You can find the Discover Weekly playlist by accessing your playlists in Spotify. It will likely be listed as the first one. When you hear a song you like, add it to your Spotify, add it to another playlist, go to the album it’s from, and more. At this point, creating a playlist folder can only be made from the Spotify desktop app. Navigate to File in the top menu (three-dot menu > File) and select New Playlist Folder. A new field will appear in the left column where your playlists are, which you can use to name your new playlist folder. To organize your playlists into folders, click the playlist you want to move and drag it to the appropriate folder. Clicking the folder’s name brings up your playlists in the main window while clicking the arrow icon beside the name of the folder allows you to expand and collapse its contents in the column. Click the Queue button on the bottom player, marked by the icon with three horizontal lines. Then select Recently Played to see a list of the last 50 songs you played. You could make new friends, or you could stop your music from being shared for a little while. When you don’t want anyone to see what you’re listening to, switch your listening to private mode, and you’ll be all good. On the desktop app, you can do this by selecting the arrow in the upper-right corner beside your username and selecting Private Session from the drop-down menu. To listen in private mode on the mobile app, tap the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to access your settings, under Social, toggle on Private session so that it’s green. You can switch this option off and turn it back on any time you want. Well, sort of. First of all, you must be a premium user to use this feature. Second, the music doesn’t download to your device so that you can keep it forever. It simply downloads it temporarily within your Spotify account. According to Spotify, you can listen to up to 10,000 songs offline without an internet connection. This is useful if you love to listen to music while walking, in transit, or at any public place that doesn’t offer free Wi-Fi to its visitors. On any playlist or artist album you’re looking at in the main tab of the desktop app, select the down arrow (Download) just above the list of tracks. Spotify takes a few seconds to several minutes to download your music (depending on how much you’re downloading), and the green down arrow appears, so you know it worked. You should also see a down arrow above the tracks listed for a playlist or artist album on the mobile app. Tap to download your music and turn on the button so that it’s green for listening offline. IFTTT is a tool that you can use to access all sorts of apps and services to be linked in a way that automates triggers and actions. Two popular IFTTT recipes built for Spotify include:
Add songs from YouTube videos you like to a Spotify playlist Save the tracks you like on SoundCloud to a Spotify playlist
IFTTT is free to sign up for, and there are many great existing recipes that you can start using immediately. Once the song has been identified, look for the More option, which should pull up some extra listening options. Listen with Spotify should be one of them. Access the settings from the desktop application and then scroll down to look for Show Advanced Settings. Click that option and continue scrolling until you see a crossfade option under the Playback section. Turn this option on and customize it however you want. To access this feature from the mobile app, access the settings, tap Playback, and customize the crossfade setting. Try searches like these in Spotify
artist:Michael Jackson: Search artist names.album:Views: Search album names.year:1993: Search for songs released in a specific year.year:1993-1997: Search for songs released within a specific date range.genre:classical: Search for songs that belong to a specific genre.
You can also combine these in one search. Search Engine Watch has more on how this works, including how to use AND, OR, and NOT to refine your results. Here are a few shortcuts you’ll want to put to memory:
Create a new playlist: Ctrl+N (Windows) or Cmd+N (Mac)Play pause: SpacebarNext track: Ctrl+Right (Windows) or Ctrl+Cmd+Right (Mac)Volume up: Ctrl+Up (Windows) or Cmd+Up (Mac)Volume down: Ctrl+Down (Windows) or Cmd+Down (Mac)
Check out Spotify’s full list of keyboard shortcuts to find more that you may want to use. Luckily, Spotify has a unique feature that allows you to recover playlists you deleted. Visit spotify.com/us/account/recover-playlists on the web, sign in to your Spotify account, and you’ll see a list of playlists that you deleted. Select Restore next to any playlist you want to your Spotify account. (If you’ve never deleted a playlist, you won’t see anything.) Alternatively, you can navigate to Browse in the Spotify mobile app and select the Workout option under Genres & Moods, which displays playlists built to match your tempo while you run. To find this feature, go to the Search field and enter Party. Scroll down until you see Genres and select Party. Select a playlist, then select Play. On the desktop app, right-click any playlist and then select Collaborative Playlist. On the mobile app, tap the three dots under the title of the playlist and then tap Make Collaborative. If you’re a premium user and want to listen to Spotify from your computer but don’t want to walk to it every time you want to switch to a new song, use your smartphone or tablet to act as a remote control. On your computer, in the lower-right corner, select Devices (it looks like a monitor and speaker) and then select which device you want the music to play on. Or access Settings on your smartphone, select Connect to a device, and select your computer from the list. Start playing Spotify from your mobile device. In the Devices Menu, your desktop and mobile device will appear. Select the computer option to keep playing Spotify on your computer, but now you can control everything from the Spotify app on your mobile device. When you’re listening to something in the app, tap the three dots located in the upper-right corner and then tap Share. You’ll see that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are two of the options you have. On the desktop app, next to the song, select the three dots and select Share > Copy Song Link. Then paste the link into any messaging app, email, and more. Click the Start Listening button and sign in to your Spotify account. Who knows—maybe you’ll stumble across something you’ll want to listen to more than once. You’ll see the upcoming concerts that you can select to see their concert details on Ticketmaster.
