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Spotify announced 'Reserved,' a new feature that will reserve concert tickets for premium subscribers starting in the US this summer, partnering with Live Nation to help superfans get tickets.

Spotify has partnered with Universal Music Group to launch AI-generated remixes and covers as a paid add-on for Premium subscribers, with artists able to opt out and collect royalties.

Spotify introduces a new 'Reserved' program that offers reserved concert tickets to its Premium subscribers who are identified as 'real fans' of touring artists, aiming to reduce the hassle of ticket buying.

Spotify debuts a new desktop app called Studio by Spotify Labs that uses AI to generate personalized podcasts from users' email, calendar, and documents, directly competing with Google's NotebookLM.

Spotify is rolling out AI-powered features that let users generate personalized podcasts from prompts, schedule daily or weekly briefs, and ask questions about podcast episodes via a new Q&A feature for Premium users.

Spotify announces a new ElevenLabs-powered tool for self-publishing audiobooks within its Spotify for Authors platform, launching in beta this June with English support.

Spotify Engineering discusses using LLM evals as a funnel before A/B experiments, improving hit rates and creating a feedback loop between evals and experiments.

Spotify's Chief Architect revealed that over 99% of engineers use AI coding tools, shipping 4.5K deployments per day with Claude, and adoption surged after Claude Opus 4.5.

The author describes testing an agent workflow that converts prompts into audio courses for publishing to Spotify, with potential uses like meeting briefings, team updates, and study notes.

MusicMinutes is a platform designed to connect independent music artists with Spotify curators.

A deep-dive case study showing how the author built a Spotify client inside Emacs using the VOMPECCC completion framework, demonstrating modular integration of Consult, Marginalia, and Embark packages.

Blog post argues that good software architecture should be self-evident and frictionless, advocating Netflix/Spotify-style “paved road” patterns over coercive governance boards or embedded architects.