Spotify has landed on the Boxee Box, providing subcribers to the streaming music service a way to hear to tracks, and access playlists as well as artist information, from their set-top box. The latest in a amount of implementations of Spotify in standalone home entertainment systems, the Boxee app also gives access to the Exactly what s New section, flagging up the latest content to arrive in the catalog.

What we can’t do is create to manage Spotify playlists, something Boxee reckons is best left to computers as well as tablets. You ll need a Premium Spotify account in order to use the Boxee Box integration, priced at $9.99 to €9.99 per month, and of course a Boxee Box to access it on. They’re currently running at around $180 online.

Spotify previously announced a deal with Western Digital to put the music service on the WD TV Live range, joining an existing line-up of hardware from partners including Sonos as well as Onkyo. More details on Spotify here.


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