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Spotify Enters The Symbian Scene

By Wampyre on September 8, 2009

Spotify is a music service in which you can stream music you want to listen to over the internet, unlike Nokia’s Comes With Music which is available for Symbian-powered handsets such as the X6. In Spotify, the music on their servers but users can access the music how often they want and when they want.

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Growing with more music tracks (now 184,795) this service was only available for computer users previously. With the growth of popularity, they’ve expanded their audience to include mobile users as well.

Just recently they announced that Spotify will be launched for Symbian-powered handsets. The application is still in development and labeled as an early version. To be able to use this application you have to be a premium user.

Following is a first look at the application in action.


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Do you think this is the way to go or do you think that music download is still the thing?

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Cheung Yuen Wong had his first meeting with Symbian when he acquired the N-Gage Classic phone. Swiftly after he became addicted and amazed at the possibilities in which the Symbian operating system offered in terms of usability and power. You can follow Cheung on Twitter at @Wampyre.

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  • http://twitter.com/PjhN PjhN

    Been looking forward to this for a while, as I use and love the free PC client. I don’t mind that it’s for subscribers only, except that I think £10 a month is FAR too much for a music RENTAL service. Especially since, requiring just a little more effort, YouTube offers more (more songs, plus their videos) with Playlist capability too, entirely for free. Would much rather Spotify were available on S60 with the occasion adverts the PC client has.

  • http://twitter.com/PjhN PjhN

    Been looking forward to this for a while, as I use and love the free PC client. I don’t mind that it’s for subscribers only, except that I think £10 a month is FAR too much for a music RENTAL service. Especially since, requiring just a little more effort, YouTube offers more (more songs, plus their videos) with Playlist capability too, entirely for free. Would much rather Spotify were available on S60 with the occasion adverts the PC client has.

  • Someone

    Spotify has millions of tracks.

    They just added 184,795 new tracks *this week*. They’ve been adding roughly that amount of new tracks every other week or so.

  • Someone

    Spotify has millions of tracks.

    They just added 184,795 new tracks *this week*. They’ve been adding roughly that amount of new tracks every other week or so.

  • http://www.steves71.com/ Steves71

    Maybe its just me and the way I read it but “Growing with more music tracks (now 184,795)” sounds like that’s their entire catalogue, that figure is just recent additions. The entire catalogue is just over 4.4 million tracks. The iPhone app works brilliantly, and no doubt the s60 one will too when it’s released, plus you’ll have “official” background playback. This could really be a game changer for mobile music.

  • http://www.steves71.com Steves71

    Maybe its just me and the way I read it but “Growing with more music tracks (now 184,795)” sounds like that’s their entire catalogue, that figure is just recent additions. The entire catalogue is just over 4.4 million tracks. The iPhone app works brilliantly, and no doubt the s60 one will too when it’s released, plus you’ll have “official” background playback. This could really be a game changer for mobile music.

  • Hashbrown

    With Mobbler dropping support for symbian, this will take its place nicely. Ive noticed Internet Radio likes to crash my E71 so thats not viable either. Hopes Spotify works out.

  • Hashbrown

    With Mobbler dropping support for symbian, this will take its place nicely. Ive noticed Internet Radio likes to crash my E71 so thats not viable either. Hopes Spotify works out.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/ TheGuru

    Where did you hear that Mobbler is dropping support for Symbian?

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com TheGuru

    Where did you hear that Mobbler is dropping support for Symbian?

  • Hashbrown

    I havent been able to use mobbler for s60 in months, even the download link is missing from the lastfm website, also the support page. There was a thread started on HoFo about it working thru Skyfire but that has stopped working too. The service works fine for ipod touch and iphone though. Go figure.

  • Hashbrown

    I havent been able to use mobbler for s60 in months, even the download link is missing from the lastfm website, also the support page. There was a thread started on HoFo about it working thru Skyfire but that has stopped working too. The service works fine for ipod touch and iphone though. Go figure.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/ TheGuru

    The latest version of Mobbler uses Last.FM’s official API, which requires that you have a premium account (3 dollars/euro per month), which is likely why it hasn’t worked for you. You can go to the official Mobbler pages http://code.google.com/p/mobbler/ to get the latest version (I hear they’re working on getting into the Ovi Store, too).

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com TheGuru

    The latest version of Mobbler uses Last.FM’s official API, which requires that you have a premium account (3 dollars/euro per month), which is likely why it hasn’t worked for you. You can go to the official Mobbler pages http://code.google.com/p/mobbler/ to get the latest version (I hear they’re working on getting into the Ovi Store, too).

  • http://rubbernecking.info/ Kevin Neely

    This looks really good. I’d love to give Spotify a try. But i’ll be sticking with Napster to go until Spotify comes to the states.

    Mobbler is working fine on my devices, though it still does not understand the tracks on the 5800. Streaming works well on all devices I have tried in the last few months.

  • http://rubbernecking.info Kevin Neely

    This looks really good. I’d love to give Spotify a try. But i’ll be sticking with Napster to go until Spotify comes to the states.

    Mobbler is working fine on my devices, though it still does not understand the tracks on the 5800. Streaming works well on all devices I have tried in the last few months.

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