By default they'll show you less tracks on a single page, a dark filter has been applied to the 'cover' image, and each artist now has a circular avatar, but all the same information will be available to users - there's no massive interface change, just a fresh coat of paint. The changes give more of a Google+ feel, perhaps reinforcing Spotify's desire to be a 'social network' for music. Similar tweaks have been made throughout the app, with larger fonts and more empty space added everywhere.

Music on Mac is just an utter embarrassment for Apple. The Discover tab has been reconfigured to display a grid of suggestions, rather than an organic mash of different-sized boxes track sharing options have been replaced with attractive graphics and the playback controls also have a new look. Truly an ignominious fate for iTunes, which started 20 years ago as an exemplar of a great Mac app, criticized Gruber. When you compare the Apple Music experience in iTunes on macOS, versus other dedicated streaming apps such as Spotify, it’s night and day. The changes make the app perhaps less intuitive than before - a square box saying 'share' is clearer than the three abstract dots that replace it - and the new look will likely take some getting used to.

Spotify has yet to detail the update - labeled as version 0.9.8 - in full, but we're hearing from a few readers that the new version is making its way to users. There's a possibility this could be a limited test before a full release, and we reached out to Spotify before writing this article to ascertain the scale of the rollout, with no reply as of yet. If this is to be a full update, the changes will be rolled out slowly to users, and there's no way - short of searching for an installer online - to manually force your app to update. So far we've only seen the update arrive for the Mac version of the app, but we'd imagine that Windows users will see a refreshed interface soon, as the two are generally updated at the same time.

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