Spotify’s Web app is great, but you may prefer to use the desktop client. The problem is that the links default to the Web app. Here is a quick tip to make what you want.

First, install Switcheroo. It’s a Chrome extension (Firefox users, go here) that allows you to setup custom redirect rules for any http request, using a string replacement. Then, add a rule to replace http://open.spotify.com/ with spotify://.

That’s it! Now, all open.spotify.com/something links will open in the desktop client instead of the Web one.

Note: I found the original tip here, but it was not working because the author suggested to replace with spotify instead of spotify://.