Spotify For All!

Music catalogue updated with 219,665 tracks

2009-08-07T20:03:00.000+02:00

The guys at Spotify have been a little quiet recently when it comes to adding new music, hopefully today’s update will make up for that. They've added 20,430 albums and singles, in total 219,665 new tracks are now available.

There’s so much in here but a few highlights include:

A lot of dance and trance music from the Armada Music label
The Spanish label Blanco y Negro Music added a lot of tracks
The Belgian aggregator NEWS has been included, they focus on dance/club music
Two Dancers by Wild Beasts

Today’s update was so large it’s split into two sheets which still barely held the whole list. The first one has artists A-K and K-Z. I’ve also attached a full text file in case anyone prefers downloading that. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Let us know if you find any gems in today’s update.

The Invisible Festival

2009-08-07T20:01:00.001+02:00

I wanted to let you know about a festival taking place this weekend which is a little different than anything we’ve seen in the past. The Invisible Festival is the world’s only 100% mud free, crowd-free, rain-free, tout-free, queue-free, free-free virtual festival. They’ll be providing users with a number of different playlists over the weekend to party with, the only ticket you need is Spotify.

It’s all for a good cause as they are supporting Cancer Research UK so head over to their website for all the details.

Music catalogue updated with 73,142 tracks

2009-07-25T11:31:00.000+02:00

The guys at Spotify have updated our music catalogue today. They added 5,998 albums and singles, in total 73,142 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

A lot of classic progressive rock from the Swedish label Silence Records which includes artists such as bob hund, Hedningarna and Samla Mammas Manna
Battlefield by Jordin Sparks
Song Or Suicide by Nomy
The debut album by La Roux is now available in the UK

Additionally, the audio book Free which was previously only available in the UK is now available for all users.

For a full listing of today’s additions please have a look at the Google Doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Spotify and IODA ink deal

2009-07-25T11:12:00.002+02:00

One of the challenges all music services face is providing a wide range of music for users with all sorts of different tastes. We’ve worked hard to addclassical, punk and indie content from different sources and adding more music is an ongoing process that we continue to work on.
As part of this process we’re really happy today to let you know that we’ve reached an agreement with IODA to bring their extensive catalogue of music to Spotify. IODA is a leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry and is a great addition to our growing catalogue. IODA will provide Spotify users with music drawn from a catalogue of nearly two million tracks from over 50 countries and spanning a broad variety of styles including rock, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, indie, world, latin, jazz and classical.
Just some of the great artists covered by IODA include: The Prodigy, Burial, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bashy, Frank Black, Vieux Farka Touré, Broken Social Scene, Easy Star All Stars, Aventura and Stephen Fry. IODA also brings its growing number of international partners into the deal, including Nordic territory partner Bonnier Amigo Music Group, which adds artists such as Ane Brun, Madcon, Hello Saferide, Sunrise Avenue and The Third Degree to the catalogue.
We’ll be adding the tracks over the coming months and are really excited to start working with IODA.

Music catalogue updated with 3,617 tracks

2009-07-16T10:44:00.000+02:00

Spotify has updated their catalogue with a few more releases. They added 352 albums and singles, in total 3,617 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

The new single Crying Lightning by the Arctic Monkeys
Picket Fence Cartel by Project 86
Horehound by The Dead Weather
Travelling Like The Light by V V Brown

Hints & Tips – History tab

2009-07-16T10:36:00.003+02:00

Today’s tip might help if you’ve been listening to a new playlist on random and aren’t sure what the last song was or an ad played and you didn’t open Spotify fast enough to click the banner. We have a history tab in Spotify that allows you to see a listing of everything that you’ve listened to in a current session.

To see the history of your current session head to the Play queue page, then click on theHistory tab. There you will see all the tracks and ads that have played since you last started Spotify and you can click on any of them to play over again.

Spotify for Google Android!

2009-06-18T12:21:00.003+02:00

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Spotify music catalogue updated with 90,513 releases.

2009-06-18T12:17:00.000+02:00

A lot of today’s update independent music from CD Baby, some highlights and new releases include:

Hands by Little Boots
Lines, Vines and Trying Times by the Jonas Brothers
Skeletons by the Tiny Masters Of Today

For a full listing of today’s additions please have a look at the Google documents, there are two of them because of the size of the update, one sorted by artist and one by label. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Hints & Tips - Your top list.

2009-06-17T15:23:00.000+02:00

Ever curious to see what track or artist you’ve recently been listening to the most? Spotify has got a top list feature built-in which shows you what you’re currently digging. You can view your top ten tracks, albums and artists as well as the top hits in various different countries.

To see the top lists head to the Home page, then click on the Top lists tab. There you will see drop down menus where you can select various different views.

Spotify 0.3.16

2009-06-17T15:17:00.000+02:00

The developers at Spotify Ltd. just released version 0.3.16 of their app, making sharing your music with others even easier than before. Right-click any artist, track or album in Spotify to share it on Facebook or Delicious. As usual they have also squashed a few bugs and the banner ads no longer steal your focus.

Hints & Tips - Link to a specific track time.

2009-06-17T15:10:00.000+02:00

Here’s a little feature that you may not know about. You can link directly to a specific time in a track by adding, for example “#1:31″ to the end of the URI of a Spotify track, where 1:31 is the time you want to link to.

Here’s a full example, spotify:track:2QO8cnnFW6khDuAuUAySeV#3:04 will link to what I think is the best part of this song.

So if you’ve ever wanted to send your friend a track so he could hear only the great guitar riff or fabulous chorus, now you can.

This feature also works with HTTP links if you use “%23″ in place of the “#” symbol. So my example would look like this: http://open.spotify.com/track/2QO8cnnFW6khDuAuUAySeV%233:04.

Welcome to Spotify for All!

2009-06-16T12:20:00.001+02:00

Hi and welcome to my new page designed specifically to bring you news, updates and invites to the best music database ever created!! In here you'll find a way to get access to Spotify without paying the premium and without being in the UK!

Yes you heard me right. I can give you access to this much anticipated application. All you have to do is leave me a comment with your contact details and I'll get back to you as soon as humanly possible.

So if you want to start enjoying the best music, without having to download or buy the monthly premium, you know what to do!!

Till then!