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Spotify has announced a major update to its mobile apps for users with a Premium subscription to the service, including an overhauled radio feature and changes to the onscreen navigation controls and search functions.

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Paying Spotify users can now search an artist and song to generate a unique radio station that can be saved for offline listening.

Like the service's Discover Weekly and other user-tailored playlists, Spotify says the endlessly playing radio streams are personalized to the user's own musical tastes.

But unlike the old radio stations, the new Artist Radio playlists don't have thumbs up/thumbs down buttons as they rely more heavily on Spotify's personal listening algorithms, and Spotify says they will be regularly updated to keep things fresh.

As for the other changes, the navigation controls at the bottom of the interface now consist of Home, Search, and Your Library. While Home is where recommendations live, the redesigned Search screen opens with Top Genres at the top and Browse All buttons below.


Spotify says users can also expect a better song search experience, with the app now able to generate unique playlists based around searched songs, rather than just returning a list of tracks with the same name.

The mobile app update is a global update rolling out today to all premium subscribers on both iOS and Android devices.

Article Link: Spotify App Update Brings Personalized Artist Radio Stations and Better Search to Premium Subscribers
 
Spotify, you better fix that left icon which sometimes is a “heart” (normal mode) and sometimes a “thumb down” (radio mode). I believe this c*ap is there for years and makes people mistakenly dislike tracks which disappears for good (no freaking way to recover them).
 
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I’ll believe it when I see it. Nothing yet on the US App Store.
 
The update a couple of days ago included these features. Just restarted the app and they appeared on my phone

Confirmed this is the method to get the update. I forced closed the app, launched it back up and the updated features appeared.
 
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You think they'd announce this and then not roll it out?
Still not up? Hmmmmm. Latest US App Store version is 8.4.75. Like I said...

Features not available in update rolled out 3 days ago. Home screen on app still has 5 icons, not (3): home, search and library.
 
I’m in the UK and got the changes. It might be taking a while.

Not surprised to see that the new design hasn’t made its way to CarPlay. They literally couldn’t care any less about it
 
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Still not up? Hmmmmm. Latest US App Store version is 8.4.75. Like I said...

Features not available in update rolled out 3 days ago. Home screen on app still has 5 icons, not (3): home, search and library.
Still waiting! It’s 2:23 PM central time and still no update in the US App Store.
 
Still not up? Hmmmmm. Latest US App Store version is 8.4.75. Like I said...

Features not available in update rolled out 3 days ago. Home screen on app still has 5 icons, not (3): home, search and library.
That’s the version that included the features... it was a server enabled change be patient. They obviously didn’t roll it out to everyone immediately
 
I'm just glad they now allow you to clear the Spotify cache. I don't even know when they finally added that, but I looked in the settings a few weeks ago and there it was.
 
I’d like to access “Radio” on CarPlay. Add a Radio tab then I’d be more inclined to keep my premium account
 
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