I hate it that I have to use Win Media Player or iTunes to play the tracks that are not available on Spotify but that I have on my hard disc. Couldn't Spotify change the player so it could access the local music library as well. I would do it so that when you search for something to listen to it would first check the local library and if it's not there only then use their library. As a user experience this would be great, one stop shop for all the music. Still they could provide the editorial content ie. the biography of the bands/artists they don't have in their catalogues.
This way it wouldn't cost them that much to provide the service as currently people are using Spotify also to listen to tracks they already have on their hard discs. Avoiding the cost associated would make sense.
But then again, from the user experience point of view this is not needed if Spotify someday plans to have pretty much all the music in the world in their catalogue. :)
Monday, October 26, 2009
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Just write a backend to your favourite open source playah
http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/
Good comment, thanks. It'll be interesting to see how this "Spotify as a platform" thingie starts to gather traction.
There are couple of problems with this though.
1) I'm not a developer, haven't really coded much anything in more than 10 years
2) I don't use Linux and the libraries are currently only available for Linux (actually I do have Linux on couple of old laptops which I never use anymore)
3) I'd like to use the Spotify player, not those ...hmmm...less attractive open source players out there.
Spotify finally a few weeks back released a client that plays local tracks. It's very nice, thank you Spotify! :)
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