With the opening of the Spotify online music service also in Italy, we can finally enjoy one of the best programs to listen to streaming music from your computer. After downloading and installing Spotify on your PC, Windows, Linux or Mac, you can immediately search for your favorite songs, create playlists and collect music albums.
You can also see what Facebook friends are listening to.
In the interface of the Spotify program it could also be noted that, in the menu on the left side, there is an entry related to Spotify Apps which contains some plugins to integrate external services .
To search for apps just click on the " Search App " item and to install them you can press the Add button located next to the name.
The best Apps for Spotify that improve the service are at least 7 that can be found in the general list where they are sorted by popularity.
UPDATE: Spotify has removed support for external plugins and apps on its PC program.
However, you can use an alternative program to listen to music from Spotify
1) TuneWiki is the best site to find lyrics and words of songs with videos and online listening.
By integrating TuneWiki with Spotify, when listening to a song, it is also possible to read the text that flows in real time, obtaining a real Karaoke system.
If no one has yet synchronized the lyrics of that song with the music, TuneWiki offers the possibility to synchronize it to the user so that it remains online also for the others.
2) MusiXmatch is currently the first of the most popular apps for Spotify.
MusicMatch is also used to read the lyrics of the songs being listened to, displaying them in real time.
Although there are no big differences between TuneWiki and MusiXmatch, except that maybe MusiXmatch has more lyrics than TuneWiki.
MusiXmatch also shows photographs of the artist in the background and, like TuneWiki, gives the possibility to synchronize the texts, if nobody has done it yet.
3) Last.fm is a service dedicated to tracking the listening habits of music of registered users, suggesting new and related songs that should correspond to the tastes detected.
The Spotify application for Last.fm allows you to " Scrobble " the songs you have listened to in order to know all the details about an artist.
To use Last.fm you need to make an account.
4) Moodagent is an automatic generator of lists of songs or playlists which is based on the mood.
In practice, the application is told if it is sad or happy to hear music suitable for the moment.
Moodagent also allows you to create playlists based on a song that you have on your computer.
The results screen puts the list of songs and a curve made up of five control factors, you can orient yourself in an increasing way (for example increasing joy) or decreasing.
5) Tastebuds (scroll through the list of apps to the end to find it) is a social application to meet new people, who, after a scan of the music and mp3s on the computer, indicates the name of other Spotify users with similar tastes for become friends with us or for meetings.
Tastebuds also allows you to filter people by age, gender, relationship status and city.
You can sign up for Tastebuds with your Facebook account and edit your profile.
6) Songkick is the best application to have the calendar of live concerts of favorite artists in your city.
Much better than TicketOne, Songkick immediately shows the dates for favorite artists, based on the music that is held on the computer as mp3.
Songkick requires access with the Facebook account.
7) Tunigo is an excellent application from which to discover new music to listen to based on the charts and playlists by genre.
Finally, I recommend an excellent program to enhance Spotify and improve the quality of the music .
Equalify is an equalizer for Spotify on Windows to download and install on your pc.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure that the Spotify application is closed.
When playing a song, you will notice an EQ button which, if pressed, opens the equalizer with presets already set and a menu to modify them.
The Limiter button is also very useful to balance the amplification (pre-Amp, the last bar of the equalizer) and avoid distortions even if the volume amplified by the equalizer is raised too much.
