Hi jasonbournecia,
Spotify, a proprietary peer-to-peer streaming music program may not be secure:
"On 4 March 2009, Spotify announced that personal data including email addresses and birth dates of members of Spotify prior to 19 December 2008 were "potentially exposed" by hackers exploiting a bug in the system. Spotify later announced that any affected users have been personally emailed by Spotify. The team creating "Despotify", an open source clone of Spotify, later announced that it was they who had discovered the security hole, and that only around 40 users' details had been revealed, mostly members of the Despotify or Spotify teams. While it is possible that other groups could have have used this approach to gain user information, it is unlikely given that Spotify fixed the issue within a few hours of the exploit being made public.
An announcement by Spotify also pointed out that any potential hackers would only be able to obtain salted encrypted passwords. Hackers would still have to have targeted specific accounts and used brute force attacks on these passwords."
Here's their own security notice:
http://www.spotify.com/blo
According to their team, they have apparently fixed the security issue. There is a competing open source project: http://despotify.se/
They discuss the security issues here: http://despotify.se/#criti
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by: David-HowardPosted on 2009-04-24 at 08:12:44ID: 24226129
Looks safe enough from these reviews and postings.
http://www.crunchbase.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
http://blog.wired.com/busi
I'm not a big fan of anything that is peer to peer (for various reasons).
Other than that, I can't locate anything negative about the application.