SpotiDJ

Never tried Spotify before? Let us guide you through the basics so you can start enjoying right away.

 

Create an account

To be able to access Spotify you need to have a Facebook account.
Unfortunately there is no other way. If you don't have a Facebook account yet, you can get if for free. Having a Facebook account is enough, you don't have to actively use it.

Login to your Facebook account, then go to spotify.com

Click Register and your account will be created. The Spotify installer will be downloaded automatically. There is a Windows and MacOS version. The Spotify website detects your operating system and downloads the appropriate version.

Install the program and start Spotify

Enter your Facebook email and password an click Log in.

 

 Spotify will start up. The first you want to do is search for your favorite music.

Searching

Enter the name of an artist or a song in the Search field.

Spotify will come up with a list of results in Tracks, Playlists, Artists and Albums.

Click "Show All Results" or hit the enter key to show all the results.

Wait! Ignore this list and click the name of the artist. See the yellow arrows in the picture below

Then you have the entire discography of this artist at your fingertips.

 

 

It's hard to show this in a picture, but in the Spotify client you can scroll down the list with top hits, albums and singles.

Note the Biography, Related Artists and Start Artist Radio. ( we will get back to this later)

 

Play

Click a song and Spotify starts playing right away. As if the song is on your hard disk.

While listening, search for an another song, right click the song and click Queue, to add this to the Play queue. You can also drag and drop the song to the Play Queue in the left column.

 

Radio

If you don't want to keep searching all the time. How about starting up a radio station based on your favorite artist or song?

Click Radio in the left column.

You can start Radio from the search results as well.

And how about Artist Radio from the Artist page?

We guess your will be busy listening and searching for a while. Once you are ready head on to part 2 of our manual