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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With the rising trend of social media sites bringing in even more parental control features, Spotify is following suit. YouTube, TikTok, Snap, and Meta contain parental control features. These features allow parents to monitor their kids’ online activities. It helps them protect their child by blocking out harmful or inappropriate content that could make its way into their kid’s algorithm.

After enabling this feature, parents will be allowed to manage their children’s accounts on Spotify. They can thus prevent or bar their child from listening or watching inappropriate content. The parents can decide which artists, podcasts and tracks their kid listens to. This method makes it so that users do not have to use Spotify Kids, which is a far more restrictive version of Spotify.

Spotify Parental Control Feature: What this feature does

This feature available for Premium users will be applicable for users who are under the age of 13. It is part of Spotify’s Premium Family plan and it is limited to three countries as of now. Features such as adjusting Canvas playback, videos and explicit content labelling will be offered. Parents can add their child to their Family plan and click on “Add a listener aged under 13”. Additionally, the music catalogue of the parents does not get mixed up with their children’s music. So parents don’t have to worry about their songs and tracks being mixed with their kid’s music. Instead, it has been stated that Spotify’s Wrapped results will be more accurate.

Although Spotify is an audio streaming platform, it still has a large library of music that could be deemed inappropriate for younger audiences.

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A spokesperson from Spotify has stated that the company will make Lyrics available for all its users regardless of which version they are using. Thus, the Lyrics feature can be enjoyed by even more people. The reversal is expected to take full effect in the coming weeks.

Spotify Lyrics: When Lyric Paywall Happened

The music streaming app put lyrics behind a paywall earlier in May in an attempt to drive Spotify Free users to buy into their subscription plans. Users were only allowed to access three song lyrics per month and the public did not respond well to this. Additionally, the company had increased the premium subscription price to $11.99 when it was previously only $10.99 back in June.

Spotify has not made any official statements on why it decided to bring the feature back. However, the company saw the amount of backlash they were receiving which might be the cause for the reversal.

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Spotify’s new Basic plan excludes audiobooks but allows listeners to access only music and podcasts. Listeners can now return to the $10.99 pricing, which the previous Spotify standard plan used to cost. 

This new plan could be a good option for users who do not use the monthly 15 hours of audiobook listening with the premium plan. 

This move could indicate Spotify’s intention to develop a “Supermium” plan that could include high-fidelity audio. Bloomberg reports that the new plan will presumably cost at least $5 more monthly.

Earlier this month Spotify raised the prices of all its subscription plans. The music listening app increased the Primim Individual plans to $11.99 per month, the duo plan was raised by $2 per month to $16.99, and the family plan increased by $3 per month totalling $19.99. However, the student plan, offered at a discounted price to students, remains unchanged at $5.99. 

Earlier in April, Spotify saw a 20% increase in revenue, a 14% increase in premium subscribers and a record quarterly profit. Spotify is expected to release its Q2 2024 earnings later on July 24. 

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