This is a big step for us, but since this is relatively untested code, please bear with us (and let us know!) if there are any issues, such as increased latency, missing songs or lost connections.

There is also a few visible changes:

• We have turned off fuzzy matching when searching, and instead suggest alternative spellings if your search query didn’t return any results
• Links to iTunes have been added for some tracks and albums. Through the context menu it is easy to buy your favourite tracks from the iTunes Store
• The dashes that appear in automatically generated playlist names have been replaced by the typographically more correct en dashes
• A bug that caused Spotify to crash when trying to play empty playlists has been fixed

• Dropping a link to a playlist, artist or an album on the play queue will cause Spotify to play future tracks from that source.
• History now shows the currently playing track as well.
• The shuffle and repeat button graphics have been updated.

One application at a time, we hope, will add support for this. If you’re the developer of an application that auto-detects links, please consider adding support for the spotify: URI schema.

• A new view has been added to visualize the play queue.
• Growl support has been added.
• The graphics for the tabs has been changed.
• The entire footer area has been polished.
• The area showing which track is currently playing has been moved.
• The white borders have been removed from all artist images except in biographies.

The Play Queue is a list of tracks that will be played before any other music. It can be used for out-of-order playback of tracks without interrupting the flow of the music. Queued tracks can be seen in white in the Play Queue view. The grey tracks are from the view that was playing before tracks were added to the Queue and illustrate future playback once the Play Queue runs out. Queue tracks by selecting “Queue” in a track’s context menu or by dragging tracks to the Play Queue.

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X, that applications can use when they want to tell you something — in the case of Spotify, that a new song started playing. Growl is highly customizable — you decide what notifications you want, how they look, how long they stay on your screen, and so on.

Yes, we now have green blood as well.

Therefore, we hereby invite all of you interested in Cocoa development to our very first meeting, next Monday (June 02). We’ll kick off in our office at Humlegårdsgatan 20 here in Stockholm, at 18:00 CET. We’ll start with a short introduction of ourselves, and then talk about the coming WWDC and our expectations (nothing fancy, just a discussion where everyone is welcome to share their thoughts on Steve’s upcoming keynote). There’s a projector available if anyone wants to bring their laptop and show stuff for the rest of the audience.

During the meeting, we will also try to plan the coming sessions; guest speakers, location etc. Finally (for those who want); after the meeting, we’ll go out together and try to find some place to get some tasty food.

We’re looking forward to see you next Monday. Welcome!

The way we have implemented this is that while you can be logged in from many places (such as your home and your office), you can only stream music to one location at a time. If you’re having breakfast and listen to Spotify at home and leave it running while taking off to work, once you’re sitting comfortably in your office chair and turn on the music again, your kitchen computer streaming Spotify music at home will be paused.

As long as you’re the only one using the account, this is fine. However, if you think someone might have gotten access to your password, now is a good time to change it.

A number of bugs have been fixed, and Spotify now pauses when waking up from hibernation. This is nice if you happen to leave in a hurry for a presentation, quickly closing your laptop lid while Spotify is blasting your favorite inappropriate tunes at full volume, and then opening it in front of your important business partners.

• The graphics for the play/pause control buttons has been updated.
• The information for the unavailable albums has been changed.
• More category dividers have been added to the artist pages.
• Context menus have been added for the artist title on artist and album pages.
• A bug causing links to positions in tracks to crash Spotify has been fixed.
• The not-available text is no longer displayed above every disc in an unavailable album.

And most notably, a new start page with top lists has been added. It is available from the Start Page link in the left pane. You can view top tracks, albums and artists both globally and for yourself. Play around with the controls!