- Spotify has launched its new organizational tool, smart filters that can be found in your library
- This new feature sorts your saved music by activity, mood or genre so you can explore specific areas of your library
- It has begun to roll out to premium users but do not filter individual songs yet
Spotify’s notorious cluttered interface gets a long time TLC thanks to Music Streaming Service’s new filtration tools. Smart filters bring some orders to your saved artists and playlists while allowing you to explore your library at a deeper level.
The new smart filters features that Spotify advertised via a blog post is designed to sort your library with stored music a smoother and more personal experience. Divided into three broad categories, activities, moods and genres will each present their own selection of subfilter — a easier way of narrowing the content of your library when searching for a particular mood.
For example, your activity category shows presets such as ‘Running’, ‘Party’ and even ‘Crying’ – because we all have to escape it at times. In recent years, Spotify has really pushed his focus on listening to ‘mood’ and it is no different with smart filters. You can choose from its ‘relaxing’, ‘melancholy’ and ‘Happy Dance’ presets as well as genre subcategories from ‘Indie Pop’, to ‘Female Soul’ and Meadeness Specific Filters.
Smart filters have started rolling out to Premium users and will be available in the coming weeks in selected markets, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. When you have access, smart filters are very easy to find:
- Go to Your library In the Spotify app, you see the new Smart filter Icon at the top left below your profile picture.
- When you press the icon, a pop-up displayed showing the three categories (activities, moods, genres) and their subfilter.
- Choose an Underfilter and Your library Will be switched to so it matches your choice.
In a pre-smart filter World, Spotify’s library department has been a messy mess that shows your desired songs and recently played albums, artists and playlists all in a chaotic jungle of music.
While filters have been integrated into your library for some time, smart filters allow you to dive further into your hidden music and make them easier to navigate. So far, smart filters have been positively received by users, myself included, but there is a setback that shadows my view of the new feature.
If it only included my hidden songs
At first glance, smart filters make a wonderful job of grouping my hidden artists and albums into subcategories.
When I choose the ‘Grill’ filter under ‘Activities’, it generates an extensive list of artists that it thinks would be a perfect fit for such an event and it will even give you an ‘albums’ filter if it finds any related related to your library. With that said, it would be even smarter if this included songs stored in my likes songs or individual songs from albums I’ve stored.
More often than not, I depend on a queue of individual songs rather than the playback of a particular artist to bring the energy to a particular social collection or solo activity. The possibility of filtering songs would also make the responsibility of adding songs to a jam -queue that is much less scary.
However, smart filters are still in their infant, so I don’t close them yet. Furthermore, I can already see great potential when it comes to building on my own playlists as well as making fresh. For example, activating ‘Dinner Party’ presents the preset during activities a narrowed list of saved artists, which would be much easier than scurrying through elsewhere in the app self-self I still fully enjoy doing this.
