own very competent iPhone app for free but SpotON has just launched and one of the early third party apps which utilises Spotify’s CORE services to provide an alternative way to use your Spotify account and listen to music.

SpotON Radio’s aim is to allow you to search for artists from either your Spotify playlists, from SpotON’s Top 100 list or a general search and create stations of that artist and most crucially similar sounding artists utilising the recommendation engine at the EchoNest.

As the station you create plays, you can rate each artist and song with a thumbs up or down to help refine future selections. If you do like a particular song you can share the track on Facebook and add the track to your Spotify playlist so it’s a great way to find new artists and grow your music collection.

The user interface is very clean and certainly lives up to the apps ‘Simple, Elegant, Spot On’ slogan and it will be interesting how this app develops and certainly we will be seeing a lot more apps that hang off Spotify in the coming weeks.

Note: While this app is free to download you will require a Spotify Premium account.

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Review by Guest Writer Mark Owen.