


With this redesign, we’re combining the technical opportunity of a modern and scalable web player together with a cohesive Spotify design and the features that you’ve all come to expect across the desktop app. Now, we’re pleased to deliver a new, clean design, more controls, and a great new foundation for our listeners to use Spotify across our desktop app and web player for the years to come. It took months of tests and research, talking to users, and gathering feedback. Since the desktop experience served as the original window to the world for Spotify, this was not a task we took lightly.

That’s why, starting today, we’re rolling out a new improved look and feel for the Spotify app for desktop and web- aligning the experience and making both easier to use than ever before. Yet along the way, we felt that our desktop app experience hadn’t kept up, and that it was time for a change. We constantly test, develop, and launch new features, optimize for new devices, and look to expand our content offering. Considering how Spotify's app updates generally arrive in phases, it could be a week or two before every desktop users begins seeing the changes.At Spotify, we’re always looking for ways to provide the best possible experience so our listeners can consistently discover and enjoy music and podcasts-and that includes look, feel, and functionality. Listeners can also edit their Queue and view Recently Played songs while searching within playlists has been simplified courtesy of an integrated search function.Īlthough The Verge reports thats the refresh has begun rolling out, I'm yet to see it at my end. All desktop users will have the ability to write descriptions, upload images and drag and drop tracks into existing playlists.

The new and improved version also includes tweaks to improve playlist management. This is because only Spotify Premium subscribers can download music, so the app needs to check in with the Spotify servers every once and a while to make sure you’re still coughing up the money. SEE ALSO: Dogecoin's Valuation Is At An All-Time High And Elon Musk Is Responsible, Again I never download music on my laptop since my phone is way more convenient, but I live in an area with spotty internet, so I could see myself possibly taking advantage of it when I'm not in WiFi range. Click on that, and you can listen to all those songs offline for 30 days before you need to reconnect to the internet again. To download an album, you just need to navigate to it and you’ll notice a new little down arrow icon. You could previously download songs and playlists on the desktop app but strangely enough, downloading albums was never an option, until now. Spotify‘s new desktop app refresh, which seems to be currently rolling out to users, has finally brought with it a very handy feature - album downloads.
