I don't know. It's been uninstalled for months.

I think they used to market it as "we'll find you all sorts of cool music", so the expectation I had was that I'd be able to type in an artist or song and it would run an iTunes-esque "Genius" on it to give you a playlist.

Instead, I'd type in an artist or song and it would come back with no results.

It was happy to play music that I already had on my machine, but seemingly had no capability to go out and find new music from the internet. Given that that was its stated purpose, I was annoyed and uninstalled it.

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.

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.