Spotify is scrobbling!

The news of a new version of Spotify just came down the wire, and this new version is Scrobbling!

The ability to scrobble what you play to Last.fm has been one of the most requested items over the last couple of weeks and it’s great to see that the developers are listening to the community and fanbase that is starting to build around the application.

For those of you unfamiliar with Spotify; it’s a music service where you install an iTunes-, or Songbird-, like application on your computer and access music from the huge repositories of owned by several of the largest record companies. The downside is that you do not get to copy the music to your devices, but it’s one hell of a service for listening to music on your computer!

I got an invite (the service is still in closed Beta) a couple of weeks back and I have been using it constantly since that. It even runs on Linux with Wine, which is great. A few glitches here and there – the most annoying one being that the playback keeps stopping now and then and you have to restart the app. Once they fix that, and the app is out of Beta, I will be surprised if I don’t pay up those 99 NOK per month for ad-free music and the ability to share lists with friends.

I am sure Spotify will be at the top of Best Application of 2009 – it’s definitively one of the best things that has happened to music for years.