Spotify Enhance, now known as Smart Shuffle, is a feature for Premium users that adds recommended songs to playlists based on the user's taste, with the option to permanently include these songs. Smart Shuffle can be enabled on both mobile and desktop versions of Spotify by tapping or clickin...
Unlimited skippingand no forced shuffling on the mobile app. The free version of Spotify shuffles all playlists and even adds single tracks to shuffled playlists, while only giving you six skips per hour. This only happens on the mobile apps, but it’s frustrating regardless. With Spotify Prem...
You can also download a desktop version for your PC or listen using the browser player. If you have a smart speaker like a Google Home or Amazon Echo, you can connect your Spotify account to listen out loud. There you have it, everything you need to know to answer the question ‘what...
Spotify Connect is a way of playing Spotify through your wireless speaker, soundbar, AV receiver, voice-controlled smart speaker, or any other compatible device, over wi-fi. It means you can play your favourite tunes anywhere in the house and crucially, without the need for any convoluted Blu...
For example, "Hey Spotify, play my favorites," or "Hey Spotify, shuffle today's top hits." Spotify has ensured that Car Thing will be able to hear what you're saying, even when your volume is high or your windows down, by placing four microphones along the top of the device. ...
This is where Smart Links come in. A free tool on PUSH.fm, Smart Links gather all of the places where your music lives into one handy, beautiful, fully customizable landing page. You can add as many different destinations into one link as you like, switch the background and change the ...
Using Amazon Music without a Prime account is possible, though it comes with several constraints. A free Amazon Music plan includes frequent advertisements that can interrupt your listening experience. When playing albums or playlists, the only option available is shuffle mode, which plays the tracks...
It doesn’t come without quirks, though. While you do get access to that expanded library (the same 100 million songs as the Unlimited tier, actually), playback of albums, artists, and playlists is still limited to shuffle mode, with the exception of the “All-Access Playlists,” which ...
Every music streaming platform competes with Spotify’s fiendishly smart music recommendation system, and YouTube Music is no different. Whether you’re a freemium or Premium user, when you first sign up to YouTube Music you’ll be asked to pick a selection of artists you like. This will ...
As the "opposite of Apple" in the consumer space, Microsoft can only shuffle around and recommend its one PC hit as a solution for new markets, but can't quite manage to actually pull this off. Certainly not as successfully as Apple, despite having blown so much money so many times in...