Spotify offers messages within the app to share music recommendations with your friends

The subscribers spoke, listen to Spotify.

This week, the 19 -year -old Swedish music broadcast service He will start to launch messages Within the subscription application for subscribers to share recommendations about music, podcasts and audio books. The messages will be available for free and distinguished members of 16 and above on mobile devices in some markets.

Spotify says it “will continue to build and improve the experience of more Spotify users all over the world in the coming months.”

The company confirmed that its messages inside the application should not be the only place where users share recommendations. “As always, you should continue to share Spotify content directly through your favorite platforms like Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Tiktok and more. The messages are designed on Spotify to complete this integration, not replace them.”

Spotify says that messages will not only be great for users, but also artists, authors and creators to publish the word about their work and “create new fans.”

The addition of this feature is a big victory. Hyton told CNET: “Anything that Spotify makes it more like a social network and involves fans useful to artists and other creators,” Hutton told CNET. “The biggest victory for them will be if Spotify expands messages to allow them to send their fans message.”

The new process is clear: Click the sharing icon next to everything you listen to in the operating offer now, select a friend, and click “Send”. At the recipient, you can accept the request for messages, respond with emojis and text, and share content with the other person. You can access messages from your profile image in the upper left corner.

Currently, the messages will be only individual conversations with the people who have previously interacted with Spotify. This includes friends and family with whom the Spotify content with them includes, joined JAMS, Blends or cooperative operating lists, or if you are sharing a family or binary plan.

Spotify said its standard rules against “illegal content and damage” are valid in the messages and that their encryption technology will protect the data there.