What with Spot, the despotify-sourced Spotify client for iPhone making an appearance on YouTube, I thought this might be a good time to round up all the Apple-specific tools and apps for Spotify. Most of these are remote controllers, but there’s also a Last.fm tool and a playlist widget. Note I’m a Windows/Ubuntu/Android guy so I’ve not been able to test any of these out myself, but each one seems to have an active and enthusiastic developer behind it.
- Listify – Turns Apple iTunes playlists into Spotify playlists.
- Remoteless – iPhone remote for Spotify.
- Music Controls – iPhone app (on Cydia) that lets you run and control the Spotify iPhone app in the background.
- iPhone Remote for Spotify – An iSofa-based webapp for the iPhone that lets you play/pause Spotify, jump to the next or previous track, control the volume and play up to nine playlists. Developer semisans says “I have speakers in several rooms connected to my mac and can now control it even from my patio.” To use, you also need to activate Universal Access in your System Preferences.
- Spotify Controller using Applescript & Quicksilver – Jack Tams has put together a short tutorial on how to use Applescript and Quicksilver to trigger shortcuts to control Spotify. This is handy when use a different keyboard or dock you Macbook.
- Spotify Mac Remote – A plugin that allows you to use your Mac’s remote control to play, pause, change tracks and adjust the volume. It also supports Keyspan RF remotes for older Macs and Mac Pros. Requires SIMBL.
- Lastify – I’ve blogged about Lastify before: it adds last.fm Love and Ban buttons to Spotify and also now supports tagging.
- Spotifylinks Widget – A dashboard widget synced to the spotifylinks playlist website. It’s fed by the site’s RSS so you’ll see a constant stream of new playlists as they’re added.
- Control Spotify via Apple Script – Another remote control for Spotify. Developer cybesystem says “it’s remotecontrolling for Mac. Just for you who got a mac hooked up as the mediacentre, and some SSH-compliant system near.“
- Salling Clicker Remote Control – An early remote control for Spotify that lets you control Spotify for Mac from your cell phone. Also see the developer’s original announcement (in Swedish).
Also see: the official Spotify for iPhones page.
Updated: 22 Feb 2010
The Mac Remote works quite well, a lot of us use it daily here.
Andres
I think there are apps for everything. Last week, I came across this site- http://objectdevcorp.com/IPhoneAppDevelopment.aspx that has got few mind blowing apps for iPhone. Recommended.
Hi,
We've developed a (free) lyrics plugin for Spotify for Mac OS X. Check it out: http://www.listdj.se
Thanks for the list!
We’re releasing Remoteless, a spotify remote for iPhones March1st. Amongst many things it supports spotify search and control over the spotify window on your pc.
First off is the Windows version, Mac will follow soon after.
Video of feature on the homepage http://remoteless.no