Spotify Is Giving Its Home Screen a Makeover

Spotify is revamping its home screen to make it simpler to seek out new content material, including video and audio previews for music, podcasts and audiobooks.

The app’s format can also be shifting away from a grid of album covers, in favor of an infinite scroll akin to a TikTok feed.

“You may see Spotify, I believe, come alive,” Spotify founder Daniel Ek told CBS. “You are gonna see a lot extra interactive content material.”

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The corporate introduced the makeover on Wednesday at its Stream On event, together with new instruments for podcasters and methods for musicians to further interact with their fans.

The Spotify house display screen will now provide a stream of previews of music, reveals, podcasts, audiobooks and different content material that customers can save, share or discover, in addition to new video feeds for discovery within the Search part.

As well as, the Improve device has been rebranded as “Sensible Shuffle” and can reorder user-generated playlists and recommend associated tracks.

“A very powerful factor we, at Spotify, can do for creators is to cut back the gap between their artwork and the individuals who like it — or who would like it as quickly as they found it,” Spotify co-president Gustav Söderström mentioned in a launch.

A few of the new options are already reside on the Spotify app, the corporate mentioned, whereas others will roll out within the coming months.

In February, Spotify beta-launched DJ, an AI-driven music information made accessible to premium customers within the US and Canada.

Spotify additionally introduced on Wednesday that it had handed 500 million active users a month.