It’s a great job for Spotify, which helps you share music with friends (including listening to each other in real-time). But when your friends are listening actively, it’s hard to know what you’re doing with . Now you can listen to your friends listening with Spotify Listening Activity and even join in.
Spotify Introduces Listening Activity
Several new features have been added by Spotify’s recently, including their version of a mini-Wrapped called Listening Statses. The music streaming giant, now based on their Jam feature’s success, is adding real-time Listening Activity. kindly note that you must be a Spotify Premium user to get this.
This is a feature that has been used in desktop users for the past, but it’s now available to mobile users. Similarly, it also adds to the mobile Messengers feature for an enhanced social experience.
Like me, if you like your music it’s louder than you should. If you’re listening, when a friend texts to see? They may be eager to smuggle with you, but they don’t see their text until it’s too late.
Instead of wishing you had a friend listening at the right time, just open Spotify and check to see who is listening.
Connect on Spotify
If you want to see someone’s real-time listening activity, you have to be connected on Spotify. Several ways can this be done by . Facebook allows you to request friends on Spotify if your Facebook and Spotify account were previously linked. Since Spotify removed the Facebook link option, it only works when you linked accounts before Spotify deleted the option. use one of the following methods for most users.
Invite Via Messages
It is the easiest and preferred way to connect through Spotify’s MessageS option. This is also where you see Listening Activity, so you’ll eventually share messages with each other anyway.
tap New message and Tap *Invite**, tap your profile icon,. Depending on how you want the link and who wants it sent to .
Start a Jam or Collaboration
They’ll appear as friends in your messages when you’ve started a Jam or collaborated on. playlist with people. When your friends or you have deleted the messages, you may need to invite them back through Messages.
In a Jam you’re just 32 friends, though it’s not too many friends to have and watch Listening Activity for.
View Real-Time Spotify Listening Activity
Upon you’ve added your friends to the Messages area, you can be sure to check in on their Listening Activity. To open the side drawer with someone, tap your profile icon whenever you’re ready to see what your friends are up to or want a Jam.
If anyone is actively listening, and has his/her activity turned on, you’ll be able to see their name and current song at the top of your Messages list. Any listening friend who’s already on a conversation will be here.
When a friend is listening to, queued tracks and even added tracks to your own library, tap the name of their friend for that song. If you reply to someone’s activity with one of six emojis, make things more social.
Assuming you know who is listening, tap their profile and tap Request to Jam to send them a message you want to join in. Listen to whatever they’re listening to and control a playlist together, then listen in real-time to what they are listening with.
You can join a Jam, but remember that you’re on the free level and only listen to the host’s speaker. jam from Jams can only be played remotely on premium Spotify.
Control Who Sees Your Listening Activity
You control who views your Spotify Listening Activity. When I check it’s supposed to be off, by default. I don’t know if I put it on myself since the feature was just launched.
To see if your activity is on or off by tapping your profile icon and searching for the Activity On/Off button next to your name, check out a search of your own activity. Press it to adjust setting for . Turn on Listening activity and tap Turn on.
tap*****who can see your activity** (you can also view this via your profile icon -> Settings and Privacy). Do not want any friend to see your activity, uncheck a . Invite links from here can also be sent to add friends for .
If you just want to pause your Listening Activity for a short time without changing all of the other settings, start’Private Session’. No one can see what you’re doing or know if you are listening to someone right now. This is a mobile, desktop and the web .
In the app, tap your profile icon and select Settings and privacy -> Privacy and social. Turn on Private session under Listening Activity? It is automatically ending after six hours of this, which ends with . Or, if you have to end it early in the day, turn it off manually. You can only see this option if your Listening Activity is on, but it’s just that.
If you look at your friends’ activity, you will notice when they usually listen. It is also a much easier way to jam together and find new songs to add to your own playlists, such as . Alternatively, you might want to start with your Spotify Wrapped playlists.
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