Music streaming firm Spotify is lastly and formally testing a playlist that mechanically downloads a few of your latest favorites a few years after beginning engaged on such a function.
In a tweet, the corporate’s CEO Daniel Ek mentioned that Spotify has been testing “Your Offline Combine.” However past that he didn’t give out any particulars. Particularly, it’s unclear when the corporate plans to launch the function.
Because the screenshot posted by Ek suggests, these playlists can retailer music with a number of hours of listening time. This may be useful at occasions when you’re going to hop on a flight however forgot to obtain music. As a reminder, Spotify already permits you to obtain playlists for offline playback.
Tweets from some customers recommend that they’ve already seen this function seem of their apps. Nevertheless it’s unclear in what territories Spotify is rolling out the offline combine. Plus, there’s a query concerning the function’s availability at no cost customers. We’ve got requested Spotify for a remark and can replace the story if we hear again.
In 2020, reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong found that Spotify was engaged on an offline combine function. Nevertheless it was by no means rolled out. Nonetheless, with Ek’s official affirmation, the function must be on monitor to be out there to customers sooner or later.
Spotify’s rival service, YouTube Music already has an “Offline mixtape” function. Moreover, the Google-owned service can mechanically obtain as much as 500 songs in several playlists if customers activate the “Good obtain” performance.
In response to figures from its final earnings name, Spotify now boasts a consumer base of over 500 million individuals.
