Spotify has been working on a new design for its dwelling tab that can create separate feeds on your music and your podcasts. The firm says it’s a part of an effort to present you extra and higher suggestions, nevertheless it additionally addresses a standard criticism of the Spotify expertise: with each form of audio smushed collectively within the app, it could actually typically be arduous to determine.

The new dwelling feed, which is rolling out now for Android customers and is coming to iOS “in the near future,” really doesn’t look that completely different at first look. But up on the prime of the display are two new buttons: one for Music and one for Podcasts & Shows. Tapping a kind of will take you into separate feeds. Music will present you options primarily based on what you’ve been listening to, whereas Podcasts & Shows will floor the most recent episodes of your favourite exhibits plus suggestions for brand spanking new ones. They’re not a lot new dwelling screens as new filters on your dwelling display. (I’d moderately simply have them be separate tabs altogether, however I’ll take what I can get.)

The change appears notably helpful for podcast listeners, because it turns Spotify into one thing a lot nearer to an precise podcast app. It’s been oddly tough till now to simply open Spotify and discover a podcast to take heed to; Spotify largely selected to intermingle podcasts and music, relegating your podcast feed to a playlist known as “New Episodes.” The firm appears to be endlessly redesigning its Library web page, however the dwelling display has stayed largely the identical lately.

Now podcasts are far more entrance and middle, which is a win for listeners but additionally a sign of how necessary podcasts are to Spotify. As the corporate appears desperately for methods to become profitable from audio, it has invested closely in turning into the most important podcasting participant in the marketplace. It’s making a giant push into video, too, which additionally figures to be the kind of function that wants a devoted area within the app. (And let’s not even get into audiobooks, that are a complete completely different kind of audio product and can be even tougher to combine into Spotify.)

Part of Spotify’s complete plan to dominate audio has been to convey every little thing — from music to books to podcasts to dwell audio — all right into a single place. That’s a tough UI downside, and one the corporate hasn’t at all times gotten proper. In this case, it appears like giving issues their very own area is the fitting name. And it offers Spotify heaps and many new methods to attempt to get you listening to Joe Rogan and the remainder of its pods.