More new features coming
Now that they’ve hit the 10 million mark in subscribed users, Spotify wants to make things easier for the folks using their service to stream music.
After taking away the 30-second preview on their app over a year ago, the company is now implementing a new way to listen to snippets through a method called “Touch Preview” on the mobile user interface. The feature will allow users to stream a song for 30 seconds by tapping and holding the artwork on an album in a playlist, genre or album tracklist, and seamlessly scroll to activate the next sound by moving to the next song anywhere on the screen.
Users can scroll up and down and leave their finger held to a specific song they would like to listen to longer, or maneuver through different ones until they land on the desired one. Once you have found the song of your liking, they can swipe right to queue it or swipe left to save it to the library.
The aim of this feature is to get users to use the app more so it forms more of a habit (their research shows it does), in order for them to stream more music.
Touch Preview is available on iOS now and coming to Android soon.
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