This is an interview published by the Universidad de Lima in Peru, with original contents in spanish.
Here is an English translation of it.
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Latest release of Spotify for Android
Spotify has a preview release for Android downloadable from their website. I have been using it for a few days now and I am pretty happy with the enhancements.
Annoying bugs/issues that I experienced with the previous release, now fixed:
- App Crashing every time a song was added to a playlist.
- Gap between songs that made continuous mixes terrible to listen to.
- No “similar artists” feature.
Official List of enhancements:
- Totally new app with full support for Android 4.0
- Top-to-bottom redesign
- All-new slide-out navigation
- Even more social – check out friends’ profile pages and playlists on the go
- Artist imagery in high resolution
- Related artist view – available for the first time on mobile
- ‘Extreme’ sound quality setting for 320kbps listening
- So much faster
Features that will be added to the final release:
- Last.fm scrobblling
- Folder support
You can download the preview version here.
Enjoy!
Source: Spotify blog. 
For the ones that think $9.99 a month is too much for Spotify
This is an extract of one of the replies I wrote on a Techcrunch post.
I do not think $9.99 a month is ridiculous for unlimited streaming and caching of content @ 320 kbps OGG Vorbis compression. It is a heck of a deal for the quality offered and the quantity of music, including some rarities and remixes that are sold at over $1.29 per track on Amazon.
I undestand some people like to own and Spotify will not satisfy that requirement. However, it allows you to listen to all types of music, including new content that is published almost on a daily basis in high quality (that last is very important for me), and then you can decide if purchasing it for life is a good option (Amazon, GMusic, iTunes, whatever).
This is my take about purchasing music. First. Very limited content is available in loss-less format. If I am going to pay, might as well be for the best quality available. Second. You cannot resell digital content legally. You take the music with you until your next life.
I have playlists totaling over 5,000 songs in Spotify. I listen to them randomly anytime, anywhere. And continuously add new content. I would be out of my mind if I were to spend $5K in music. $9.99 a month sounds good enough. Good for 41 years worth of music service, and that is if I do not add more songs to Spotify. Unbeatable.
Convenience wins. iCloud you might say? Wrong. You can’t stream with iCloud. You need to have a local copy of the track on the device you will play back.
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Having Spotify playing through two devices simultaneously with one premium account [mobile]
I was a little disappointed at first when I learned that I could not have more than 1 mobile device playing songs via Spotify, just the way I can do with Netflix. There are instances where my son wants to listen at home while I want to do the same at work. He is too young to have his own account and it is not worth paying another $10/month for just having him play whenever he wants to, in my opinion.
Luckily, there is a way to work it around. Offline playlists. But you need to follow additional steps:
- Enable the playlists of your choice for offline sync. Wait until they are all synched up (I recommend it as an overnight task).
- Once all synced up, fire up Spotify.
- Go to preferences, select “Offline mode”
- Play your favorite music.
- The other device can now stream from the cloud without disrupting your session.
I have not tried it with 3 or 4 devices, but the process should be similar. Spotify Premium supports up to 3 devices in offline mode (and the PC or laptop being the fourth in “Online” mode).