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5 New Spotify Features You Should Be Using Right Now

October 8, 2025

Spotify is always evolving to give listeners more control, more personalization, and more ways to connect. Whether you’re a playlist curator, a casual listener, or a music superfan, these five features are worth trying out today.

1. Get Spotify recommendations in ChatGPT

You can now bring Spotify into your ChatGPT conversations. Just mention Spotify in a prompt—like asking for songs to match your mood or planning a playlist for a road trip—and you’ll receive personalized recommendations instantly.

How to try it:

    • Mention Spotify in ChatGPT and connect your account when prompted.
    • Ask for songs, albums, artists, playlists, or podcasts.
    • Tap a track to open Spotify and start listening.

Available in English in select markets to Free and Premium Spotify users.

2. Exclude tracks from your Taste Profile

Not every listen needs to impact your recommendations. Now, you can remove specific tracks—like sleep sounds, kids’ songs, or one-off listens—from your Taste Profile.

How to do it:

    • Tap the three-dot menu on any track.
    • Select “Exclude from your Taste Profile.”
    • You can add it back anytime.

This helps keep Discover Weekly, Wrapped, and other personalized features focused on what you actually want to hear.

3. Stream in Lossless audio

Lossless has now rolled out for Spotify Premium users in all eligible markets, delivering higher-quality audio at up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. It’s ideal for listeners who want the clearest sound possible.

How to enable it:

    • Go to Settings → Media Quality.
    • Select where you want to enable “Lossless”—Wi-Fi, mobile, or downloads.
    • Look for the “Lossless” indicator in the Now Playing view.

Lossless works best with wired headphones or on devices that support Spotify Connect. 

4. Share directly with friends using messages

Spotify’s new in-app Messages feature makes it easy to share and discuss your favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks with friends.

How it works:

    • Tap the share icon when listening to a song, podcast, or audiobook.
    • Select a friend and send a message.
    • Once you accept a message request, you can chat, react, and share content back and forth, all inside the Spotify app.

Rolling out in select markets. Users must be aged 16 or older to access the feature.

5. Add seamless transitions to playlists 

Spotify Premium users can customize the way their playlists sound with transitions between tracks. With the new Mix tool, you can fade songs into one another, adjust EQ and volume, and create a smoother listening experience.

To start mixing:

    • Open any playlist you’ve created and tap “Mix” in the toolbar.
    • Use Auto for instant results or customize manually.
    • Save and share your mixed playlist.

This feature is in beta and available to eligible Spotify Premium users globally.

These updates are designed to make your Spotify experience more intuitive, more immersive, and more you. Keep your app updated to access the latest features and make sure you’re getting the most out of your music.

Reneé Rapp Shares the Songs and Artists She’ll Jam to This Friendsgiving

November 17, 2023

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Reneé Rapp, fresh off the stateside portion of her sold-out Snow Hard Feelings tour, has just released the deluxe version of her debut album Snow Angel. In the midst of her busy schedule, the Spotify RADAR artist also helped us celebrate our recently launched Jam feature in Los Angeles.

Jam is a personalized experience that allows any Premium user to start a real-time group listening session and invite anyone on Spotify to join in and listen together. Once they’re in, Jam will help you find the perfect songs to add to the queue or let friends see how their listening preferences may be the same—or different—from others in their squad.

Photo credit: Jesse Grant

In addition to hosting our Jam launch party, Reneé also treated attendees to a performance. Following the event, we caught up with the multihyphenate star to learn more about how she’s using Jam and which song is making it onto her Friendsgiving Jam session.

Tell us about the first Jam you hosted. 

The first Jam I hosted was actually on my tour bus a few weeks ago with my team and band. There were a lot of incredible artists in the rotation, but the highlight was probably Stevie Wonder—I put him on and everyone started dancing together for the rest of the night. 

What’s always on your house party playlist?

I really just go off what I’m feeling in the moment. Recently, I made one to celebrate after my show at The Greek Theatre in LA. It was fun because I made sure to give it house party vibes. There was a lot of Beyoncé, Drake, Ice Spice, and obviously Frank Ocean. 

Share a music memory that connects you with one of your friends.

My best friend Justin and I listened to Frank Ocean’s Blonde front to back together for the first time, and it was a spiritual experience for us. We now have matching tattoos of the album’s length on our arms. 

With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, how are you celebrating?   

I’m really lucky to have such a strong community of friends in LA. I’ve spent the last few Thanksgivings here and we started making new traditions by all coming together for our own Friendsgiving.

What song would you add to the Jam at your Friendsgiving?

For the group Jam on this one, I’d probably add “Naked In Manhattan” by Chappell Roan. 

You have one song to introduce someone to your music—what are you picking

My number-one artist is Frank Ocean, so if there’s anything that’s going to introduce someone to my taste, it’s him. 

Let’s make up your dream Jam sesh: Share five people you would love to kick back and listen to music with.  

Frank Ocean, Karen Carpenter, Jazmine Sullivan, Beyoncé, and SZA. 

 

Give Jam a try at your next holiday gathering. Find details on how to get started here.