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Spotify is expanding beyond music by adding long-form, narrated magazine/audio-style articles to its audiobook library. At the same time, it’s moving into AI-driven features—like using personal info to generate podcasts and offering AI remixing/cover tools—with leadership changes also in the mix.

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Key Takeaway Spotify is broadening its platform with narrated magazine articles and AI-powered podcast/remix features, plus notable exec changes.
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Audio magazines AI podcast generation AI remix tools Company leadership moves spotify premium
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Spotify is broadening its platform with narrated magazine articles and AI-powered podcast/remix features, plus notable exec changes.

Spotify is expanding beyond music by adding long-form, narrated magazine/audio-style articles to its audiobook library. At the same time, it’s moving into AI-driven features—like using personal info to generate podcasts and offering AI remixing/cover tools—with leadership changes also in the mix.

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New format Narrated long-form magazine articles
Price $2 per magazine article narration
AI feature Spotify Studio generates podcasts using personal info
AI music plans AI tool to let subscribers remix songs and cover music

What to Watch

  • Watch for rollout details of Spotify’s long-form magazine narration and its $2-per-article pricing across regions. 9to5Mac
  • Follow coverage of Spotify Studio’s “personal info” podcast generation and any privacy or consent changes. 9to5Google
  • Track official updates on Spotify’s AI remixing/cover tool for subscribers and its legal/“controlled” approach. PC Gamer

What Changed

  • You can now listen to long-form magazine articles on Spotify Neowin
  • Spotify wants to replace your reading list with narrated magazine articles Android Authority
  • 'There's a lot of rogue attempts at this': Amid AI music remixing plans, Spotify chief says he wants the company to be 'the one that's legal' and 'the one that's controlled' PC Gamer
  • Spotify will read magazine articles to you for $2 each as it further expands beyond music 9to5Mac
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How to keep Spotify’s disco ball icon?

Alas, if you liked the logo and wanted to keep it longer, there’s no direct way to do so. There is, however, one — rather toilsome — way: you can create a custom shortcut in iOS, generate a similar icon with AI (or just take a screenshot of this), and place that on your iPhone’s or iPad’s home screen.

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What is the best music streaming service overall?

When choosing a music streaming service, it's a close race between two in particular: Spotify Premium and Apple Music. Both services boast extensive catalogs and plenty of features, but there is a clear winner. Despite a recent price increase to $13 a month, Spotify is the best streaming service for most people. It offers the best mix of features, including lossless music, audiobooks, Spotify Connect streaming and great community offerings, such as Spotify Wrapped (now it's not just for the holidays). Spotify also offers the best free tier: Without paying a dime or providing a credit card numb

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Why does it matter?

For starters, since 2010, users have been forced to utilize their computers just to be able to declutter their Spotify libraries. With the development on mobile, users should now be able to create new folders and move playlists to them directly on their smartphone. This is especially useful for users that have generated several AI or prompted playlists. Said playlists would normally crowd the library page, making it difficult for users to find the playlists that actually mattered. Elsewhere, the same development now also allows you to play all playlists within a folder, be it shuffled or in or

16 years in the making: Spotify finally lets you create and manage folders on mobile
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