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

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

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!

A comprehensive playlist of Brian Eno works and collaborations via http://twitter.com/laurielaptop

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 @mr_trick)

And to search for record labels use:

label:labelname

Alphabetical list of record labels on Spotify (Google Spreadsheet)

The Most Sampled Breakbeats a #spotify #playlist of classic tracks for people into music sampling and remixing:  http://sharemyplaylists.com/the-most-sampled-breakbeats/

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/