Spotify adding new Touch Preview feature to service

If you enjoy Spotify and use it regularly, you may be glad to know that the company is planning to roll out a new feature called Touch Preview to help you discover new music. The Touch Preview feature provides a way to listen to a short sample of a song simply by pressing on the album art icon. In a video that Spotify released to show how the new feature works, you can see that the preview clips should play almost instantaneously as a user moves their touch from one album cover to another when viewing the grid for a playlist.

This new feature should make it much easier for users to preview music. Many streaming players force users to drill down into an album to see the list of songs and then try to tap on tiny little buttons to access the preview clips. Needless to say, this is a lot of tapping on the screen and really makes in cumbersome to figure out what you may be getting ready to listen to.

Besides the preview capability that Spotify added, they also put in some new gestures that will make it easy to save songs when you find something you like after checking out the sample. A right swipe on a song title in a playlist will add it to a user’s queue and a left swipe will add it to the library.

Overall, Spotify’s new Touch Preview is a solution that should help make music discovery much more seamless than it has been in the past. Spotify has started the rollout of this new feature on iOS platforms and it will be coming to Android devices and even the desktop version in the near future.

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source: Engadget

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