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