Spinlet App Review - Free Naija Music For Eveyone!

Over the last few months a range of locally brewed applications tailored for the Nigerian market has immerged. It’s always nice to see people talking and innovative step forward in the world of computing.

One new Nigerian app that seems to be making waves is an app called Spinlet. Spinlet is an online store which allows you to listen to and purchase Nigerian music via your android and blackberry phones. This application is currently not available for apple and iOS devices. 

We spent a day tinkering with it and were rather impressed. Its relatively small (only taking up only 2.75 MB) so can be installed even on lower range smartphones. Spinlet allows you stream songs in its online library straight to your phone impressively clear and loud. It also includes search functionality to find what you’re looking for quickly.

But at the time of writing this article its selection of available songs was very limited with, no memorable or classic Nigerian artist like Asa, Lagbaja or Femi Kuti. It also lacked recent songs and seemed to focus on up-and-coming artists. 

One major let down about Spinlet is the purchase structure integrated into app. This is how think it’s supposed to work; you use the Spinlet app to convert your actual airtime/credit to Spinlet Credit (sc), which you then use to pay for songs “In-App”. Here’s the problem, if you’re using an android phone even though you will be able to convert your airtime to Spinlet Credit you won’t be able to use that credit for any In-App purchases, this feature seems to be disabled on android phones, although you will still be able to stream these songs whenever you want free of charge (if your not including the cost of data). On a blackberry however you are allowed to purchase songs with your spinlet credit but, when we did we were unable to find the purchased songs, and still had to go back to the App and search for the songs to listen to them. Even though we only lost about Two Hundred Naira (₦200) in the process we could imagine that some else would feel, cheated.

 

One more pit fall about streaming on Spinlet is that more than often when the app is minimized on the android platform the music usually stops shortly after, making multitasking almost impossible.

I am a supporter of the Nigerian Music industry, and like Spinlet it is a pioneer in Africa, but Spinlet still has a lot of bugs that need to be worked out before I feel it can reach its true potential. 

How do you download Spinlet?

Android users can download Spinlet by scanning the QR Code Below. Make sure you open it using Google PLAY (Android Market).

Alternatively android users may go to Google PLAY (Android Marketplace) on their devices and search for it. Blackberry users will need to search for Spinlet using “AppWorld”.

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