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.

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.

If you want to stream your music through Spotify, you need to have the desktop application installed on your computer. Spotify offers this official reason for employing a desktop program, as opposed to a web-based one: “By installing Spotify as a stand alone application you get a much better user experience and audio quality compared to web-based sites.

Spotify Radio has undergone a massive overhaul and is now a superb way to stumble upon some great music. The feature allows you to create virtual radio stations that play similar music to the stuff you already like. Like a real radio station, you never know what tracks Spotify will line up next — but unlike real radio stations, you can skip tracks as many times as you wish if they aren’t to your fancy (and there aren’t any annoying DJs interrupting the flow).

Playback buttons appear at the bottom of your Spotify screen to help you play, pause, jump back to the previous track, and skip to the next track. You also get a timeline that tells you how far into a song you are and lets you drag your mouse along it to listen to a specific part of a song. After you find a track that you want to listen to, you can play it from within Spotify in a couple of ways: Double-click the name of the track that you want to hear (the simplest way).