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hi i'm ty pendlebury from cnet com and this is a hands-on with the new Spotify iPad app Spotify is being in the US for about six months now when one of the most requested features was for a nap dedicated to the iPad and today it's here and we're going to have a bit of a look at how it works essentially what you get is a similar interface to what you get on the desktop application except it's down the side instead of across the top so what you've got is you've got a search bar you've got a wats new catalog you've got an inbox which is different from the one that's on the iPhone it doesn't have a dedicated inbox app you've got playlists of course and people so to access Spotify what you'll need is either a free subscription which you can get virus facebook login either 0 per month there's a 499 unlimited account and there's the premium account which is 999 which also gives you offline access to all of your starred or saved tracks so to start off what you do is you go up to your search bar here and just look for something we'll try Pennywise which is being released today just click on the artists brings up all the Pennywise albums and go in here brings up a second sort of slide out view there and just interestingly you can actually slide back and forward between these windows as well once you actually bring up an album just have a look here at some of the playlists I've got an ozzy indie reader so if you follow me on Spotify you can find that playlist and you can also bring up the cover up by just pressing on this little button down here brings up the cover up but as soon as you go across like this it swaps albums and swaps tracks it would be nice if it had actually had a view we could see all the albums in a playlist and not have to switch automatically between tracks as well okay lastly we put the settings you can choose between offline mode you can scroll to last.fm if you're a last.fm member you can show on facebook if you really want to BAM all your Facebook followers and I choose extreme which is the highest bitrate as well okay and that's pretty much it it has a bit more functionality than the iphone app but the good thing about it is the large cover art as far as I'm concerned like most music applications this is compatible with air plays so if you want to play it to a speaker or air express you just press that little button got it hooked up to an apple TV here glows green and will play to your Apple TV so that's a little bit on how it works if you're interested in getting the Spotify app you can download it now from the itunes app store this has been ty pendlebury for cnet com