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Spotify's SongDNA can tell you all about the track you're listening to - Engadget

It's now rolling out to Premium users worldwide. Spotify has started rolling out a feature called SongDNA that can show you the people behind your favorite tracks and give you an insight on how they were created. You can access it by opening the Now Playing view while listening to a specific song and then scrolling down to the SongDNA box. Tracks that support the new feature will show you all the artists, writers, producers and collaborators behind them. It's yet another way to make more music on the platform discoverable, since you'll be able to tap on their icons to see their profiles and the other pieces they worked on. The box will also contain the samples and interpolations that helped form a track's sound, as well as the covers it inspired. Spotify says it's giving eligible artist and label teams the power to review and manage the components of the feature, so it's bound to be supported by more and more tracks as time goes on. "SongDNA is designed to make a song's creative lineage more transparent so fans can easily explore the people and influences behind the music they love," said Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify's Head of Songwriter & Publisher Partnerships. "By bringing collabo

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Spotify's SongDNA can tell you all about the track you're listening to - Engadget

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Spotify's SongDNA can tell you all about the track you're listening to - Engadget

It's now rolling out to Premium users worldwide. Spotify has started rolling out a feature called SongDNA that can show you the people behind your favorite tracks and give you an insight on how they were created. You…

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