Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is cutting subscription prices by 30% in a key market with an estimated 70 million users. This price cut reverses last year’s price hike. It comes just months after a $1 hike in the US and right around the time Spotify is exploring a similar price hike in … Read More “Spotify just rolled back its 30% price hike in a key market” »
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is celebrating its 20-year anniversary by rolling out “Spotify 20: Your Party of the Year(s).” This is a mobile-only experience that offers a variety of insights, like the first song you streamed and your all-time most-streamed artist. Users are also getting an “All-Time Top Songs Playlist.” Have you … Read More “Spotify’s Party of the Year(s) is here to tell you about your all-time listening stats” »
Settling down for lunch and looking to unwind with some music, but can’t connect to Spotify? You’re not alone, as there’s currently an outage impacting Spotify users. Spotify’s status-tracking X account confirms the issue, and shares that the company is actively looking into it. At the moment, though, there’s no firm word on what might … Read More “There’s an active Spotify outage right now” »
Andy Walker / Android Authority Swipe to add to queue. TL;DR Spotify has confirmed that it’s probing a bug that causes Chromecast and Nest speakers to disappear from Spotify Connect on Android. The issue is specific to Spotify, as Tidal, YouTube Music, Plex, and other apps still detect Cast devices normally. If you’ve tried sending … Read More “Spotify’s Google Cast bug is breaking casting for Android users” »
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify has released a utility in beta to upload AI-generated podcasts to its platform. The utility uses third-party AI agents to create podcasts and push them to the cloud. Uploaded podcasts are only accessible on the account they were initially uploaded to. Spotify is working to let you … Read More “Spotify now lets you upload and stream your own AI podcasts” »
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is testing a “Bulk Redownload” tool that will help users automatically upgrade offline music to higher-quality tiers. The feature specifically addresses the current need to manually delete and redownload files when switching to lossless audio. The app will display dynamic warnings about the significant storage and data impact … Read More “Spotify may soon let you upgrade all your offline music to lossless” »
Tech Team / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify could soon get a highly requested feature. A string of code found in the app suggests you may soon be able to control the playback speed of music. Spotify already offers playback speed control for podcasts. Earlier this morning, we revealed that Spotify is testing a “Bulk Redownload” … Read More “This popular Spotify podcast feature may soon be available for music as well” »
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify will start verifying artist profiles really represent the artists they claim to. Qualifying profiles will get a new Verified by Spotify badge. All artist profiles, Verified or not, will also feature new AI-generated summaries. Spotify is rolling out a new Verified status. Starting soon, profiles that the … Read More “Spotify will start verifying artists are who they say they are” »
Are you having trouble trying to use Spotify today? You can take some solace in knowing that you’re not the only one. The music streaming service appears to be down for thousands of users. According to Downdetector, it appears that the outage started around 8:00 AM this morning. The reports spiked at around 8:50 AM, … Read More “Is Spotify down for you? You’re not alone” »
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is launching guided fitness workouts with its new “Fitness with Spotify” hub. The feature is available to all Spotify users, with over 1,400 additional ad-free Peloton classes for Premium members at no extra cost. Fitness with Spotify directly competes with Apple Fitness Plus and Google’s Fitbit Premium, which … Read More “Spotify’s new fitness hub takes direct aim at Apple and Google” »
