Spotify is known for its on-demand streaming music service, but today the company launched a new music app.
Stations is a new experimental app from Spotify. The app is all about playlists and is sort of like Pandora, learning what you like and creating personalized stations for you based on that info. There are stations based on genres, top songs, moods, and more.
This new app is meant to be a simple way to listen to music. "When you have access to all the music in the world, finding the right thing to play can feel like a challenge," Spotify says. Stations is meant to get you listening to music immediately and then learning about you and playing stuff that you'll like.
Another notable aspect of the Stations app is that it's free, meaning you can listen without needing a Spotify Premium subscription.
Stations is currently only available on Android, and there's no word on when or if an iOS version might launch. The app is also currently only available in Australia, but if you're comfortable with sideloading apps, you can get the APK right here.
The Stations app looks pretty need, offering a colorful background and big text that's easy to read and scroll through. The prospect of just launching an app and having Spotify play music for you is appealing, too, meaning you don't have to be faced with the decision of what exactly you should play. This is just an experiment, so it's unclear how much attention Spotify will pay to Stations going forward, but it's a pretty nice experiment right now.
