Firefox for the iPhone?

That’s enough Spotify news for now. Back to reviews, car rentals and gaming! Let’s take a look at some interesting iPhone info here.

A few days ago, the idea of Firefox coming to the iPhone saw a glimpse of hope from Mozilla and mobile broadband fans everywhere, as Om Malik explains here:

Earlier today when I interviewed Mozilla CEO John Lilly onstage at the Play conference, an annual confab organized by the students of the Haas School of Business at the University of Berkeley, he hinted that the company was going to launch a brand new application for the iPhone, though he declined to reveal any details. “Mozilla will release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks,” Lilly said. “It’ll surprise people.”

Could we finally be seeing a replacement for Safari? Or is Om Malik correct in thinking it could be Weave:

Later, I sat around gabbing with Lilly and Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s VP of Mobile, talking about Weave and the Awesome Bar, which is a way to get access to all your browsing history and bookmarks by just typing them in the URL bar on your browser. And while we were talking about Weave, I asked them if it was going to be part of this new, mysterious iPhone app. Lilly and Sullivan smiled and remained silent. Interestingly, they didn’t correct me.

Sounds interesting, but would Weave sync with Safari? I have no idea. It would be awesome to be able to sync the iPhone browser to Firefox though. We’ll have to sit tight for now.

SpotifiTunes – All Your iTunes Tracks on Spotify

To take a break from reviews, travel info for things like car rental and games, I thought it might be time to have a quick post about Spotify! The latest news hasn’t been too exciting; allowing us to buy tracks, a deal with 3 and lots of new songs. But what about those people who are new to Spotify?

You’ve just found Spotify, or maybe only heard about it. You’ll ‘if’ and ‘but’ for a few minutes about iTunes, until you realise it might be time to move on over to Spotify.

One of your ponderings might very well have been a good counterpoint to moving over though.

If you’re into music and are like me, you might have spent an inhuman amount of money and time on and with iTunes. Now it’s time to re-make your whole library on Spotify. Of course, this means that you’ll not only have to find the name of every song in your iTunes’ library, but you also have to type them all into Spotify, find them and then add them to playlists.

This is where SpotifiTunes comes in. Nope, it isn’t what would happen if iTunes and Spotify got busy with each other, it’s a much easier way to move from iTunes to Spotify. This involves uploading a file that contains the names of all your songs (automatically made by iTunes) and getting a page with links to all the search terms you’ll need. Much less typing, much more music.

The process is simple, and mostly painless:

1. Find your iTunes’ Music Library XML file, it can usually be found here:
   • Windows: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml
   • Mac: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
2. Upload the XML file at: http://spotifitunes.com/
3. The site will then return a list of all your songs, artists and albums with helpful links to a Spotify search of their names. For example: http://spotifitunes.com/marks
4. Click the links to find all of  your artists and songs.

You can also sign up to the site to access these extra features:

• Edit your library’s permalink
• Make your library private
• Delete your library
• Claim a library that you have already uploaded
• Adding/deleting artists from your library (coming soon)
• Editing artist links from Spotify searches to real links to the artist (coming soon)

SpotifiTunes playlist. Click for bigger

If you prefer using the mobile broadband version of Spotify, I’ve just had a look and you’re unable to choose a file to upload in Safari. The URL to open Spotify also doesn’t work. You can, however, see your SpotifiTunes’ playlists.