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Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalised search and endless artist radio

30/10/2018

Spotify has announced three new features for its Spotify Premium apps which the streamer has started to roll out globally. The new features are: Streamlined navigation Spotify have refined the navigation to help people quickly find what they’re looking for. Subscribers can get great recommendations on Home, discover something new with Search, and access favourite songs, artists, playlists, and podcasts in Your Library. Personalised Search The redesigned Search page is the new one-stop destination for artists, […]

Spotify app for Wear OS smartwatches

25/10/2018

Spotify is rolling out a new app for smartwatches on Wear OS by Google leaving you free to run, dance, shop, socialize and control your music at the same time. The streamer has partnered with Fossil Group to bring the Spotify experience in a standalone app for Wear OS by Google smartwatches to even more users. Starting in November, Spotify will be auto-installed on all Fossil Gen 4 Smartwatches and Michael Kors Access Runway Smartwatches. […]

Spotify introduces Spotify for Podcasters

18/10/2018

Spotify has introduced a new beta service, Spotify for Podcasters enabling podcasters to upload their shows and retrieve daily statistics. In a blog post, Spotify has said that they ‘want more people to have access to the tools they need to become great storytellers and have their voices heard, which is why we’re proud to introduce the beta of Spotify for Podcasters. Through this new platform that we’re testing, podcast creators who are hosting their […]

Spotify celebrates a Decade of Discovery

15/10/2018

Spotify launched ten years ago in October 2008 and is celebrating a Decade of Discovery with a Decade of Discovery playlist which features the most-streamed songs over the past 10 years, including favourites like Avicii’s Wake Me Up, Hozier’s Take Me To Church, Kendrick Lamar’s HUMBLE, Rihanna’s Work, Sia’s Chandelier, Major Lazer’s Lean On, the star-studded Despacito Remix, and more. Over the past ten years Spotify has introduced discovery features such as the Discover Weekly […]

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Ministry of Sound playlists come to Apple Music

13/10/2018

Apple Music has signed an exclusive deal with the Ministry of Sound to stream its popular dance playlists such as Dance Nation and Rave Nation. As a consequence of the deal these playlists, some of which have hundreds of thousands of followers, will be removed from Spotify and other non-Apple services over the course of the next few days. This is likely to disappoint a considerable number of Spotify subscribers as the Dance Nation playlist […]

Upload your music in Spotify for Artists beta

09/10/2018

Spotify has announced a new beta feature that enables independent artists to upload their music to Spotify – directly from Spotify for Artists. One of the top requested features since Spotify for Artists was launched is the ability to upload music directly onto Spotify. The company has been testing an upload tool within Spotify for Artists and is now inviting more artists to participate in a public beta. Spotify has worked with a handful of […]

Spotify raises download limit

16/09/2018

Spotify raises its download limit for offline listening from 3,333 songs on three devices to 10,000 songs on up to five devices. With a potential to store up to 50,000 songs this would give you over 100 solid days of offline listening. It would have to be a hellava wilderness trip to be out of internet access for longer than that and run out of music! How to download songs in Spotify for a desktop […]