Spotify

I recently started playing with Spotify.  It seems good.  I’m particularly for them to start up in Australia so I can leach off my far-more-musical-than-I-am friends over there.

Anyway, I read today that they’ve introduced the Spotify Play Button: a means of embedding links to Spotify-hosted music in blogs.  I figured I’d give it a try, so here we go:

Actually, that’s still annoyingly complicated.  I shouldn’t have copy the Spotify URI, go to their website, paste in the Spotify URI, copy the iframe code and then paste it in the HTML view of a blog post.  But no doubt somebody will write a WordPress plugin to use this more sensibly.

 Update:  It looks like the embedded thingy still insists on opening the Spotify desktop app.  That’s also annoying.

New feature: I’m now printer-friendly!

By popular demand (well, one person asked me), I’ve installed WP-Print – a WordPress plugin that will allow you, valued readers, to see a printer-friendly version of any post or page on this blog.

Every post and page now has a link at the top that takes you to the printer-friendly version of that post or page.  If you live-and-die by the URI bar, it’s the usual address with “/print/” at the end.

Let me know if you have any problems.