Spotify, the world’s most popular music platform, introduced many features that will come to the application with the Stream On event held in Los Angeles, USA today. The company described the incoming innovations as the biggest changes made in practice to date.
Spotify aims to improve the experience of users and content producers on the platform by offering a dynamic interface with features that almost completely change its application. These innovations, which will offer a more personalized and interaction-oriented Spotify, include many features from a TikTok-like stream to smart shuffle in playlists. Let’s take a look at the prominent ones.
Adding TikTok-like streams to the app
Spotify has announced that TikTok-like streams will be added to its app. It will be possible to access these three different streams, which are divided into “Music”, “Podcasts and Programs” and “Audiobook”, from the top of the screen in the ‘Home’ tab. After that, you’ll be able to access a TikTok-like stream with videos that play automatically, depending on the type of content you choose.
For example, when you enter the “Music” stream, you will be able to see audio and video previews by scrolling down. These will be short videos that appear in songs and are called Canvas. In addition, it is possible to explore things such as playlists and albums in the music tab. The previews shown here can be watched just like Instagram’s “Stories” feature.
When you see something you like, you will be able to perform many functions such as recording, listening and sharing these contents. While navigating these streams, you will be able to enter the content you want and explore it in detail. In addition, the platform will allow you to silently scroll through these streams while listening to songs.
Let’s talk briefly about podcast and audiobook streaming. Just like music, the podcast section will give you personalized recommendations of shows that are new or familiar to you. You’ll be able to discover podcasts you might love, along with auto-generated previews. Likewise, in the audiobook section, suitable ones among the hundreds of thousands of books available on Spotify will be recommended to users. Let’s say that audiobooks are not yet available in our country.
In addition to these, the artificial intelligence-supported DJ recently introduced in the “Music” stream will be added. The DJ feature, which helps you find suitable content for you, will only be released for users in the USA and Canada for now. You can find the details of this feature in our content below.
Smart shuffle feature
Spotify also announced that it has improved the feature called “Enrich”, which it introduced in the past years. It has been stated that this feature is now called “Smart Shuffle”. We can say that the new feature, which can also be used in popular songs, is a much more advanced version of the “Enrich” button.
Now, Premium users will be able to add new songs that are suitable for the spirit of the playlists and Spotify recommends to their lists, through this feature that will come to the shuffle button. When they click the button again, they will be able to remove the later songs and restore them to their original state.
Autoplay on podcasts
Spotify also brought a feature that podcast-loving users will enjoy. Accordingly, autoplay can now be used in podcasts in the application. With this feature, Spotify will allow you to automatically play a relevant section suitable for the content you are listening to, just like music. It will also be possible to turn this feature off. In this way, when the episodes are over, you will be able to enjoy the silence.
Artists will be able to add stories to Spotify similar to other social media platforms
Spotify also brings a feature similar to the ‘Story’ feature that we see on other platforms. Dubbed ‘Spotify Clips’, this new feature allows artists to add 30-second videos to their profiles. In this way, users can see their posts while listening to their favorite singers.
Counters that show when your favorite artists will release songs are coming to the application
Finally, the company announced that it will also bring a counter page. This feature, which will be added to the profiles of artists, will show users when a new song will be released through a countdown.
Spotify stated that these features have started to be offered to users as of today. We can say that most of the new features will come to everyone over time. Some of these features, such as “Smart Shuffle”, will only come to Premium subscribers, while others will be available for everyone.
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