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Chris Messina

The New Spotify Desktop - Explore, browse, and organize just like you do on mobile

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Spotify's desktop experience is getting one of its biggest revamps yet, with redesigned Your Library and Now Playing views, making the Spotify Desktop experience the best way to explore, curate, listen to, and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser.

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Chris Messina
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Take full advantage of Desktop’s redesigned features with these helpful tips: • Go compact: By default, you’ll see an expanded view of Your Library. But if you only want to see your playlist icons, you can simply click the “Your Library” button in the top right hand corner to collapse the library. •Search & filter Your Library: Previously, the only way to find playlists was through the search bar—and you had to wade through not only your own content, but results from the entire Spotify catalog. Now, when it’s expanded, our new Library design allows you to toggle through your dedicated music, podcast, and audiobook feeds and search Your Library exclusively. •Customize: We want this experience to fit the way you listen, which is why Your Library and Now Playing can both be resized to take up more or less of the screen. • Pin, drag & drop: You can move and pin the playlists in the Library, as well as drop songs into the editable listed playlists. The new Your Library and Now Playing views will begin rolling out to all Desktop users worldwide starting June 20.
André J
I wonder what this is written in, if it's native or electron or rust or?
Chris Messina
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@sentry_co Spotify primarily Python, Java, C++, and C — with a load of JavaScript built on top of the CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). https://engineering.atspotify.co...
André J
@chrismessina It would be interesting if they would just reset the whole thing, and built it with rust. 12mb vs 800mb chrome app. 😬 ...maybe in a few years.
Chris Messina
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@sentry_co 800MB? It's more like 280MB on my MacBook Pro... Curious how Rust handles experimentation and instrumentation frameworks... not to mention offline media playback. Take a listen to this recent episode on some engineering changes they made recently to get some insight into their platform considerations.
Axel Borry
That's undeniably the best music streaming app. Seeing some user interface improvement make me fall once again for this app. 🤩
Heleana Grace
I can't go a day without listening to Spotify so I'm so excited for this! 👏 I really like how you can access your playlist much more easily and literally drag and drop songs into them. Congrats on the launch! 🚀
Love this! Spotify is one of my fav apps. 🙌
Fenil Jain
Really love the info section and the new right sidebar
Hendrick Hartzenberg
Nice! Look forward to checking it out!
Victor Cucu
awesome, well done !
Hashir Umar
Great launch, guys!
Alex Yule
But did you listen to us and bring back the artist column? https://community.spotify.com/t5...
Nathan
Love the new playlist features, but confused by the way “current track Artwork” weirdly overlaps the playlists. Also you can’t click it anymore IIRC, to bring you to the Currently Playing playlist
Ng Yi Hong
Wow ! This will be more convenient
Namrata Arya
This is awesome
Andriane Cardoso
Spotify brings out the best in me. It feels good to have the possibility to listen to my favorite tracks while I'm working. As I work from home, Spotify is my best friend in my lonely days.
Hari Prasath
Still waiting for Group Sessions on desktop