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Curious about Spotify Listening Parties but unsure what they’re all about? Listening Parties are an innovative new feature from Spotify that allows artists to engage with their fans by sharing music and chatting in real time. In this guide, we'll explain what Listening Parties are and how you can enjoy music with your friends using Spotify Jam or Listen Along on Discord.
Spotify Listening Party Overview
Spotify Listening Parties are a fresh feature that lets artists engage with their audience. These parties can only be initiated by artists and are visible on the artist's Events tab in the Spotify app. To share music with your friends, you can use Spotify Jam or Listen Along via Discord.
How to Get Started
What is a Spotify Listening Party?
Spotify Listening Parties provide a way for artists to interact with their audience. These events are hosted by artists, and when scheduled, they appear on the Events section of their Spotify page. Anyone with a Spotify Premium subscription can join, but the feature is still being rolled out and is currently available in select regions like the U.S. and Indonesia.
- During a Listening Party, fans can engage with artists through live chat, while artists can stream music or use Spotify’s live audio tools to converse with their followers.
- This feature was initially part of Spotify Live, the now-defunct live social audio platform.
- Only artists can host Listening Parties. If you want to enjoy music with your friends, check out how to start a Jam or a Discord Listen Along below.
Spotify Jam
How to Start a Jam. In a Jam, multiple users can listen to the same music together and add songs to the playlist queue. To create a Jam, you must be a Spotify Premium subscriber.
- Navigate to the song or playlist you wish to start the Jam from.
- Right-click (or tap the three-dot menu, if available) on the song or playlist and choose Start a Jam.
- On mobile, tap the speaker icon next to the song you're playing, or press the three-dot menu on a track or playlist and select Start a Jam.
- Click or tap Invite to share the invite link or generate a QR code for your friend to scan.
- You can also use Bluetooth to add someone to the Jam if you both have phones. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled, then tap Activate > Allow Bluetooth. Place both phones near each other for pairing.
How to Join a Jam. Anyone with Spotify can join a Jam, including free plan users. Joining is easy by clicking or tapping the invite link, scanning the QR code, or bringing your device close to your friend's phone to connect via Bluetooth.
- Choose whether you're joining remotely or in person. Note: Only Spotify Premium users can join a Jam remotely on desktop.
- Click or tap Join.
Add or remove songs from the Jam. Everyone has the ability to add songs to the queue. If you enable Let others change what's playing, participants can switch the current song in the Jam.
- To add a song, search for it on Spotify, then right-click (on desktop) or tap the three-dot menu (on mobile) and select Add to queue.
- On mobile, you can also tap the Add songs button while the Jam queue is open to get song recommendations from Spotify.
- To remove a song, open the Jam queue and either right-click (desktop) or tap the three-dot menu (mobile) to select Remove from queue.
Leave or end a Jam. As a guest in a Jam, you can exit by clicking or tapping the Leave button at the top of the Jam queue. If you're the host, you can end the Jam by selecting End in the same area.
- Ending the Jam as a host will stop it for everyone.
Listen Along in Discord
Invite others to listen together. Before you begin, ensure your Spotify account is linked to Discord. You can only Listen Along using the desktop versions of both Spotify and Discord.
- Start playing something on Spotify.
- Open Discord, and go to any server or direct message with a friend.
- Click the "+" next to the message input box.
- Select Invite [server/user] to Listen to Spotify, and optionally add a comment in the pop-up box.
- Click Send Invite.
Join a Listen Along via Discord. If someone invites you to Listen Along on Discord, just click Join to participate.
- You can also right-click a user with a Spotify status on Discord and select Listen Along to join their session.
