Unofficial Spotify resources

This list of unofficial Spotify applications, plug-ins, blogs, news sites, playlist sites, official resources, and more, is kindly written and managed by Afront of The Pansentient League.

Please note: Spotify is in no way associated with the following web sites nor the opinions or claims expressed therein. We merely provide a link and leave it up to you to determine what to do and what to trust.

Spotify News Sites

• The Pansentient League - Afront’s site mixes news, reviews, and hints & tips with editorials and commentary on all things Spotify.
• Spotify Twitter List - Real-time list of Spotify news and views as tweeted by the most influential Spotify users on Twitter.
• Spotmylist.com - Blog that posts Spotify-related news, reviews, and opinion (in Norwegian).
• Spotify Technology Progress - Fredrik Kjell’s blog features Spotify news and views.
• Spotiguide - Frequently updated Spotify-themed blog featuring news, reviews, tips and opinions.

Music Finder Sites & Blogs

These sites and blogs recommend music on Spotify and help you find what’s new. Many will spotlight a particular music style or one Spotify user’s favourites.

• Spotinews - Music-finder site. Updated frequently, joebuck’s site is the best blog out there to keep track of new releases on Spotify.
• Are You Spotified? - Music finder site specializing in club and house music.
• Best of the Worst of Spotify - Funny posts about “some of the most horrendous albums ever produced.”
• Canciones Y Musica - Blog with a personal selection of favourites on Spotify (in Spanish).
• Dagens Jazz - Daily jazz tracks - nice!
• Dagens Spotifylista - Daily lists of recommended music, often based on a theme (in Swedish).
• Electroplastas - Spanish blog with some great looking movie, TV, and videogame-based playlists.
• Hot Spot Music - Personal playlist site (via Twitter) featuring a variety of musical styles.
• Indiefy - Site dedicated to locating indie pop, shoegaze, dreampop etc.
• Jockes Spotifyblogg - Per Johansson’s blog where he posts about albums and artists available on Spotify, as well as the occasional news story (in Swedish).
• Megamind Spotify Playlists - The Nordic clubbing and DJ culture site’s selection of Spotify playlists.
• Northern Exposure - Blog about Norwegian indie music on Spotify.
• On The Spot - This blog collects tweets from the Eardrums Music team that spotlight new releases and other Spotify tidbits.
• Spotiwire - Music recommendation blog on Tumblr that uses tags to show you the music.
• Spotify Crates - Personal playlist site with areas that highlight new releases, old favourites and playlists. Check out the samples section for a fun who-samples-who list.
• Spotify Classical - Blog dedicated to classical music on Spotify. Blogger Ulysses eloquently says his site will help you “discover and share the masterpieces that forever enlarged the sphere of human experience accessible to the creative imagination, through the best instant streaming music service in the world, Spotify.“
• Spotify Me - Personal blog with themed playlists such as 20 Must-Have Albums of 2009.
• Spotify on Tumblr - Tumblelog featuring a selection of new releases and older favourites.
• Spotifylistor - Swedish blog that posts playlists, with the occasion Spotify news and feature post.
• SpotiNotes - Great blog about Spotify, with a selection of news and spotlights on new Spotify content.

Apps: Search & Browser Tools

Here are some tools to help with searching Spotify and to plug-in to your web browser.

• Fire Spot - Firefox add-on that that analyzes webpages for tracklists. Anything flagged as a track receives a green small spotify-like logo. Clicking the logo performs a search in Spotify.
• FoxyTunes - FireFox browser plugin music player that can now control Spotify
• Spotify Accelerator - IE and Firefox tool to search Spotify for selected text. See the blog post here for more info.
• Spotibot Search Plugin - A plugin for Firefox and IE that adds a Spotibot playlist generator search engine to your browser.
• Spotify Super Search - The only advanced search tool for Spotify, and the only site to let you search by any genre, not just a small set as used by most playlist sites.
• Spotify Search for Firefox - Search plug-in for Firefox. Adds search-selected options to right-click menu.

Apps: Remote Controllers

Tools to control the Spotify client remotely.

• Spotify Remote - a Salling Clicker app to control Spotify for Mac from your cell phone
• Spotify Mac Remote - a plugin for Spotify that allows you to use your Mac remote control to Play, Pause and change tracks. Requires SIMBL.
• MiniSpotify - Spotify for Windows add-on that provides a mini-controller for Spotify that lets you play, pause, and change track as well as giving you search, lyrics, and a remote control feature.
• Music Controls - iPhone app (on Cydia) that lets you run and control the Spotify iPhone app in the background.
• SpotifyBTind - Another mobile remote, this time for Sony Ericsson phones.
• Spotify Web Remote - Promising-looking remote app that lets you control Spotify via a web browser.
• Remoteless - iPhone remote for Spotify running on windows (and soon mac).

Apps: Media Player Addons

Media player add-ons are apps that work with media centers and other 3rd-party music players.

• Songbird Addons for Spotify - Spotify-related add-ons for freeware music player Songbird.
• Spotifier - Project to integrate Spotify into MediaPortal, the open-source mediacenter.
• spotyxbmc - Project to integrate Spotify into XBMC Media Center (Xbox Media Center), the cross-platform media player. Also see the forum thread.
• Spotify MCE - Unofficial add-in for Windows Media Center. Use it to play Spotify music directly from your Media Center, all controlled with your remote.

Spotify URL Tools

• Cleanify - Generates clean, readable links from Spotify URLs. The cleaned links include human-readable details in the URL (artist, album, track etc.) Cleanify also has a Clipboard Filter (background app that translates copied Spotify URLs into Cleanify links) and a Cleanify API.
• Decode Spotify URIs - Paste a Spotify address into this app and it “decodes” the URL to return a page of detail including artist, album, tracklists, length, year, and album art.
• LNKby - URL shortening service that recognizes Spotify URLs and shortens them to http://SPOTIFY.ly links.
• Spotibot Better Links - Spotibot’s ‘better link’ service provides Facebook integration and album art on Spotify link pages.
• Social Spotify - A novel way to share your playlists with friends, this site lets you add album art and genre details then provides a Facebook post or widget code.
• spo.tl – From the creator of Spotifitunes, spo.tl is a Spotify URL shortener that’s like a megamix of LNKby and Spotibot Better Links. Enter a Spotify address (or use the provided bookmarklet) to get a shortened URL and clean page that includes album art, track details and sharing links.

Spotify + Last.fm

These mashup sites link with Last.fm to provide recommendation and other useful services.

• Freshspotify - Emails you when fresh music from your favourite bands are available on spotify. Add your favourites on the site and they’ll do the checking.
• Last.fm + Spotify + Find New Albums - Uses your last.fm loved tracks and top lists to recommend new releases. Also matches against recommendations, lets you view only singles or albums, and has an RSS feed.
• Last.fm Spotify Search - Greasemonkey script that adds a green note icon next to tracks, albums and artists on the Last.fm website. Click the note to search in Spotify.
• Lastify - Plug-in that bolts onto the regular Spotify client and lets you Love, Ban, and Tag tracks back to Last.fm.
• Spotify.fm - Webtool to list the latest Spotify releases of all your favourite artists on Last.fm. Also has an RSS feed, search based on both username or tag, and now also provides a similar artist search.
• Spotifyrelease.com - Similar to freshspotify, this release notification service lets you subscribe to artists then be notified by email whenever they have new releases on Spotify.
• Spotify updates from Last.fm - List the latest Spotify releases of all your favourite artists on Last.fm. Uniquely lets you specify the playcount range to consider.

Other Sites & Apps

• Add2Spotify - Lets you vote for albums you want added to Spotify.
• BeSpotify - This community site (which proclaims itself the “Number One Spotify Community“) is built on the Ning social network platform and has nearly 2,000 members.
• Clipification - Integrates ClipothËque (the multimedia organizer) with Spotify.
• Jolicloud app - Netbook OS Jolicloud has an app store model for adding new apps. Spotify is now supported.
• listdj.se - App that gives you the lyrics of the current playing track on Spotify.
• p3spotify – Mashup that joins Swedish radio station P3’s playlists with links to Spotify.
• Pitchify – Spotify links based on the best album reviews. Pitchify mixes review scores from US webzine Pitchfork with MySpace and Spotify.
• Radiofy.se - Playlist of tracks played on Swedish Radio, directly linked to Spotify.
• Soundtrack.nu - Searchable database of movie soundtracks, now with links to open the album (if available) in Spotify.
• SpotAmp - An add-on script that shows what you are playing in Spotify on your mIRC chat channels.
• Spotibot - Send a tweet with an artist’s name to Spotibot and it replies with a recommendation.
• SpotiChart - Monitors Twitter for tweets with Spotify links, then compiles global charts and statistics.
• SpotiDJ - Music sharing site site with an emphasis on individual songs rather than whole playlists. DJs add songs with a brief description of why they like that song for others to tune in to.
• Spotkick - If you’re on Songkick (the concert and tour tracking site), this mashup will generate Spotify links to your upcoming gigs.
• Spotify Collection - Useful Spotify webapp that lets you manage all your favourite albums using a slick, album-art driven interface.
• Spotify Collections - Web-based personal playlist manager that lets you create and share your playlists. Once registered, you cna build a list of albums: the site groups these by artist to provide a neat web-based playlist management tool.
• Spotify-Forum.com - An unofficial forum for Spotify discussions with over400 registered users.
• Spotify Labels - A complete clickable list of all the record labels on Spotify.
• Spotify Tweaks - Spotify for Windows add-on that gives you custom tooltips, cover display, a cover manager, advanced search, an RSS reader and a lyric search feature.
• Spotified Billboard Singles Charts - Using the Billboard and Spotify APIs, music technologist Paul Lamere has created Spotify playlists for all of the Billboard Singles charts.
• Toastify - App that’ll display a toast-style pop-up whenever the track changes in Spotify.

Playlist Sharing Sites

Here is a complete list of all known playlist sites, listed in alphabetical order. Also see the Pansentient League’s Playlist Site Awards for recommendations.

• Listas Spotify - Spanish playlist site.
• Listopify - Easy-to-use playlist site, similar to Spotylist but with a few more features.
• Myspotify.com - Familiar-looking playlist site with nearly 6,000 playlists.
• ShareMyPlaylists - The most popular playlist site with over 13,000 playlists and a thriving community.
• Specifyspot - Playlist site with a social-networking angle. User-definable tags, text search, lots of bookmarks. Note that it’s designed for Swedish users: there is an English language switcher, but unfortunately it only seems to translate the tags.
• Spotifies! - Playlist sharing site. Includes specific areas for music festivals, Billboard charts, and collaborative playlists.
• Spotify*playlists - Playlist site with search, RSS feed and quick ‘n easy add.
• Spotifyfriends - Claims to be “the largest community for sharing Spotify playlists.“. Has links to share playlists on Facebook, Delicious etc.
• Spotifylinks - Nice looking playlist site, looks like they’re just starting up though as many of the playlists are just full albums. Excellent translator widget: the entire site seems to be available in any of 12 languages. There’s also a dashboard widget for Mac users.
• Spotifylist - RSS feeds, playlists by genre and tag, add comments to existing playlists, upload album art.
• spotifylistan - Swedish playlist sharing site (in Swedish).
• Spotifylistat - Finnish playlist sharing site.
• Spotifynd - Tag-based playlists with search.
• SpotifyPlaylists - playlists by genre (select from a limited set), add comments to existing playlists, upload album art. Playlists are searchable (although this depends on the playlist mixers entering track-by-track details first)
• Spotifyworld - Basic playlist site, possibly the easiest to use yet.
• Spotilinks - This site takes a fresh and unique approach to playlists, calling itself “the first musical social network for UK Spotify users.” The original french version includes a demo video.
• Spotylist - Bill Spoty’s clean and simple playlist site - easy upload, simple click-to-vote thumbs up, bookmark your own set of playlists.
• spotyshare - Feature-rich site, but requires you to register and log in.
• Totalspotify - Spotify playlist community, this site is still in beta but already has a fair amount of playlists and subscribers. Totalspotify has some extra features such as groups, tag clouds, enhanced sorting options, user stats and album reviews.
• Want My Playlist? - Playlist sharing site with a nice bright and slick look.
• xpandify - Playlist site with an emphasis on playlist tags and filtering. RSS feed of recent playlists.
• YourSpotify - Great looking site with all the features you’d expect, now with an author archive so that you can bookmark your own playlist page.

Automated Playlist Sites

Automated playlist sites generate links of Spotify playlists automatically. Some act as personal recommendation services.

• Spotibot Playlist Generator - Enter any artist, band, or Last.fm username then generates a playlist of tracks by similar or suggested artists. You can favour more popular songs, set the number of tracks, and auto-build playlists based on Last.fm recommendations and loved tracks. Once created, drag-and-drop your playlist into Spotify.
• Spotiseek – Spotiseek also helps you find new music by generating playlists based on artists you specify. As with Spotibot Playlist Generator, you can set how many tracks you want and prioritize popular tracks. Also includes Pitchify-style album review links.
• New on Spotify - Auto-generated list of selected new albums and singles released on Spotify in the past week.
• frisim.com/spotify -Shows playlists posted on a large number of Swedish blogs (in Swedish).
• Spotwitfy - Lists playlists posted on Twitter.
• Spotify Hunted - A Spotify-powered version of We Are Hunted, a site that lists the latest top 100 most popular songs in the world (based on “what people are saying about artists“).
• Topsify - Weekly updates with links to playlists of the UK Top 40 Charts, Swedish dance charts etc. Add the playlist once, then Topsify will update it every week.

Playlist Converters

Playlist converters create Spotify playlists from tools and sites such as iTunes, Winamp, and YouTube.

• SpotifiTunes - Maps your iTunes library to Spotify to create a personal list of artists. Upload a file from iTunes then the site creates a list of all your artists, with links to Spotify.
• Listify - Turns Apple iTunes playlists into Spotify playlists.

Developer Resources

Resources for programmers and developers.

• A Glance at Spotify’s Peer-to-Peer Streaming, Gunnar Kreitz, IETF 75 - Technical presentation on how Spotify works, presented by Spotify developer Gunnar Kreitz at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IEFT) event held in July 2009.
• C#/.NET wrapper - Jonas Larsson’s libspotify wrapper (see announcement).
• GreenStripes - GreenStripes provides Ruby bindings for libspotify.
• meta-spotify - Ruby wrapper for the Spotify Metadata API.
• Net-Spotify - For developers, this is a Perl interface to the Spotify Metadata API.
• NRK P3 Spotify Playlists - Developer resource that uses the Spotify metadata API to hook into playlists from the popular Norwegian radio station.
• Spotimeta - Python library for querying the Spotify metadata service. Data is returned as simple Python dictionaries.
• spotifyomatic - a Spotify API wrapper for vb.net to control the Spotify client from your own apps.