What's new

Live Music now comes to Windows and Android, with a new home for downloads.

New

• Messages. Chat with friends right in the Friends tab, and send them a song in one tap.
• Visualiser. A live visualiser on its own screen, or glowing behind the big Now Playing view in the colours of the album art. Adjust its strength in Settings.
• Weather. Tap the weather on Home to expand it for more detail, using your approximate or exact location.
• Picture-in-picture. Keep a video playing in a floating window you can move and resize, even outside Live Music.
• Video quality. Choose the quality of videos, and full screen now fills the screen and shows the video's title.
• Right-click any song for quick options, including Add to Queue.
• Rearrange your queue by dragging songs into the order you want.
• Apple Music and TIDAL. See and control what's playing in those apps, just like Spotify (Mac and Windows).
• Logged-in devices. See every device signed in to your account and log out any of them.
• Permissions page in Settings, showing what Live Music can access and why.

Changed

• Everything is free. The Free, Pro and Ultra plans have ended for now. Everyone gets every feature.
• Dark theme is now true black.
• Cleaner menus throughout, sized to fit in with everything around them.
• Android: Spotify has been removed from the phone app. Songs from Spotify in your library play from YouTube instead.

Fixed

• Videos no longer claim to be 1080p when they aren't.
• Songs could play silently on Windows.
• The app could close with "Something went wrong" when a synced song came from an unrecognised service.

• Windows and Android announced, with download buttons in your profile.
• Devices now show their real names, like "Windows 11 Pro" or your phone's name.

• Podcasts. A new Library tab, show pages, chapters on the scrub bar, saved progress, offline downloads and alerts for new episodes.
• Voice boost makes speech clearer in podcasts.
• Sleep mode for falling asleep to music.

• Exclusive audio sends downloaded songs straight to your speakers or DAC at their original quality.
• Artist and album pages.
• A bottom player bar, two-panel layouts and a side panel you can customise.
• Listen Together on their speaker: play music on a friend's device once they accept.

• Home layouts: Spotlight, Dashboard and Mix-first.
• A new welcome tour for first-time users.
• Up Next and History in Now Playing, and a Downloaded filter in the sidebar.

• Clear warnings and a Reload button when a service is having problems.
• Back and forward buttons, and a new About page with automatic updates.
• An album art strength slider.

• Share playlists with a link, or send them straight to friends.
• Artist mixes on Home, on artist pages and in search.
• Shared and smart playlists.

• Spotify songs get the new Now Playing design, with synced lyrics and More Like This.

• A fresh look. New Settings with light, dark and adaptive themes, a new sidebar, a Search page with genres, and a redesigned Now Playing and full screen.