Spotify Features You Should Be Using to Improve Your Listening Experience

Sophie Webster, Tech Times 02 November 2021, 11:11 pm

Spotify is the most popular music app, and it is used by millions of people daily. But did you know that it has a lot of features that you can take advantage of to create a better listening experience?

Spotify Features

Below are a few ways that you can use Spotify's features to improve your streaming experience.

Crossfade & Transitions

If you are listening to songs without transitions or sudden cuts, then you can change the app's playback settings. Just go to Preferences and choose Playback, according to HowtoGeek.

One option that you will see is "Allow smooth transitions between songs in a playlist." When you are listening to albums, you may have noticed that artists have ordered tracks to make the transitions between them smooth. The setting replicates that exact effect, and it provides a continuous listening experience.

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Also, you can turn on crossfade, which adds a fading effect between songs. So if you set your crossfade to 5-seconds, the first song will start fading out in the last 5 seconds, and the second song will start to play.

Audio Customization

Spotify has a couple of audio customization features that will make sure you're getting the best listening experience, according to PopSci.

The Streaming and Download Quality allows you to customize the quality of the audio. Songs that are of higher quality consume more space and bandwidth, while lower quality ones are less clear.

The Normalize Audio feature sets a consistent output across all of the audio that you play, whether it is podcasts or music. It can help give you a consistent listening experience, and it ensures you're not fiddling with your volume the whole time.

The Volume Level setting adjusts the maximum volume level across all of the songs. You can choose "Loud" if you are in an area that noisy.

In order to access all of these, you can go to settings, and you will find them under "Audio Quality."

Collaborative and Blended Playlists

If you are planning to have a road trip soon and want to make sure that your playlist is filled with different genres of songs, you can access the Collaborative Playlist feature on your app, according to Mashable.

You can send the link of the playlist to your friends and family so they can edit it, add songs, remove some songs, and rearrange the tracks as they please. You can also see who added each track to the playlist.

However, collaborators won't be able to change the cover or the name of the playlist.

Another feature you can use is a Blended Playlist. This allows you to create a playlist with your friends. It uses an algorithm wherein you both overlap in terms of musical tastes, and it creates a playlist that you'd both like.

Playlist Folders

The music organizational system of Spotify is not the best. Playlists cannot be tagged or sorted, and the mobile apps need some work. However, one feature that will assist you so you can keep your tracks organized is playlist folders.

The feature is available only on desktops. It lets you put playlists under different folders, similar to how files work. You can organize your folders by genre, location, and mood. You can add each playlist into these different folders.

Spotify has been adding features to the platform for months now. Spotify added a "What's New" feature so users can keep track of what their favorite artists release.

Spotify also added audio-transcribe to its podcasts for easier listening.