13 tips for those who love Spotify

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Spotify is the king of streaming music services, and while it has plenty of competition, remains by far the favorite of most users. I've tried almost all similar offers, but at the end of the day I stay with Spotify, catalog, ease of use, features, and then to practice.

Over a year ago I wrote an article with a dozen tricks to Spotify that many people may not know. In that time many things have changed, for example, we no longer have client applications within Spotify, but have also come new things, such as applying for PS4, and soon we will support Chromecast. Here are some tips to get more out of Spotify.

1. Use your phone as a remote control

If you have installed the application of Spotify for Android or iOS you can control the music playback on any device, another PC or your console game if you are playing something. You can change songs, volume up and down, pause and resume, etc.

Ideal for the lazy who do not want to move from the bed or sofa to change the song.

2. Receive notifications of your favorite artists

This is old, but many people do not realize it. On Spotify you can follow other users, for example your friends. You can also follow playlists and receive notifications when new songs are added. But, my favorite social function is to follow artists as Spotify notifies you immediately when they released a new single and a new album.

This is great if you keep an enormous amount of musicians and lose track of which have new music.

3. Get your music to listen offline

This is one of the benefits of Spotify Premium, if you decide to pay for Spotify not only fail to listen ads McDonalds, but you can download entire albums or playlists to listen when you have no Internet connection. This is perfect for mobile, and will not have to spend data when we are in the street.

Yes, the music only works within the application of Spotify, it's not like you're going to lose the MP3 and save wherever you like.

4. Organize your albums by date

Another great option that has implemented just over a year is the ability to save any album in your library so you do not have to turn them into playlists. Now if you're like me, you may keep records unceremoniously and many have not finished hearing them all ever. An excellent idea is to bring order to organize the records by the date that you added in this way can give priority to those who saved first or last. It's an incredibly simple but extremely useful function.

5. Listen to music while playing in your PS4

If you have a Sony game console of this generation, you're in luck. Recently the PS4 account exclusively with their own implementation of Spotify, and you can not only control it remotely from mobile, it works in the background, that is, you can start your favorite game, lower the volume of the own music game , and instead listen to your favorite album or playlist in Spotify.

6. Send music to your Chromecast

The official support is at a doorstep, but in the meantime, if you have an Android device, you can download the Spoticast application to send music to your Chromecast Spotify. It is not the prettiest app world and has etter interface, but it works.

7. Create a collaborative playlist or a secret super

One of the most social things Spotify lists are collaborative playback, you can create one and share it with the world so that anyone can subscribe to it and add your own songs. In Hypertext we have one of these, initiated by Javier.

If you want the opposite, create playlists and nobody hears them, have the option of making secret and will not appear on your profile ever.

8. Facebook

Spotify link your account to Facebook has its advantages, especially if you are an avid user of this social network. First, your contacts who use the service will appear in a special column on the desktop application, you will see they hear all the time. You can also share songs you like, or discs, or artists directly from Spotify to your wall. It also makes the login process to avoid having to enter the password never easy.

9. Last.fm

If you're one of those who use the Last.fm scrobbling of this function it will be essential for you, from the preferences can connect your account. If you do not know what this is, is a service last.fm pretty good music in musical recommendations are concerned. The scrobbling is a feature that saves each and every one of the songs you hear on a database, so you know you hear more and when. It is a jewel of personal quantification, I have my statistics since 2008.

The other advantage is obvious, the last.fm know what you hear gives you recommendations based on your tastes. They are impeccable 99% of the time.

10. Insert playlists

If you have a blog or visit a forum, you can share playlists for people to hear directly from the site. If you click on the playlist and options you choose "copy the code", you can insert it into any web and you'll see mireproductor music. A very useful extra, especially if you write about music. thus:

11. Weekly Discovery

It took a few weeks to realize that Spotify had implemented this feature and now suffer thinking of the 60 songs that I missed. In the Scan section to start Spotify you can find from about two months ago (maybe a little less), a space called "Discover" with recommendations designed especially for you. The highlight of this section a list created via algorithms to select 30 songs for you every week came with the Discovery weekly playlist.

The songs are often so successful that scared a little. Of course, if you really like some store it in another playlist, because in seven days expires and the list changes completely. I have created one with the best of every week and growing all the time, it's love. Oh, and you can also follow the weekly lists Discovering your friends, so if you have a friend with similar musical tastes can review your list every week and discover more great things.

12. Spotify for Linux

Spotify is the only app largest streaming music that gives native support for Linux. It's another reason why I prefer the service to everyone else, simply offer more options. You can install the old desktop client with this method, it works on Ubuntu and derivatives. If you are using Arch AUR compilations there, because what there is in AUR?

If you want to try the beta client, follow these steps:

Add the repository:

deb miss http://repository.spotify.com non-free testing | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

Updates the list:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

13. Use in a country where Spotify is not available

This will constantly ask me, especially because I'm in a country where Spotify is not available: Venezuela. The simplest solution is to use the service pay for a premium account. Why? Because you get "unlimited ride". What does this mean? You can use your Spotify account as unrestricted travel, ie when you are in another country regardless Spotify does not exist there.

Now, you need a means of payment from a country where the service itself is available. On the other hand, you need to create your account through a VPN that says you're in there.

If you can not afford the premium, there is a "trick" to bypass the restriction: uses a VPN to create your account (Spotflux, Hotspot Shield, HotspotShield are some options). And presto, you'll hear music with advertising. The only problem is that you do not have "unlimited voyage" so every 14 days must log in again from another IP, using the VPN, and the counter is reset for 14 days free Spotify

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