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Hands-On With the New Spotify Radio: Look Out, Pandora

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Spotify Previews is a new section that showcases a few of the fun ideas and projects that our developers have been working on - mostly in their spare time, during hack days or in the middle of the night when they can't sleep. Some of these are pet projects, some are prototypes but they're all designed to make Spotify even more enjoyable. The projects here are unsupported by Spotify so they may not work as planned or be removed at any time, but if you like what we're doing let us know and if they prove popular enough they may well become regular Spotify features.

https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/

HANDS-ON: Spotify's New App Platform

http://mashable.com/2011/11/30/spotify-apps-hands-on/

Spotify just announced its new app platform . Partnering with the likes of Rolling Stone , Pitchfork , Billboard , Last.fm and The Guardian , the online music service aims to allow users to get more from their tunes. As Mashable reader Cristian Parrino pointed out in the comments, the fact that an app has launched its own app platform is an intriguing move. In short, Spotify is looking to expand its ecosystem — by allowing others to build on top of its interface. We downloaded the preview version of Spotify and fired up some of the apps. The Spotify Platform is clearly in the early stages, but the potential of this sort of platform is immense.

Matt Rosoff Business Insider Spotify revealed today that it now has 2.5 million paying subscribers . That's up from 2 million in mid-September. In other words, it's added about 500,000 subscribers since the Facebook F8 conference, where it started letting users share songs for free through the social network. Earlier this month, Facebook reported that Spotify had added about 4 million free users since F8. Assuming those growth rates stayed constant for the last couple of weeks, it's probably closer to 5 million now.

Spotify Is Getting About 10% Of Its New Trial Members To Pay

http://www.businessinsider.com/sonos-update-2011-11

Sonos Update Adds Support For Android Tablets And New Spotify Features

Sonos announced today that it's releasing an update for its music systems that includes compatibility with a variety of new Android-based tablets, including the Kindle Fire . The Sonos Controller app now works on Samsung Galaxy Tabs, HTC Flyer, Sony Tablet S, Kindle Fire, and most other Honeycomb tablets. The update also includes better Spotify integration that pulls in tracks from your inbox plus Spotify's new releases and top tracks lists. Those new Spotify features likely have something to do with what Spotify plans to announce at its big press event in NYC later today.

Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest. But, as it prepares to announce a “ new direction ” on Wednesday, how has the music service fared so far? I researched disclosures since Spotify’s 2008 inception to present this four-year chart illustrating its growth to date… One can clearly see how Spotify caught on like wildfire in 2009, prompting the company to introduce limitations like a UK invite-only system just to manage the server load.

http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/29/419-chart-spotifys-growth-story-next-stop-100-million-users/

Is Spotify on Track to Hit 100 Million Users? [CHART]

http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/spotify-habits/

How 125 days with Spotify changed my music habits

Now that I work from home and don’t commute as frequently, I have been listening to more music on my main computer. Not a lot, but for at least 5-15 hours per week. For the past few months — about 125 days since Spotify launched , actually — I have also used Spotify in addition to iTunes.

http://geeko.lesoir.be/2011/11/15/spotify-debarque-en-belgique-ce-mercredi/

posté par admin le nov 15, 2011 dans Geekosphère | 10 commentaires Nous vous l’annoncions ce lundi , c’est désormais officiel, la plate-forme d’écoute de musique gratuite lance son service en Belgique ce mercredi. Après sa conquête des États-Unis, la compagnie suédoise se tourne à nouveau vers l’Europe. Spotify a obtenu un accord avec la Sabam et les maisons de disques pour une diffusion gratuite sur internet et une redistribution des fonds générés sur le territoire du Royaume.

Spotify débarque en Belgique ce mercredi

Spotify: « Notre premier concurrent, la musique piratée »

Spotify For Dummies:Book Information

Musique : les offres de streaming payantes vont multiplier par quatre leur chiffre d'affaires

L'abonnement est-il l'avenir de la musique ? C'est l'une des convictions du cabinet d'études Gartner. Les ventes mondiales de CD vont continuer de chuter sévèrement, tombant de 15 milliards en 2010 à 10 milliards de dollars en 2015. Dans le même temps, sans compenser ce déclin, les ventes numériques vont grimper de 5,9 milliards à 7,7 milliards de dollars. En Amérique du Nord, le marché de la musique digitale approche de la maturité et il sera difficile de maintenir des taux de croissance à deux chiffres.

http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/medias/20111108trib000662658/les-abonnements-vont-doper-la-musique-en-ligne-.html#xtor=EPR-2-[Technos++Medias]-20111109

A world of music

http://blog.omusicawards.com/2011/10/spotify-wins/

Music, they say, makes the people come together — apparently to cast their votes for music subscription service Spotify in the Most Addictive Social Music Service category . That’s right, everyone’s favorite Swedish import (aside from Robyn, of course) has bested the rest. To celebrate their win, the Spotify team has furnished us with a victory playlist (clicky-click to get it). Check out the tracklist below and let us know in the comments: What’s your favorite celebratory jam? 1).

Spotify Wins O Music Award For Most Addictive Social Music Service

Spotify lancé aux Etats-Unis, sans les restrictions sur le streaming gratuit

L’annonce était imminente depuis le 7 juillet et la mise en ligne d’une page de teasing. Elle a finalement été officialisée le 14 juillet : le service de streaming Spotify est donc désormais disponible aux Etats-Unis. Pourtant, pour parvenir à pénétrer ce nouveau marché, Spotify aura dû batailler de longs mois afin de décrocher un accord avec les Majors américaines. C’est chose faite, même si les conditions de cet accord ne sont pas communiquées. Du gratuit non bridé, mais accessible sur invitation

http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/spotify-lance-aux-etats-unis-sans-les-restrictions-sur-le-streaming-gratuit-39762506.htm

and Virgin Media: A Perfect Duet

We love a musical collaboration! That’s why we’re so excited to announce that Virgin Media has launched a range of new offers for broadband and mobile, which include a Spotify Premium subscription. The new bundles will allow customers to enjoy our catalogue of millions of tracks on their computers, their mobile devices or through the exclusive Spotify app on Virgin Media’s brilliant TiVo powered digital TV service. New or re-contracting customers choosing Virgin Media’s fibre optic broadband service will be able to enjoy Spotify Premium at no additional cost for six months as part of their bundle. For Virgin Media broadband customers taking a new pay monthly Virgin Mobile contract, Virgin Media will include a three-month Spotify Premium subscription as part of their service. Customers new to Spotify, as well as those already with Spotify accounts, will be able to redeem the offers of a three- or six-month extension to their current subscription for no extra cost.

Spotify Wins O Music Award For Most Addictive Social Music Service

Spotify lancé aux Etats-Unis, sans les restrictions sur le streaming gratuit

Spotify : 1,4 million d’utilisateurs aux Etats-Unis, pour 175.000 abonnés

Lancé le 14 juillet aux Etats-Unis, le service de musique en streaming Spotify connaît un démarrage mitigé selon All Things D . Un bilan toutefois raisonnable à ce stade puisque selon des sources internes, Spotify totaliserait déjà 1,4 million d’utilisateurs pour la version gratuite. Côté abonnés, Spotify compterait, selon cette même source, 175.000 clients. C’est surtout le taux de conversion des utilisateurs du gratuit vers le payant qui serait pour le moment source de déception. Avec un taux de 12,5%, le niveau est en effet inférieur au taux d’abonnés payants en Europe (15%) - il est inférieur à 10% pour le français Deezer. Un taux de conversion gratuit/payant de 12,5%

Spotify a vu son chiffre d’affaires multiplié par plus de cinq au cours de l’année passée mais continue d’enregistrer des pertes. L’entreprise a réalisé un CA 2010 de 72,2 millions d’euros (63,2 millions de livres sterling) contre 13 millions d’euros en 2009. Une progression en flèche due aux revenus publicitaires et à une forte augmentation du nombre d’abonnés payants en Europe qui sont désormais plus de 2 millions. Cependant, Spotify perd toujours de l’argent : 30,3 millions d’euros en 2010 et 19 millions en 2009. 2011 l'année de l'équilibre ? Une situation imputée aux droits d’auteur que l’entreprise doit verser aux maisons de disques pour exploiter leurs catalogues.

Spotify : chiffre d'affaires multiplié par cinq mais toujours des pertes

Nous n’avons que des bonnes nouvelles en ce moment. Nous sommes maintenant plus proches de Facebook. Et aujourd’hui nous supprimons les restrictions d’écoute pour tous les nouveaux utilisateurs. Cela semble normal de vous donner plus de temps pour découvrir de la musique ! A partir d’aujourd’hui, Spotify Open n’existe plus. Tous ceux qui écoutent Spotify gratuitement disposent d’un compte Spotify , tout simplement.

Une bonne nouvelle pour les nouveaux utilisateurs de Spotify Open

By Rob Waugh UPDATED: 13:51 GMT, 5 September 2011 Facebook's 750 million users will soon be able to listen to music through the site - sharing songs in the same way that users currently share videos, television programmes, Hollywood films and news links. It's a move that could put Facebook in direct competition with Apple's iTunes service - and looks certain to cement the site's position ahead of Google as the UK's most popular web destination. Facebook's new music service will allow users to access millions of songs instantly via any PC News of the new feature is expected to be unveiled at this month's 'f8' conference on September 22 in San Francisco, an annual event held by Facebook to show off new 'apps' and technologies. Music services partnered with the site are expected to allow Facebook users to listen to libraries of millions of songs directly via the site, without having to install special software on their PCs.