- Spotify has launched its new organizational tool, smart filters, which is in your library
- This new function sorts your music recorded by activity, mood or gender, allowing you to explore specific areas of your library
- It started to deploy premium users, but does not yet filter individual songs
The sadly loaded interface of Spotify obtains a TLC long awaited thanks to the new filtering tools of the musical streaming service. Intelligent filters provide your artists and reading lists recorded while allowing you to explore your library to a deeper level.
The new Smart Filters features, which Spotify has announced via a blog article, are designed to sort your recorded music library a softer and more personal experience. Divided into three main categories, activities, moods and genres, each will present their own range of sub -filters – an easier way to reduce the content of your library when you are looking for a specific atmosphere.
For example, your category of activities shows presets such as “running”, “party” and even “cry” – because we must all let it go. In recent years, Spotify has really pushed its accent on listening to “mood”, and it is no different with smart filters. You can select from its “relaxing”, “melancholy” and “Happy Dance” presets, as well as subcategories of “Indie Pop”, “Female Soul” and specific filters for decades.
Smart filters have started to move to Premium users and will be available in the coming weeks in certain markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. Once you have access, smart filters are very easy to find:
- Go to Your library In the Spotify application, and you will see the new Smart filter icon at the top left under your profile image.
- When you press the icon, a contextual window appears displaying the three categories (activities, moods, genres) and their sub-filters.
- Select a sub-filter, and Your library Will return to the framing of your selection.
In a world of pre-intelligent filters, the Spotify library section was a congested disorder, displaying your loved songs and albums, artists and reading lists recently played in a chaotic music jungle.
While filters have been an integral part of your library for some time, smart filters allow you to dive more into your recorded music and make them easier to navigate. Until now, smart filters have been received positively by users, including me, but there is a setback that won my view of the new functionality.
If only he included my saved songs
At first glance, smart filters do a magnificent job to bring together my artists and albums saved in subcategories.
When I select the filter “barbecue” under “activities”, it generates a large list of artists who, according to him, would suit such an event perfectly, and he will even give you a “albums” filter if he finds links that hang out in your library. That said, it would be even smarter than it included songs recorded in my loved songs, or individual album songs that I saved.
More often than not, I count on a queue of individual songs rather than the reading of a specific artist to bring energy to a particular social gathering or to a solo activity. The option of filtering songs would also make the responsibility to add songs to a much less intimidating queue.
However, intelligent filters are still in their infancy, so I do not yet prevent them. In addition, I can already see a lot of potential when it comes to relying on my own reading lists as well as making news. For example, the activation of the preset of “dinner” under activities presents a reduced list of saved artists, which would be much easier than browsing other places of the application – although I still like it all.
