![]() Spotify’s community mentality is great for sharing music, but sometimes it would be nice to listen without all of your Spotify and Facebook friends knowing. Use Private Listening Sessions to Hide Your Activity ![]() This makes sharing songs with someone over email or Facebook message a piece of cake, and it looks nice too. Click and drag the song you want to share into any text field and Spotify will automatically create a link for the song with the song’s title and recording artist. Spotify lets you share tracks via URL links and HTML embed code, but you can also share track links simply by dragging them from your desktop app. When you start to play it in Spotify, you can then add it to your own library with just a few taps. You’ll see a drop down menu with a Spotify option listed. Once they’re synced up, and Shazam has identified the song you’re listening to, hit the tiny arrow next to the play button. It’s even better if you connect your Spotify account to Shazam. The Shazam app is great for identifying that funky fresh song playing way too loudly in Forever 21. Instantly Add Tracks to Spotify from Shazam for iPhone or Android If you’re having a hard time finding an awesome song you heard earlier, this is a great place to start. Your play history is synced up across your account, so it even includes songs you listened to on your phone, in the browser at work, or on your video game console. Once there, you can see what songs are going to play next, and more importantly, every song you’ve already listened to. Open the Spotify desktop app, then click the hamburger icon in the lower right-hand corner to open up your play queue. It’s OK, we don’t have to be sad because we missed out on adding it to our own playlists. Have you ever been bopping along to a great radio station or someone else’s playlist, heard an awesome song, got sidetracked, and completely forgot what it was? Me too. View Your History and Add Great Songs You Missed Fortunately, this IFTTT recipe from user xxnu will automatically move your Discover Weekly songs into a separate playlist every week so you never miss a tune. If you had a busy week or forgot to check it out, you could miss out on hearing your new favourite song. Your Discover Weekly playlist gets wiped and refreshed with new songs every Monday. If you haven’t given it a chance yet, you absolutely should. According to Spotify, more than 1 billion songs have been streamed through Discover Weekly playlists, and more than 70 per cent of listeners saved at least one track to their own playlists over the past 10 weeks. ![]() A lot of people, myself included, have been amazed at how well it works. Spotify also have interactive Running playlists, or their sort-of-gimmicky Year In Music, but Discover Weekly is actually worth paying attention to. But the real core of it is looking at the relationships between songs based on what other users are playlisting around the songs that you’ve been listening to and essentially finding the missing ones - the ones you haven’t heard yet, or maybe haven’t heard much. Something that you played yesterday is probably more interesting to you than something you played six months ago. First, we look at all the music you’ve been playing on Spotify but we give more emphasis to the stuff you’ve been jamming on recently. Its creator, Matthew Ogle, recently explained how it all works to Stuff: Essentially, it’s like a friend that knows your music tastes taking the time to make you a mixtape every week. Every Monday morning, a playlist of songs tailored to your listening preferences will automatically pop up in your list of playlists, no sign ups or additional actions required. Spotify made a huge splash this year with the Discover Weekly playlist. Listen to (and Archive) Spotify’s Discover Weekly Playlist ![]()
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