The addition of this new Community feature for mobile apps alongside the recent addition of "Blends" – a tool that allows you to cook up new playlists with pals based on both of your musical tastes – shows something of a return to Spotify’s early aims of inspiring music discovery through your friends listening habits. It was its greatest triumph, and is what rivals such as Tidal at its launch failed to copy, leaving them way behind on popularity. It meant that Spotify was the streaming service to get, because you couldn't listen to what was being shared everywhere otherwise. The rise of Spotify was in no small part shaped by the way it dovetailed nicely with emerging social media platforms of the time like Facebook, which encouraged the sharing and editing of playlists. New Community feature takes Spotify back to its social roots
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