NEW YORK - The Swedish site online music Spotify announced Wednesday the opening of its platform to application developers, with initial support from partners such as Rolling Stone, which add extra features to its service.
"Today Spotify is a music platform," said its managing director and co-founder Daniel Ek at a presentation in New York.
"Developers can create stunning reactive applications" designed for the platform Spotify, said Ek, by demonstrating a number of services that go beyond the simple functionality of the first legal service for listening to music on demand.
The site currently offers some 15 million songs, adding 20,000 per day, was launched in Sweden in 2008. It is now present in a dozen European countries and, since July, the United States, where its presence has been multiplied through a partnership with Facebook.
He claims "more than 10 million active users", including 2.5 million paying subscribers, and an estimated seven million the number of users who registered partnership since Facebook launched in September.
Mr. Ek said that the integration of applications on its website allowed to respond to additional requests for music lovers, beyond listening to music through the application of Rolling Stone, they discover the critical album or selections of songs.
"We will add stock selection every day," promised magazine founder Jann Wenner, who attended the conference.
Through the application site Songkick UK, users can easily switch from listening to a song in search of a place in concert performers in their city. The application allows TuneWiki in turn to discover the song lyrics while listening.
Initial applications were available on Wednesday, and others to follow in the coming weeks, said a spokesman for the music site, indicating that the launch would be held simultaneously in all countries where Spotify is installed.
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