Spotify for iPhone – new update

Today we’ve got some more good news for iPhone owners. Spotify’s iPhone app has been given a further update and is now available in the App Store. Enhancements in the update include:

  • Share tracks and playlists via SMS (iOS 4 only)
  • Spotify Twitter posts added to the News Feed
  • New high-resolution icon for iPhone 4
  • Pressing the “prev” button skips to the start of a track, even if you’re playing the first track
  • The “restore” message no longer appears when in airplane mode
  • Fixed a crash some users experienced with the What’s New tab
  • Fixed an issue with inbox not updating with new tracks in certain cases

Enjoy!

The Spotify team.

By Andres Sehr

78 responses to “Spotify for iPhone – new update”

 

Iphone is one thing but when will se see an App designed for the Ipad?

 
 

And Windows Mobile 6.5

 
 

HTC Touch Pro2

 
 

Ppl are never happy... Thanks for this update !

 
 

Great, thanks :) When will the rest of the graphics be updated for the Retina-display?

 
 

Spotify is insanely slow on the iPhone 3G running iOS 4. 20 second startup time. Dealbreaker. :/ Are you only doing development regarding the 3GS or newer devices more iOS 4-capable?

 
 

Thanks for this update! I'm happy... but when will we see Sonos integration?

 
 

@johnkors I think that's Apple's problem, many app, and the iOS4 itself, is slow on iPhone 3G and iPod 2nd gen. It's sad that Apple didn't warn the users beforehand, and they also makes it very hard to switch back to 3.2. and... for the classical music lovers out there, check out http://www.spotifyclassical.com/ for classical playlists:)

 
 

Ipad app please !

 
 

Second that, jensgustafsson. I'm also curious about when and if we should expect an app optimized for iPad.

 
 

Please enable 320kbps for synching!

 
 

No Symbian update?

 
 

This is a good update - but the SMS link should really use a short url such as j.mp or something - otherwise the other person has a real hard job of finding the song (unless they have a smartphone).

 
 

WAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAA

 
 

Please let me sort my playlists alphabetically on my Iphone!

 
 

Cant make spotify for PSP? ^^

 
 

Cheers for update but please could you sort it so that albums/playlists play in the order stated. Very frustrating and surely not difficult to resolve?

 
 

Good update (I guess), but I am unsure why your updates don't focus on improving what so many people WANT to see from the app? IE - sorting playlists/tracks alphabetically, and related issues like that? Instead you just seem to be adding functions that most will find fairly useless, like the spotify twitter feed and SMS playlist sending. Not sure why you're not focussing primarily on the usability, rather than adding external gadgets to it.

 
 

That's great, but 3,000 extra songs would be better ;)

 
 

Great, I would like to see some more options for single tracks tough. Today there is for example no way to add a single track to a playlist without starting the song first. I think you can do it even more straight forward than today: Add a "plus-icon" next to the albums AND on single tracks that brings up a context meny containing Queue, Add to playlist, star song/album, share song/album, etc. So that you only have shuffle and "plus/more". This would leave you with a clean, functional and consequent UI, I think.

 
 

@johnkors & @ulyssestone: I'm currently running the iOS 4.1 beta2 on my 3G, and just clocked the startuptime for the spotify app in at 10 seconds, so the problem is likely with iOS 4.0/4.1. Overall, iOS 4.1 brings some quite noticeable performance improvements to the 3G compared to iOS 4 (and I agree that iOS 4 is real slow).

 
 

And by the way, the feature I would most like to see in the next version is a play queue! (sorry for double-post)

 
 

I wish I am in the application com and you remove the sound made when the application has support on the iPod controls, thank you

 
 

I wish that the application'm French and that you remove the sound made when the application has support on the iPod controls, thank you

 
 

This new update is rubbish when ever I close spotify of lock the screen the music stops :( what's wrong :S

 
 

I agree with jackdaniel, you shouldn't have to start a song to add it to a playlist.

 
 

Please, please, please leave all the extra bits for now and focus on core functionality. Navigation of offline songs/playlists is poor. No option to filter/sort/search songs overall by artist/album/track. The individual playlist searches just don't cut it. Why is the search tab completely redundant offline?

 
 

I'm adding my recurring vote on the sadly missing Queue function. I'm sure you will fix it for the next update, right?

 
 

and what about windows mobile 6.5 ??

 
 

Nice to get an update, so thanks for that. My wish is for my last.fm scrobbles to queue up when I'm out for the day with no net access and upload next time I'm online, even if I've quit the app in the meantime. No idea if it's even possible, but I miss my listening stats on last.fm and use spotify 95% in offline mode.

 
 

Great to see the team putting out regular updates. Please can you bring back the 'edit playlists' option. It was there before the last update - the ability to edit and reorder playlists really is invaluable. One of your guys suggested you were looking to bring it back...please do!!!

 
 

Def agree about the offline last.fm queuing. Must be possible to cache the logfile for access later?

 
 

Thx! For the next one: - alphabetical sorting - repeat button - shuffle on/off button

 
 

On my Ipod Touch, I can't run spotify in background. When i go to the ´homepage´ of my ipod, the music in the spotify app stops. Is there a update for?

 
 

Thanks for the update guys! Have an idea that you may or may not be able to do, but I think it would be awesome if you could. Recently I downloaded the iTunes Remote app that lets you control the music playing on your computer with the iPhone, Ultimate lazy I know but pretty sweet! :) Wondered if you would be able to make a Spotify Remote app that works kind of the same. Would be awesome!!

 
 

Please, can someone tell me how i change or how i find my old PASSWORD ? (Not username)

 
 

The New versión is not working. Now multitasking is dead and you cannot control the music with the headphones remote bottom. All this was working yesterday. Now if I go to another app the music stops. Also you should allow to organize playlist from iPhone I'm running 3GS with ios 4

 
 

After going live and restarting the iPhone suddenly it is back to normal and working on background and with the controls of the headphone

 
 

@johnkors Spotify is insanely slow on the iPhone 3G running iOS 4. 20 second startup time. Dealbreaker. :/ Are you only doing development regarding the 3GS or newer devices more iOS 4-capable? Beta 3 iOS 4.1 things start to be more normal, anyone know when 4.1 is expected to be final, there's a few folk out there that need it ie Iphone 3G and 2g Touch users/ :/

 
 

This is great, however, I have a Windows Mobile device...

 
 

Why is there no way to disable shuffle? Really annoying

 
 

Thanks for fixing the What's New crash bug, sooner as expected... :)

 
 

What I'm really waiting for is a 320kbps stream to my iPhone.

 
 

OMG?! Why are you updating iphones spotify when you have not even finished the windows mobile version?? How hard can it be to make spotify for windows mobile? It shouldn't take more than a week!!! Some people have even made their own unofficial version because they are sick and tired of waiting for you lazy asses to make an official app. Unfortunately they disabled it because you should "soon" make an official one, so where is it???

 
 

I'm running this on 2G Touch with iOS 4.0.2. The Spotify application systematically crashes after 3-4 songs. Going completely offline helps but that is not what I pay my premium fee for. Please fix a.s.a.p.

 
 

Is it me or does the 'what's new' section NEVER update??

 
 

Uuhh... Why did the create playlist button disappear after the latest update??

 
 

The "what's new" listing isn't updating on my iPhone either.

 
 

Add last.fm offline scrobbling, please! It's the one thing that keeps me from using Spotify on the iPhone.

 

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