It’s been a year now since we ran The Spotties, the first ever Spotify Community Site awards. Since then, Spotify has launched in the Netherlands, smashed past the ten million track barrier and become the number one music streaming service in the world. In this post, we look at the six Spotties winners to see what they’ve been up to since their awards, with a look at their new features and services. Be sure to read through to the end, where Spotibot develop Andy Smith gives some thoughts on the future of the community and delivers an impassioned warning to Spotify.

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We’ve had hundreds of Spotify users casting their votes all month in The Spotties, the first Spotify Community Site Awards. Voting closes in a couple of days so this is your last chance if you haven’t voted yet: VOTE NOW to be in with a chance to win a 3-month Spotify premium subscription, courtesy of Spotify. The voting categories are:

• Best Playlist Sharing Site

• Best News or Music Finder Site

• Best Other Site or App

• Best Playlist Generator or Converter

• Best Remote Control

• Best URL Tool

Winners will be announced at the end of the week!

Over the past month, we’ve been looking at each category in turn to spotlight the nominated sites and apps in The Spotties, the Spotify Community Site Awards. Finally we come now to the last category, and one that features many of my favourite Spotify-related websites: here are the nominees for the Best News or Music Finder Site, a category that contains blogs and sites aimed at spreading the Spotify word and helping people discover new music.
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It’s time for the fourth in a series of posts about the nominees for The Spotties. We’ve already covered the nominees for Best URL Tool, Best Remote Control, and Best Playlist Generator or Converter. Now it’s time to look at the candidates for the hotly-contested category of  Best Other Site or App. This group has all the excellent Spotify resources that don’t fit into any other category. There are lots of great tools here, and each nominee has something special and unique to offer any Spotify user.

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Here’s the third in a series of posts about the nominees for The Spotties. We’ve already covered the nominees for Best URL Tool and Best Remote Control. Now it’s time to look at the candidates for the Best Playlist Generator or Converter.
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Here’s the second in a series of posts about the nominees in The Spotties. Yesterday we covered the Best URL Tool Nominees. Today we’ll look at the tools to control Spotify remotely, from iPhones, smartphones, mini-controllers, or web-browsers: here are the candidates for Best Remote Control App.

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Here’s the first in a series of posts about the nominees in The Spotties. We start with a look at the candidates for Best URL Tool.

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