Okay these posts are becoming a bit of a joke now. But I really like Spotify, it’s probably my favourite European start-up right now (after GigLocator of course) and I just want it to work!

I saw Shak at FOWA yesterday and he mentioned Spotify have offline support on the desktop now – flipping pro! This is a killer feature, and another reason for me to keep my Premium subscription. All I need now is for the guys to get high-bitrate tracks working again. It’d also be nice for the mobile version to support Last.fm scrobbling.

Of course it’s always a constant battle, with such a high subscription. If only they could offer discounts on the year subs, I’d be truly sold.

This time last week Ruk and I were down Brick Lane hacking away at the Last.fm Hackday event. The place was packed – apparently 150 people – I’ve never seen a larger collection of Netbooks and Macs in any one place! There was a surprisingly small amount of PC laptops – which is probably something more to do with the type of people attracted by software hacking events than anything else.

The event was sponsored my Microsoft’s Codeplex, who were there with a ‘Surface’ table, which I had a little play around with.

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