Posted on : 22-11-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : Spotify, playlists
The Spotify Playlist Generator is an online music tool for generating playlists of similar artists. Enter a band or artist to generate a list of songs that might be of interest, then paste the link into your Spotify play queue.
This is a great app for instantly creating new playlists of between 5 and 30 tracks. Each playlist you generate is unique (different tracks) so can can easily paste multiple links into Spotify to build a larger selection around one or more artists. You can also choose to favour more popular songs in the final playlist.
Created by Spotibot developer Andy Smith - http://twitter.com/asmitter

Posted on : 03-11-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : Spotify, playlists
Music webzine Drowned In Sound has compiled a huge Spotify playlist of recommended albums from 2009. Right now (3rd Nov) there are 1377 tracks, running to 3.8 days of listening time!
Here’s the playlist link:
http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/5bZ1yowmoMFa6hqb7KAvLO
For more about this playlist check out the original post in the DIS community forum: 2009 Recommended - as a Spotify playlist
You can view all DIS Spotify Playlists and discover others via the Spotifriday #tag on Twitter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownedinsound
More Spotify Playlists
One of my favourite albums of 2009 not on the DIS list is “Love 2″ by French electronic pop duo Air http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_(band) - Listen: http://open.spotify.com/album/5RZAH4Rn0G0DuKFvwbKJkP
Another great playlist source of indie music, lovingly curated by Indiefy is John Peels All time Festive 50 playlists by year - also available via ShareMyPlaylists so you can favourite it.
Indiefy also run The John Peel Group on Share My Playlists, dedicated to the memory of the legendary radio One DJ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel

Posted on : 04-10-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : Spotify, playlists
Spotify DJ allows you to broadcast live DJ sets to other Spotify users from your PC or Mac. The free desktop app requires Adobe Air to run and once installed everything runs seamlessly. Features include Twitter posting and Last.fm scrobbling.
Your live broadcasts are accessible via an 0nline DJ address that will look similar to mine: http://spotifydj.com/dj/daveholmes

Playing the channel launches the Spotify app on the listeners computer. Your online presence is automatically announced via the tweetstream at http://twitter.com/spotifydj

For people using the software there’s also a Spotify DJ Facebook Group and here’s the back story for the app
Via Jazzper The first AIR app for Spotify is a DJ app - AWSOMENESS!
Posted on : 14-09-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : playlists
Posted on : 14-09-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : Spotify
Reblogging a couple of useful search tips and operators I came across via http://twitter.com/haynes_dave
My top Spotify tip: put a - before a term to do a NOT search, eg “band:u2 -year:1988-2009″ brings up all U2 before 1988. (via @)
And to search for record labels use:
label:labelname
Alphabetical list of record labels on Spotify (Google Spreadsheet)
Posted on : 31-08-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : playlists
The Most Sampled Breakbeats a #spotify #playlist of classic tracks for people into music sampling and remixing: http://sharemyplaylists.com/the-most-sampled-breakbeats/
Posted on : 30-08-2009 | By : David Holmes | In : Spotify
Music discovery service We Are Hunted have a music aggregator for the 99 hottest songs in the world streamed live from Spotify: http://spotify.wearehunted.com/