Our friends at Spotify has finally released the much wished feature to categorise playlists in folders. The updated version of Spotify will be rolled out incrementally and also includes an improved search look and feel and some other minor features.
Check out this link for more information on the updates.

Spotify Unlimited is a paid account type but with half the cost of Spotify Premium. Spotify Unlimited features ad-free and unlimited access but lacks the possbility of mobile access and offline sync. The price of Spotify Unlimited is €5 /month.

Spotify Open is ad-finance, restricted to 20 hours access per month but costs nothing and does not require an invite.

As of today, Spotify has four (4) account types; Premium (€10 /month), Unlimited (€5 /month), Free and Open.

A full comparison can be found here http://www.spotify.com/se/get-spotify/overview/

Comment:
It is quite obvious that Spotify wants to both increase sales and focus the attention away from the free account. All account types will co-exist but this move will most likely signup a lot of users to the Open account format which may lead to conversion into either Premium or Unlimited. Smart move!

• Last.fm scrobbling.
• The ability to open and play Spotify links e.g. straight from your Facebook app or browser.
• Save time and space by using tracks already stored on your iPod in your playlists – there’s no need to sync those track anymore.
• Save and find your favourite tracks and albums with the Starred playlist and Star buttons (also coming to the desktop version soon!).
• Support for listening at 96 kb/s for more efficient streaming on slow connections.

The updated version of the application is expected to be released shortly.

Following the light of my interest in technology and Internet I can reveal that a new TLD will be opened to the public. Many of you readers are keen on internet and internet busines and the new .co offers an exciting opportunity to snatch a unique domain online.

If you are interested in Spotify and launching a new service, consider getting a .co domain if you can find any other good ones using current TLDs.

I have launched a site telling you how to register, which dates registration open and what to think about. If you are interested, check out www.registercodomain.com

Afront has once again proven his value to the community of Spotify users and  Spotify themselves are so keen on the idea that they have chipped in 3 three-months Premium subscriptions to be won by the voters. It is also an added bonus that afront is using Google Docs Forms to collect the results.

Check out the awards and don’t forget to vote to win a free premium subscription!

“Remoteless is the most feature rich Spotify remote for you iPhone, iPod touch or iPad! Control as many computers running Spotify as you want from your sofa!”

This is a great addition to all users liking to remote control their music. Check it out below:

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Spotify support has said no development is currently planned to support Spotify on Maemo 5.

So, what to do?

Well, “eskil” decided to take matter into own hands and started playing around with “despotify”. After tweaking the interface with Qt 4.6 and being able to deliver a working graphical front-end the hack is working.

Go check it out and pay your respect,

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/10/23/qt-de-spotify-running-on-a-nokia-n900/

The Swedish site www.radiofy.se makes perfect use of the Spotify API. The site is pulling music lists from several channels of SR.se (Swedish state controlled radio) and adds Spotify links and recommendations to each song.

Best in show so far.

Original thread on the XBMC forum: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67012