Spotify Play Button

Works horribly.<p>I'm used to:<p><pre><code> 1. Click "Play" 2. Hear music </code></pre> Now, I get:<p><pre><code> 1. Click "Play" 2. Get to a screen that tells me to download Spotify</code></pre>

If devs/bloggers start using these everywhere it means people like me in Canada (and other countries where Spotify is not available) won't be able to hear any music on the web. Soundcloud wins here for me - they may not have a huge major label catalog, but they don't have the restrictive licensing problems that Spotify has.

Oh Cool!!! .. a button that works only in 13 countries.

By making their content embeddable, Spotify is finnally filling the gap between them and other Flash-based competitors like Youtube/Deezer/SoundCloud. They are really prooving that the old Desktop App vs Browser Apps schism is no longer valid. Does anyone with a non-premium Spotify account can confirm they still have ads using the embeddable play button ?

Since I moved to Belgium I have being using Spotify again. But It's getting annoying the loads of ads per song played. So, I think I will go back to use Grooveshark on a daily basis. I refuse to pay a premium Spotify at the moment.<p>I suppose It is gonna be the same for this "Spotify Play Button" button, tons of ads and less music.

This is great, it means I can run a music blog without breaking any laws because without illegally uploaded the tracks to soundcloud / blogger / tumblr.<p>It also means that you could rigup a Spotify powered muxtape.<p>Now if only we had a Web API for adding tracks to playlists etc

The Spotify desktop client is running a server and the play button acts as a remote. It's using regular get requests and seems to require a CORS-compatible browser. It's the same as typing a Spotify URI in your address bar. I think that means non premium users will have ads.

Someone should do this with the itunes affiliate API and let people make money as well.<p>I'm doubtful this will take over the current YouTube/SoundCloud/Grooveshark embeds.

Also important to note - every user that has Spotify open and running is also a node on their P2P CDN. Hugely valuable asset

Can you play songs without a Spotify account?

I wonder how they plan to recoup royalty losses from this? Is this just a marketing investment?