{"id":2713,"date":"2011-07-16T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T17:43:20","slug":"the-essential-spotify-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/the-essential-spotify-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 The Essential Spotify Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12739,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/lifehacker.com\\\/5821515\\\/the-essential-spotify-tools&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110720103728\\\/http:\\\/\\\/lifehacker.com:80\\\/5821515\\\/the-essential-spotify-tools&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05 21:54:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 15:24:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 11:45:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 11:45:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5821515\/the-essential-spotify-tools\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spotify doesn&#8217;t let you see what your friends are listening to\u00a0<em>right now<\/em>\u2014instead, it offloads that capability onto Last.fm, a free service that you have to sign up separately for. It doesn&#8217;t alert you when your favorite artists put out new music, and it doesn&#8217;t really have a good music discovery engine. It also, surprisingly, has a puny section for new releases, when in fact it gets a ton of new releases in every week that they dump into a separate playlist. (Not sure why this isn&#8217;t more of a core feature, to be honest.) So here are a bunch of utilities to help you get more out of Spotify, whether you&#8217;re a paying user or just a free one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic run-down. I&#8217;m already using a few of these. It&#8217;s great that the Europeans beta-tested Spotify for us over the past 3 years! There&#8217;s already a huge community of add-ons from people to make the experience better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: Spotify doesn&#8217;t let you see what your friends are listening to\u00a0right now\u2014instead, it offloads that capability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-HL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2693,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/spotify\/","url_meta":{"origin":2713,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Spotify","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"For an in-depth analysis of Spotify, I'd recommend reading this review. 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