Spotify’s latest upgrade is genius — but not enough to bring me back from Apple Music


Offline playlists on music streamers aren’t a new innovation — and those with miserly data plans will no doubt have plenty of them. The best music streaming services all let you pick and choose tracks to store locally for when you lose your internet connection.

The trouble is that this requires a bit of forward planning. Once offline, you can’t download more, so you’re stuck with nothing, or whatever you set up the last time you revisited your offline playlists — which might be wildly out of kilter with your current listening habits.

This week, Spotify announced a genius update to fix this for subscribers to its Premium service. It’s called “Offline Backup,” and will take the effort out of planning offline playlists. When playing normally, the app will observe your listening habits, and keep a bunch of tracks that you’ve already streamed locally in an Offline Backup playlist, ready to go when you lose your connection. 

Spotify Offline Backup

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Crucially, this will “evolve” over time, Spotify explains. “If you’re looking for a certain vibe, you can filter and sort songs within the playlist by artist, mood, and even genre—and Offline Backup evolves as you continue to listen, so you’ll always have something new,” the company says



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