Spotify's new design looks like TikTok
Spotify announced a redesign of its app recently with a new Home feed and automation features, and it may look familiar to some users.
Spotify's new design
The company unveiled the new design on Wednesday, calling it its most significant evolution yet. The company says that it was built to facilitate more meaningful interactions between fans and artists and deeper content discovery.
"The world today pulls us in a million different directions," said Co-President and Chief Product & Technology Officer Gustav Soderstrom. "So the most important thing we, at Spotify, can do for creators is to reduce the distance between their art and the people who love it...or who would love it as soon as they discovered it."
Styled similar to TikTok, and not that much different from Apple Music Connect, the new Home feed lets users swipe through video and audio previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks and includes new video feeds for discovery in the Search section. Spotify also highlighted DJ, Smart Shuffle, and Autoplay for Podcasts.
DJ is a new personalized AI guide recently launched in beta for Premium users in the US and Canada. It learns from users' musical tastes to choose what to play for them.
Next, Smart Shuffle is a new experience to keep listening sessions "fresh" with personalized recommendations to match the sound of a user-created playlist. It can shuffle tracks and add new, tailored suggestions.
Finally, Spotify has added Autoplay for podcasts that can automatically play episodes from other podcasts similar to the previous one. The app is available to download for free from the App Store and requires iOS and iPadOS 14.0 or later, and tvOS 13.0 or later.
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Spotify's new design
The company unveiled the new design on Wednesday, calling it its most significant evolution yet. The company says that it was built to facilitate more meaningful interactions between fans and artists and deeper content discovery.
"The world today pulls us in a million different directions," said Co-President and Chief Product & Technology Officer Gustav Soderstrom. "So the most important thing we, at Spotify, can do for creators is to reduce the distance between their art and the people who love it...or who would love it as soon as they discovered it."
Styled similar to TikTok, and not that much different from Apple Music Connect, the new Home feed lets users swipe through video and audio previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks and includes new video feeds for discovery in the Search section. Spotify also highlighted DJ, Smart Shuffle, and Autoplay for Podcasts.
DJ is a new personalized AI guide recently launched in beta for Premium users in the US and Canada. It learns from users' musical tastes to choose what to play for them.
Next, Smart Shuffle is a new experience to keep listening sessions "fresh" with personalized recommendations to match the sound of a user-created playlist. It can shuffle tracks and add new, tailored suggestions.
Finally, Spotify has added Autoplay for podcasts that can automatically play episodes from other podcasts similar to the previous one. The app is available to download for free from the App Store and requires iOS and iPadOS 14.0 or later, and tvOS 13.0 or later.
Read on AppleInsider
Comments
Oh, wait. No. Because Spotify's audience is mainly kids who don't care about sound quality. Just want the jams in a TikToky wrapper.
Apple Music wins again.
Personally, I’m glad to have streaming options to choose from because it would suck if they were all the same. And while this update does sound pretty awful, I’ll probably wait until it’s actually out before I pass judgement.
When I was in high school I was fortunate enough to go on a musical tour of the state with ~130 other young musicians. Some of the orchestral numbers were from "West Side Story" and with about 70 instruments the sound was far and above the official recording from the movie soundtrack (which I think was a 40-piece orchestra). Our own recording of the end-of-tour concert is OK (it was on audio cassette and I converted it to digital at some point) but neither recording sounds as good as my memory of the live performances. Those were the days!