Portable spotify?

it would be nice if you could put your favorite song on a portable device like ipod or something. maybe like a stream to iphone! :D
i use simplify media now to stream my music library to other computers and iphone. but it would been cooler with spotify :D

Would be great to be able to use Spotify on school, at work and at parties:)
Ability to use it at parties could be a good source of WOM;)

Great idea - I'd love to see this one as well!

Hey guys - I did a pre and post systemscan when installing Spotify. Seems there's no needed registry settings or system files that are required. Running Spotify.exe from your USB stick works like a charm, I just tested it. Crazy! =D

because of the way Spotify caches files, i think this is unlikely to happen.

I'd love to see this happen. Please.

Currently Spotify stores a cache storage in your Local Settings. This way it won't have to download the same song twice from their servers. It should be possible to modify the program so it could work as a portable, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Use THINSTALL (currently THINAPP) from VMware
download thinstall from anywhere, install it, and run it on a "clean machine" and by that I mean one that havent had SPOTIFY installed before, or one that has been cleaned properly (spotify uninstalled, and preference/cache folders deleted) then simply make a BEFOREimage, install spotify, logon, close spotify, and make a AFTERimage... Then BUILD the standalone EXE of thinstall... Works like a charm! And if you have a folder NEXT TO the Standalone.Exe called thinstall, then you can point the CACHE files into that thinstall folder.... (inside preferences of spotify, just write THINSTALL where ever it says something else right now, and that will make the thinstall folder its default fodler for cache.. just write THINSTALL and nothing more... do not write C:\thinstall or D:\thinstall... just THINSTALL instead of the C:\docs-sets\user\appdata\ that is the default... And BUILD the standalone exe... See videos on youtube on how to thinstall any application... I might make a guide on this some day... but for now, please try with that info I provided above.... http://alexdata.com/LINKED/SpotifyThi...

Can't you just add the executable file, then change, in Prefereces, where the cache should save? This would make it portable, since there is no content saved to the computer, right?

it's a great idea spotify portable should be better. You can do a bat file that copy the cache and the settings to the USB when you close spotify and copy they again to application data folder when you open it in another computer.....
Sorry my english isn't god enough XD

I wonder myself a few things still:

Does the company approve of this? I think this would be approved as it'd make it so much easier to not have to install, especially for people with little hard drive space like myself.

Secondly,

To the people who actually HAVE made the application portable, is there a download link available? Preferably not a torrent, please. I really want to try this out. ;)

Thirdly,

Wouldn't the cache occupy a lot of disk space? I mean, If ALL memory created/deleted is packaged into a single .EXE, wouldn't it just bloat over if you listened to a few hours of music?

I'm not so IT-smart on how Thinstall/Thinapp and Wine and all of those other programs actually work, but wouldn't the third question I have be quite a flaw for low-capacity memory sticks? Unless, you'd take the "Use "x" amount of disk space" option, it'd be sort of difficult.

Okey...
To everyone...

I've thinstalled the SPOTIFY.EXE (version as of 26.may.2009)
That means, if you go ahead and download it from my page
put an empty folder next to the "SpotifyTHIN.exe" called THINSTALL
then you can run spotify from ANY usb or drive...
This is because all thinstalled applications looks for a folder named THINSTALL in the folder you run the Thinstalled app from... and if it find that it uses the informaion inside that folder... Thus, the cache will automatically go here, as the thinstalled application pretends to be a full system and believes the THINSTALL folder to be the ROOT (C:)...

So, all you have to do is to download the "SpotifyTHIN.exe"
and make a folder called THINSTALL next to it...
Then start the "SpotifyTHIN.exe" and log in using your own user/pass
and if you move the "SpotifyTHIN.exe" then also remember to move the THINSTALL folder next to it...

PS: If you delete the THINSTALL folder, then all your settings and your cache will be gone... Only your online playlists will be there when you log back in... So... if you mess up some settings... Just simply delete the THINSTALL folder and make a NEW empty one... named THINSTALL...

PS: DO NOT MOVE THE CACHE FOLDER!! LEAVE THAT SETTING AS DEFAULT... or else the THINSTALLED program wont be fully portable!!!

Download link: (might be removed at any time)
http://www.alexdata.com/spotify-thin/...
http://www.alexdata.com/spotify-thin/...

(msi best if you want to "install" the program on you PC, not on USB)
(msi gives you a shortcut, and uninstall option in controlpanel)

ENJOY.... !!!

Isn't there anyone that can make a Portableapp for Portable Spotify? I looked at the official webiste and found nothing, so maybe someone here can make something to the likes of my question. It'd be better for people who use Portableapps USB Drives, as long as it's allowed by the EULA.

What if you read the whole thread...

Just downoad the exe and you are all set..... http://www.spotify.com/download/spoti...
no need for anything else ...it works like a charm

In theory there is no reason why Spotify couldn't be made truly portable "as designed". The gotchas that stop it so being at the moment are the cache files held in the C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Spotify\Storage\ folder and the user files held in the C::\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Spotify\ folder.

The Preferences of Spotify enable you to locate the cache files wherever you like but there is no option to specify the location of the user files. Windows enables you to identify the location with the current application path by using the .\ locator rather than the driveletter:\ locator. If Spotify was enhanced to accept these parameters then it could be made truly portable asis.

What we need is to lobby for the Spotify developers to provide these enhancements so that we aren't forced to use "Set up Environment before" and "Clean up Environment after" cludges.

I just used package factory for u3 and it worked fine. Failing that, just get the .exe file directly from the link aimdeey gave.

I still think that the only option is to get the Spotify developers to enhance the Spotify agent to enable the User files to be relocated to somewhere chosen by the user, just like you can with the Cache files, I have emailed Spotify with that suggestion. If we all do the same we may get a result. Email - support@spotify.com

Yip

Looks like posting here doesn't have much influence with the Spotify developers. I've just downloaded and installed the latest version of the Spotify agent and there is still no sign of anything having been done to enable user relocation of the User files, the one thing that has to be done to make Spotify portable.