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Spotify 0.4 for iPhone Now Available

To all the people who can use Spotify on their iPhone, here’s an interesting update for the official mobile client, that hits version 0.4. Here’s the changelog:

- Last.fm scrobbling.

- The ability to open and play Spotify links e.g. straight from your Facebook app or browser.

- Save time and space by using tracks already stored on your iPod in your playlists - there’s no need to sync those track anymore.

- Save and find your favourite tracks and albums with the - Starred playlist and Star buttons (also coming to the desktop version soon!).

- The ability to sync your purchased Spotify tracks over Wifi.

- A new look for albums and playlists.

- The ability to set playlist as collaborative or not.

- The ability to search in playlists.

- The ability to create a new playlist from the Add to Playlist view.

- Playlists named “-” show up as separators.

- Support for listening at 96 kb/s for more efficient streaming on slow connections.

- Spotify remembers when you were when you quit and starts up at the same location.

- Album reviews added to album view.

- Volume slider uses system volume.

- Volume normalization option added

Spotify is rumored to be “released” in the US later this year, but there’s no official word about it yet. If you’re still wondering, it’s a great service.

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