Spotify Goes Social
I have been following spotify for a while now and have been a spotify premium user for a couple of months. Today I signed in to find that the Spotify terms were asking me to agree and the firewall asked me to re-allow access to the internet. I was greeted by a welcome screen asking me to authenticate with Facebook and once I had completed I noticed some wonderful new features.
Firstly there is now a tab called Library where all the music from my local machine has been dragged in and is now playable via the spotify client which is a great addition to the service.
Secondly there is a box above the album art which allows you to share your songs with Twitter and Facebook. This is a great feature however I would say it does need more work as most of the time it is simply just posting a link to the web browser so it would be nice in future releases to see thi totally builtin.
One of the most impressive new features is the Facebook people tab which shows all friends using facebook who are on spotify and their librarys. The features of the Facebook social groups are:
- View friends playlists
- Subscribe to friends playlists
- View friends subscribed playlists.
- Show subscribed playlists on facebook
- Top tracks playlist sharing
- Send tracks to people.
- Link your own tracks with tracks on the Spotify network.
- Update details of your own files.
These features in Spotify 0.4.3 make Spotify even better especially with it being free.
I look forward to seeing what the team at Spotify are doing next and what brilliant ideas are yet to come.
Also I look forward to a BlackBerry client if there ever will be one!
