Watch and Listen: Introducing music videos on Spotify

[Luan]

Spotify knows that the listening experience is a way to connect artists with fans on many levels. But what if we could enhance these connections with a different perspective? 

With this in mind, Spotify is introducing a new and powerful way to listen to your favorite songs: Music Videos.

This exciting new feature is being rolled out in Beta for Premium users across more than 90 countries worldwide. At this point, Music Videos is with a limited catalog, but it includes hits from local artists and global ones like Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.

How to watch music videos on Spotify:

• Music Videos is being rolled out in Beta for Premium users in some specific countries. This includes Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Egypt and the United Kingdom.
• Music Videos is available for Premium users on iOS, Android, desktop, and TV devices. 
• You can access it through the Now Playing View, when listening to supported music tracks. You just need to tap the “Switch to Video” toggle and the music video will start playing from the beginning. To head back to audio-only mode, tap on “Switch to Audio”.
• You can watch the videos in either portrait or landscape modes, and it is also available for Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode.

Considering it's in Beta, Spotify will continue to improve the new feature based on feedback both from users and artists.

Currently, Spotify is working on ways to improve the experience of switching the playback from music to video and vice-versa, adopting a TimeSync transaction and this update is being released to the users gradually. There is also a 18+ content enforcement to prevent minors have access to explicit content.

I hope you are as excited as I am for this new way to enhance your connection with your favorite artists. For any feedback on the matter you may have, you are more than welcome to share it with us below on this thread.

You can find the latest updates on the topic in the official announcement from the Spotify Newsroom here.

[Luan]

Hey folks,

There's currently an issue with the Switch to video button not showing up on mobile devices that's being looked into. We'll keep everyone posted in this other thread here, check it out 👍

Cheers!

[fede160493]

Good morning, I have a problem with playing videos on my TV using Spotify Connect. When I want to watch it, it automatically switches to audio mode. Please fix this as soon as possible or add this feature as soon as possible, since I think this feature is more important than AI DJ.

[#4]

I live in Belgium and I am fairly certain that in the beta version music videos should be available but I'm not getting the option

[Zephiel]

I want an option to always play music videos when available in my TV and Tablet. I don’t think I need this in my phone tho.

[fede160493]

Es verdad además tenes que tener tiempo para ver los videos en tu celular. Igual por ahora es opcional. Viene por defecto la opción de audio y el otro día yo quise transmitir los videos a mi tv android y no pude. Mediante Spotify connect. Espero que haya alguna solución en la próxima actualización en la tablet te podes unir a la versión beta para ver los videos 

[LaurHo]

I have a family account but I can’t  watch videos…

can I fix it? Or doesn’t it work with my account?

[JanneJeremias]

I live in Finland and I'm using Spotify through family premium. I got email that said my country got music videos to Spotify but when I play song that has music video I don't see the button to switch to the video.

[wAUt]

Hello, when will Spotify videos be available on a Google TV like it is on Android tv?

[fede160493]

Hola, creo que en la próxima actualización para Android TV estará disponible cualquier novedad paso captura y graba que el tema sigue abierto hasta que haya una solución. 

[Arihb]

I Agree and I love that Spotify is incluing Music Videos and IA features.

[Arihb]

Now it is also about It (as YT music, Apple Music and Tidal), and I like It.

[Arihb]

I hope Spotify can correct this problem.

[fede160493]

Yo también pero hay una función que tiene poco uso que se llama ai dj 

[EZZ__]

On my Spotify app on Android, none of this appears. And it doesn't appear on my computer either. I have the individual Premium plan, and I know of friends who have been able to use the feature...

[Yordan]

Hey folks,

There's currently an issue with the Switch to video button not showing up on mobile devices that's being looked into. We'll keep everyone posted in this other thread here, check it out 👍

Cheers!

[alsie27]

Lately I have noticed that when I listen to music on Spotify on my computer, whenever there is a video associated with the song that starts to play in the sidebar, it freezes the entire computer for a few seconds. The screen goes entirely black, but it comes back after a while and everything works fine then. I usually click to turn off the sidebar where the videos play but it always comes back on its own at some point. It is, in any case, rather annoying. Any ideas on what could be happening? Is this a common issue?

Technical information

Spotify – Windows 11 (64 bits)
1.2.49.439.gfae492c7

The computer is a Lenovo IdeaPad (Intel i5, 16 gb RAM), a few years old but works fine otherwise.

[fede160493]

probar con la versión beta el tema sigue abierto saludos 

[retali8]

It would be nice to be able to watch any available music video for a song instead of having to go to YouTube for every song to see if a music video even exists. I think it would be cool to be able to stream music videos of your liked songs if you don’t want to just listen to the songs without a video.

[Lostboipero]

How can i upload my own musicvideo to my song?

[fede160493]

Fíjate si ya tenes habilitada la opción a partir de hoy ya se puede ver los videos en smart tv y lo bueno que tiene que cuando cambias a video te dice las próximas canciones que tengan videos se van a poder visualizar los videos de manera automática 

[xenomc]

it does not work at all. I have submitted music video and I see it in Artist page. In Spotify Player I only see the Canvas Video.