Spotify is testing a brand new TikTok impressed type feed of podcasts that might provide help to discover your subsequent favourite podcast. This doesn’t imply that the app is totally altering its User Interface (UI). It is including a brand new ‘Podcast’ tab within the app.
According to The Verge, the brand new tab will not allow you to examine for you subscribed or downloaded reveals however shall be a brand new web page so that you can uncover new reveals.
Similar to Instagram reels and TikTok, this web page will allow you to swipe vertically by means of totally different playing cards. Every episode shall be a totally random podcast, which you’ll be able to swipe up on to skip.
The new Podcast feed was first noticed by tech podcaster Chris Messina.
HUGE!! @Spotify is including a devoted TikTok-style vertical scrolling feed for @spotifypodcasts to its toolbar!
h/t @SleepwellCap #NewSpotify pic.twitter.com/0CWolZGJQy
— Chris Messina (@chrismessina) March 26, 2022
According to TechCrunch, Spotify is utilizing machine studying on greater than 100,000 hours of podcast audio. However, that is solely a check, Spotify might additionally determine to cancel the expertise earlier than launch.
Meanwhile, a Spotify spokesperson in a press release to The Verge was quoted as saying that the “company routinely tests new features” and has “no new news to share at this point.” It must be famous that this function, is out there to solely chosen customers as of now. It can be unclear if Spotify is planning to roll out this function to everybody.
In different information, Spotify mentioned it’s going to droop its streaming service in Russia in response to the nation’s new media regulation. The audio streaming platform closed its workplace in Russia indefinitely earlier this month, citing what it described as Moscow’s “unprovoked attack on Ukraine.”
“Spotify has continued to believe that it’s critically important to try to keep our service operational in Russia to provide trusted, independent news and information from the region,” Spotify mentioned in a press release. “Unfortunately, recently enacted legislation further restricting access to information, eliminating free expression, and criminalizing certain types of news puts the safety of Spotify’s employees and the possibility of even our listeners at risk.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
