Spotify is copying one of the best things YouTube Music has for music lovers

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Spotify is copying one of the best things YouTube Music has for music lovers

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The beauty of competition is when competitors push each other to improve; In the end, the winner is the user. The launch of YouTube Music should have sparked this reaction at Spotify, but the company instead focused on podcasts, including a new interface in the Spotify app, to make them easier to discover.

Now that the podcast gamble doesn’t seem to have worked, with 800 workers laid off so far this year, we can begin to see more music related news; who knows, now might be the best time to launch high definition music on Spotify.

At the moment, Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, clearly showed a new feature for music loversthat YouTube Music users have been enjoying for some time.

Offline Playlists on Spotify

The function is called “Offline Mix”, and it is a playlist that will be created automatically with the downloaded songs in the memory. These are songs you can listen to no internet connection needed and therefore it will be especially useful for those times when we want to listen to something but we do not have an access point nearby and we do not want to spend more Internet data on our telephone line.

It’s no secret that YouTube Music already has exactly the same thing, an “offline” list that compiles songs saved on mobile; to this we must add that this application also has the function of smart downloads, which automatically saves songs that we might like or want to listen to again. Together, these two features make YouTube Music superior for users who spend a lot of time without a mobile internet connection.

This new Spotify “Offiline Mix” won’t work exactly the same, as it won’t automatically download the songs. According to the description, it will save only recently listened songs, so it is assumed that it will use the files already downloaded in the mobile memory and will not download new files. Therefore, in this list there will only be songs that we have already listened to, but this can be enough for many situations.

This function is first available for the Spotify Premium Users and as usual, this is a rolling release that will gradually reach all app installs. At this time, there is no information on when, if at all, it will come to free accounts.

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