Skip to main content

Spotify Party turns the streaming service into your own personal DJ

Unless you want to hire a DJ or be saddled with the duty yourself, supplying the perfect music for your get-together can be a tricky thing. Spotify is apparently aware of this, and with the launch of its newest feature, the music streaming service is looking to solve that problem.

Spotify Party is a new feature of the service that offers up professionally mixed playlists and uses beat matching to keep the mood steady. A mood slider allow you to direct the flow from down-tempo chat session to yelling-over-the-speakers blowout.

Who better to consult on turning your service into a virtual DJ than a real-life DJ? Spotify turned to DJ and producer Diplo, who created a set of 120 tracks, exclusively curated for the new mode.

“When it comes to throwing parties you simply have to have the right playlists — or everyone will leave,” Diplo said in the blog post announcing the new feature. “And while researching and picking out music is fun, it also takes a lot of time and effort. With Spotify Party, you’re served with loads of beat-matched music that transitions perfectly, which you can easily adapt to whatever your current vibe is. Best of all, you don’t have to do any of the legwork.”

If this feature sounds familiar, it’s because Spotify has used a similar approach before. In May of this year, Spotify added a Running mode to its mobile apps that matched the tempo of your tunes to your gait, using the accelerometer in your phone. Spotify Party doesn’t match the songs it plays to how you’re dancing (yet, anyway), but its clearly coming from the same place.

Spotify Party is rolling out now on both iOS and Android. If you’re a fan of the desktop or Web apps, it isn’t clear if the feature will be headed to them at a later date, or if it will only be available on mobile devices.

Editors' Recommendations

Kris Wouk
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Kris Wouk is a tech writer, gadget reviewer, blogger, and whatever it's called when someone makes videos for the web. In his…
Spotify wants to turn its popular podcasts into movies and TV shows
spotify your daily podcasts playlist

It looks like Spotify wants to expand its original podcasts beyond just listening to them -- it wants to turn them into TV shows and movies, too. 

The music streaming app announced a first-look partnership with Chernin Entertainment on Thursday with the hopes of turning some of its more than 250 original podcast shows into viewable entertainment. 

Read more
Music streaming services join #BlackoutTuesday to support protesters
How to change your Spotify username

Several major music streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube have “paused” their music for a day of silence on Tuesday, June 2, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The streaming services joined Blackout Tuesday, a campaign supported by major record labels to go silent to allow black voices a chance to speak as part of protests against the death of George Floyd. Floyd was killed at the hands of police officers during an encounter in Minneapolis last week. His death sparked nationwide protests and unrest.

Read more
Spotify finally lets you save more than 10,000 items to your music library
Spotify logo on a phone.

Here's some good news for all of the Spotify song and album hoarders out there: The 10,000-item limit the company has historically placed on its library feature is now a thing of the past.

Starting May 26, the streaming service began rolling out a change globally that will make its users' libraries unlimited.

Read more