Spotify integrates live audio into its main app

Live audio in Spotify

In addition to music and podcasts, Spotify may soon offer live audio within the primary streaming app. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to integrate Greenroom into its main app. In the process, it is also reported that Spotify will rename the platform to Spotify Live. All of this could happen before the second half of the year, according to Bloomberg.

The port was informed of the impending move by iOS developer Steve Moser, who found evidence of this in the beta version of

Spotify app on iPhone. As for Greenroom's ultimate fate, in a separate tweet, Bloomberg reporter Ashley Karman said the app will live as a kind of background for creators to record their content and upload it to Spotify.

 

Speaking to Spotify's potential motives behind the plan, Bloomberg suggests that Greenroom has "struggled to boot". By integrating live audio into the very popular streaming app, the company will elevate the format to an easily accessible place - even if some users complain about the app's clutter.

 

In a way, it's strange that the company may now only consider merging the two. When Spotify first announced its plans for Greenroom, CEO Daniel Eck said he saw live audio as something every platform would eventually offer. “Just like with video stories, where every major platform has these stories as one way for audiences to communicate with each other, I see live audio similarly I expect all platforms to have that,” he said at the time.