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Great news! Also, they introduced a new plan: Spotify Unlimited. For half the price of the Premium plan you will be able to listen to unlimited amounts of ad-fr

Great news! Also, they introduced a new plan: Spotify Unlimited. For half the price of the Premium plan you will be able to listen to unlimited amounts of ad-free music. You won't get offline playlist support or access to the mobile version. On a related note: if Spotify were to become massively popular in the Netherlands, its social features that rely on Facebook might spell big trouble for the dominant dutch social network Hyves. I wouldn't be surprised if the good folks at Hyves HQ are frantically trying to come up with a great way to share Spotify's music through their network as well. Question ofcourse is: will that even come close to the social integration the Spotify client will be able to provide...

mzl 16y ago
While the social features do use Facebook, I wouldn't say that it relies on them. If you know someone with username X, you can search for spotify:user:X to find their user-page. The facebook-integration "just" automates finding your friends for you.
- sssparkkk 16y ago
  Yes indeed, good point. How would you share tracks with a friend that's not on facebook though? You won't be able to just drag&drop, as this doesn't work to a user's profile-view. Right?
  - pirko 16y ago
    It should work with drag and drop by dragging a track to the user on the People list on the right. You can also right-click on a track, Send to, Spotify People, pick a user
    - sssparkkk 16y ago
      Ehm yes, I know how the social component of the client is supposed to work. We were talking about users that don't show up because they have not connected with their facebook account. So: how do you get a 'spotify:user:x' user in the people list so you can share tracks with that particular user?
      - mzl 16y ago
        If the user has enabled social features, you can just enter "spotify:user:x" in the search-field. But now that you mention it, I realized that user x has to connect to Facebook to enable the social features. That is unfortunate. I was thinking more of users that one is not a "friend" with on Facebook, but that one still wanted to share music with/see playlists from. Like the spotify:users:spotify company user. EDIT: After some help, I learned that if one cancels connecting with Facebook, then the social features will be activated without requiring a Facebook account.

mzl 16y ago

While the social features do use Facebook, I wouldn't say that it relies on them. If you know someone with username X, you can search for spotify:user:X to find their user-page. The facebook-integration "just" automates finding your friends for you.

sssparkkk 16y ago
Yes indeed, good point. How would you share tracks with a friend that's not on facebook though? You won't be able to just drag&drop, as this doesn't work to a user's profile-view. Right?
- pirko 16y ago
  It should work with drag and drop by dragging a track to the user on the People list on the right. You can also right-click on a track, Send to, Spotify People, pick a user
  - sssparkkk 16y ago
    Ehm yes, I know how the social component of the client is supposed to work. We were talking about users that don't show up because they have not connected with their facebook account. So: how do you get a 'spotify:user:x' user in the people list so you can share tracks with that particular user?
    - mzl 16y ago
      If the user has enabled social features, you can just enter "spotify:user:x" in the search-field. But now that you mention it, I realized that user x has to connect to Facebook to enable the social features. That is unfortunate. I was thinking more of users that one is not a "friend" with on Facebook, but that one still wanted to share music with/see playlists from. Like the spotify:users:spotify company user. EDIT: After some help, I learned that if one cancels connecting with Facebook, then the social features will be activated without requiring a Facebook account.