Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on podcasts or [...]
Published by Maheen Khalid, Senior Engineer
Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
Published by Viktor Petrovski (Android Engineer), Dmitry Povolotskyi (Senior iOS Engineer), and Bruno Rocha (Senior iOS Engineer)
What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? [...]
Published by Mark Koh, Senior ML Engineer
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team [...]
Published by Euan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home serves [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager
Very often, when developing user interfaces, a lot of focus is given to the visuals, as that’s what primarily gets [...]
Published by Sergio Avalos, Senior Engineer
TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by creating algorithmically personalized [...]
Published by Christopher Barthle, Engineering Manager
At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches are here to help teams and leaders thrive as we [...]
Published by Fiona Siseman, Alia Rose Connor, and Cara Lemon
We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a thing called Your [...]
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TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve made climate action one of our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe [...]
Published by Rachel Bittner, Sr. Research Scientist
Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and [...]
Published by Robert Segura, Senior Engineer
In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, [...]
Published by Josh Brown, Senior Developer Advocate
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s Audio Aura based on how they listened this [...]
Published by Zela Taino, Engineer
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users [...]
Published by Jen Lamere, Senior Engineer
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Ajay is a Group Product Manager on the Voice team and has worked in our Boston office ever since it was set up. Here, he talks us through a typical day and explains why he’s still so excited to be part of [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
This is part 1 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
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