Spotify, the jukebox-in-the-cloud that is still not accessible in the US has been updated to work with iOS4. This adds multiform brand-new facilities, but a game-changer is which it can right away run in a credentials, replacing the iPod app roughly utterly.

Spotify is a free, ad-supported or paid application for Mac, PC, iOS, Symbian as well as Android that lets you play any song in a catalog as if it were iTunes. Unlike Pandora, a US-only song streaming service, you can actually choose an artist and lane, as well as classify song into playlists, even saving them for offline listening.

Now, with iOS4’s multitasking, you can continue to attend to Spotify in the background as you send mail, review Instapaper or do flattering much anything else. Just as programmed, the song controls in a app-switching wharf control Spotify instead of a iPod app, the inline remote upon a headphones does a same, as do the music controls upon a iPhone’s lock-screen. If your iPhone or iPad is in a concept wharf, regulating a Apple remote will additionally let you carryout Spotify. In reduced, it takes over all iPhone song functions whilst using.

Further, if you play the lane from Spotify which is already upon your iPhone, it will be pulled from a internal copy rather than over the network (currently, this causes the app to postponement if running in a credentials.

There have been more new features in this recover. Just like the ultimate desktop customer, Spotify mobile lets you send music to your Spotify as well as Facebook friends, as good as browsing a “top lists”, charts formed upon brand-new as well as renowned marks.

The usually thing which keeps Spotify utterly replacing your iPod app is podcasts, which can be accessed though cannot be updated automatically. The usability is also the small clunky. Searching a gazillion songs in Spotify’s catalogue is quick as well as easy, though browsing your own saved playlists is an annoyingly linear event, with much scrolling as well as clicking to find what you wish.

Spotify is giveaway, though to make use of it upon your iPhone or iPod Touch you have to pay a reward €10-per-month subscription. I do. I figure the worth it to have 8 million lane upon my iPad as well as iPod Touch.

Bonus tip: Did you know which in iOS4, song keeps playing even while you sync to iTunes?

iPhone app updated – background listening arrives! [Spotify]