The color and size of the button can be customized by messing with the code, and Spotify says more options will eventually be added to the configurator. Other sites you can check it out on include, FanRx, Popdust, The Independent, Time Out Group (New York City, Paris, London), NME, Mashable, FanBridge, Wonderwall, The Fader, Chegg, ELLE, , Entertainment Weekly,, and. Music can even go viral as other publishers can grab a widget’s embed code by hovering over a Play Button. Then they copy the embed code for a compact button or one that shows album artwork, and paste that into their website’s code. To configure the Play Button, publishers can right-click any song, album, or playlist in Spotify, copy its special Spotify URI, and paste it into. Spotify’s Play Button gives them a quick, stable, reliable, high-quality, and legal way to soundtrack their site and make sure artists get paid for their work.

Normally they’d have to embed a YouTube video with often crappy audio quality, host a questionably legal MP3, hotlink to another blog’s file that could get taken down, or dig around on sites like SoundCloud for a legal streaming version. The Spotify Play Button solves a big problem for publishers looking to stream music from their websites.

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