Spotify just announced its new app platform. Partnering with the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, Last.fm and The Guardian, the online music service aims to allow users to get more from their tunes. As Mashable reader Cristian Parrino pointed out in the comments, the fact that an app has launched its own app platform is an intriguing move.
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In short, Spotify is looking to expand its ecosystem -- by allowing others to build on top of its interface.
We downloaded the preview version of Spotify and fired up some of the apps.
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The Spotify Platform is clearly in the early stages, but the potential of this sort of platform is immense. For publications such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Billboard, apps offer a way to provide content and perhaps even gain interaction. Reading an album review while listening to the album makes for a compelling user experience.
Still, the most interesting apps are those that integrate with the service in new and inventive ways. For instance, the Last.fm app allows users to generate related song playlists based on the track they are currently listening to. And TuneWiki brings lyrics to Spotify in a way that is real-time and synced alongside playback.
Whether or not Spotify can evolve from a simple service into a platform for other services -- the way Facebook, Twitter and iOS did -- remains to be seen. But we're hopeful that Spotify apps will encourage more innovation in social music.
Check out our gallery of Spotify apps below, and let us know in the comments which ones you think you'll enjoy the most.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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