Via Spotify
Great news for Sonos-users: Spotify will be available through the Sonos-system! A big wish coming true …
We’ve always felt that music should be available wherever you are. Whether you’re at work, on the go or simply relaxing at home, having music at your fingertips is crucial to our users – which is why today we’re excited to introduce Spotify on Sonos.
Spotify Premium listeners will be able to access Spotify on their Sonos systems at the end of the month with an update to Sonos’ software. We’ll be sure to update everyone once it’s ready.
You’ll just love Spotify on the Sonos wireless system.
Read the whole post on Spotify
Via TechCrunch
The World Economic Forum has announced its list of 31Technology Pioneers for 2011. The Technology Pioneers are its list of up-and-coming startups. Joining the pantheon this year are Foursquare, Knewton, Layar, Scribd, and Spotify.
Hurts are a British synthpop duo from Manchester composed of singer Theo Hutchcraft and synth player Adam Anderson. They explore a great way to promote their new album, using Spotify in a very innovative way: using an interactive audio novel.
Via Spotify
Hurts and Manchester novelist Joe Stretch have created a wonderfully unique experience on Spotify in which you get to play the protagonist.
Narrated by actress Anna Friel, ‘Don’t Let Go’ is an interactive audio novel which utilises Spotify in a completely new and unexpected way. Each chapter of the novel has been published as a track on Spotify, and can be located by typing a unique code into the search field.
After listening to each chapter of the story you’ll be offered a choice of what to do next, along with the unique code for each action. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to stop arch villain Guy Lockhart from distributing his heartbreak cocktail and condemning humankind forever to a loveless, empty existence.
Along the way you’ll also hear extracts of music from Hurts’ brand new album “Happiness”. If you manage to get to one of the story’s eleven possible endings without dying, you’ll be rewarded with an exclusive preview of an album track. So choose wisely…
And again … a list of new album releases on Spotify.
First Signal – First Signal
Antony & The Johnsons – Thank You For Your Love (Pop / Rock)
Everything Everything – Man Alive (Rock)
Katy Perry – Teenage Dream (Pop)
Magic Kids – Memphis
Papa Roach – Time For Annihilation (Rock / Metal)
S. Carey – All We Grow (Folk)
Spiritual Beggars – Return To Zero (Incl. Bonustrack) (Rock)
Spocks Beard – X
Terror – Keepers Of The Faith (Metal / Punk)
Terry Brock – Diamond Blue
Thea Gilmore – Murphy’s Heart (Folk / Rock)
Tweak Bird – Tweak Bird (Rock)
MORE new releases
Vandaag in de HotSpotLight – Wende.
Wende op Spotify.
Wende’s professionele carrière trapt af in 2001 met het winnen van het Concours de la Chanson in de Kleine Komedie. Na 2002 studeerde Wende af aan de Academie voor Kleinkunst. Ze verdiepte zich daarna verder in het Franse Chanson. Samen met een pianist, violist, altviolist, cellist en accordeonist treedt ze op met bestaand repertoire van o.a. Brel, Piaf en Barbara naast composities van eigen hand (Frans-, Engels- en Nederlandstalig).
Samen met haar muzikanten maakte ze een zeer succesvol theatraal muziekprogramma waarmee ze in 2004-2005 op tournee ging langs de Nederlandse theaters, geregisseerd door Ruut Weissman. De tour was volledig uitverkocht. Haar eerste album ‘Quand tu dors’ waarop ze samen met haar muzikanten en Het Metropole Orkest te horen is, werd een groot artistiek en commercieel succes: juichrecensies in de kranten en tijdschriften en hoge verkoopcijfers.
Sindsdien ging het hard met Wende. Ze won prijs na prijs: de ZONTA-awars, twee maal een Edison voor zowel haar cd Quand Tu Dors als diens opvolger, La Fille Noyée. Beide platen bereikten de gouden status. Verder de prestigieuze British American Tobacco-prijs (voorheen de Pall Mall Export prijs), de Gouden Notenkraker en de Annie MG Schmidtprijs, voor het schrijven en componeren van het nummer De Wereld Beweegt.
Wende speelde onder andere voor een uitverkocht Paradiso, diverse malen met het Metropole Orkest, op het North Sea Jazz Festival, en maakte de voorstelling ` Adem’ op Oerol.
Haar theatertour WENDE werd in 2008 vastgelegd op een live cd `Chante’. In ditzelfde jaar ging de film ‘De Wereld Beweegt’ van documentairefilmer Roel van Dalen in première op het Nederlands Film Festival te Utrecht.
In Oktober 2009 komt haar vierde solo album No.9 genaamd uit, gevold door een clubtour langs alle grote zalen in Nederland.
Wilt u nog meer te weten komen over Wende? Lees hier verder!
Luister Wende op Spotify.
Top 20 albums in the USA.
Source: Billboard.com
- Eminem – Recovery
- Kem – Intimacy
- Ray LaMontagne And Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
- Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier
- Trace Adkins - Cowboy’s back in town
- Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Justin Bieber – My World 2.0
- David Gray – Foundling
- John Mellencamp – No Better Than This
- Rick Ross – Teflon Don
- Drake – Thank Me Later
- Cast Of ‘Camp Rock 2′ – Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
- Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
- Kidz Bop 18
- Lady Gaga – The Fame
- Lady Antebellum – iTunes session
- Blake Shelton – All About Tonight
- Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
- Zac Brown Band – The Foundation
So much new releases … another update!
Goo Goo Dolls – Something For The Rest Of Us (Rock)
Ozzy Osbourne – Essential Ozzy Osbourne 3.0 (Rock / Metal)
The Coral – The Best Of (Rock)
Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony (Metal)
Disturbed – Asylum (Metal)
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (Legacy Edition) (Jazz)
Kenny G – The Essential Kenny G 3.0 (Pop)
Kim Wilde – Come Out And Play (Pop)
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble – The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble 3.0 (Blues)
Five For Fighting – Slice (P0p)
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt (Folk)
The Tallest Man On Earth – Shallow Grave (Folk)
Never Shout Never – Harmony (Pop / Rock)
The Stone Roses – Collection (Rock)
Arab Strap – Philophobia (Rock)
Women – Public Strain (Rock)
Magic Kids – Memphis (Pop)
Oriol – Night And Day (Electronic / Dance)
Josh Ritter – So Runs The World Away (Folk)
Led Er Est – Dust on Common (Electronic)
Accept – Blood Of The Nations (Metal)
Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Folk)
De nieuwste versie van Spotify integreert mooi met Windows 7!
Via mvdgender op blogs.microsoft.nl
Een aantal quotes …
Wanneer je Spotify op je taskbar hebt vastgemaakt dan kun je vanaf deze versie middels je rechtermuisknop direct naar je recente playlists of tracks welke je afgespeeld hebt. Ook jouw favoriete song ‘pin’ je in je jumplist en vanaf dan is het altijd direct voor jou beschikbaar.
Als je Spotify gestart hebt en je zit lekker naar de muziek te luisteren en ondertussen verder te werken of the surfen dan heb je al snel veel verschillende schermen open staan. Met de nieuwe versie kun je nu gemakkelijk vanuit de taakbalk van track veranderen of bv de muziek even pauzeren.
In de vorige versie had je al de mogelijkheid om je playlists via Facebook of Twitter te delen. Vanaf nu kan dat ook met Windows Live zodat jouw Messenger vrienden direct kunnen zien waar je naar luistert.
Hier het hele bericht.
Via Spotify
Playlists have always been central to the Spotify service and with the recent introduction of Spotify social we’ve seen millions of playlists be shared between friends and family. With millions of great playlists being created and shared we’ve looked to make it even easier for Spotify users to manage them with today’s introduction of playlist folders in this Spotify update.
To create a playlist folder, simply go to the File -> New playlist folder or click the “+” symbol near the top left side of your screen. Once you’ve created a folder you can just drag and drop existing playlists into it and even create folders within folders to better organise your music.
Alongside playlist folders – which up till now has been one of our users’ most requested features – we’re also introducing a number of other cool new features in this latest update, including:
- Official Spotify Twitter updates will appear for all users in the Feed to keep you up-to-date on all the latest Spotify and music news
- A new look and feel for the Search view. Artist and album images are shown to make the search view more visually arresting
- Newly-added picture of playlist subscribers to the header of each playlist, so users can see at a glance who’s subscribed.
- Support for Windows 7 Snap, Jump list and Taskbar features
- Added “Send to Windows Live” option
We’ll begin rolling out the new version to users today, you’ll be automatically updated once we are able to update more users. We really hope you love the new features as much as we do!
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