Blaudzun – Heavy Flowers (Pop / Rock)
Alcest – Les Voyages de L’Âme (Metal / Rock)
The Lemonheads – Hotel Sessions (Folk / Rock)
Mando Diao – Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Rock)
Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen (Hip Hop)
Wooden Saints – I Know Why Your House Is On Fire (Pop)
Common – The Dreamer, The Believer (Hip Hop)
Ólafur Arnalds – Living Room Songs (Avant Garde)
The Little Willies – For The Good Times (Country)
Via Spotify
Get ready for an amazing radio experience. Unlimited stations, unlimited skips – that’s the new Spotify Radio.
You can be the DJ and skip between stations and tracks, or choose a station and just go with the flow. If you like what you hear, you can save the song to a playlist or play it again on demand.
To get started
Starting a radio station is easy. Click “Start Artist Radio” at the top of any artist page or just drag a track to “Radio” in the left sidebar. Spotify will make a radio station of similar music.
Then sit back. Or dance about. Your station will keep playing music based on your initial choice, it’s endless. And there’s no limit to the number of stations you can create.
A unique radio experience
Thanks to our all-new intelligent recommendation engine and multi-million track library, Spotify Radio is a music discovery experience without equal.
Unlimited skips
Don’t like a track? Skip it. You can skip as many times as you like. It’s your radio station.
We’ll be starting to roll out this brand new radio along with Spotify Apps in the next few days. Can’t wait? Then we have a preview version available for you here.
So, we all enjoy streaming music by Spotify. But how does it work?
This is how a track is streamed …
- User clicks a track to listen to.
- If it’s in the cache, Spotify just starts playing it from there.
- Otherwise, the client requests the first 15 seconds of the track from the Spotify servers.
- At the same time, the client starts looking for the track on peer-to-peer network.
- The rest of the track is streamed, from a combination of multiple sources if available. The more popular a track is, the more likely it will be streamed using the p2p network instead of the Spotify servers.
- When the track has 30 seconds to go, the Spotify client begins searching the p2p network for the next track.
- When the track has 10 seconds to go, if it hasn’t found the next track on the network yet, the client starts pre-fetching it from the Spotify servers.
Via Spotify
Hello Windows Phone 7 users. Like some good news? Our new Windows Phone 7 app launches today! By a delightful coincidence, Windows Phone 7 is our seventh mobile app. Created with our friends at Microsoft, this app will give you an outstanding music experience on your Windows Phone 7.
Spotify is now available for a wide range of Windows Phone 7 devices. In fact, we’ve now got an app for more mobile devices than any other music service.
Via CNET
Coldplay, one of the world’s biggest music acts, has declined to offer songs from the company’s new album “Mylo Xyloto,” to streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody, multiple sources told CNET.
EMI, the band’s record label, acknowledged that Coldplay, known for such songs as “Yellow” and “Clocks,” will not distribute through streaming services for “Mylo Xyloto,” but did not detail the reasons for the decision. “We always work with our artists and management on a case by case basis to deliver the best outcome for each release,” EMI said in a statement.
EMI, the smallest of the four largest record companies, is a little embarrassed by the band’s decision, according to the sources who spoke with CNET. All four of the major labels have thrown their support behind streaming services and it is one of the ways the industry has seen a modest amount of success at convincing fans to again pay for music after a decade-long era of rampant music piracy.
Via Spotify
Spotify and KPN are excited to offer music lovers in the Netherlands the chance to enjoy all the world’s music at their fingertips. Starting today, both new and existing KPN customers with an all-in-one packages* can enjoy Spotify Premium at no additional cost.
This offer gives KPN’s customers all the benefits of the complete Spotify experience – millions of songs on your computer, mobile and a whole heap of other devices – along with the convenience of being a KPN customer for one affordable price.
For more information and to sign up visit KPN’s website now.
*Extra or Premium (copper) / Silver or Gold (Fiber)
Via LifeHacker
Happy day! Music-streaming service Spotify no longer requires an invitation for everyone in the US. Also, for the first six months when sign up—whether you live in the US or elsewhere—you can use the service unpaid without any limits.
Essentially, you get a free 6-month trial of everything the service offers, and then after that you’ll be kicked to the free plan which gives you up to 10 hours of listening a month. The 4.99/month unlimited plan eliminates ads, and the 9.99 premium plan gives you mobile access, offline mode, and enhanced sound quality.
Here’s the catch: To get past the invite system, you’ll have to go through Facebook (Spotify also announced yesterday its integration with Facebook, just in time for Facebook to announce its upcoming new features). You’ll start seeing new music posts and play buttons in your Facebook newsfeeds. Keep in mind that after your 6-month unlimited access, music you listen on Facebook will count towards your Spotify monthly limit.
Via Mashable
Facebook intends to launch its long-rumored music service next month with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company’s launch partners, Mashable has learned.
The music and media platform will be announced at Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Sept. 22. It will allow users to listen to music from within Facebook.com. Evidence of Facebook’s music platformfirst surfaced in the code of Facebook’s video chat service.
Via wired.co.uk
Hot off its American debut, music streaming service Spotify hasopened up its API to iOS developers, so app makers can tap into the 15 million song archive in their own iPhone and iPad creations.
It means creators could make music visualisation tools for your library of tunes, alarm clocks that switch on a Spotify playlist at 8am, apps that feature a curated slice of the gargantuan multi-million song archive, or simply a native iPad version of the streaming service — which Spotify has so far failed to provide.
“We hope this will enable a new category of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch applications with Spotify inside,” writes platform director Sten Garmark, “and allow for more immersive music experiences within iOS apps.”
HotSpotify celebrates the US-launch of Spotify by sharing Spotify Free invitations.
We give away 4 invites next monday to people who follow us and retweet our “Win a Spotify Free Invite” tweet.
So grab your chance and you might be the lucky one!
