Spotify to launch in US by autumn

 

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By Hani Megerisi

Posted on 26 Mar 2010 at 18:17

Spotify will launch in the US by the autumn, according to reports.

Newswire Bloomberg claims the music-streaming service is gearing up for a third-quarter launch in the States. “We’re buying server space in random parts of the States and there are licensing discussions too," Spotify’s senior vice president Paul Brown said in an interview with Bloomberg. “But they are going fine because we’re in a long-term partnership with the labels and publishers.”

Spotify is also in discussions to release its mobile software on Blackberry and Palm smartphones, Brown said. The service is already on Android, Symbian and the iPhone.

Indeed, the iPhone app has just been updated with the ability to automatically synchronise songs on the iPhone to a Spotify playlist and a scrobbling service, similar to Last.fm. This will store information on tracks that have been played, helping the service to recommend music.

The iPhone app is also introducing support for 96Kbits/sec files to cater for slower connections.

Earlier this month, CEO Daniel Ek said Spotify now had more than 300,000 paying users.