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Spotify Mobile for S60 released

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 23rd 2009 No Comments

spotify mobile for s60 Streaming music-on-demand service Spotify threw the radio cat among the Nokia pigeons back in September, when it announced a S60 mobile client was on the way. It’s taken a few months, but now that client has been released, bringing Spotify to more than thirty devices running the S60 OS; that’s not just Nokia handsets, either, since Spotify have made the necessary tweaks to get the app running on some S60 devices from other companies, such as the Samsung Omnia HD and the Sony Ericsson Satio.

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Creston Spotify app promises touchscreen home entertainment [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 1 Comment

Spotify is great, particularly when you’re having one of those parties where people keep asking “oh, have you heard that new track by…”, but the current computer-bound UI isn’t exactly conducive to being passed around. If you’re lucky enough to have a touchscreen Crestron home entertainment system, however, Custom Controls may have the app for you: they’ve whipped up a new UI that will allow for fingertip control of Spotify through Creston panels.

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Video demo after the cut

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Spotify for Nokia N900 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 26th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s N900 is already enticing developers, but right now there’s not the same compelling catalog of applications as you might find, say, in the iPhone’s App Store. Happily that just leaves room for Maemo coders to fill with their own apps, such as a homebrew open-source Spotify application.

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3 UK plan HTC Hero with Spotify Premium preloaded

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 No Comments

Streaming music looks to be the next step in driving smartphone adoption, with UK carrier 3 to offer the HTC Hero with the Spotify app preloaded and a subscription to the premium service included in the monthly contract. According to Mobile Entertainment News, the Hero will be priced at £99 ($161) with a 24-month agreement, the £35 ($57) tariff integrating Spotify’s £9.99 ($16) subscription fee.

Update: 3 UK have put up a pre-registration page for the deal, though there’s no specific availability date. The Hero will come with a voucher for 24 months Spotify Premium subscription; that does mean that after two years your monthly plan will stay the same price but you’ll no longer get inclusive streaming music.

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Spotify Mobile for S60 gets video preview

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 7th 2009 No Comments

Having released Spotify Mobile for the iPhone, iPod touch and Android earlier on today, Spotify have followed up with a demo of their upcoming S60 version. Much anticipated among Symbian users, the app will support the same offline playback and full catalog access of its released cousins.

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Video demo after the cut

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Spotify iPhone and Android apps released

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 7th 2009 No Comments

iphone spotify Spotify have released both their iPhone and Android mobile apps, a little over a week after Apple approved it in late August. Premium subscribers to the streaming music service will now be able to access Spotify’s catalog on their iPhone, iPod touch, or any of the Android devices currently available. The app also supports offline playback, where tracks are cached in the background and thus can be played back even when there is no network connection, particularly useful for iPod touch owners.

Unlike streaming radio, Spotify allows users to search from their database of tracks and put together custom playlists. The desktop version of the service has both ad-supported free and paid “premium” versions (which do not have adverts), but only the latter group will be able to use the mobile client.

Video demos after the cut

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Spotify iPhone app gets Apple’s blessing

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

spotify iphone app We’ll admit to having been quietly dubious whether Apple would approve Spotify’s iPhone and iPod touch app, but according to paidContent UK it’s all settled in everything but the rubber stamp. Apple have told the site that “The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and have already notified Spotify that the app will be in the app store very soon.”

While the software is free, access to Spotify’s streaming music service will require a Premium subscription; this is currently priced at £9.99 ($16) per month in the UK. Spotify is also not yet available in the US, though the company has previously stated that it hopes to have the service up and running by the end of 2009.

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Spotify Mobile App for iPhone submitted for Apple approval [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 27th 2009 No Comments

spotify iphone app Streaming music service Spotify have submitted a mobile version of their desktop internal radio software to Apple’s App Store, which - if approved – would allow users to stream their choice of individual tracks, albums and playlists to their iPhone and iPod touch handsets.

While pricing for the app is likely to be free, it’s been suggested in the past that users would be required to sign up for Spotify’s premium service. While the company offers an ad-supported free desktop version, interspersing tracks with occasional adverts, the premium £9.99 per month ($16) package removes the adverts and increases audio quality.

Updated: Spotify have confirmed that it will be only accessible to Premium subscribers; check out their demo video after the cut

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Spotify Mobile video demo: Internet radio with offline playback

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 28th 2009 1 Comment

Spotify have demonstrated the mobile version of their custom internet radio app, set to launch later in the year and allow offline access to the company’s huge catalog of audio tracks. The demo – which is running on a T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone – shows how playlist tracks can be easily synchronized with the phone’s internal memory for offline playback.

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