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Re: Spotify - Chrome Web Store

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Post by jacobwg »

pokoleo wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not in the US - what's so special about this? It looks like merely a link to the Spotify website.

For those in the Spotify web app beta, this is a link to an entirely web-based version of Spotify. If you have a Spotify account, but don't yet have access to the web version, check out http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57551372-285/enable-spot....

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Post by rguldener »

Note that it is still US only though, if you are based in a different country it will just forward you to the Spotify homepage.

On a different note, does anybody know why they started with native clients instead of one web client? I can think of some advantages of native clients (P2P streaming as the have it, better OS integration etc.) but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases (Win + OS X) and deliver updates to both I would expect it to require more resources for them than one web client for all.

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Post by Kylekramer »

pvnick wrote: post #4

Good to see another groundbreaking Spotify "innovation." I remember Grooveshark getting into the chrome web store almost two years ago.

I don't remember anyone calling it innovation. How about a nice feature addition to a service? After all, Spotify also has many other "innovations" Grooveshark doesn't: a clear legality, accurate track and artist catalogues, and paying all of their artists (even if it isn't much, it is certainly more than Grooveshark).
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