The first and most obvious is a way to save a song to your library without it necessarily influencing future music. Stations shouldn’t be criticized for being overly simplistic, but it could use a few minor feature additions. If you look at it this way, Stations is just a lightweight interface which should enable you to hit play and forget about the rest of the choices associated with picking out music. Stations allows the company to offload the radio functionality without being confusing. The Spotify app already has this radio functionality, but its desktop and mobile devices are verging very close on becoming iTunes-the butt of every joke for including too much stuff and being too complex. If you aren’t intrigued by unlimited, on-demand music enough to subscribe to Spotify in the first place, maybe you’re looking for something more like a radio station, in an easy too use package. That’s why it might be the perfect way to listen to music-and as simple as turning on the radio. Stations is a fast way to get music playing and show off the company’s world-class algorithm recommendations. There aren’t many more features than those yet. If you like or hate a song you can give it a thumbs up or down to influence future music, but that’s pretty much it. You can also rename stations, have stations play only a single artist or mix in a few you like, and limit it to all similar music or just those artists. (A feature particularly useful because it’s easy to accidentally switch stations.) Once you have multiple stations, you can slide up and down to switch to the different stations, and as a nice detail, stations pause and resume as you go back to them. Or, search for a song, decade, or something else. To get started, add a “station” by tapping in the top left corner and select an artist or a mood. If you do pay for a premium account you won’t hear ads and can skip as many songs as you want.

The app is free and will play ads if you don’t pay for Spotify Premium. To get started, you need to sign up or sign in to an existing Spotify account (a free account works). What is Spotify Stations and how much does it cost?

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