Take a closer look at the Spotify Mobile app, which allows Premium subscribers online and offline access to their favorite music.
Donald Bell
Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing How To content for CNET, as well as weekly episodes of CNET's Top 5 video series.
The first screen you'll see when launching the Spotify Mobile app is the Playlist tab. Here, Premium account holders will be able stream their starred tracks and playlists, including tracks that have been sent to you by friends. Upon diving into a playlist you can elect to have its content cached into device memory for offline playback.
2 of 6 Spotify
What's New
The What's New tab offers a cover art view of new and noteworthy music that can be streamed to your device.
3 of 6 Spotify
Search
After clicking through to an artist through the What's New tab or searching using the Search tab, you can scroll through available content.
4 of 6 Spotify
Now Playing
The song playback view offers an uncluttered view of album art, along with basic track controls across the bottom, an info button at the top left, and a hide button on the top right that will take you back to your previous screen.
5 of 6 Spotify
Track info
By tapping on the album art or info button in the track playback view, you can access artist and album information, add the track to a playlist, star the track, share it, or adjust shuffle and repeat settings.
6 of 6 Spotify
Song share
If you elect to share a track, you have the option to copy the link, e-mail the link, send just to Spotify friends, and share on Facebook or Twitter.
