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Spotify Taste Profile Explained

02/10/2025

Spotify has added a long-requested feature: the ability to exclude certain songs, albums, or artists from your Taste Profile. This gives listeners more control over recommendations, playlists like Discover Weekly, and overall listening stats. But playlists? Not yet — though there are workarounds. What is the Taste Profile? Your Taste Profile is the behind-the-scenes model Spotify builds from your listening history. It affects Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily Mixes, personalised recommendations, and your Spotify Wrapped […]

Amazon Music creates new discovery tool

08/08/2025

Amazon Music creates new discovery tool called Insights, a new destination in the Amazon Music app that helps fans discover and celebrate their unique listening habits. Insights is rolling out to listeners globally across all tiers on the Amazon Music app. The feature debuts with ‘Monthly Recaps’, which showcases personalized monthly listening highlights such as most streamed artists, songs, podcasts, listening stats, and more. Within this experience, you can instantly stream memorable tracks or dive […]

SoundCloud improves discovery and adds CarPlay functionality

08/07/2025

SoundCloud improves discovery and adds CarPlay functionality in a range of upgrades launched in June 2025. Discovery made more social with ‘Liked By’ feature Music Discovery was never a solo activity according to SoundCloud and have introduced ‘Liked By’ a new feature that brings SoundCloud’s community to life by showing you what your friends, fellow fans, and favourite artists are loving. From searching for the perfect song to browsing new playlists, ‘Liked By’ shows both […]

SoundCloud rolls out TikTok’s Add to Music App integration

27/05/2025

SoundCloud rolls out TikTok’s Add to Music App integration which gives music fans the ability to save the songs they discover on TikTok to their preferred music streaming service. Since its global roll out in 2024, the Add to Music App has generated over a billion track saves – and many billions more streams – on music streaming services. The Add to Music App appears as a button that says Add Song next to a […]

Spotify expands its discovery tools

08/05/2025

Spotify expands its discovery tools enabling seamless discovery, intuitive playlist curation, and a uniquely personal listening experience. Optimize your listening sessions Queue – the three lines at the bottom of the Now Playing view, just got an upgrade for Premium users. The new design is easier to use and includes controls like Shuffle, Smart Shuffle, Repeat, and Sleep Timer. Premium users will also start seeing which songs Spotify recommends after your queued-up tracks end, so you can […]

New Shazam update gets better Spotify and Apple Music syncing

06/03/2025

New Shazam update gets better Spotify and Apple Music syncing with Apple’s latest version 18.9 release. The latest version adds songs tagged from outside the app to the Shazam playlist in Spotify and Apple Music. New features in Shazam v18.9 We’ve made syncing songs to Apple Music and Spotify better than ever! Shazam will now include songs found via Music Recognition in Control Centre, Siri, and Shortcuts to your “My Shazam Tracks” playlist in Apple […]

How to discover new music on Spotify

23/01/2025

Spotify offers several different ways to unlock new music ranging from algorithmically personalised to expertly curated playlists by their team of editors. Every day millions of listeners are connected with their favourite artists, powering nearly 2 Bn music discoveries every 24 hours. Daily discovery To seamlessly blend your favourite tracks with new sounds, go to the Made for You hub and try out some personalized playlists like daylist or Mixes. daylist, which is available globally to both Free and Premium users, will […]