Hello friends:) Spotify, the second most popular online music service after Apple’s iTunes, has introduced, this Wednesday, a new widget called the ‘Spotify Play Button’. This application lets you to add your favourite tunes, albums and playlists to your blogs, websites or other social networks. You can choose from a catalogue of more than 16 million high quality tracks. And this is free of charge and totally legal!!

The ‘Spotify Play Button’ is very easy to configure and customise. Simply sign up for Spotify’s free or the monthly premium service (this offers ad-free, unlimited listening). Install the play button, click on the music you want from Spotify’s vast collections and embed them to your web pages. Your visitors will then be able to enjoy the selected songs and playlists just hitting play without leaving the blog or site. However, unlike YouTube videos, the visitors would first need to sign-in to their Spotify account to listen to the music.

Previously, Spotify allowed this kind of music sharing only within Facebook. Now the company says it has teamed up with a few more specific services, including Mashable, New Music Express, Time Out, Virgin Media, the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, to make it easier than ever to play all the world’s music seamless throughout the web.

The blog-hosting site Tumblr has already incorporated the ‘Spotify Play Button’ directly into its blogging platform enabling its users to add personalized soundtracks to their words in a flash.Spotify has an admin page in WordPress too!

Surely, this integration of Spotify music with blogs, websites and more would lead to a more social web music experience. I think the introduction of the Play Button to our pages would make them more interactive and fun. Do you also think so? Your thoughts will be much appreciated. Thanks.