In a blog post today, Spotify shared particulars of a revamped Apple Watch app that makes enhancements to usability and offline playback. It additionally provides extra visible polish with greater album artwork and new animations. “You’ll be able to more easily browse and choose your favorite music and podcasts in Your Library, as well as more quickly download music to listen offline from the watch itself,” the put up reads. “There’s also a new sleek design with larger artwork, animations, and added functionality—like swiping to like a song.”

The put up additionally highlights different gadgets on which Spotify has not too long ago change into accessible. The streaming music service can be utilized inside the ambient mode / screensaver on Amazon’s newest Fire TV QLED televisions, letting subscribers discover suggestions or “flick through albums, songs, and playlists using the remote control.” Spotify has additionally introduced its Spotify Tap shortcut to Meta’s Ray-Ban Stories sun shades. This allows you to instantly begin taking part in music in your cellphone by tapping and holding on the facet of the glasses; many earbuds and headphones now supply the Spotify Tap characteristic as nicely.

Spotify’s newest weblog put up makes no reference to Spotify HiFi — the service’s long-delayed lossless streaming tier that was introduced 625 days in the past — or rumors that the corporate is considering a dearer “Platinum” plan that would value $19.99 per thirty days. As Amazon Music has proven this month, there are causes to proceed rigorously with potential adjustments to the service: Amazon’s choice to broaden the catalog of music accessible to Prime prospects has been drowned out by complaints from individuals outraged over dropping on-demand playback capabilities. The model of Amazon Music included with Prime now forces subscribers into shuffle mode and has made it harder to listen to particular songs utilizing the app and Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.

Spotify notes that you simply’ll want the most recent model of its iOS app to get the refreshed Apple Watch expertise — so it seems like that replace has been permitted a minimum of. The identical couldn’t be stated final month when Spotify and Apple once more received right into a public spat over App Store insurance policies. Spotify accused Apple of hindering its newly launched audiobooks initiative however finally launched an replace that adhered to Apple’s guidelines.