The high school student ministries we work with has a cafe for a few hours before events start on Wednesdays. We needed more varied music. Thanks to a discounted Creative Zen shuffle-equivalent and Spiral Frog, we're set.

• Creative Zen Stone (equivalent to an iPod shuffle) = $27
• 352 Songs from SpiralFrog = Free

To do this with an iPod it would have cost about $421 ( $69 for the iPod and $1 per song).

Spiralfrog is a subscription service, so it won't work on your iPod. Like other subscription services, your music expires in 30 days unless you renew. Luckily, the SpiralFrog website is ad-supported and the subscription is free. Not every artist I was looking for was there, but I've got 23 hours of music we'll be able to shuffle for quite some time.

2 comments

1. Jen on 9/5/08, 1:02 PM

   Yet another reason not to own a mac.
   
   *sigh*

    
2. Jon the legal immigrant on 9/11/08, 9:20 AM

   quick update - the Creative Stone can't play the subscription music. There are cheaper mp3 players that can though, so we're returning the one and buying another.