Kim Gilmour

Spotify is changing the way the world listens to music. With a Spotify account, you can listen to all kinds of music, create and share playlists, and even join the Spotify online community.Managing your spotify playlistsSpotify makes it easy for you to organize and manage the playlists in your music library and avoid wasting time hunting for your favorite tracks.

Spotify is compatible with all the iPod classic models, as well as the iPod shuffle and iPod nano. Any iPod that connects via a USB cable connection, rather than the very first model that required a FireWire connection (isn’t there a museum you can donate that to?), will work. One exception is the iPod touch: You need to download Spotify’s mobile app to listen to local tracks.

You can quickly mark a few Spotify playlists and make them available offline directly from your phone — your computer doesn’t need to be on because you download tracks directly from Spotify’s own server.Connect to a Wi-Fi network to do this procedure when possible, rather than 3G, because Wi-Fi is probably a lot faster and, depending on your data plan, should cost less, too.

After you add tracks to a Spotify playlist, you can rearrange them in your chosen order. Just click a track listing and drag it up or down the list — you’ll see a white line appear between the playlist tracks, which indicates where you can drop the track you’ve selected. Let go of the mouse button, and the track moves into its new slot.

This process sounds a little like the opposite of what Spotify is actually about: Burn a CD, rather than just listen to Spotify streaming from the cloud? Arguably, there’s still a place for the humble CD (even if it’s just for a nostalgia trip). For example, if you just made a playlist of your favorite Christmas tracks, you might want to burn these tracks to a CD and send them to a friend as a personalized gift (you could decorate the front of the CD with your own design).

Spotify makes it easy for you to organize and manage the playlists in your music library and avoid wasting time hunting for your favorite tracks. Here are some tips for keeping tabs on your playlists: Create playlist folders by selecting File→New Playlist Folder from the menu bar. Click and drag your playlists into these folders.

You can use Spotify to sync (or copy) a selection of local tracks from your computer to an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android device. Just follow these steps: Open Spotify on your computer and create a playlist that contains the local tracks you want to sync. Make sure both your computer and your mobile device are hooked up to the same Wi-Fi connection.

How Spotify works may have an impact on your computer’s hard-disk space, as well as your Internet connection. Spotify works differently from many other online music services because it relies on several ways to smoothly deliver music to you with no delays. In computing-speak, the measure of delay between requesting a song and hearing it is called latency.

After registering for a Spotify account, you get directed to a page that should automatically launch the installation file for your Mac. To download the software, follow these steps: If the installation file doesn’t automatically launch, go to Spotify and click Download Now. Whether the file launches automatically or you manually download it, your browser prompts you to save the Spotify.