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hey everybody its Michael Fisher with pocketnow.com and so much is going on we just filmed an awesome announcement which you'll see on Monday there's a pocket now live show happening right now there's a blizzard outside and I've got a blackberry z10 review to write there's a lot happening but none of it in this very moment is as exciting as the fact that Windows Phone 8 just got Spotify let's check it out okay so this is gonna be less exciting news for anybody who's been running Windows Phone 7 because Spotify has been running on Windows Phone 7 for quite some time but it just made the port to Windows Phone 8 before today you couldn't get Spotify running on Windows Phone 8 so this is huge it was a huge gap in functionality and it's especially big news for anybody who uses more than one mobile platform on a regular basis ie most of us have pocket now and in the tech reporting world in general because now we can access our playlists on one more major platform Windows Phone 8 so the user interface is very similar to what you've already seen on Windows Phone 7 we launch into the app and we have the Spotify title up top there's a search bar where you can search for artists here your playlists are aggregated thusly and if you want to just start playing a playlist you can just tap go ahead and tap on a song and it does that you can also see the queue of music that you've queued up to play from various playlists and you can see your list of people which is really cool if you have friends on Spotify you can see what they're currently listening to you can see what they've a granade it in terms of what their favorite songs are their favorite playlists top artists and so on and you can always see what they're playing currently if they are in fact listening to Spotify ma is busy in a pocket now live hangout right now which you should go do after you're done watching this video when music is playing you can hop back to the home screen and it will continue to play in the background the Spotify shortcut is in fact a live tile so it will flip periodically to show you what album you're listening to or what album is currently paused and if you are in another application so you're just playing around you're setting an alarm clock whatever you want to adjust the volume Spotify does use the Windows Phone 8 player controls up top so you can pause resume and skip tracks from here as well from within the app you can skip tracks just by sliding from track to track in the album view and here is also where you can share the you're listening to using Facebook using SMS using email and so on you can also add a song to an existing playlist or generate a new playlist right from within the app as always and the app of course also supports downloadable playlists for offline listening and finally under settings there are options for high quality low quality streaming and syncing and other such preferences and once again in case you're looking for a specific artist there is search functionality which works just as well as it does on any other Spotify version it looks like in this quick look once again that's just a quick look at Spotify for Windows Phone 8 newly released just today everybody have fun tonight that's gonna do it for a quick look of Spotify beta for Windows Phone 8 follow us in the links in the description below so you don't miss future videos stay tuned for a lot more on this very very busy weekend leading up to a busy week leading up to a busy month like the video with the thumbs up if you did enjoy it thanks for watching and we'll see you next time