May 10, 2023
TV Spatial Navigation
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 EngineerProduct
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April 27, 2023Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology
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 -
January 18, 2023Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework
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 -
January 5, 2023What’s a “Listening Personality”?
We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a thing called Your [...]
Published by glenn mcdonald, Data Alchemy -
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October 25, 2022Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
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 -
June 1, 2022Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
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 -
April 28, 2022Spotify Live: From Live to Recording
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 -
April 14, 2022Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
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 -
March 11, 2022Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. [...]
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March 1, 2022Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
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 -
December 17, 2021The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
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 -
December 7, 2021A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
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 -
October 5, 2021A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
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September 7, 2021Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
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 -
August 4, 2021Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
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March 3, 2020Per Wendin: Head of Patents
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 [...]
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February 5, 2020Ajay Kalia: Group Product Manager
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 [...]
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November 27, 2017Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Product Manager Sabrina Aronson
This is part 1 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
