Users can create and design their playlist’s cover art with unique and creative pictures, text effects, graphics, colours and more. This creative control adds a new level of customisation and personalisation for all Spotify users to enjoy. Spotify says that users’ playlists will now ‘look as good as they sound’ with the new customisation features. 

The music streaming app has teamed up with different music artists and visual creatives behind some of the most popular album cover art. Each one of these creatives has tested this feature to come up with interesting and creative cover art for their Spotify playlists. Some of the music artists include Arlo Parks, Jamie xx, and Clairo. Visual creatives such as Elliot Ulm, Pablo Rochat, Vita Kari, and Jesse Nyberg have been listed as partners by Spotify. Furthermore, Spotify has also partnered up with other creatives such as Imogene Strauss, Cey Admas, and Adrian Hernandez. 

Custom Cover Art For Spotify Playlists: How to use this new feature

To start using Custom Cover Art, users will have to click on the three-dot menu available on the playlist page and then click on ‘Create Cover Art’. Users will then be able to upload their original photos and add different visual elements such as text styles, effects and colours. 

Users should note that they can only save one custom cover art for each playlist at one time. If users want to make more covers for the playlist, they will have to create a copy of the playlist.

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The music streaming platform introduced this feature earlier this year in March. Select countries namely Germany, Poland, Brazil, and the Philippines. Kenya, the U.K., Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Colombia, Kenya, and Indonesia were the lucky few to receive the beta version of the music video feature. There are no details available as of now which list out 85 new countries that will receive this new feature. Although, it is probably safe to assume that the United States will be among the 85.

However, music videos on Spotify will only be exclusive to Spotify Premium users. Premium subscribers will be able to watch the video on both the desktop and mobile versions of Spotify. The users can effortlessly change between the music video and the audio with a toggle. When this feature was first introduced, users had to change from the audio to the video, it would restart the video from the beginning. With this new change, Spotify made the audio-video switch much more easier.

Music Videos on Spotify: More on this feature expansion

The music streaming giant is also introducing a new video indicator which will be viewable right next to the track. This makes it easier for users to spot which songs have the music video feature. In addition, the users can also view the videos in landscape mode for the full-screen experience.

Way before music videos on Spotify were introduced, the platform brought in video support for podcasts in 2020. Available on both the free and premium versions of the app, this feature allowed users to view video versions of podcasts. It serves as an additional feature so listeners can switch between the video and audio whenever they want.

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Plex officially integrated with TIDAL back in 2018. This allowed users to link their TIDAL account to Plex. Additionally, people could also subscribe to TIDAL as a bundle pack with Plex Pass. Users could thus look for songs and play them as well as organise them from TIDAL all within Plex. They could also combine their catalogue from TIDAL with their music library from other sources.

TIDAL’s integration with Plex was supported through various platforms and devices including iPhone, iPad, Roku, Android and more.

TIDAL’s Integration With Plex: More on this closure

Plex’s music section would preview TIDAL as a service regardless of whether the Plex user was subscribed to TIDAL. Plex will no longer be renweing TIDAL subscirbtions Septermber 26 onwards. TIDAL will send an email instructing users on how to make a new subscription that can work with TIDAL’s app. It has been noticed that Plex has halted attracting new TIDAL subscriptions.

Plex has mentioned that as long as a user’s TIDAL subscription is running, then their Plex-linked TIDAL account can still be used within Plex up until the date of closure. After which, users can no longer access TIDAL through Plex.

The reason behind ending TIDAL’s integration with Plex has not been stated. However, some speculate that TIDAL may want people to subscribe to their service directly. The music streaming platform may have wanted to stop offering its features through other platforms. Thus, TIDAL may seek the amount of paid subscribers directly through the TIDAL app.

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Airtel will be placing all former Wynk Music employees into the company’s core teams. This positive move by Airtel providing job security to its employees is a breath of fresh air in the current job layoff climate.  

Wynk Music is a music streaming service launched in 2014. The music streaming service is owned and operated by Airtel. It had a long ten-year run before Airtel decided to end the service. Wynk is a free music streaming service so it would be no surprise if the service was not profitable enough for Airtel. With Airtel’s intention to offer customers better streaming service offers, Wynk’s demise was imminent.

Wynk Music: Airtel and Apple Partnership

This shutdown comes after Airtel partnered with Apple to bring Apple Music and Apple TV+ services to the table. With this partnership, Airtel will be offering its Airtell Xstream users access to Apple Music and Apple TV+. This exciting deal on Apple services will probably be open to its users later in the year. Current users of Airtel’s music streaming app will also be compensated in the form of Apple Music offers. 

This collaboration between the two companies is expected to benefit them both as Airtel will be offering exclusive Apple Music plans at a heavy discount as compared to the rates that Apple offers. Airtel will be the only telecommunication company offering such Apple service deals. It has also been reported that Airtel and Apple are collaborating to create a carrier bill. This will thus assist in Apple’s monetization of OTT and streaming services.

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This collaboration between Apple and Google makes the process of switching between its streaming platforms smoother and hassle-free. This feature is only available for those with an Apple Music, iTunes or YouTube Music subscription. It should be noted that this feature is only possible for Apple and YouTube music streaming platforms so Spotify users are left out of the fun.

However, there are certain limitations with these features as users can only transfer playlists that they have created. This means that playlists curated by other users cannot be moved. Moreover, music files that have been uploaded are also excluded from this feature capability. Audiobooks and podcasts cannot be moved between Apple and YouTube music streaming services as well.

Apple Music and YouTube Music Cross-Transfer: How to get started

To move their playlists, users will first have to go to the Apple Data and Privacy page and sign with their Apple ID. Users will then have to click on ‘Transfer a Copy of Your Data’ after which, users sign into their accounts on YouTube Music to finish the transfer process. When the transfer is undergoing, Apple will send an email notifying the users with the emails linked with their Apple ID. After the transfer of playlists has been completed, Apple will send a confirmation email to the users.

This is not Apple and Google’s first-ever collaboration as both companies have also worked together before. The two tech giants collaborated previously to transfer photos between Google Photos and iCloud Photos. This transfer was done through DTI (Data Transfer Initiative).

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