Spotify is adding DMs

Spotify’s caller messaging diagnostic tin adjacent beryllium utilized by escaped accounts.

Spotify is introducing a direct messaging feature that allows users to stock music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations with each different without leaving the app. Messages is rolling retired successful “select markets” this week, according to Spotify’s property release, and volition beryllium disposable connected mobile devices for Free and Premium users aged 16 years and older.

The messaging diagnostic tin beryllium accessed by tapping the stock icon erstwhile listening to a song, podcast, oregon audiobook successful the Now Playing view, and selecting a person to nonstop it to. Spotify users tin stock contented and commencement messages with radical they stock a Spotify program with, oregon different users they’ve interacted with done Spotify before, specified arsenic via Jams, Blends, and Collaborative Playlists. 

The diagnostic aims to consolidate contented recommendations that already hap implicit texts, societal media, and third-party messaging services into a azygous determination wherever Spotify users tin much easy way their shared content. Any audio contented shared with oregon by the idiosyncratic volition beryllium stored successful the Messages inbox that’s accessed nether the illustration representation successful the top-left country of the app, making it easier to find again successful the future. Spotify says the user-to-user messages are 1:1, enactment substance conversations and emoji reactions, and are protected by “industry-standard encryption” — which volition hopefully forestall immoderate embarrassing information leaks.

Users tin take to judge oregon cull connection requests, artifact different users, oregon opt retired of Messages entirely. Users tin besides study immoderate shared contented and substance messages, oregon the relationship that sent them, by holding down connected the connection to emblem thing nefarious. Spotify says it volition proactively scan Messages for “certain unlawful and harmful content” and reappraisal chats that get reported by users.

It’s unclear if creator accounts volition besides beryllium capable to usage the diagnostic to interact with fans. Spotify says that Messages was created to “complement” however contented is shared done platforms similar Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and TikTok, alternatively than regenerate those interactions. It’s an intriguing societal diagnostic for Spotify to add, particularly since it’s disposable to escaped users, fixed the hefty limitations connected those accounts, and could possibly pave the mode for much nonstop user-to-user enactment features successful the aboriginal if it’s received well.