Spotify

from Spotify AB

What is Spotify?

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing DRM-protected content from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Music can be browsed by artist, album, record label, genre or playlist as well as by direct searches. On desktop clients, a link allows the listener to purchase selected material via partner retailers. Users can set up playlists and share them, or edit them together with other users . For this purpose the playlist link can directly be dragged into an email or an instant messaging window. If the recipient follows the link, the playlist will be downloaded into the Spotify-client of the recipient. Downloaded playlists will then auto-update if the author adds or removes tracks. Users can access applications integrated in the Spotify desktop client, written in HTML5. Third party software writers can offer features related to music listening such as live sharing of playlists, music reviews, lyrics, and concerts. The Spotify software is proprietary and uses digital rights management (DRM) to prevent unauthorized use of content. Users who agree to Spotify’s Terms and Conditions agree to not reverse engineer the application. The contents of each client’s cache is summarized in an index which is sent to the Spotify stream hub upon connecting to the service. This index is then used to inform other clients about additional peers they can connect to for fetching streamed data for individual tracks being played. This is accommodated by each client, upon startup, acting as a server listening for incoming connections from other Spotify users, as well as connecting to other users to exchange cached data as appropriate.

About

 (from Spotify AB)

Spotify works on your computer, your mobile, your tablet, and your home entertainment system. You can even download your favorite music for when you’re offline. Choose the music you love, or let Spotify surprise you. If you know what you want, just search and hit play. Or find new music by browsing the collections of…  

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Overview

• Automatically starts with Windows
• Connects to the Internet

Program details

URL:

spotify.com

Installation folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify

Uninstaller:

“C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\uninstall.exe”

Estimated size:

7.59 MB

Files installed by Spotify

Program executable:

spotify.exe

Name:Spotify
Path:C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\spotify\spotify.exe
MD5:f9c4028bcad309bfaae4b246a425ed08

Additional files:

• SpotifyLauncher.exe

  – Spotify (SpotifyLauncher)

• Uninstall.exe

  – Spotify 0.5.2 (Spotify 0.5.2 Installer)

• DSound.dll (by Equalify / Kenneth Leonardsen)

  – Equalify (Equalify – Free eqalizer for spotify – 2.2.0)

• lame_enc.dll
• Spotify_new.exe

Behaviors exhibited

2 Scheduled Tasks

• spotify.exe is scheduled as a task with the class ‘{F4068BDA-FB0A-4948-8401-C90E3C70F189}’

  (runs on registration)

  .

• SpotifyLauncher.exe is scheduled as a task with the class ‘{FC001231-1820-4C96-AF0C-B34DF9D0EBB1}’

  (runs on registration)

  .

Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)

• spotify.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Spotify.

Startup File (User Run)

• spotify.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named ‘Spotify’ and executes as

  “C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Spotify\spotify.exe” /uri spotifC:autostart

  .

Windows Firewall Allowed Program

• spotify.exe is added as a firewall exception for ‘C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe’.

Network connections

• spotify.exe connects to corinne.ash.spotify.com

  (193.182.8.54 port 80)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to fallon.ash.spotify.com

  (193.182.8.58 port 80)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to 137.99.243.228

  (port 13464)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to 216.139.138.206

  (port 64042)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to ethel.lon.spotify.com

  (78.31.9.2 port 4070)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to anissa.ash.spotify.com

  (193.182.8.12 port 4070)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to lon3-accesspoint-a14.lon3.spotify.com

  (194.132.197.180 port 443)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to greta.lon.spotify.com

  (78.31.8.16 port 4070)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to ppp227-35.static.internode.on.net

  (59.167.227.35 port 19747)

  .

• spotify.exe connects to bracha.ash.spotify.com

  (193.182.8.48 port 80)

  .

Plus 19 more

Resource utilization averages

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spotify.exe

Memory:53.6 MB

21.09 MB average

Total CPU:0.3170608267%

0.031193% average

Kernel CPU:0.25963811%

0.016088% average

User CPU:0.05742272%

0.015104% average

CPU cycles/sec:145,722,176

8,062,084 average

Switches/sec:223

70 average

I/O reads/min:4.74 MB

435.61 KB average

I/O writes/min:385.36 KB

105.02 KB average

How do I remove Spotify?

You can uninstall Spotify from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window’s Control Panel.

1. On the

   Start

   menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen’s bottom-left corner), click

   Control Panel

   , and then, under

   Programs

   , do one of the following:

• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click

  Uninstall a Program

  .

• Windows XP: Click

  Add or Remove Programs

  .

When you find the program

Spotify

, click it, and then do one of the following:

• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click

  Uninstall

  .

• Windows XP: Click the

  Remove

  or

  Change/Remove

  tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Spotify.

OS VERSIONS

Win 7 (SP1) 

64%

Win 7 0%

 

WHEN IT STARTS

Auto-starting? 

Yes

(Found in the run registry)

 

USER ACTIONS

Uninstall it 

9%

Keep it 

91%

Windows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?

Windows 7
68.66%

Windows Vista
17.09%

Windows XP
8.52%

Windows 10
5.72%

Windows Server 2003
0.02%

Which OS releases does it run on?

Windows 7 Home Premium
50.54%

Windows Vista Home Premiu…
13.33%

Windows 7 Professional
8.33%

Microsoft Windows XP
8.20%

Windows 7 Ultimate
7.88%

Windows 10 Home
2.90%

Geography

37.24% of installs come from the United States

Which countries install it?

  United States
37.24%

  United Kingdom
18.00%

  Sweden
16.22%

  Spain
8.19%

  Finland
5.04%

  Norway
4.70%

  France
4.25%

  Netherlands
3.13%

  Belgium
0.42%

  DK
0.33%

  Canada
0.29%

  Germany
0.27%

  Italy
0.21%

  Australia
0.12%

PC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

Hewlett-Packard
26.12%

Dell
24.69%

Acer
21.25%

Toshiba
7.95%

GIGABYTE
6.07%

ASUS
5.84%

Samsung
3.94%

Intel
1.90%

American Megatrends
1.33%

Sony
0.91%

Common models

HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook …
8.46%

HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook …
4.94%

HP G62 Notebook PC
3.81%

Dell Inspiron 1545
3.69%

Acer Aspire 5738
2.98%

Dell Inspiron 530
2.32%

About Spotify AB

Spotify is a music streaming service that offers digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of record labels.

Publisher URL:

www.spotify.com