Spotify is the hot new kind on the block and it looks like it’s about to get even hotter-Spotify is coming to Windows Mobile!
If you’re not familiar with Spotify, it’s an online catalogue of music that you can listen to from any desktop/laptop on which you’ve installed the application. There are no restrictions on what you can listen to, you don’t have to wait for anything to download and the catalogue is truly huge-I’ve managed to fox it with some relatively obscure early 90’s hip-hop (Souls of Mischief, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien etc) but it’s hard to do 🙂
Anyway, the one thing that you can’t do is listen to Spotify via your mobile device which, as the world is getting more and more mobile is a bit of a shame. I’ve been using Spotify for about 1 week now and already there have been occasions where I wanted to pull out my Diamond and get on to Spotify-but I couldn’t.
However that all looks set to change because Gustav Söderström (@GustavS) (former Yahoo “Director of Product Management” and later “Director of Business Development” and before that CEO of “Kenet Works AB”) has left Yahoo and set up camp over at Spotify. Kenet Works focused on allwoing mobile devices to access internet fourms/communities wirelessly and while I don’t know if this tech helped Yahoo, it certainly sounds like just what Spotify need!
Also it isn’t just conjecture and guess work that Mobile Spotify is his project. On his blog Gustav says:
“Starting in February, I will head up something that a lot of users have already requested and discussed extensively, Spotify on the Mobile”
Nice 🙂
Spotify’s site list a vacancy for a Nokia S60 platform engineer so it’s apparent Nokia users will be getting this excellent addition to the world of music meets mobile. There is also a vacancy for a Windows Applications Engineer so hopefully they’ll be working on Windows Mobile…
*Update* It was announced in the past week that Spotify have created an app for Android phones which will allow you to play your Spotufy tracks offline! Spotify CEO Daniel Ek also said that an iPhone app is in the works…but no mention of anything for Windows Mobile 😮 Hopefully, it won’t be far behind!
*Update* I’ve just had a Twitter reply from Gustav (in response to my “any news on a Windows Mobile app”) which said:
“Sorry, can’t comment on future plans 😦 Just keep you fingers crossed!”
Not much to go on-but at least it’s not a definite no!
*Update* Spotify have had their iPhone app approved by Apple so Premium users will soon be able to download songs to their handset to listen to when offline…which is pretty good. I’d like to see it make an appearance on Windows Mobile too but the more I think about it, the less sure I am that I’d pay £120 a year for it. I’m perfectly happy buying songs from Amazon for as little as 29p and listening to them in Media Player on my Diamond 🙂
*Update* Today, 23/11/09, Spotify announced that they now have an app for Nokia phones. I find it very strange that they’ve developed for Symbian before Windows Mobile, are they purposefully shunning Microsoft’s mobile platform?
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Im using the htc touch pro 2, and would so love to see spotify reach Windows Mobile, im a free user atm, but will happily pay if it is on w.m !
i want it for windows mobile… pliiiiss
If no spotify is launched for windows mobile then I might as well cancel my premium membership.
I want spotify for my windows mobile, it would be great.
Just got my HTC HD2, and the only thing the phone needs to be perfect is spotify, so please make it for windows mobile!
you have to make it work on windows mobile. that would be great 🙂
Use MySpot – http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=14064
Please! spotify for windows mobile now. i’ll will pay for it of course.
I just use myspot it works fine. still need s premium account to use it though. can’t wait for spotify’s own app to come out to see if it’s better or not.
did the diamond get its app? still poking away at win 6.1. dont want to trade in my mobile. these posts are old. 😦 my diamond htc is only worth a fiver. 😥