Spotify Friends Mix makes you a playlist based on what your friends are listening to

If your friends have excellent taste in music and you want to get in on that, Spotify has another automated playlist that brings you the latest tracks your friends are listening to. You will need to use Spotify's Blend feature for Friends Mix to work. According to Spotify, Your Friends Mix will create an ever-updating playlist based on what you and your friends are listening to.

The Friends Mix relies on your old Spotify Blends, so if you haven't made those yet. You need to first. When you've created three Blends, the Friends Mix should automatically generate. You'll have access to it on your Made For You hub. This playlist updates daily. It's currently available on iOS and the desktop.

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Spotify discontinues its Car Thing production

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It's only been around five months since Spotify launched its first hardware. But the company announced it would stop making its dash-mounted Car Thing device. The announcement was made during its latest earnings release for shareholders. 

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Spotify's Blend tool adds more artists

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Spotify updated its Blend playlist feature to add more artists. The streaming service updated this tool to let you combine your music tastes with another Spotify user. In this case, it's used to "blend" with one of your favourite artists and get a personalized playlist that updates daily based on your listening habits. It launched with artists like BTS, Charli XCX, Lauv, Megan Thee Stallion, and more. The new update adds Lizzo, Post Malone, and The Chainsmokers.

It also allows you to buy merch from one of these artists. After you get your taste match score with an artist you "blended" with, you'll be encouraged to purchase featured merch via their Spotify Shopify page. According to Spotify, the artists selected all the merch on that page.

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Spotify buys music trivia game 'Heardle'

Heardle interface now shows the Spotify logo on the top left

Spotify recently acquired Heardle, a themed trivia game that came out in the wake of Wordle's massive popularity and success. Heardle is Spotify's first game acquisition. The streaming service hopes to use Heardle to keep music fans engaged and act as a music discovery tool. It'll remain a standalone website for now. Spotify has started integration in a few countries, including Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. But there are plans to bring it more with other language support soon. It also intends to integrate Heardle "more fully" into the app, but Spotify hasn't mentioned how or when that will happen. Spotify hasn't revealed how much it paid for the game, which it says has millions of players now.

Heardle works similarly to Wordle. You have to guess a song being played within six tries. It'll play you a few seconds of the opening notes, with the length increasing after asking for a hint. When the answer gets revealed or guessed at the end, it will now link to the song on Spotify (it used to link to SoundCloud).

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