Spotify users are in for quite the change, as the music streaming giant is now rolling out a long overdue update for its desktop and web app. This news comes just a little over a month after Spotify held its big Stream On event back in February, where the company announced further expansion plans into other markets and Spotify Hifi — Spotify’s long-awaited plan that’ll offer CD-quality music streaming. In other words, 2021 has been an exciting time to be a Spotify user.

While all of that’s been happening, however, there’s a component of Spotify that feels like it’s been cast to the wayside. Spotify has been paying close attention to things like podcasts, launching in more markets/languages, and fine-tuning its mobile apps, but Spotify users on desktop haven’t seen nearly the same level of attention. Now, however, Spotify is finally changing that.

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On March 25, 2021, Spotify announced that it’s begun rolling out a substantial update to its desktop and web applications. The current Spotify desktop experience is fine, but it’s gotten to a point where it looks and feels like a completely different piece of software compared to its mobile companions. This new update address that head-on in a few different ways. Firstly, the top of the home page now shows six recommended playlists or albums based on a user’s previous listening history. Below that are more personalized listening suggestions, including categories like Recently played, Your heavy rotation, etc. Spotify has also moved the Search function from the top of the app to the left navigation panel, user profiles show someone’s top artists and tracks, and a radio session based on a song or artist can be created by clicking the ‘…’ icon next to it.

Spotify’s Desktop App Gets Better Playlist Tools And Offline Playback

Another big focus for this new Spotify desktop/web experience is on playlist creation and management. Playlists now have an integrated search bar for quickly finding a song or podcast to add to it, tracks can be rearranged using a drag-and-drop feature, and users now have the ability to create custom descriptions and upload images to further personalize their playlists. And, as noted above, offline playback is finally a thing that desktop users have access to. So long as someone is a Spotify Premium subscriber, they can now download any song or podcast to their computer for offline listening.

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There are a few other changes scattered throughout the new Spotify app, too, including a shortcut for Your Library on the left navigation bar, new library sorting options, and displaying icons next to playlists so they’re easier to find. Spotify also says it’s added keyboard shortcuts to simplify navigation. PC users can press ‘Control + ?’ to see available commands while Mac users should press ‘Command + ?.’ When all of that is added together, the new desktop experience seems to have been well worth the wait.

As for when everyone can start using the upgraded Spotify app for themselves, Spotify says it’s rolling out globally “over the coming weeks.” For those that can’t wait that long and want to use the new app now, Spotify says Windows users can access it via the Windows Store and Epic Games Store, while Mac users can download it from Spotify’s website. Alternatively, everyone can check out the new UI right now by visiting the Spotify web player.

Source: Spotify

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