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Spotify and Facebook: The best personal and social music experience

By | May 24, 2010, 9:13am PDT

Summary: I have been using Spotify for over a year now and I believe it has redefined streaming music. Now I think it’s redefining personal and social music. Their latest iteration of their desktop application integrates beautifully with Facebook. You can see a friend’s profile, which includes their favorites artists and saved playlists. If you subscribe to a [...]

I have been using Spotify for over a year now and I believe it has redefined streaming music.

Now I think it’s redefining personal and social music. Their latest iteration of their desktop application integrates beautifully with Facebook. You can see a friend’s profile, which includes their favorites artists and saved playlists.

If you subscribe to a playlist, it links back to Spotify on Facebook.

There is a new “Library” tab in the left hand navigation now.

If I can store all of my music here, stream new music and find cool artists, and interact with my friends on Facebook, I don’t think I’ll ever use iTunes again. And Songbird doesn’t have a chance unless they really start following Spotify’s lead.

Send me an email if you are interested in Spotify or tweet at me, and I will see if I can get you an invite.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager works for Spotify.

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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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