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After years of yearning, Spotify will let you organize playlist folders on mobile
After years of being desktop-only, Spotify playlist folders are finally on mobile, joining bulk editing, background downloads for iOS, and a reshuffle button in a new wave of app updates.
Spotify now lets you clip and share your favorite podcast moments on social media
Spotify has introduced Podcast Clips, giving listeners the ability to save and share standout moments from podcasts.
Spotify’s new AI app can generate daily briefings and personalized podcasts for you
Spotify's new Studio app uses AI to generate personal podcasts and daily briefings built around your listening history, calendar, and inbox.
Your most played artists on Spotify could get you early access to their tour tickets
Spotify's new Reserved feature holds two concert tickets for an artist's most dedicated Premium fans before tickets go on sale to the general public.
Spotify will let you use AI to make covers and remixes of your favourite songs, for an extra fee
Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a deal that will let Premium subscribers use AI to create covers and remixes of their favourite songs.
Spotify adds verified podcast badges so you know you’re listening to the real host, and not an AI clone
Spotify is rolling out verified badges for podcasts and tightening its rules around AI voice cloning to make sure the podcasts you love are actually made by the people you think they are.
Spotify now wants you to relive your entire music personality arc
Spotify’s new feature looks back at your music history, from your first song and all-time favorite artist to a 120-track playlist of the songs you played the most.
Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code create Personal Podcasts for you
With Spotify's new tool, AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex can now turn your daily briefings, class notes, and travel plans into a listenable Personal Podcast.
You can now request songs from Spotify DJ in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese too
Spotify is expanding its DJ feature in beta to Premium users in over 75 markets and adding four new languages, French, so more listeners can make voice requests in their own language.
Spotify adds verified artist badges so that you know you’re listening to a human, and not AI
Spotify is rolling out a new Verified badge and artist activity details to help you know if there's a real human behind the music you love.
Spotify apparently has no solid plan to label AI-generated music
Spotify has half a billion listeners, a recommendation engine that knows your mood better than your therapist — and apparently, no real plan to tell you if what you're hearing was made by a human or a chatbot on a Tuesday afternoon.
Spotify wants to be your fitness coach with guided workout sessions
Spotify has launched a new Fitness hub, giving Free users access to curated workout playlists from top wellness creators, while Premium users unlock 1,400+ ad-free Peloton classes.
You can finally organize your Spotify playlists into folders on your phone
Spotify's new mobile playlist folders let you group playlists, play everything inside a folder at once, and even hit shuffle across the whole collection.
Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of daily uploads
Deezer says nearly half of daily music uploads are now AI-generated, raising concerns around quality, fraud, and originality.
You can now buy physical books in the Spotify app
Spotify is now letting you buy physical books through its app in the U.S. and U.K., expanding beyond audiobooks with features like Page Match, Recaps, and Charts to build a more connected reading experience.
You will soon be able to turn off all Spotify videos across music and podcasts
Spotify will soon get three separate toggles to disable video content in the app, including Canvas clips, music videos, and podcast videos, with Family Plan controls also included.
Spotify can now build you a personalized podcast playlist from just a simple prompt
Spotify's Prompted Playlist feature now works for podcasts, letting Premium users describe what they want to hear and get a personalized AI-curated episode lineup that refreshes daily or weekly.
Apple Podcasts finally gets serious about video, adds multiple YouTube-inspired features
iOS 26.4 transforms Apple Podcasts with a full video overhaul — featuring Picture-in-Picture, offline downloads, speed controls, and a new video discovery hub. Here's everything that's new.
Spotify says AI slop is flooding your music feed, adds artist control tool
Spotify is testing a new tool that lets artists approve songs before release, as AI-generated spam and fraud expose how easily fake tracks can hijack profiles and distort payouts.
Spotify wants you to explore music like never before with SongDNA
Spotify has launched SongDNA in beta, a feature that maps connections between songs, artists, and samples for deeper music discovery.
Spotify has a new Exclusive Mode to please audiophile ears with bit-perfect playback
Spotify’s new Exclusive Mode lets you bypass system audio processing on desktop, delivering bit-perfect playback and a cleaner listening experience, especially if you are using external DACs or high-end audio gear.
Spotify’s Wear OS overhaul brings cleaner visuals and quicker controls to your wrist
Spotify is rolling out a redesigned Wear OS app with swipe-based navigation, richer visuals, and quicker access to playback controls.
Spotify plans to take the pain out of managing playlists on mobile
Spotify may soon let users create and manage playlist folders directly in its mobile apps, making it easier to organize large music libraries without relying on the desktop version.
You can hug this smart pillow to stream music and avoid doomscrolling on phones
Researchers have developed a smart pillow that streams music and podcasts, offering users a relaxing alternative to doomscrolling on smartphones before bedtime.
Apple Music will put custom tags for AI songs and visuals, but it’s not enough
Apple Music's new Transparency Tags let labels flag AI-generated content, but the honor system has no enforcement. Deezer's fraud numbers show why that's a problem.
That Spotify afterlife speaker urn is a real thing you can buy
Spotify and Liquid Death teamed up on the Eternal Playlist Urn, a real collector's item with a Bluetooth speaker in the lid that plays your music forever.
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