Spotify has introduced a major overhaul of its interface for the music streaming app. The service now gives pride of place to a Tiktok-style presentation with vertical scrolling.
For several years, the fashion was to integrate “stories” inspired by Snapchat and Instagram, in any kind of application, even in OneDrive, YouTube or Twitter. If Spotify’s presentation is to be believed, that’s all over. Now fashion is inspired by TikTok.
Do you like scrolling?
At its Stream On conference, Spotify showed off a massive overhaul of its music streaming app. The application’s home page will now highlight all facets of the service: music, podcasts and audiobooks.
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Above all, the interface now offers a TikTok-style vertical scrolling system where you will be able to navigate and discover new content. As on the social network, with each scroll, we go from one audio track to another, from one program to the next, from a musical extract to the next piece.
This is once again for Spotify to promote discovery with the possibility in a few actions to add the content to its library. The firm also wants to encourage new content creators who make themselves known through TikTok to come to its streaming platform.
The other side of the coin is that it will be necessary for artists to work even more on their universes on Spotify. One thinks of creating imagery to accompany the music or properly integrating the lyrics of a song.
The deployment of this new version begins now everywhere in the world.
Library and playlists are still there
Fortunately for platform users who are not fans of vertical scrolling, the interface still offers access to the classic library. The one that allows you to play music as you wish through the playlists that you can create.
For the service’s first-time fans, Spotify gave no news of Spotify HiFi originally expected in 2021. The service did, however, announce other innovations around content discovery, notably with its DJ by AI or Smart Shuffle, a function to add new songs automatically to an existing playlist.
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