{"id":5687,"date":"2020-07-28T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/blog\/spotifys-group-session-feature-now-allows-for-remote-listening-with-friends\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:58:00","slug":"spotifys-group-session-feature-now-allows-for-remote-listening-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/spotifys-group-session-feature-now-allows-for-remote-listening-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify\u2019s Group Session feature now allows for remote listening with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spotify\u2019s Group Session feature now allows for remote listening with friends<\/h2>\n

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The original version of Spotify\u2019s Group Session feature, which lets you listen to your Spotify queue with your friends, came with a head-scratching restriction: Everyone in the group had to be in the same physical location. Well, no longer.<\/p>\n

Starting today, Spotify is rolling out an update to its still-in-beta Group Session feature that finally lets you create remote listening groups, perfect for spinning up Spotify tunes with friends who are thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

Plenty of third-party apps that take advantage of Spotify\u2019s public APIs already allow groups of remote friends to listen to Spotify together, but the newly updated Group Session feature marks the first time that Spotify has natively supported remote group listening.<\/p>\n

Creating a remote Group Session works in more or less the same way it did before. Once the leader starts a Spotify queue, they can tap the Connect button in the bottom-left corner of the screen (it\u2019s the button that looks like a speaker in front of a PC monitor) and scroll down to the Start a group session<\/strong> banner.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re there, you\u2019ll also be able to copy a \u201cjoin\u201d link that you can share via text or social media.<\/p>\n

Previously, there was only a barcode that your friends had to scan in order to share your Spotify queue, which meant they had to be in the same room with you to join your Spotify listening group.<\/p>\n

Besides listening to music together in real time, members of a Spotify Group Session will be able to pause, play, skip, and select tracks in the shared queue, as well as add new tracks.<\/p>\n

The ability to listen with friends remotely makes Spotify\u2019s Group Session feature far more compelling, but there are still a couple of key caveats.<\/p>\n