Tips and Tricks
Combine different searches
Did you know you could use several different search terms at the same time?
The different search terms available are; label, year, genre, artist, album and track.
For example, the search string label:EMI year:0000-2007 genre:house will give you every house song released by EMI before the year of 2008.
Link to a specific time
This is a very useful tip when sharing track tips to friends and others, especially when listening to club music. Spotify has made a little function which allows you to specify the time you want the song to begin at.
Simply add # followed by the time to a Spotify URI - or add %23 followed by a time to a Spotify URL.
For example, you want to tip your friend about the bass drop in Luigi Lusini’s Depth, simply type:
spotify:track:2Ag9CvCapsnh8phPQ0dEjl#2:45
or
http://open.spotify.com/track/2Ag9CvCapsnh8phPQ0dEjl%232:45
Shortcuts
Label Search
The label-search function!
In the search field, just type label:”Any label you want“. If the label is named Whist Records, type label:”whist+records”!

This is very useful if you know about a label with several great artists, but which names you can’t always remember! Here are some of my favorite labels:

Saving Playlists
As you probably have noticed, Spotify has had (and still has?!) a lot of problem with the playlist function the past weeks. Some of my playlists is still missing, but this little tip will hopefully prevent this problem in an easy way.
The Spotify URI is very helpful in many ways, and can be used to share searches, artists, and of course tracks and playlists. But did you know you can also copy a bunch of tracks URI’s at the same time to make backup copies of your playlists? Let me illustrate:

1. Use Shift or Ctrl+A to mark the tracks you want to copy. Right click and choose Copy Spotify URI.
2. Open a text editor, like WORD, and paste by pressing Ctrl+V.

3. Save the WORD file and when you need your playlist, go back to Spotify, create a new playlist, go to edit and choose Paste. Dadaa!
Clever, ha? This is not only very useful to make backup copies, but also when sharing your favorite tracks to others! Observe, this tip also works with the HTTP Link function!
Keyboard shortcuts
| Function | Windows | Mac |
|---|---|---|
| Create new playlist | Ctrl-N | Cmd-N |
| Cut | Ctrl-X | Cmd-X |
| Copy | Ctrl-C | Cmd-C |
| Copy (alternative link) | Ctrl-Alt-C | Cmd-Alt-C |
| Paste | Ctrl-V | Cmd-V |
| Delete | Del | Del, Backspace |
| Select all | Ctrl-A | Cmd-A |
| Select none | Ctrl-Shift-A | Cmd-Shift-A |
| Play/pause | Space | Space |
| Next track | Ctrl-Right | Cmd-Right |
| Previous track | Ctrl-Left | Cmd-Left |
| Volume up | Ctrl-Up | Cmd-Up |
| Volume down | Ctrl-Down | Cmd-Down |
| Mute | Ctrl-Shift-Down | Cmd-Shift-Down |
| Show help | F1 | Cmd-? |
| Give focus to address/search field | Ctrl-L | Cmd-Alt-F, Cmd-L |
| Go back (browse) | Alt-Left | Cmd-Alt-Left, Cmd-[ |
| Go forward (browse) | Alt-Right | Cmd-Alt-Right, Cmd-] |
| Play selected row | Enter | Enter |
| Browse to album of selected row | Ctrl-Shift-Enter | Cmd-Shift-Enter |
| Browse to artist of selected row | Ctrl-Alt-Enter | Cmd-Alt-Enter |
| Preferences | Ctrl-P | Cmd-, |
| Logout active user | Ctrl-Shift-W | Cmd-Shift-W |
| Quit | Alt-F4 | Cmd-Q |
| Hide window | - | Cmd-H |
| Hide other applications’ windows | - | Cmd-Alt-H |
| Close window | - | Cmd-W |
| Minimize window | - | Cmd-M |
| Restore window (from hidden state) | - | Cmd-Alt-1 |
