Quick tip: You can see songs that have been pulled from Spotify

Here’s a quick tip you Spotify users might or might not know. By default the music streaming service hides the songs that have been pulled from its service. But if you want to check if a particular song is out of its roster, you can head to settings, which is located at the cog wheel on the upper right corner of Your Library section and just select Show unplayable songs/Show unavailable songs in playlists. If you’re on the desktop client, head to Edit > Preferences and then scroll down to Display Options. From there, you can see grayed out song titles. It won’t show any information if the song is coming back or why it left in the first place. But if you want to see which songs you might want to download so you can have them in your collection, this is a good thing to turn on.

Source: The Verge

Taylor Swift brings back her catalog to music streaming services

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After pulling out her back catalog from music streaming services, Taylor Swift is getting back together with the likes of Spotify, Google Play, and Amazon Music. Her management made the announcement on Twitter saying this was to celebrate the sale of over 10 million copies worldwide of her latest album, 1989. Swift pulled out of streaming services like Spotify because she said they didn’t compensate artists fairly. She had particular trouble with Spotify’s free tier. But now it seems all of that is behind her and her catalog should start showing up at your music streaming service of choice.

Source: The Verge

Spotify makes music discovery and sharing with QR-style Spotify Codes

Sharing music on Spotify right now is a bit of a tedious affair. It involves tapping through a bunch of menus before you can send a link to someone. Spotify is simplifying the process with its new Spotify Codes feature. This QR-style format is currently only available on mobile but is easily accessible.

If you want to share a song with your friend, all you have to do is tap on the three dot menu option and you’ll see Spotify Codes on top with the album cover. The code itself is a wave-like figure beside the Spotify logo. From there, your friend can open his or her Spotify account and head to Search tab. You’ll now see a camera icon on the search bar. Tap on that and scan the image and it’ll automatically play the song on his or her device. If you aren’t together, screenshots of the code works, too. They can pull up the images from their Gallery as well to get the song to play.

Source: TechCrunch

Spotify brings ‘Behind the Lyrics’ to Android

Spotify updates its Android app to bring a feature iOS users have had since over a year ago. Called “Behind the Lyrics,” this feature was introduced in collaboration with Genius, a former rap lyric site turned musical storyteller. The feature shows thing like what inspired them when they created the song and things like “lyrical excerpts, fun facts, and stories straight from the artists themselves.” If you want to see specific playlists that show these features, try Behind the Lyrics: Hip Hop and Today’s Top Hits.

Source: Droid Life