Spotify Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

SpotON Radio app for iPhone out now

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2012)

Spotify is the über-popular music service that lets you stream a huge library of music to your computer. You can also use the service on your iPhone with a premium subscription, letting you either sync and listen to your own music, or stream Spotify's tracks straight to your mobile device ...

Spotify is TUAW Best of 2011 winner for iPhone music apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 28th, 2011)

TUAW readers have spoken, and Spotify has grabbed the last iPhone award in the TUAW Best of 2011 voting. The free app (there is a charge for premium access) provides access to over 15 million tracks of music. Considering that Spotify has only been available in the US for six months, the fact ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone music app

by Steven Sande (Dec 25th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Nominate your favorite iPhone music app for TUAW's Best of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Spotify to challenge Pandora with Spotify Radio

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 11th, 2011)

Spotify already has proven itself a formidable competitor for Rdio, and the all-you-can-stream music service even matches up against iTunes with a subscription model versus iTunes' track-at-a-time sales approach. Now it's aiming the crosshairs at suggestion engine Pandora with a revamp of its ...

Daily Mac App: Spotify

by Samuel Gibbs (Dec 5th, 2011)

Now that Spotify is available on both sides of the pond, it's about time we took a quick look at it. Free streaming music apps don't get much better than Spotify. Right now you can stream any track in the Spotify library for free with a pretty decent desktop Mac app. It's not available in the ...

Daily Update for Sept. 1, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 1st, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Spotify offers API to iOS developers

by Mike Schramm (Sep 1st, 2011)

Spotify has launched an API service that could have some really interesting results for both iOS developers and users of the music-sharing program. The API allows access by iOS developers to all of Spotify's 15 million music tracks, which can be played or used as they see fit. There are some ...

Spotify iPhone users jump after US launch

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

Here's an interesting stat I think tells a bigger tale: Onavo is a service for iPhone which claims to shrink your data as it goes in and out, and that service has been monitoring data coming back and forth from its users' iPhones. Spotify, as you probably know, is a music cloud service that ...

Apps in our lives: Audio Hijack Pro

by Erica Sadun (Jul 15th, 2011)

"Recording" is the phrase that many people think of when then hear Audio Hijack Pro. This venerable Mac app has been helping users record system audio for years. But if recording is all you think of, you're missing a large part of what AHP can do for you. Yesterday, I installed Spotify, the new ...

Spotify goes live in the US, iOS app now available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 14th, 2011)

As expected, Spotify went live in the US at 8 am ET. The free service which limits the amount of time you can listen will be available via invites which will roll out gradually starting today. If you don't want to wait, you can grab a paid Spotify plan right now. Subscribers in the US can ...

Spotify coming to the U.S.

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 6th, 2011)

Spotify, the streaming music service that is well-known in Europe, is finally coming to the U.S. There's no word on a time frame, but a signup page for Spotify invites is now available for U.S. residents. We knew this was not far off as Spotify reportedly signed a deal with Sony back in January. ...

SpotiMy brings Spotify playback control to the menu bar, but that's it

by Samuel Gibbs (May 23rd, 2011)

Spotify might not have made it across the pond just yet, but that doesn't mean millions of Mac users aren't getting their music fix via the ad-supported or premium streaming service. A new Mac App Store app called SpotiMy aims to enhance the Spotify experience of Mac users by letting them ...

Spotify adds iPod sync and MP3 downloads to its music streaming service

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 4th, 2011)

Spotify expanded its online music streaming service to include MP3 downloads, iPod playlist sync and more. The music service will now let free and premium users sync their iPod classic, nano or shuffle with the service. Simply connect your iPod, and Spotify will add the portable media player to ...

Spotify reportedly signs US deal with Sony

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 21st, 2011)

Just a week ago, we covered a New York Post story indicating that Spotify, the ad-supported or subscription based all-you-can-eat music streaming service, was about to sign a deal with Sony Music in the U.S. -- taking Spotify a step closer to the U.S. market. Now, according to MediaMemo, that ...