Do we know it’s Christmas?

Martin turned out to be brilliant at decorating the Christmas tree, Rasmus at baking good looking gingerbread cookies, Roberta at playing old school Christmas carols, Daniel at lightening all the sparkling candles, Jon at teaching us the proper Christmas tree dance, Mattias at being our Santa and all of us at drinking spicy glögg and eating juicy saffron rolls.

With this dream team working as if there was no tomorrow, we know it’s Christmas time, and we’re well prepared. Now when we’re in the right mood we would like to share it with you guys! We hope you all are feeling well and are in good cheer with a warm Christmasy feeling. If you’re not, stop by our office – here it’s Christmas time for sure!

From all of us to all of you:

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

All the Best from Sophia and the Spotify Team

I recommend this reggae-themed Christmas playlist from my friend Nome at Remotion. It goes very well with a homemade mumma and gingerbread dough.

This is what Ullemon wishes for Christmas. Here’s what we’re dreaming of…

Max: “I would like a slide caliper, disc sander and a bobcat”
Magnus: “I’m dreaming of a new roof, a blueberry pie, a pony and a house at the French Riviera”
Emil: “I need a cool reflector shaped as a lion”
Per: “More cowbell!”
Mattias: “A mini helicopter to play around with at home”
Sophia: “A Jane costume and a pair of new boots”
Göran: “Peace on earth and kind & happy people”
Martin B: “A Nokia N810″
Petra: “One week at a spa”
Jon: “I need a new alarm clock, preferably one of those simulating dawn light”
Andreas: “A coat hanger”
Daniel: “New china”

We released a new version of Spotify today. We have mostly fixed bugs, but some of the changes are things you may notice.

On the Mac:

• The artist view has had a lot of changes under the hood. A lot of small issues have been fixed and the entire view should be faster over all.
• Spotify displays an error message if you try to open invalid URIs.
• You can drag cover art images.
• Spotify uses the sRGB color space. This means that the player looks a bit darker than before.
• When viewing the biography an artist image (if available) is shown even if the biography text is very short.
• Spotify avoids saving passwords if password saving is disabled.
• Rows in the artist view are no longer selected when cover art images are clicked (or right-clicked).

On Windows:

• Spotify cleans up state on uninstall and informs the user if Spotify
  is still running.

Common to both platforms:

• You can drag and drop the currently playing track, as shown above the position indicator at the bottom of the Spotify window, or right-click it to bring up a context menu.
• The login window (again) shows a message when Spotify is upgraded.
• Spotify no longer skips the first track of a playlist when it is selected as the current playlist.

We are also happy to announce that Spotify runs better than ever under Wine. Most of the graphical glitches have been removed and the menus respond better to clicks.