NEW SPOTIFY APPS

   / Streaming music, Technology.

(Released in Danish, 2012 April 4th)

(Unfortunately Spotify stopped supporting 3rd-party apps years ago, although some of them was really good and useful. Sadly the (full) functionality of the apps haven't been adopted by Spotify. Some stuff is still useful in other ways. Read on below the video of a piece of music featured in the original article; music I discovered with one of the apps, Diggster's section on popmusic featured on Roskilde Festival that year... Adrian Lux: Teenage Crime)

The new apps (well, they were new in 2012, descriptions are edited to suit the present):

Classify:

You really could search and choose better than ever in classical music... composers, instruments, eras, moods, categories and "recommended".

The Complete Collection:

Not only music, but full album art, zoomable, flipable etc.

Def Jam:

Playlists from Def Jam label. Some are found on Spotify. Nice urban stuff. Link below.

Digster:

Their many playlists for all occasions are to be found in Spotify, and on their homepage (link below).

Domino:

Playlists from Domino label. Some are found on Spotify. Link below.

Filtr:

Was a great app for making playlists, where you select style, mood, instrument, artist and / or intensity from start to end of the playlist. The app is gone, but Filtr offers a homepage where you can do something similar, and then save the playlist on Spotify... Link below

The Legacy Of:

Sony Music. Artist's full backlist, highlighted albums, biography, photos and extended playlists with cover versions and artists that influinced them and who they influenced.

Matador Records:

Albums from that label, and tourdates of the bands. Categorized by year or "new". Experimental, hardcore and indie. Their playlists are to be found on Spotify, link below..

[PIAS]:

A sales platform / home for independant artist, and also artist's own playlists. Some playlists are still on Spotify, link below.

TweetVine:

A hitlist from tweeter, was updated every hour, showing what people tweeted with #nowplaying. Mostly mainstream.

The Warner Sound:

Songs, albums and playlists (also genre playlists) from Warner Music Group. Album of the day, with description, Family-tree where modern artists were chained to their musical roots, and the artist's own playlists.

MUSICClick:

Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/dk/

Def Jam Recordings on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/defjamrecordings

Digster: https://www.digster.fm/

Filtr: https://filtr.com/dk/spotify

Matador Records on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/matadorrecords

[PIAS] on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/pias_uk

SPOTIFY - Apps

   / Streaming Music, Technology          (Posted in Danish, 2012 Januar 16th)

EDIT: There have been major changes in Spotify Apps, the following article is outdated, but check the musicvideo below. There will be a new article on this later ... link will be posted here: later

An apostate YouSee Play user confesses :)

I have for some months had the pleasure of comparing YouSee Play with Spotify. Spotify was an alright streaming solution, but Yousee Play did the same thing for free, if you were a YouSee costumer, so why bother, I thought ...

Then I discovered Spotify Apps and I was sold - since that I haven't been using Yousee Play, although it is of no cost to me. For those who don't know Spotify yet: it's a service that streams music, for free with commercials every 4 tracks or without commercials for dkr. 50,- per month ($ 7,19) or in higher bitrate and for mobile and so on for dkr. 100,- per month ($ 14,39). They have 17 million tracks right now (EDIT! Now more than 30 million tracks). You must have email or facebook account.

Now what's up with the Apps? ... people who don't know them ask (and the rest nods their heads) ... explanation follows below after this video with the band called Feed Me, which I did not know until I tried the app "We are hunted", where you discover new music in several ways.

The number of apps are growing...

Here's some interesting ones:

123 Toplists - Danish charts.

Radio - drag a song on the icon and you hear music based on the song's style and so on.

Billboard - Billboard charts from the USA.

fuse - today's short music news combined with relevant playlists.

Gaffa - Scandinavia's biggest music magazine, news, reviews, tracks, concerts and playlists.

Moodagent - drag a song at the icon, select your mood and whether the intensity should be increasing, decreasing or have another curve. Then you'll get a personal playlist.

Pitchfork - Reviews of albums, with playlists.

Rolling Stone - great music and lifestyle magazine. Lots of reviews, recommendations, and top-lists etc. From the past "many" decades til now.

Share my playlists - super area with all kinds of playlists from all sorts of people and places with every kind of music. Exciting.

Songkick - find concerts with your favouriet bands? Never again sold out!? Maybe not ...

Sound Drop - throw a playlist and invite friends into the listening room - across the country / world. Or go into a listening room - area is divided into genres.

Top10 - make your own top10 lists (maybe top10 songs on Copenhagen / winter / of an artist etc.) and listen to others.

TuneWiki - super app that finds and displays lyrics for the songs - if there is no lyrics yet, you can add your own.

We are hunted - as mentioned above, discover new music within areas and genres.

M U S I C Click:

Spotify:

https://www.spotify.com/