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This is a guest post by Amanda Krause, a post graduate student at Heriot Watt University who’s researching everyday music listening habits. She has a few online music questionnaires and is looking for music fans to help answer a few questions.   My name is Amanda Krause. I am a post graduate student at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, researching in the field of applied psychology. My research interests center on how [...]

Alexander Forselius (krakelin on Spotify) is the creator of Spobbler, an ingenious server app that lets you automatically control Spotify playlists. Using its own Spotiscript scripting language, Spobbler opens up a world of Spotify programming possibilities. Alex is also an artist in his own right, with several ambient electronic albums on Spotify under the name of Dr. Sounds. I was intrigued by Spobbler and its creator, so I got in touch [...]

Click the SPOTIFY RESOURCES link above for a complete and comprehensive list of all Spotify sites, applications, plug-ins, blogs, playlist sites, official resources, and other related links.

Here’s a one-off special choice selection of my own Spotify playlists. They’re all in the generic genre of electronica, but there’s so many wildly different sub-genres there that I felt at least my favourite seven styles each deserved its own playlist. These can then act as Spotify jump-off points into related tracks and artists, depending on what style you’re in the mood for. Each playlist provides a sampler for [...]

Half-a-dozen new Spotify-related sites have appeared over the last few days, and it’s refreshing to see serveral that offer something different from the usual playlist-tracking site. freshspotify – richardkeen’s new site is similar to Last.fm-Spotify Find-New in that it tracks newly released music on Spotify and compares it with your favourite artists on Last.fm. freshspotify also lets you login with your gmail account [...]

The latest (July 2009) playlist site awards are here. In February 2009 I compared 10 of the best Spotify playlist sites, checking for things like how many playlists each had, how many features, what unique features a site had, things that could be improved…. here are the results in the first Spotify Playlist Site Awards! Most Number of Playlists – Listiply For many, quantity rules so here’s a look at how many playlists [...]

Spotify’s playlists are one of its hottest killer features, but unfortunately the Spotify app has no easy way to organise them properly: you can move a playlist up and down your list of all playlists, but that’s about it. Spoty Bill came up with a brilliant workaround: all you need to do is create some empty playlists and rename them to include “ —- “s as separators (see right). You can then use them like visual [...]