New Spotify features let listeners explore the people and stories behind their favorite music

On Wednesday, Spotify Announce New features designed to highlight the people behind users’ favorite music, including producers, engineers, songwriters, background singers and more. The company will also release tools explaining how the songs are related and what inspired them.

The second set of instruments is showcased in a new interactive feature called SongDNA, which shows which songs are sampled on a given track, who covered the tune, and what other projects the song’s collaborators may have been involved with.

TechCrunch reported in October Spotify was developing the SongDNA feature as a way to help users discover music through song credits, after references to the feature were reported. spotted In the application code by reverse engineer Jin Manchun Wong. With SongDNA, Spotify users can explore other projects involving artists, musicians, and others who have worked on a track.

Previously, the Song Credits feature only showed lead performance, songwriting, and production credits.

Meanwhile, references to the music samples come from the database created by the online community WhoSampled, which Spotify has acquired. It is worth noting that it is also offered by the TIDAL streaming service Interactive credits Which allows users to explore music through the contributors behind the songs.

Spotify has also planned a feature called About Song, which will allow listeners to explore swipeable cards in the Now Playing view. These cards will provide details such as what inspired the song, stories behind the music, cultural influence, and more. These stories are sourced from external sources, which will be linked into the cards.

This kind of background information about music is something Spotify has offered in previous years, when it partnered with lyrics site Genius for a feature It offered details about the backstories of certain tracks. However, this feature was limited to those stories that Genius had in its database. The upcoming feature will link to various places on the web, screenshots show, including informational sites like Wikipedia, as well as news sites.

Spotify says the expanded song credits will roll out starting Wednesday on mobile devices and will come to desktop in the coming months.

SongDNA and About the Song will only be available to premium subscribers. However, these features won’t launch until early next year, initially as Spotify for Artists Preview. This will give those involved with the music the opportunity to preview features first and ensure the credits are accurate before they are made available to a wider audience.