Spotify is one of the most popular digital music streaming services that gives listeners instant access to millions of songs and music tracks. Spotify also offers a robust selection of podcasts.
The app is intuitive and easy to use, with a user-friendly interface to find your favorite songs based on different parameters like artists, genre, and period. Listeners can find classical music, movie soundtracks, indie rock, pop, country, hip-hop, and more.
Spotify has a complex algorithm based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to recommend music based on your search history, listening history, and curated playlists.
If you struggle to download and install the Spotify app on your desktop computer or smartphone, you can avoid the hassle and use its web player. Bear in mind that Spotify.com is not the platform’s web player.
Although you can find the web player on Spotify.com, we can type open.spotify.com to access the web player on your browser. The Spotify web player is compatible with Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.
In this article, we’ll discuss Spotify’s Web Now plugin, let’s dive in!
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What is Spotify Web Now?
Spotify “Web Now” is an extension or add-on installed and used on browsers like Google and Firefox that lets you play songs on Spotify web. The primary purpose of Web Now is to display the song’s title, artist, genre, and other information on the taskbar.
How does Spotify Web Now work?
The Spotify “Web Now” bar appears at the bottom of the Spotify site when you play music. It contains controls like play, pause, repeat, shuffle, and skip tracks. You can click the small arrow on the left to enlarge the album art and use the “heart icon” to add the current track to your favorite songs.
The “Web Now” add-on also has a volume slider control. It contains icons for queuing the songs/music tracks, allowing you to view the next track. You can use this feature to delete music from the list or rearrange the queue based on your preferences.
Moreover, “Web Now” has a “Spotify Connect” button that lets you play music on a different device, such as your Android smartphone, iPad, or iPhone. For example, if you listen to a song on Spotify on your iPhone or Android smartphone with earphones, you can control it by using the “Web Now” feature.
Final Words
Although Spotify has dedicated applications for all platforms, including Android and iOS, it has a web player that comes in handy when your desktop computer/laptop or Chromebook does not allow for installing the app for an unknown reason. So, you can avoid wasting your time and use the “Web Now” feature to listen to your favorite music.