Friendly blogger Jim Carlberg over at Finstilt writes about (in Swedish) a script that he has written for Salling Clicker that lets you control Spotify for Mac from your cell phone. If you want to try it out yourself, go ahead and download Spotify Remote 0.1!

Thanks, Jim!

What’s so scary about the chocolate cake, Jon?

We released a new version of Spotify today, mostly consisting of changes under the hood, but there are a few bug fixes as well.

On the Mac:

• Spotify now scrolls down to view the currently playing song when “Now Playing” is clicked.
• Spotify now remembers sort order for playlists and marks sort order in the list headers when visiting a sorted playlist.
• Auto-upgrade in Leopard has been sped up considerably. This will not be visible until the next client upgrade.
• A bug causing right-clicked playlists to become selected was fixed.
• A bug that sometimes caused shared playlists to look like ordinary playlists was fixed.

On Windows:

• A bug preventing Spotify links to be opened from Internet Explorer 7 was fixed.

What makes the web great? One of the key benefits over traditional media is that it’s hypertext, meaning that you can link words to other documents. This way, you can tie the documents together, provide context and refer to other sources.

As the web progressed from an electronic library for physics researchers to the greatest medium humanity has seen so far, people wanted to link to resources other than text, such as images, movies and, of course, music.

Naturally you’re able to link to Spotify as well. Anything that’s a resource or object in Spotify should be linkable. You might have seen us link to artists, albums, tracks and playlists on this blog, but you can even link to searches.

If you want to link to a song, for instance, you need to get its address: Just right-click (or control-click) a song in Spotify and select “Copy HTTP Link” or “Copy Spotify URI” from the context menu. Which one you should use depends on what you want to do with the link.

HTTP links look like this: http://open.spotify.com/artist/5lsC3H1vh9YSRQckyGv0Up

Spotify URIs look like this: spotify:artist:5lsC3H1vh9YSRQckyGv0Up

The benefit of the latter kind is that they open in Spotify immediately. The first kind needs to go through a web browser and a web page redirecting you to the latter kind, which in turn opens in Spotify. It has the advantage, though, of being recognized as a link by major mail and instant-messaging (IM) software so that it turns blue, underlined and clickable.

Therefore, if you’re quickly sending your friend a song over IM, use the HTTP links. If you’re posting to your blog or web site, where you have control of the link target, use the Spotify URIs to avoid unnecessarily opening another web page.

And if you’re the author of mail, IM or any kind of software that auto-detects URIs, please consider supporting the spotify: URI schema.

Me and Rasmus are listening to our Russian friends and chatting about all the things we want to doooooo! Like see Rufus Wainwright when he’s playing on Dramaten, go to an after-ski party and defeat Per in billiards.