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Spotify remains a leading app when it comes to listening to music behind the wheel, and the company wants to make sure nothing changes about it.
This is why Spotify is interested in improving the experience of listening to music on all fronts, even when it comes to subscribers using the app behind the wheel.
Reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong has discovered major improvements for car mode, including a more polished user interface that makes more sense for the driver.
First of all, car mode is getting bigger thumbnails for recommended playlists. This is something that makes sense inside a vehicle because the driver thus reduces the time spent looking at the screen. Then there’s a redesigned navigation bar for car mode, as well as a banner at the top of the user interface that tells users that they can control the app with the Google Assistant.
Spotify will do a great deal with the Google Assistant integration, so Android device users can start listening to music in the app by saying “Hi Google, play my songs on Spotify.”Music playback would thus start hands-free without the need for touch input.
The player user interface for car mode is also being overhauled, with the album art now larger, but also with a voice input button replacing the Like option. Again, it seems that Spotify wants the Google Assistant to be a more important feature of the experience it offers users, and this certainly makes a lot of sense in a car.
And last but not least, it is another feature that would be aimed at everyone, but which would also be useful when getting behind the wheel and driving in a tunnel with a bad phone signal.
Spotify will allow free users to play music offline for 30 minutes every day, so if you are unsubscribed and always wanted this functionality, the app will soon provide it to everyone. Subscribers can continue to enjoy unlimited offline music.
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