Spotify on Wednesday upgraded its AI DJ feature — available to Premium subscribers — with a handful of new features, including the ability to send in your requests by typing, not just using voice commands. The feature works with both English and Spanish requests, as Spotify’s Spanish-language DJ, called DJ Livi, now accepts music requests. The AI DJ feature was …
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Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify, onstage in Los Angeles in November 2024. Ek announced that he would exit his role as Spotify’s CEO on January 1, 2026. Presley Ann/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Presley Ann/Getty Images Daniel Ek, who co-founded Spotify and has been the most visible face of the company as it has grown into the world’s biggest …
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Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out improvements to its free music tier, including the new ability to listen to any song you want, and this follows the company granting Premium users access to lossless streams. The company outlined three new ways ad-supported users can now access the specific song they want to listen to without shuffling: Pick & Play to …
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Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that it’s also allowing non-paying listeners to search, play, and share any song they want, without having to upgrade to a Premium subscription. The update is being rolled out globally and …
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I’d heard about Spotify‘s new Lossless feature but wasn’t sure what it actually did. After years of users begging for higher quality audio, Spotify has finally delivered one of its most requested features. The upgrade makes a genuinely noticeable difference to music quality, with songs revealing details that weren’t audible before through standard streaming. Lossless has been one of the …
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Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The …
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If you’re one of Anthrax‘s 1.1 million monthly listeners over on Spotify, you may have gotten a notification or maybe you noticed on their artist page that a new album suddenly dropped out of nowhere. No fan fare. No hype machine. Just A.I. generated cover art and seven new tracks behind a weird as fuck title — Crazy Sheep. As …
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Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta for “eligible Premium users,” the Mix feature provides an option to automatically blend transitions between tracks, or manually adjust aspects like volume, EQ, and effect curves while looking at waveform and beat data to create unique transitions. …
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Spotify is introducing a new feature that allows subscribers to create more professional, personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transitions feature that lets you either automatically add transitions between a playlist’s tracks or customize your own using preset options like fade, rise, or blend, along with other options. To use the feature, open any playlist and select …
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