Spotify rolled out the “Enhance” button for playlists, where songs similar to your taste would be added on mobile and desktop app in 2021. However, this feature was replaced with Smart Shuffle in 2023.
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Spotify Enhance is a feature for Spotify Premium users to easily add personalized recommendations to their playlists.
‘Enhance’ feature was changed to ‘Smart Shuffle‘, which shuffle your songs and add recommendations in your queue. Smart Shuffle was launched only for Premium users in March, 2023. Later in October, 2023, Spotify expanded this feature to Free users in Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, and Vietnam on mobile devices.
For Premium users, besides playlist created by users and Liked Songs, Smart Shuffle is now available on even more playlists including Collaborative Playlists and playlists created by your squad.
Enhance is a simple toggle button and you could clearly see the songs that were added. Now with Smart Shuffle you have to go to your quene to find the recommended songs. Besides, as the name implies, Smart Shuffle also shuffle the playlist while Enhance doesn’t affect the play order. So many users like Enhance feature but don’t like Smart Shuffle.
Enhance is replaced by Smart Shuffle. Although some people don’t like this feature, it seems Spotify is not planning to bring the welcomed Enhance button back. Currently you can rely on third-party applications to find recommendations – for example through social media or applications that analyze data through Spotify. Or you can scroll to the end of your playlist and check out the recommended songs for you.
Currently you can use the recommended section at the end of your playlist. Click Add to add the songs you like to the playlist.
Swipefy for Spotify is an iOS/Android app that helps you discover new music & playlists. Swipefy’s genius algorithm curates a personalized soundtrack that speaks to your soul.
Spotify Shuffler is a free website that allows you to shuffle your playlist tracks in a truly random order. Just visit spotifyshuffler.com, sign in to your Spotify account, choose a playlist and shuffle it.
Note: The feature is in beta right now and is only available to Premium users in Australia and the UK.
Spotify announced AI playlists for Spotify Premium users to create playlists via a prompt, like “relaxing music to tide me over during allergy season” and “a playlist that makes me feel like the main character.” Prompts can consist of places, animals, activities, colors, emojis, and movie characters.
How to create AI playlists?
Pazu Spotify Converter is designed for both Spotify Free and Premium users to download all Spotify songs, playlists, albums, or podcasts for offline listening. It extracts Spotify music and converts it to various high-quality formats, including MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, and AAC. Pazu Spotify Converter supports both Windows and Mac computers. After downloading, you can transfer the songs to any other compatible devices for offline enjoyment. With this tool, you gain full control over your music collection and can play them in any order without Premium.
Now, let’s learn how to use Pazu Spotify Music Converter to download Spotify songs with a free subscription.
Download, install, and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. After logging in to your Spotify account, use the integrated Spotify web player to search for songs, albums, or playlists you want to download. Click the Add to List button to load all songs in the album or playlist.
Click the gear icon on the top right corner to select the output format (AUTO[M4A], MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, or AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output folder, and more.
Click the Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.
To download individual songs or specific songs of your choice, simply uncheck the ones you don’t want to download and click the Convert button.
Once the conversion is done, click the folder button or directly go to the output folder you customized in the previous step to find the downloaded Spotify songs. From there, you can transfer the songs to any compatible device and enjoy them in any order.
Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.
Spotify introduced the Enhance feature and then replaced it with Smart Shuffle. However, many thought that Smart Shuffle is not as good as the Enhance button. At the moment, it doesn’t seem like Spotify will reinstate this feature. You can use the two alternatives above.
Download and convert any Spotify songs, albums, playlists to MP3/M4A etc.