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Spotify for BlackBerry now in Beta

by Kerri Neill on 19 Oct 2011 10:31 AM
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Spotify for BlackBerry

Spotify has officially released their new BlackBerry app into public beta. Spotify is a music  streaming company that has become quite popular as of late so the app couldn't have come at a better time. There's only 2 slight problems, you need to be on a GSM network (no love for us CDMA users yet) and it's only been tested on the following devices: 9780, 9700, 9300, 9000, 8520.

Features included in this release are:

  • Million of songs available instantly on your BlackBerry
  • Offline playlists – listen to music with no mobile connection and avoid using your data allowance
  • Create and sync playlists
  • Star your favourite tracks
  • Search tracks, artists, album
  • Browse “What’s new” and “Top tracks”
  • Scrobble tracks to Last.fm
  • Receive music from friends via the inbox

As with all Spotify mobile applications, you will need a Premium Subscription ($9.99 a month) to stream songs from their catalogue. Also, remember this is in beta so you should probably back up your device before installing just to be on the safe side. If you're one of the daring ones and download the app onto one of the devices not listed above, leave us a comment down below of which device and how well it's working.

More information / download Spotify for BlackBerry beta

Filed Under: News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps; Tags: BlackBerry Apps, public betas, Spotify
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42 Comments

Posted by Kiddello Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

I have this on my 9900 and it works great!

 
 
Posted by corbella Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Was adventurous and installed it on the Torch. It said "Spotify requires an SD card" and gave a blank screen. So, bubkus.

I hope they'll incorporate Torch and the Playbook soon!

 
 
Posted by world traveler and former ceo Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Cool!!!.... Looking forward to using it on my Bold 9900!

 
 
Posted by ODAAT Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Do you know how long I have been waiting for this? A long time! I guess everyone bombarding their forums paid off after all. All of a sudden, I don't need an iphone anymore. Happy days!

 
 
Posted by world traveler and former ceo Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

+10000

 
 
Posted by lucifer lannock Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

i'm sexy and i know it sounds even better using spotify on my 9900! fuck yeah!

 
 
Posted by sommerface Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Good news. It's working just fine on my 9800. Now if only the people at work would quit sucking up my 3G speed. lol.

 
 
Posted by J_K_Resnick Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

AWESOME!!!

 
 
Posted by emirozmen Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Now we need Skype and viber. Then we are set!

 
 
Posted by xtremez Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Skype, Viber and more application memory!

 
 
Posted by JX2CA Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

it does not work in Canada... :-P

 
 
Posted by lucifer lannock Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

now listening to rolling in the deep by adele in the canadian city of waterloo...oh yeah!!

 
 
Posted by zudeo Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Damn Americans.

I say this cause it doesn't work in Canada. Well, I can't create an account. @lucifer lannock, are you using a proxy?

 
 
Posted by lucifer lannock Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

i signed up using my desktop with hotspot shield running in background using the spotify invite pages available online....once you have a username set up, you are good to go!

 
 
Posted by kyleheney Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Call me crazy, but why get this instead of BBM Music? Double the monthly price (if BBM Music does end up being $5/month).... I thought this was supposed to be the main reason NOT to get BBM Music... at double the cost though, BBM Music looks pretty wicked to me.

 
 
Posted by lucifer lannock Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

i know i'm sexy and i have all three namely rdio, bbm music and spotify on my 9900!

 
 
Posted by Skeevecr Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

The lack of restrictions on your music is what you are paying for with spotify, no artificial 50 track limit or being dependent on others to get more tracks you want, also this one works on multiple platforms too so you can run it through better speakers when you are at home.

The bbm music app is more solid than this one right now and the other people's playlist stuff is much better, but neither point outweighs the downside of needing to micro-manage bbm music too much to get the most out of it.

My ideal app would be one with the polish of bbm music, the catalogue of spotify, the features of the desktop spotify client (artist radio etc isn't in the mobile apps) along with the playlist creation and sharing of bbm music that is much better than the current version in spotify.

 
 
Posted by MikeOWaterloo Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

BBM Music is better in some ways.

I has Spotify when I was in France ... it's good for getting anything you want.

But BBM Music is better for *discovering* new music (via Contacts). Spotify's radio stinks. Slacker is let's say .... unimaginative. I have discovered more new interesting music on BBM Music in a month than I did in a year with either Spotify or Slacker.

 
 
Posted by Juggalo20 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

useless in Canada, but i did install it on my 9900 though, and it didnt explode.... yay?

 
 
Posted by sectionsix Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

This just made my day.

 
 
Posted by trsbbs Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

GSM only,,how lame...

Tim

 
 
Posted by nasigorengpete Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

I am ditching BBM Music! Goodbye!
Spotify has got a better music library.

 
 
Posted by moe1up Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Finally got over the "no Spotify for BlackBerry wall" only to get hit by the "not for CDMA bus" This announcement made my day and then shot it down like Cheney playing Duck Hunt.

 
 
Posted by JPMorgan_ Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

will it work outside the US?

 
 
Posted by Skeevecr Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Depends on the country, it certainly works in european countries where spotify has been around for quite a while anyway unlike in the states.

 
 
Posted by Belbarid Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

This would have been great news.

A month ago.

Before I started using rdio.

 
 
Posted by McFlyinCA Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

I thought I would give it a try and install it onto my 9800. So far it is horrible, program constantly locks up and crashes. Not one song has played all the way through without stopping. Also it keeps going into offline mode and only songs I have starred and downloaded are available to play. My phone is extremely slow while this program is running. Hope future releases will be better.

 
 
Posted by crigga84 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Works great here. I guess that's BBM Music going for a massive fail.

Works in the UK btw.

 
 
Posted by tysweet77 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

Works on my 9800!

 
 
Posted by weezul Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 221 days ago

seems to be working fine for me over WiFi so far... and i don't have a premium account... who knows how long it will last... in the UK by the way

 
 
Posted by will1881 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

3 days, trial premium account

 
 
Posted by lxr200 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

I have a Torch 9800 for ATT it says its not compatible but it works perfectly, don't have a premium acct either. Love It! Thinking about upgrading to premium just wish it had a "radio" option to play genres

 
 
Posted by nasigorengpete Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

BBM Music will work if they:

1. Could overcome copyright issue and launch it globally - their biggest market is outside of the US, so they have to target ALL of them.
2. Offer UNLIMITED songs rather than just 50!
3. Make it cheaper than their competitors!
4. Make a desktop/web application too - people paid for the music so they should be able to listen anywhere they want.

No 4 is probably too much to ask for Blackberry, they're even struggling to release Playbook OS2 on time! Grrrr

 
 
Posted by Christa622 Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

Anyone try the Curve 8530?

 
 
Posted by jeffmik Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

Working very well on my Torch 9860 in Canada. If you sign up for Spotify with a US proxy but continually access from Canada, it will eventually tell you that you need to sign up for the $5 plan - at minimum - because you visit Canada a lot. I've been paying with my Canadian credit card no problem since the US launch and upgraded to the $10 plan today.

 
 
Posted by adicktuz Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 220 days ago

If they don't have it on 9900, why add it on the picture?

 
 
Posted by RightyTightyLeftyLoosey Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 219 days ago

Its working fine on 9900, even though it wasn't listed as a compatible model on the Spotify site.

 
 
Posted by Shorty007 Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 220 days ago

Works not as good as on Android or IOS.
Music stop playing or skip a few seconds.
Hope it gets better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 
Posted by jake_f Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 220 days ago

Finally! Why took this so long time...?
BBM would just be a failure here in Europe. I don't know anyone outside my company that use BB so my playlist would then be really limited...
So, hope for a 100% stable Spotify-client but meanwhile I just rock on! Yes!

 
 
Posted by xRuhRohx Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 219 days ago

So excited to finally be able to get this.
I use this religiously on my PC, and now I can suppliment
BBMMusic with Spotify.

 
 
Posted by javdvd Friday, Oct 21, 2011 218 days ago

Does anyone made it work on 9930?? What about only having WiFi enable??

 
 
Posted by snithicar Friday, Dec 02, 2011 176 days ago

torch 9800 works fine, only thing that bugs me is that i can't seem to download the offline lists to my media card, instead they are stored directly on the phone, which isn't enough...