Spotify has updated its iOS mobile app with a new feature called Touch Preview. Touch Preview allows to preview a song by simply touching the band’s preview icon. If you like the music, you easily save the track by swiping left and queue it up by swiping right. Touch preview is coming to iOS today and will be on other platforms soon.
Introducing Touch Preview: a better way to preview any song, album, artist or playlist
● Hear a sneak peek: preview and discover new favourites with our latest feature
● Build your collection in seconds: save your favourite tunes to Your Music with one quick swipe
Finding the right music to fit the moment can be a challenge. Sweating over a new party playlist, or the right song to kick off your morning run? Checking out our recommended playlists and new releases in Browse but simply spoilt for choice? So much music, so little time.
Say hello to Touch Preview. Now, with a simple gesture, you can preview any playlist, song, album or artist before you hit play. Just hold down your finger to the screen and the music will start playing instantly.
Like what you hear? You can now save tunes to Your Music with one quick swipe. Building your collection of favourite songs has never been so smooth.
Our new gestures make music discovery immersive, seamless and instant:
● Want to preview? You can press and hold on any song, album, artist or playlist to start listening. The music starts instantly. Drag your finger to move between each song. To play the entire track, simply tap on it.
● Already listening to something? Once you’ve finished previewing, we’ll take you back to the exact moment you left your previous session.
● Want to listen later? We’ve made it even simpler to save and queue the songs you like. Just swipe left to save to Your Music, or swipe right to queue. Easy.
“For decades, music fans have had to rely on a rather clumsy way of scanning through songs, albums and playlists,” says Sten Garmark, VP of Product at Spotify. “With Touch Preview we’re taking music discovery to the next level, offering our listeners a unique and entirely new way of finding out what to listen to. It means less time looking for the perfect music, and more time actually listening to it.”
Both Touch Preview and our new swipe gestures are available to iOS users from today, and will soon be rolled out across other platforms.
To see it in action, check out this video we made.
About Spotify
Spotify is an award-winning digital music service that gives you on-demand access to over 30 million tracks. Our dream is to make all the world’s music available instantly to everyone, wherever and whenever you want it. Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with your friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal.
Spotify is now available in 58 markets globally with more than 60 million active users, and over 15 million paying subscribers.
Since its launch in Sweden in 2008, Spotify has driven more than $2 billion to rights holders. Spotify is now the second biggest source of digital music revenue for labels in Europe, and the biggest and most successful music streaming service of its kind globally.
