Spotify is one of the most popular streaming music services, everyone knows it, everyone uses it, but few know and exploit its potential and tricks to fully enjoy the most customizable music player there is. For this reason, a guide to Spotify, the most complete multi-platform app with functions for listening to music, on PC, smartphone, tablet and via the web, is useful.
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Using Spotify is easy, the guide therefore First of all it is important to know that Spotify can be used both as a program to be installed on a PC and as a music web player accessible on the play.spotify.com site.
As with Youtube, the key to using Spotify effectively is the creation of playlists, i.e. lists of songs organized by genres or authors.
We have seen, in this regard, how to find playlists for Spotify via the web .
After creating or importing several playlists, from the Spotify program it is possible to create folders to organize the various Playlists, so as to keep them sorted in turn.
You can create a new playlist folder from the File menu or even with the shortcut CTRL + Shift + N.
The Playlists can then be dragged with the mouse into the created folder.
To put a song in a playlist, found with the search or from the automatic playlists of the Navigate section, just press on it with the right button, both on the program version and on the desktop version.
The + button to the left of the title of a song is used to put that song as a favorite, to be found again in the " Your music " section where the various songs are automatically grouped by album or artist.
You can also add entire albums to "your music" by looking for an artist's name and clicking the + on the cover of one of the albums.
It is also possible to add all the songs in a playlist to the favorite songs section of "your music" quickly by selecting all the songs much faster, selecting all the songs (on the Spotify program by clicking on a song in the list and then pressing the Ctrl + A) and then dragging them using the mouse in the songs section in "your music"
In the end, after organizing the playlists, it's time to download the songs to be able to hear them from your mobile phone even without an internet connection .
With Spotify your favorite songs and playlists can be downloaded to your smartphone via the Spotify app and a Spotify Premium subscription that costs 10 euros per month (1 Euro for the first three months).
Rather than buying CD or MP3 or otherwise, even if you are not used to buying music, instead of keeping jig and jig of mp3 files on your computer which are then transferred to your smartphone manually, this Spotify feature is worth its price.
To make Spotify more powerful and full of functions, we must not forget the applications, which are plugins of external services, for example, to see the lyrics of the songs or to know the dates of the concerts of the favorite artists.
Another article describes the best apps for Spotify that are found from the main menu on the left in the program, under the item Search App
As for the search for music, it is important to know the supported operators to filter and refine the results in order to find exactly what you want.
For example, if you simply search for Vasco Rossi, an infinite list of albums, songs, playlist profiles opens and the only thing you can do is click on the list of the most listened to hear the most popular ones.
To filter the search for music in Spotify, for example, you can limit the results by the date by searching, for example, artist: Vasco Rossi year: 1985-1989 .
Other search operators, besides Artist and Year are:
AND, OR and NOT to find results for two words, to have an alternative or to exclude a word.
track : search for a specific song
album : search by album.
label : search by record labels.
In addition to searching, Spotify also works great for sharing favorite songs or entire playlists with friends .
You can create publicly visible playlists, let friends see what we listened to recently and create links for individual tracks, profiles, playlists, artists, albums.
At the end, for each element, you can click the right mouse button to find the sharing options, copying the link or even the code to embed the song on your blog or website.
You can also remain completely invisible on Spotify, to completely avoid the social aspect, by clicking on " Edit -> Preferences " at the top of the program window.
From the first screen, you can deselect all the Profile and Sharing options .
If you prefer, you can stay connected with social networks, but keep one or more playlists private by right clicking on them and choosing the " make secret " option.
There are many ways Spotify lets you listen to your favorite music and discover new songs, also thanks to the charts in the Browse section, with automatic lists of " moods " that allow you to hear suitable music based on the time of day or on the basis of emotion proven.
In the end the price of a premium subscription for Spotify is also justified, especially if you want to listen to your favorite music using your smartphone like an iPod, even offline and without the need for an internet connection.
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