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Spotify Radio Station is one of the major selling points for Spotify. Providing previous listening history for analysis, users can use it to discover music they would like to listen but haven't got the chance to find. Thanks to this feature, a lot of people are expanding their music terrains. What is more, it is different from the traditional radio as you skip tracks as you wish and it has no times limit.
There is a defect about Spotify radio: it only plays safe by recommending you the song similar to your history. But people change all the time so does the music taste. It is not uncommon that out of blue, we want to listen to a certain music genre that is really different from the old one. In order to get recommended songs that fit your current style more, you can start with creating your own radio playlist. After that, you get some new recommendations. In this post, we also provide a tool for you to download the music if you want offline playback or ad block.
Part 1. How to Create Spotify Radio Station
Now Spotify Radio can run on the desktop, iPhone, iPad and Android mobile. Some of you might notice that Web player doesn't have Spotify radio anymore. We will show you every step to create a radio playlist on your different devices.
1. On desktop
• Go to menu bar and click on 'Radio'.
• Click on 'CREATE NEW STATION' on the Radio section page.
• Enter a track, artist or playlist you like in the search box. (Some tracks, artists, or playlists might not be available in Spotify Radio.)
• Tap the target one to get started.
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• Go to the song, artist, or playlist page.
• Right-click on the subject or click on '…' button.
• Choose 'Go to Song/playlist/album Radio'.
2. On iPhone/ iPad/ Android Mobile
The setting process is the same for iPhone, iPad and Android Mobile.
• Tap on button 'Radio' in the menu at the button of the screen.
• Tap on 'New Station ' button on the left top of the screen.
• Enter a track, artist, or playlist in the search box.
• Tap the song you would like to listen on the radio.
Note you can also set your own station by hitting'…' button and choosing 'Start Radio'.
After you add your selected songs, the system will randomly add other songs but based on your selected songs as well as your listening history.
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Part 2. What Would You Do if You Want Offline Listening
What can you do if you run into some songs you become attracted to on Spotify radio station, you can download it by prescribing Premium, or you can use some help from our product TuneFab Spotify Music Converter to download and convert the songs to any free formats recognizable on any music players. Besides its major feature as a music converter, you can set the audio parameters according to your personal needs and ID3 information won't miss after the conversion finished.
Next, I will show you how to use it.
Step 1. Open Spotify Music Converter
Click on 'Try it Free' to download it. For your consideration, we provide a 30-day free trial for your own product experience.
Step 2. Import Spotify Music
Run Spotify on your computer and find the songs you think suit you taste, drag and drop them on the interface of Spotify Music Converter.
Step 3. Adjust Output File
Go to 'Option'>'General', location change is accessible in this section. You can skip this part to save the file in the default folder.
Next go to 'Advanced' window, you are allowed to adjust format, samplerate and bitrate of the converted music. Available formats are MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC.
Step 4. Start Conversion
Once everything is done, the conversion process will begin right away as soon as you tap 'Convert'.
Spotify Radio gives us a chance to spot different kinds of music based on our styles. It is particularly useful for those loving listening to music but having to be stuck with the old songs for lack of time to find new songs. Now start setting up you unique station and you will be amazed by how better Spotify knows you than you do.
If you want to keep the new songs to yourself, consider using TuneFab Spotify Music Converter to download the songs to your local files.
Digital music might not have the same allure as sitting down to listen to a record on your turntable, but what it lacks in atmosphere, it makes up for in convenience — especially when you aren't home with your collection.
It's been five years since Spotify publicly launched and shifted the music industry's focus toward streaming as a way to combat illegal downloading. While the streaming business model is far from perfect, even the most casual music fan should test out streaming while it's still growing.
See also: How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy
If you're just dipping your toe into the stream, follow our beginner's guide and soon you'll be listening to Spotify's massive library without the worry of losing precious hard drive space.
Signing Up
As with most services, you can register for Spotify by connecting your Facebook account for optimal social features, or create an account with your email address.
Pick the subscription that suits your music habits. The prices are in USD, but the tiers are the same internationally: No cost will get you desktop listening interrupted by ads; $4.99 per month allows for unlimited desktop streaming; users who pay the premium $9.99 per month can listen on all desktop (via desktop app or web player) and mobile devices with offline syncing privileges on mobile (Spotify Radio is the only free mobile feature.)
Users at the premium tier can also listen to music at a higher bit rate, which is essential for anyone who has quality headphones or earbuds.
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Before you start listening, check your preferences and privacy settings to make sure you are sharing as much or as little with the world as you'd like. If you connected your Spotify to Facebook but don't want to broadcast your tunes on your News Feed, uncheck the Facebook sharing option. Leave the Spotify sharing section checked to show up in your followers' feeds — this amplifies Spotify's social music discovery potential.
This page is important because you can choose whether or not to make your playlists viewable to the public as soon as you start, or make it public on your own terms. Also, you can opt-out of Spotify showing your top artists and tracks on your public profile, if you aren't one to brag about such things. Plus, you can connect your Spotify account to Last.fm so your scrobbles stay representative.
Organizing Your Music
Library and Local Files
In the left sidebar, you will find your Collection. Here, you can access local files (go to Preferences to manage the folders from which Spotify can import files) and music saved to playlists. The Library section puts all of this music in one place. By accessing the files found on your hard drive, Spotify acts as a one-stop shop for listening to all your music, meaning you don't have to open iTunes or another player.
Playlists
Playlists are Spotify's main draw. You can create your own by clicking the New Playlist button, or following and subscribing to other users' playlists. Bookmark an album by saving it as a playlist, too.
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You can also set up a collaborative playlist among friends to prep for that that perfect road trip or party. Right click on a playlist to check off the collaborative option and share the playlist with your friends. This alt-menu also shows the option to change the privacy settings to 'Make Public' or 'Make Secret,' depending on your preferences.
See also: 11 Tips and Tricks for Spotify Power Users
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If you want to stay up-to-date with a specific user's playlist, click the green 'Follow' button on the bottom of the top title bar, and it will save to your side bar. You'll get a notification when songs are added to the playlist.
Play Queue
This option is ideal for when you aren't listening to an album, since queuing up a song via the right-click menu will place it after the track you are currently listening to, and will interrupt a record.
When listening to a playlist or playing music in the background, the queue is great for accommodating requests and spur of the moment sing-a-longs with friends.
Sharing and Discovering Tunes
In the last year, Spotify has significantly amped up its social and music discovery features to keep up with its competitor Rdio, which prioritizes social discovery.
See also: 7 Music Discovery Tools to Find New Tunes
Following
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Spotify lets you follow friends, artists and organizations (follow Mashable's account here!) to see what your network is listening to. You will get a notification when artists you follow add music to their catalogues.
The social feed lives in the right sidebar, and at the top Spotify will make recommendations to follow, including Facebook friends or artists your friends enjoy. This feed will show what your friends are listening to right now, songs they've added to playlists, new playlists they've created, tracks they've starred, and playlists, songs and albums they've shared on Spotify.
If you didn't register your Spotify account through Facebook, you can still search for friends and organizations via the search bar.
Sending and Sharing Music
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You can highlight your favorite music in Spotify's social feed by sharing via the button on artist, album or playlist pages, or the right-click menu. Write a message and check your connected social networks if you want to share to Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, too.
The Send tab on the right of the box allows you to send music to individual users in a private message.
Discover
The Discover section is filled with custom recommendations based on your music history. If you are stuck picking out something new to listen to, you can get lost scrolling down this page.
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In addition to suggestions of new artists deemed algorithmically similar to ones you already love, Spotify will remind you of albums and songs you haven't listened to in a while. Sometimes the recommendations don't feel right, but the algorithm can only improve the more you use it. Unfortunately, there is no option to reject or modify suggestions at this time.
If you are unsure you might like one of Spotify's suggestions, hover over the album art until a play button appears. Then click it and hold down to preview the song.
This will interrupt whatever you are currently listening to, but once you let go of the play button, your song will resume. It is not the smoothest listening feature, but it can come in handy, especially when browsing to make a playlist.
Apps
Spotify's unique apps can also help you find music when you aren't feeling inspired, or you'd like a change of scenery. Some apps will tell you the lyrics of the song you're listening to, others will provide you with a review, and a few will show you what is trending on the charts, web and social media.
We recommended the following apps: Pitchfork, This Is My Jam, Domino, Twitter #Music (formerly We Are Hunted), Any Decent Music?, Blue Note, TuneWiki and Billboard.
Radio
Spotify Radio functions like a typical Internet radio service. You can create stations by artist, song, album and genre, and upvote or downvote songs you love or hate. Spotify Radio is free to use on the mobile app, even if you aren't a Spotify Premium user.
Mobile
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Adding Stations On Spotify Movile App Download
Spotify's mobile app is a pared-down version of the web player (tablet apps more closely resemble the web player), from which you can select playlists to download for offline listening, to save your data usage. This is only available for Premium users.
Spotify Stations List
Another feature exclusive to the mobile app is Browse. This saves you the trouble of coming up with a playlist yourself, which is helpful when you're out and about while using Spotify on your smartphone.
Now that you've completed your crash course on Spotify, get streaming!
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