Spotify: Linking to a specific time in a track | Comments (0)
Posted in Music, social on 11th November 2009, 11:56 am by Stuart
For a while I’ve wanted to be able to share a link to a track on spotify so that it jumps the right place. An example is when learning covers for the band I play in; or just to point out a great part of the track.
The good new is that this is already possible! I asked a question on Get Satisfaction and a Spotify employee Emil Hesslow answered straight away that this feature already exists. Here’s some examples:
- Check out George Benson’s guitar break: Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey 4:04
- A Nice hammond organ break from Greg Rolie: Toussaint L’Overture 0:46
You can also use the spotify protocol:
e.g: spotify:track:39Bi2scq80BWdgnxz2llWT#04:04
The format for the link is just a simple fragment identifier added to the end of the link in the format #mins:secs e.g: #4:04
From using this (I’m running Spotify under wine) I’ve found you need to URLencode this in the “http://open.spotify…” links for it to work so #4:04 becomes %2304%3A04.
