Over at the Spotify blog there is news about a first for Spotify, music videos in the player. However, there seems to be some confusion around what this really is, and I quote:
You can view the video within Spotify Free as a pop-up on the homepage or if you are a premium user here on the blog.
So, if I understand this correctly, I as a Premium user cannot see the music video in the player, I have to watch it on the blog, whereas all the free users can watch it in their player. Ok, I think it is fair to say the music video is a normal, good ol’ fashion ad then, and in my mind it is really nothing to boast on their blog as being “the first ever, full length music video on Spotify”. If you browse through the comments you can see it has created quite some confusion and disturbance amongst the Spotify users as well.
So I can watch a full length music video on their blog? As one of the commenters said, we got Youtube for that. As much as I love Spotify, this was a rather strange move, could we call it a fail?
Can you see the music video in your player?
Says it will be available March 4th.
Give it a week.
::CHEERS::
Ok, the album will be available on the fourth. Nope, don’t see any video. But that may be because I come from a Norwegian IP?
Got it in the ads just now. So its there.
Hi Simon!
Thanks for the update, so it is an ad then, not a feature… Well, maybe we can have music videos as a feature soon…