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Version 2.2.1 (2nd April 2009)

Changes:

  1. The new history tab was causing some problems. The slide in animation caused isses on firefox and the scrollbar didn't work on ie. I've replaced it with a simpler design that should work on all browsers.
  2. Tweaked a bit of the javascript to smooth out the add term animation and tweaked the css for the various buttons to clean up/add icons.

Version 2.2.0 (29th March 2009)

Changes:

  1. Added a history tab, which keeps the most recent queries you pass to Spotify. The history values are saved to a cookie (thanks to Klaus Hartl for the plugin) stored by your browser. No identifying information is stored or used in the history cookie.
  2. Tweaked all the event calls. You shouldn't have to double click on the spotify link now to get it to launch.
  3. Changed all dialogs to start hidden with the css rather than waiting for jquery to hide them. This should speed up load as the flash player doesnt have to initialise on load. Instead it initialises when its shown.

Version 2.1.1 (25th March 2009)

Changes:

  1. There were some problems with the new genre list (a couple of entries had become merged). This should now be corrected.

Version 2.1.0 (25th March 2009)

Changes:

  1. Fixed missing "change" event registration that was stopping proper function on certain browsers. This should fix Safari and Chrome operation.
  2. Added Afront's how to video as a popup.
  3. Added flexselect based genre autocomplete. Thanks to Ryan McGeary for the flexselect code (which I have very slightly tweaked).
  4. Added all genres from the spotify master list. The flexselect code makes it possible to use the ~1000 genres in the list. Unfortunatlly even on a beafy CPU this slows things down a bit when working with the genre list. This may need moved to an AJAX based implementation where the filtering is done at the server side, which will slow things down a bit but remove the load from the client.

Version 2.0.0 (11th March 2009)

Illuminated Engineer version.

Changes:

  1. jQuery based UI
  2. Added variable number of terms
  3. Switched support for AND/OR to operate at top level
  4. Added mucho shininess

Version 1.0.0 (4th March 2009)

Original Pansentient League version.

Launching in Spotify

Your browser may ask you for permision to send the search to spotify the first time you click on the link.

Any/Artist/Track/Album Search

Matches at the word level. "Cold" matches to "Cold War Kids" but not "Coldplay". A "starts" search looks for "cold*" which will match "cold war kids" and "coldplay".

"Any" will match against anything; including Genre and Year.

Genre Search

Matches exactly against the genres listed in spotify. There is no wild card searching.

Booleans

Spotify's boolean support is limited. Its not worth using in anything bar a "match all"/"match any" situation.

There is also no support for sub-queries. Wan't a better search capability? Email your local Spotify representative :).

Inclusive/Exclusive Searches

Spotify allows you to search for terms that must be matched by the track (an inclusive query) or that must not be matched by the track (an exclusive query). For a query to return any results it must have at least 1 inclusive query. The search tool forces this by hiding some options from the first search term.