Spotify just unveiled a new tool that lets you Bridget Jones-ify your playlists with notes explaining your song choices — and I’m ready to spill
 Spotify just unveiled a new tool that lets you Bridget Jones-ify your playlists with notes explaining your song choices — and I’m ready to spill

Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let you add context and background to the songs you love the most.

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Four years after its untimely demise, Spotify Car Thing is back, for free, and with absolutely no help from the streaming giant itself

Spotify Car Thing was discontinued in 2022 and killed off in 2024, but fans have brought it back (in sort).

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‘Fitness is a natural extension of how people already use Spotify today’: That’s what the platform’s Senior Director of Product, Austin Lamon, believes — and he’s not done investing in the fitness hub’s development just yet
 ‘Fitness is a natural extension of how people already use Spotify today’: That’s what the platform’s Senior Director of Product, Austin Lamon, believes — and he’s not done investing in the fitness hub’s development just yet

Spotify’s Senior Director of Product tells us all about the platform’s ‘natural extension’ into the fitness world.

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Spotify is introducing AI Persona tags to differentiate real artists from fake ones, vowing to become ‘the most transparent and trustworthy place to listen to music’ — but the tool isn’t targeting the music itself
 Spotify is introducing AI Persona tags to differentiate real artists from fake ones, vowing to become ‘the most transparent and trustworthy place to listen to music’ — but the tool isn’t targeting the music itself

Spotify’s new AI Persona tags distinguish AI-generated artists from real humans, and the platform is excluding these artists from your recommendations.

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Spotify quietly added a button to skip ads in podcasts, except for its own promotional content — and it’s sparked widespread concern for the future of podcasting

Spotify quietly added a new way for you to skip through ads in podcast episodes, but some fear it’s the beginning of the end for creators.

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Spotify helps me keep track of my favorite songs from each year — but this one upgrade would make it so much easier for grouping my favorite albums
 Spotify helps me keep track of my favorite songs from each year — but this one upgrade would make it so much easier for grouping my favorite albums

Spotify still doesn’t let you add albums to folders, so I’ve been using Musicboard to keep track of my favorite releases instead.

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‘Playing around with your favourite artist’s song is an ultimate expression of fandom’: Spotify is taking another step into participatory music tools with its upcoming AI remix feature — but it signals red flags for industry professionals
 ‘Playing around with your favourite artist’s song is an ultimate expression of fandom’: Spotify is taking another step into participatory music tools with its upcoming AI remix feature — but it signals red flags for industry professionals

Spotify’s agreement with Merlin brings it one step closer to launching its AI-powered remix tool, but where do industry professionals stand on it?

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‘Great music is made by people’ — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create
 ‘Great music is made by people’ — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create

The AI music revolution has hit an awkward reality — even Suno is starting to put the brakes on.

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‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming
 ‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming

Mauhan M. Zonoozy was Head of Innovation at Spotify, and now he’s taking on the world of music streaming with his own interactive platforms.

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Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media
 Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media

Spine Music founder Ricardo Amorim is putting his love for albums and CD collecting into a new digital music display.

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