


On the following screen, tap the Invite button. Next, scroll down to the Made for Two section and select Create a Blend. To get started, open the Spotify app and tap the Made For You card from the Search tab. An endless listening feature would also be nice, as right now, once you hit the end of the playlist, it just pulls songs to continue from your tastes, ignoring your friend's. A Blend playlist can only be created using the mobile app on an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone or tablet. Outside the various platform issues and inability to share playlists, being able to generate them with more than one person or collaboratively edit the Blend playlists (which are otherwise entirely static) could be nice additions. As a beta, it's still a little buggy.īlend will probably prove popular this summer, especially for road trips and other travel plans, though it has a few shortcomings. Another of us even had a crash when accessing an invitation link, and they don't look quite right across all platforms. Even when set as "public," links for Blends don't seem to work outside the two participant accounts. Sadly, I can't share any of the playlists with you as examples. My playlist generated with AP's Will Sattleberg came out mostly okay, as did another with Matt Scholtz, while Rita El Khoury and I have very little in overlapping tastes, and the results were disjointed. But if you don't share anything in musical interests, the resulting playlist feels like a hodgepodge of mismatched genres. If you already have something in common with someone, it does a pretty decent job, with more hits than misses in choosing songs you might both like. Playing with the feature among the AP staff, results have been mixed - pun intended.
