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Android Authority
16 hours ago
- Android Authority
Spotify may finally let you import music without jumping through hoops (APK teardown)
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is working on a feature to import your music. Currently, the service offers no way to import music from other services. We also discovered a URL for the feature. Hopping from one music service to another can be a pain for multiple reasons. However, losing the playlists you spent all of that time creating may be the biggest pain of all. If you want to switch to Spotify, this will be the position you'll find yourself in since it doesn't offer an import tool. But that could change in the future. Authority Insights story on Android Authority. Discover You're reading anstory on Android Authority. Discover Authority Insights for more exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage you won't find anywhere else. An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release. Currently, if you want to import your music over to Spotify, the only way to do it is through a third-party service. And more often than not, those third parties will charge you for using their service. So if you don't want to waste any money, you'll just have to spend time rebuilding those playlists. However, we noticed strings of code in the Spotify app (version 9.0.56.459) referencing a feature that would allow you to import music. According to these strings, the feature would appear in the 'Your Library' tab. Additionally, we found a URL related to the feature hiding in the code. Unsurprisingly, the URL isn't live yet. Code Copy Text Go online to import your music Import your music We're unclear of exactly how this would work, all of what it would let you import, and where, but we can speculate. While there's no direct mention of playlists, we imagine it would include importing playlists as that would be the main use case for a tool like this. While Spotify doesn't currently have an import feature, it does have the ability to detect and show local music files. But we don't believe that feature and this feature are interconnected in any way. Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at Email our staff at news@ . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
Android Authority
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Android Authority
Spotify is trying out a new way to help you find fresh music
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is testing sub-genre and 'More Discovery' chips within genre-based playlists. Selecting a chip revamps the entire playlist with fresh tracks, rather than filtering existing ones. For now, this feature appears limited to some users only, suggesting a controlled experiment or limited rollout. Many of us have a love-hate relationship with Spotify. On the one hand, I absolutely love the Spotify Jam feature for social listening, and I use it practically every week to schedule music sessions with my partner and friends. On the other hand, Spotify's discovery mechanisms have felt off to me over the years, regurgitating the same few popular songs. The company is clearly listening to the discovery issue, as users are now seeing sub-genre chips to help them discover new music. Reddit user kwabb spotted genre-related chips in their Spotify-generated R&B Mix playlist. Such playlists are already tailored around a user's preference but may not align well with the user's active mood and preference, which can be a mismatch. Seemingly to counter this, the company has introduced chips such as 'More Discovery' and sub-genre chips like 'Alternative R&B,' 'Neo Soul,' and 'Pop R&B.' Presumably and logically, the sub-genre chips would be different according to the playlist. The user says that selecting any of these chips updates the whole playlist with new content rather than merely filtering out the existing list. These chips have so far appeared only in Spotify's genre mix playlists, but the user's experience has been positive, as it has surfaced new music instead of cycling through the 'same old' recommendations. I haven't yet received these chips on my devices, so it's possibly a controlled test or rollout. We've contacted Spotify to learn more about these sub-genre chips in genre playlists. We'll keep you updated when we do. In the interim, if you'd like to improve Spotify's music discovery, you can try to completely disable the Smart Shuffle option from the app. Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at Email our staff at news@ . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
