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Spotify on Wednesdayannounced an updateto its app designed to give user more control over their listening experience and recommendations . The refreshed experience introduces a handful of new feature that will wrap out gradually to Spotify users and Premium reader , including features to help you manage your Queue , your current hearing experience , play list macrocosm , and more .
The changes facilitate to balance out an app that often leans heavily on algorithmic testimonial to suggest and play medicine and instead give user the power to shape what ’s played , when , and how often .
For Premium users , Spotify ’s Queue has been revamp . The raw design supply prosperous memory access to controls like Shuffle , Smart Shuffle , repetition , and Sleep Timer , the ship’s company say . Smart Shuffle and Autoplay can also be throw fully off from Spotify ’s options , if preferred .
When you hear a song you ’re not in the mood for within your playlist , you could tap a review Hide button that ’s now more intuitively located , Spotify claims . The release will hide out the running in the playlist across all twist . However , the company will soon inclose an even stronger variant of the “ hide ” with the launch of a new 30 - day Snooze feature that will temporarily remove a trail from your recommendation .
The company is also introduce features to improve the management of playlists on mobile . At the top of your playlist , you ’ll now obtain Add , Edit , and Sort button that allow you to sum cartroad , change the playlist ’s title or cover up art , and organize the chronological sequence of songs , respectively .
Listeners in Australia , Canada , Ireland , New Zealand , South Africa , the U.K. , and the U.S. will be able to use their Liked songs to create a play list after first filter it by music genre , then tapping the new option to “ plow into a playlist . ”
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Other medicine - curation tool have also been relocated . Now users can tap the Create button at the bottom rightfulness of the mobile app to access code tools to create playlists , collaborate on playlists with friends , and fall in a Blend ( a play list that combines two masses ’s musical tastes by featuring songs they ’ll both enjoy ) .
Premium contributor , meanwhile , can pink the Create button to get at the newer AI Playlist feature and Jam , a real - time listening sitting where multiple people can contribute to a share Queue .
As a final result of the change , Spotify has relocate the Your Library chit to be the third option at the bottom of its nomadic app .
