Happy birthday @bobdylan! 71 tracks to celebrate an incredible 71 years. http://t.co/P6YZfK0G
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Kia Ora New Zealand. Spotify here. http://t.co/ZeSJbbpi
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Articles posted in 29 October 2009
New Metadata API
A few days ago we released the first version of our new Metadata API and I wanted to make sure everyone knew about it. The Metadata API allows you to search for tracks, albums and artists, much like you search in the client, but you get the result in XML format.
The first use of the API was done on our very own http://www.spotify.com sharing links which, as of last week, display artists and track name rather than just the HTTP link when share with your friends.
Have a look at Magnus’ post on the developers site for all the details about the new API. We look forward to seeing all the neat uses that people come up with.
PayPal now fully supported
Just wanted to briefly let everyone know that PayPal is now fully supported in all of our launch countries. So if you’re in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain or France and have been waiting for PayPal before upgrading to Spotify Premium then now’s your chance.
French summary: Un petit mot pour vous dire que vous pouvez désormais utiliser PayPal pour vous abonner à Spotify dans tous les pays dans lesquels Spotify est disponible. Si vous attendiez de pouvoir utiliser PayPal pour vous abonner à Spotify Premium, il est temps de le faire!
Spanish summary: Sólo queríamos informaros a todos que Paypal ahora se admite como sistema de pago en los paises en los que opera Spotify. Así que si estás en Suecia, Noruega, Finlandia , España o Francia y estabas esperando a Paypal antes de actualizar a Spotify Premium, ya no esperes más!
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please, Taylor Swift's new cd on spotify! Fearless platinum edition
add a playlist request! please! you must!
Good stuff guys, a new API is awesome for developers. Other posters, stop requesting things in blog posts, surely there's a better place for feature/music requests?
How about album art too?
You need to introduce some kind of caching system. The streaming service just isn't working. There are now constant interruptions to the music as the data loads. Disrupting the timing is the one thing that is fundamentally unacceptable in a music service. You should create a temporary cache system so that a user can say I want this track or these tracks to be fully downloaded and cached so there will an absolute guarantee of no interruptions while I listen to it.
bytorchlight - This exits, create a playlist, go to that and in the top right turn "Available Offline" to "On".
It's not quite the same thing. I'm talking about a temporary caching system, without the need to create playlists. But, yes, you could use the offline feature to achieve the same thing.
any chance of adding EQ settings?
My first application that uses the metadata API: Cleanify, a service that translates cryptic Spotify URLs into clean, readable links. Check it out and let me know what you think! http://cleanify.net
Not really regarding this API, but sort of an API change...but I'm sure Andres Sehr will forward this to the correct location: So, you are always playing a Call-the-Spotify-Voice-Mail-and-Tell-Us-What-You-Think ad asking me to talk to you guys through my mobile telling you how much I love you. Well, I love you, get over it. How about allowing me to leave you a feedback (telling you how much I love you) directly through the Spotify application? The reason I'm asking for this is that I just had an idea that might help you guys sell more ads and also make ad-listeners a bit more happier listening to those ads...the idea is simple: "Allow me to replay the ad I just heard cause I was interested in what I heard but I just missed some parts of it and want to hear it again or I want to "click the logo" to get more info." ...then I came across the missing feature of the Spotify application "Leave feedback" (or some way of telling you how much I love you) directly through the client. Hope I get both: 1. Replay of ads (not kidding, some people like to listen to those ads again) 2. Direct feedback from the Spotify application Cheers, Siggi
Completely off topic but any chance of getting Spotify on the Playstation 3?
@stinnistud - You can already replay adverts that have run. If you go to Queue -> History tab you'll see everything that has played including ads which you can click on and replay.
Any news on a release date for S60 mobile client?
I have just one question. Can't you make spotify in more languages? :) Like swedish, norwegian and etc.. :)
@bytorchlight : of course there's some caching, even without offline mode, just look in your application data folder, the 4 most recent subfolders are for the current song played, and it "bufferizes" data every 20-30 seconds or so usually. BUT yes you're right for the actual problems, I guess this has something to do with this new api, I also have constant interruptions these days (for the "unpopular" stuff, it's pretty terrible, stops 3 times within each minute...) Hope it'll be fixed VERY soon ;
Please, would you put out The Chameleons “Script of the Bridge”? The bad versions of the songs from that album is still popular on spotify, and imagine how popular the real songs would be!
my god you stole my spots
I sure would like spotify to work with Squeezebox, I think spotify would sell more premium accounts if it were possible to connect the two. I sure would buy premium instantly =)
how come that you don't have: Three days grace - Animal i have become ... ? =D
i think you should add variable bitrate for the people with slower connections :)
Playlist creation is a much needed feature. We could then use the API and maybe mix it with Last.fm to find similar artists, create them a playlist and add it to spotify. Technically it should support generated XML playlists or something similar.
a much needed API feature that should read
Soundtrack.nu now support Spotify using this search, superb feature! Examples: - Dark Knight Soundtrack: http://soundtrack.nu/album/284530501/hans-zimmer--james-newton-howard--the-dark-knight-original-motion-picture-soundtrack - Music by Hans Zimmer: http://soundtrack.nu/artist/111203/hans-zimmer
Where does this leave Squeezebox to support Spotify? The Squeezebox team were saying the original API was not rich enough for them to integrate Spotify with Sqeezebox, where does this leave that? Spotify, can you please make it work with Squeezebox by talking to the Squeezebox team. IHussein
You might be interested to know that, thanks to the Metadata API, we've successfully hooked up our office stereo to Twitter, thus crowdsourcing what we listen to on Spotify in the office! :) See: http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk/2010/01/07/crowd-sourcing-the-office-stereo-using-twitter-and-spotify/ for details!
For those who listen to P3 Tracks and P3 Digilistan I've a site that generates the playlists. You can also choose which week you'd like. http://digi.shikaka.net/ http://tracks.shikaka.net/ I've also a site that's connected to last.fm, check it out: http://lastfm.shikaka.net/
Missing support for getting a users top list? Might be neat for bloggers and maybe a facebook app? Last.fm has this...