Spotify is in the midst of testing a new offline playlist, its CEO Daniel Ek recently revealed via Twitter. The feature, simply known as “Your Offline Mix,” stores downloaded versions of recently played songs onto your device for moments where there’s no internet connection for you to stream from the platform.
A screenshot of the feature that was included in the Spotify CEO’s tweet revealed that it is capable of storing over three hours worth of listening time, which equates to hundreds of downloaded songs. However, Ek’s announcement was quite brief and did not detail further regarding the new offline playlist, therefore it is uncertain how it actually works.
We’ve been testing out a new feature called "Your Offline Mix" – a playlist designed for those times when you might not be online ✈️
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/9so0FZMRPX
— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) June 8, 2023
It’s also worth mentioning that app researcher Jane Manchun Wong first discovered that the platform was working on an offline listening mode all the way back in 2020. Seeing that YouTube Music had already launched Offline Mixtape the year prior, it was expected that Spotify would eventually introduce its own take not long after. But as just revealed by Ek’s tweet, the service’s own Your Offline Mix feature was only officialised just recently – three years after its discovery by Wong.
Again, with little to go by, it is hard to tell how similar Spotify’s own offline listening feature would be to Youtube Music’s version. For your reference, the latter’s Offline Mixtape downloads up to 500 songs in different playlists by activating the in-app “Smart Download” function. Chances are, Your Offline Mix likely follow a similar approach and maybe have a couple of tricks of its own.
Spotify is working on “Offline User Mix”,
described as “This is your offline mix tailored for you” pic.twitter.com/geGvmFVqJC
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 27, 2020
Regardless, we’ll only find out more once Spotify is ready to fully unveil or launch the new feature. On that note, Ek did not say when the platform plans to release it.
(Source: Spotify, via Daniel Ek [Twitter])
