Spotify Resources

The comprehensive list of Spotify applications, plug-ins, blogs, news sites, playlist sites, official resources, and other related links is hosted on Spotify’s website. This is updated every month or so with the latest additions listed below.

Please let me know if you have any additions or updates!

Official Sites

Unofficial Spotify resources – Lists all known resources except the latest ones below
Spotify Blog – The official blog
Spotify Mobile – Spotify on iPhone, Android, and Symbian
developer.spotify.com – Official developer site
vimeo.com/spotify – Spotify’s offical Vimeo (video) page
Spotify Support- Official support pages (forum) hosted on getsatisfaction
Spotify Status – service status page

New Sites (February 2010)

Ivy – Converts playlists into Spotify playlists. Supports iTunes, text, and CSV formatted files. (Playlist Converters)
SpotMySongs – Converts playlists into Spotify playlists. Supports iTunes, text, and Winamp/media-playlist (.m3u) formatted files. (Playlist Converters)
Playlistify.org – Converts playlists into Spotify playlists. Supports iTunes, text, and Winamp/media-playlist (.m3u) formatted files as well as converting playlists from Last.fm and YouTube. There’s also a Playlist Directory that tracks all recently uploaded playlists and a URL shortening service. (Playlist Converters)
ReSpot – Spotify remote control for Android devices. Requires Spotify Premium. (Apps: Remote Controllers)
Webotify – Share Spotify tracks to friends who don’t have Spotify: Webotify finds a YouTube equivalent for any Spotify track you paste in.
fuckyeahspotify – Tumblr blog featuring Spotify releases as suggested by Tom and the fuckyeahspotify team. Join them on Twitter.
Spotify on Drupal – Provides integration with the Spotify Metadata API and a CCK field to display artist, album and track information with a link that opens the Spotify client.

New Sites (March 2010)

Spotifycontrol – Windows remote control for Spotify that features customizable global hot-keys, a notifier of track changes, song lyrics, and an auto-updater. Requires .NET Framework 3.5. (Apps: Remote Controllers)
Playify – Upload and convert an iTune library into Spotify. (Playlist Converters)
Spotify Playlists on Reddit – Playlist sharing site on a social news website reddit.com. Takes advantage of Reddit features such as voting, New and Hot tabs, comments and sharing. (Playlist Sharing Sites)
Spotifylists.com – Playlist sharing site with extensive sorting options, tag clouds and real-time updates. (Playlist Sharing Sites)
Spotify Alarm – An alarm clock app that you can set to wake you up with a song on Spotify. Runs on a PC Adobe AIR. (Other Sites & Apps)
Alternative Judder Playlists - @kynky’s blog of Spotified versions of the Judder club night’s playlists. (Music Finder Sites & Blogs)
ListenSpotify – Playlist sharing site with a multilingual design. Currently supports English and Spanish, with a French option coming soon. (Playlist Sharing Sites)

Spotify and Twitter
Tweeters and twitterbots!

Spotify and Facebook
All Facebook pages, apps and groups!

Black Spotify
Danger: shady apps, sites, and tools!

Playlist	Description	Genre
	Stand-Up Comedy on Spotify - a playlist with an emphasis on recent releases and comics that feature in the many “best comedy of the year” roundups. See here for details.	comedy, stand-up
	Björk - Repost - The best mixes and B-Sides from Björk's Post and Homogenic albums.	electronic, trip-hop
	BioShock Soundtrack (Licensed Tracks) - In the videogame BioShock you encounter phonographs that play music from the 1940s and 1950s as background music. This is the playlist.	music hall, jazz, swing, easy listening
	ElectroKylie - In the early 2000s, Kylie Minogue released some fantastic electro-flavoured remixes. This playlist brings the best of them together in ready-to-mix order.	pop, disco, electro
	M.PATHY (The Pod Mix) - Reconstruction of mixtapes from 1991. See this post for details.	house, dance, 1990s, dub, madchester
	The Singing Detective - Reconstructed original soundtrack to Dennis Potter's critically acclaimed BBC television serial. These 1940s classics are presented in chronological order.	music hall, jazz, big band, easy listening
	Something for the Weekend - A chilled playlist for when you're alone with that special person in your life. More detail here.	downtempo, trip-hop, jazz
	EBM von Eine Tasse Jäger - Oldschool and anhalt Electronic Body Music, inspired by the blog Eine Tasse Jäger.	EBM
	Afront's Best Of 2009 - A selection of some of my favourite tracks from 2009.	synthpop, rock, indie, pop, electro-industrial, psytrance, chamberpop
	A Fool For You - A special selection of songs that tell the story of my life.	pop, rock, folk, indie, goth, chamberpop etc.
	Synthpop 2009 - Some of the finest synthpop from 2009!	synthpop
	Psytrance 2 - Megaplaylist of psychedelic and progressive trance.	psytrance
	Synthpop Europa - European synthpop, showcasing some of my favourites in the genre.	synthpop
	Synthpop USA - Modern electropop from North America.	synthpop
	The Golden Hour of Synthpop - A history of synthpop, showing its development from the late 70s through early 80s.	synthpop
	The Human League Unlimited - Choice selection of album tracks and slightly lesser known songs from synthpop's finest band.	synthpop
	In A Trance - 2-part playlist featuring some of favourite psychedelic trance and psybient (psychedelic ambient)	psytrance, psybient
	EBM & Industrial - Charting the history of industrial music from the early 80s through to the current day.	EBM, industrial, electro-industrial
	Futurepop - Sitting between synthpop and industrial, here's a selection of futurepop tracks.	futurepop, synthpop
	A Sensational History of Popular Music - a spotted history of humankind’s music. Full details here.	all
	Discophonic Workship - Cosmic disco playlist based on my Last.fm group of the same name. More details here.	cosmic disco, electro disco, space disco, italo disco, synthpop
	Electro-Industrial 2 - More electro-industrial, featuring tracks added in the latter-half of 2009.	industrial, electro-industrial

Playlist

Description

Genre

Stand-Up Comedy on Spotify - a playlist with an emphasis on recent releases and comics that feature in the many “best comedy of the year” roundups. See here for details.

comedy, stand-up

Björk - Repost - The best mixes and B-Sides from Björk's Post and Homogenic albums.

electronic, trip-hop

BioShock Soundtrack (Licensed Tracks) - In the videogame BioShock you encounter phonographs that play music from the 1940s and 1950s as background music. This is the playlist.

music hall, jazz, swing, easy listening

ElectroKylie - In the early 2000s, Kylie Minogue released some fantastic electro-flavoured remixes. This playlist brings the best of them together in ready-to-mix order.

pop, disco, electro

M.PATHY (The Pod Mix) - Reconstruction of mixtapes from 1991. See this post for details.

house, dance, 1990s, dub, madchester

The Singing Detective - Reconstructed original soundtrack to Dennis Potter's critically acclaimed BBC television serial. These 1940s classics are presented in chronological order.

music hall, jazz, big band, easy listening

Something for the Weekend - A chilled playlist for when you're alone with that special person in your life. More detail here.

downtempo, trip-hop, jazz

EBM von Eine Tasse Jäger - Oldschool and anhalt Electronic Body Music, inspired by the blog Eine Tasse Jäger.

EBM

Afront's Best Of 2009 - A selection of some of my favourite tracks from 2009.

synthpop, rock, indie, pop, electro-industrial, psytrance, chamberpop

A Fool For You - A special selection of songs that tell the story of my life.

pop, rock, folk, indie, goth, chamberpop etc.

Synthpop 2009 - Some of the finest synthpop from 2009!

synthpop

Psytrance 2 - Megaplaylist of psychedelic and progressive trance.

psytrance

Synthpop Europa - European synthpop, showcasing some of my favourites in the genre.

synthpop

Synthpop USA - Modern electropop from North America.

synthpop

The Golden Hour of Synthpop - A history of synthpop, showing its development from the late 70s through early 80s.

synthpop

The Human League Unlimited - Choice selection of album tracks and slightly lesser known songs from synthpop's finest band.

synthpop

In A Trance - 2-part playlist featuring some of favourite psychedelic trance and psybient (psychedelic ambient)

psytrance, psybient

EBM & Industrial - Charting the history of industrial music from the early 80s through to the current day.

EBM, industrial, electro-industrial

Futurepop - Sitting between synthpop and industrial, here's a selection of futurepop tracks.

futurepop, synthpop

A Sensational History of Popular Music - a spotted history of humankind’s music. Full details here.

all

Discophonic Workship - Cosmic disco playlist based on my Last.fm group of the same name. More details here.

cosmic disco, electro disco, space disco, italo disco, synthpop

Electro-Industrial 2 - More electro-industrial, featuring tracks added in the latter-half of 2009.

industrial, electro-industrial

JB: Good selections!
Pitchify: Thanks for nominating Pitchify! Tough competition in this category, lots of good apps out there.
StudleyUK: Ivy is definitely my new favourite. I don’t have iTunes, but its “create playlist from...
amanda: By only having your music on itunes you’re limiting yourself – not everyone has an itunes account...
JB: Matt, just a basic question: since your whole approach to radio seems to be revenue-related, are you also equally...
ulyssestone: Very interesting review and comment Matt. My two cents: First, I heard of your band through Spotify and...

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