Spotify.exe
Spotify by Spotify AB (Signed)
Overview
spotify.exe has 16 known versions, the most recent one is 0.9.10.22. spotify.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. It also provides a graphical interface (GUI) for the user to interact with it and contains an icon in the Windows notifictaion system tray (near the clock). By adding a startup entry to the run registry key, the file will be executed when the user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 5.04 MB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Spotify AB by the certification authority COMODO CA Limited. The programs Spotify, Equalify v2.2.1 (Stable) and LAME v3.99.3 (for Windows) have been observed as installing specific variations of spotify.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0050% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 169.12 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 2.95 MB per minute for reads and 626.96 KB per minute for writes.
What is spotify.exe?
Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels. Spotify allows registered users to integrate their account with existing Facebook and Twitter accounts. Once a user integrates their Spotify account with other social media profiles, they are able to access their friends' favorite music and playlists. Users can access applications integrated in the Spotify desktop client, written in HTML5.
About spotify.exe (from Spotify AB)
“Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac,”
 Details
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| File name: | spotify.exe |
| Publisher: | Spotify Ltd |
| Product name: | Spotify |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\spotify\spotify.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spotify AB |
| Authority (CA): | COMODO CA Limited |
| Effective date: | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Spotify.)
LAME is a library that allows some programs to encode MP3 files. LAME is free, but in some countries you may need to pay a license fee in order to legally encode MP3 files.
Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and ...
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of spotify.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Spotify' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe" /uri spotifC:autostart
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Ela\Anwendungsdaten\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
All file variations of spotify.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
23.75% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
22.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.75% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
8.75% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
5.00% |
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| Windows 8 |
5.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
5.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
2.50% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
2.50% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.25% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview with Media Center |
1.25% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium N |
1.25% |
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| Windows Vista Business |
1.25% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.25% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 46.25% of Spotify.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
25.32% |
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| ASUS |
15.19% |
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| Lenovo |
15.19% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
11.39% |
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| Toshiba |
7.59% |
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| Acer |
6.33% |
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| Samsung |
5.06% |
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| Intel |
5.06% |
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| Gateway |
5.06% |
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| MSI |
2.53% |
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| Alienware |
1.27% |
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