Subj : Spotify will soon give you a mini version of Wrapped all year rou
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Jun 12 2024 13:00:05

Spotify will soon give you a mini version of Wrapped all year round but does 
it justify the price hikes?

Date:
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:58:55 +0000

Description:
Spotify is bringing more personalization to all users, and could offer the 
ability to chat within Spotify Premium Jam sessions.

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Are you chomping at the bit for your Spotify Wrapped to pop up, despite the 
end of 2024 being half a year away? Well you can quit it, because Spotify is 
set to bring a form of Wrapped all year round. 

The music streaming service touted its new My Spotify feature for the Spotify 
apps homepage, which aims to serve up personalized banners and messages 
revealing a users listening habits; effectively it could be a bit like a 
real-time Wrapped. 

Spotify has now explained that My Spotify will combine features like its AI 
DJ , Daylist , Blend playlist and the Made For You playlist into a one-stop 
shop full of personalised playlists, podcasts, features, and recommendations 
for each and every listener. 

How good My Spotify will be at providing users with new and fresh music to 
listen to based on their tastes has yet to be seen, but its a new level of 
customization being added to Spotify. 

Theres a caveat in that My Spotify has a limited rollout for now. But it will 
at least be available to all users rather than those with the Spotify Premium 
subscription  as an aside thats been ramped up in price by $1 / 1 a month 
with Spotify offering nothing extra; such are the times we live in. Spotify 
could soon let you chat to friends during a group listening sessions 

Speaking of Spotify Premium, the Jam feature looks set to provide a chat 
function within it. Thats going by some code-diving by Android Authority , 
who found a code string referring to campfire chats from which it posited 
that theres a new chat function in the works. 

Currently the Jam option in Spotify Premium lets a group of people listen to 
the same playlist together, as well as add songs to that list. Yet the 
feature is limited in that people cant chat about the playlist within Spotify 
 likely theyd need to opt for an alternative messaging service in order to 
discuss if in-nearly-everything-these-days Dua Lipa belongs on with in the 
big tunes to head-bang to playlist. 

Now the discovered code in the Android Spotify app isn't an indication that 
the chat feature is in any way official, but it would be a sign that Spotify 
is seemingly testing it. And having a chat function to go alongside the Jam 
mode does make sense. 

On that note, one thing that perhaps doesn't make sense is the $5 add-on for 
Spotify Premium that could bring in a HiFi feature to the service . The 
potential add-on is in addition to (or separate from, if you prefer) the 
recent June price hikes for the streaming service . 

While this upgrade will likely introduce better quality audio to the mix, 
other services already provide hi-res and lossless tiers for no additional 
fee. It certainly raises the question of whether Spotify is worth it at a 
time when Apple Music is not increasing in price, while still offering more 
in terms of resolution You might also like Spotify shifts into reverse and 
starts offering refunds for Car Thing Spotify is moving lyrics behind a 
paywall in a likely bid to lure subscribers to its rumored Hi-Fi tier 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/audio/spotify-will-soon-give-you-a-mini-version-of-w
rapped-all-year-round-but-does-it-justify-the-price-hikes


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