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Spotify is one of the most popular music apps on Android. The streaming music service is free for basic radio use, or has a monthly subscription for full streaming of the entire catalogue of more than 25 million tracks. In this tips guide we’ll show you a few ways to get even more from the Spotify app.
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More powerful searches
Searching in Spotify can be a bit of a pain, frequently producing a list of tracks and artists not connected to what you were looking for.
With a little know feature it’s possible to search more precisely and more efficiently within the Spotify app. To do it you must precede your search term with a qualifier. So, artist:nirvana would return a list containing a list of tracks by Nirvana.
Here’s the full list of search qualifiers you can use:
- artist:[“artist name”]
- track:[“song name”]
- year:[year]
- genre:[genre] — see here for a full list of the genres in Spotify
- label:[“record label name”]
- isrc:[international standard recording code]
- upc:[universal product code]
- tag:new — this shows a list of new additions to the Spotify catalogue
When searching for a year you can also use a range, e.g. year:1969-1972
You can also use AND to include multiple search terms, and NOT to exclude things, e.g. artist:”rolling stones” AND year:1969-1972
Delete a radio station
The radio is one of Spotify’s most popular features, but when you’ve created one they tend to stay there forever.
It is possible to delete a radio station that you no longer need, or just to tidy up your app. Slide open the sidebar, tap radio then long press on a radio station. When the menu appears, hit delete.
Use Spotify overseas
You can continue to use Spotify even when you are on holiday overseas.
- to avoid roaming charges, download music from your chosen artists and playlists first. You can download up to 3333 tracks
- go to Settings and switch to offline mode. Spotify will now no longer try and go online
- you’ll need to login to your Spotify account every 30 days to keep your offline tracks
- last.fm scrobbling does not work in offline mode
Import playlist folders
If you’ve got a lot of playlists it can be easier to sort them into folders. There is no way of creating folders within the app, but you can create them on the desktop and they will appear in the app next time it connects.
You also need to manage the folder from the desktop, including adding playlists to it, as this cannot be done within the app. You can delete playlists in the app that are saved in folders.
Sing along
If you want to sing long with the music playing through the Spotify app, download Musixmatch from the Play Store. This app shows the lyrics from the currently playing song on your home screen, and works perfectly with the Spotify app.
Swipe to skip tracks
Spotify has the common forward and back icons to skip and replay tracks, but there’s another way too. When you’re viewing the main player screen, simply swipe left or right to play the previous or next song in your queue or playlist.
Identify music and play in Spotify
Unlike Google Music, which has its own built-in music recognition widget, Spotify relies on third party apps. If you hear a song on the TV or being played in public that you like but don’t recognise use the Shazam app from the Play Store to identify what the song is. You can then play the full track instantly in Spotify.
Anna, a fictional Spotify subscriber, is a big jazz fan. She recently fell in love with a jazz trio called The Expressionists (also fictional). The Expressionist’s new album accounted for 100% of her time listening to music last month on Spotify. Anna might reasonably assume that of the money that went to artists from her $10 monthly subscription, nearly all of it went to The Expressionists. She would be wrong.
The way Spotify and Apple Music pay artists is simple. They take all of the money generated from users, whether by advertisements or subscriptions, and put in a big pot. They then divide that pot by the total share of streams each artist received. So, if Apple Music gave $100 million of their revenues to artists in a month, and Drake songs accounted 1% of all streams that month, then Drake (and the writers of Drake’s songs) would receive $1 million. Essentially, 1% of Anna’s money is going to Drake. (About 70% of Spotify and Apple Music’s revenues go to music labels and artists.)
This is called a “pro-rata” system. Not everybody likes it. Many people in the music industry would prefer a payment system that was “user-centric.” Under this system, each user’s payment would be distributed based on what they streamed. If half of a user’s streams are Rolling Stones songs and half are Beyoncé, then those two artists are the only ones who earn money from that user. In this case, all of Anna’s money would have gone to The Expressionists.
The main difference between a pro-rata and user-centric system is that the preferences of super users are far more important under pro-rata. Even if two subscribers pay the same amount, the user who spends 100 hours a week on Spotify generate more revenues for their favorite artists than the one who only spend 10 hours. If everybody spent the same amount of time listening to music, pro-rata and user-centric systems would result in exactly the same outcome.
A 2017 study conducted the Finnish Music Publishers Association used data from Spotify premium subscribers in Finland to examine the impact of a change to a user-centric system. The research found that in the current system the top 0.4% of artists get around 10% of all revenue, but they would only get about 5.6% of revenue under a user-centric system. Though smaller artists ended up better off in aggregate, not all smaller artists gained—in fact, some were worse off. The data Spotify provided were anonymized so the researchers could not identify trends in which types of artists did better.
Some music streaming services are considering making the switch. Deezer, a French streaming service with 7 million subscribers, announced that it is may move to a user-centric model, and has encouraged other streaming services to do the same.
Crispin Hunt, head of the British songwriting group The Ivors Academy, claims that Apple Music has also explored user-based payments. Hunt says that Apple found some artists making music on the “fringes,” like jazz, would gain. (Jazz is also hurt by the fact that Spotify pays by stream, rather than by minute of listening, since jazz tracks tend to be longer than most other genres.) But like the Finnish study, the impact is varied. Some big artists, like Taylor Swift, may increase their share of revenue, and some smaller ones will lose out.
Yet even if user-centric payment is in some ways more fair, it still might not be a good idea. A paper co-written by Spotify’s Director of Economics suggests that implementing a user-centric model would be so expensive to manage that it might reducing overall revenues for artists (pdf), outweighing the benefits of a more equal distribution. Figuring out the share of each user’s streams that went to each artist is much more computationally intensive, and thus expensive, than just summing up all the streams.
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Many in the music industry think that a user-centric system is still the way to go. It seems more fair, and as computing power improves, it will become less expensive to manage. Perhaps most importantly, it will ensure that fans feel that their listening habits are directly connected to the success of their favorite artists.