Spotify’s New Offline Backup Playlists Will Be a Game Changer for Frequent Flyers

Spotify announced a caller diagnostic Thursday that volition wholly alteration however I fly. The euphony streaming app volition diagnostic Offline Backup: an offline playlist automatically generated based connected your precocious streamed tracks.

Yes, Spotify already allows offline playlists, but users indispensable manually download each way that goes in. The caller diagnostic volition guarantee an offline playlist has been auto-created for you. It volition look connected your provender similar a regular playlist, and you tin adhd it to your library, too.

Offline Backup was released successful beta past twelvemonth and has officially rolled retired contiguous for Premium Spotify users connected iOS and Android, including Android Auto and Apple CarPlay worldwide.

I eagerly look guardant to however overmuch clip and effort this diagnostic volition save. I wasn’t a instrumentality of offline playlists simply due to the fact that manually hand-picking everything I’d privation to perceive to connected an hours-long formation would beryllium my past precedence portion packing for a trip. Also, euphony tastes and opus preferences are ever-evolving, truthful having a azygous offline playlist for each formation is difficult.

The champion happening astir Offline Backup is that it knows what you’ve been listening to lately and volition germinate with your euphony taste. Feeding your preferences successful real-time volition guarantee that it caters to your streaming choices. It besides allows filtering, truthful you tin easy benignant done the playlist by looking up the artist, genre, oregon adjacent mood.

If your app is up to date, Offline Backup volition automatically amusement up connected your feed. Spotify requires lone that you person precocious listened to much than 5 songs and person offline listening enabled. You tin bash the second by going into Settings connected the Spotify app > Data Saving > Offline oregon Storage. Then, navigate to the Offline Listening toggle connected this leafage and crook it on.

Spotify has precocious been experimenting with hands-off, minimal-effort playlist creation. Just past week, its AI playlist builder became disposable successful the US, which allows users to make a customized playlist based connected a prompt. The app was seen toying with the diagnostic in October of past year, and it was released successful beta successful April this year and for the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand in September.

Rewinding a small much volition instrumentality you backmost to 1 of the earliest Spotify AI features, the AI DJ, unveiled successful August 2023. Though that wasn’t the biggest deed among the assemblage (we weren’t the biggest fans of it either), we’re looking guardant to seeing however adjuvant Offline Backup really proves to be.