- Spotify Jam lets you create group sessions to listen to music together with your friends on the platform.
- To start a Jam, play a Spotify track > Spotify Connect icon > Start a Jam.
- However, Spotify Jam is limited to premium users of the music service only as of now.
Spotify offers many premium features, and Spotify Jam is one of them. This feature lets you listen to Spotify with your friends by handing everyone synchronized playback controls. From long drives to simple group hangouts and even parties, I can think of countless situations where this can be handy. So, how do you do it? Let’s find out how to listen to Spotify with friends.
Can You Listen to Spotify With Friends?
Yes, you can by using the Spotify Jam feature. It lets you create a group session to which you can invite any other Spotify premium user. You and your friends share synchronized audio playback controls and can pause, play, rewind, or change the music at any point.
Moreover, anyone can add music to the jam and introduce each other to different genres. This makes listening to music with your friends that much more fun. If you invite a non-premium user to a Spotify Jam, they’ll be prompted by the service to hop on the premium bandwagon.
How to Listen to Spotify With Friends
First things first, as I said, you will need to get Spotify Premium. You can also get a Spotify student discount if you qualify for it. Anyway, once that’s done, head over to the Spotify app and follow the below steps. Also, do note that these steps work for both the web player and app versions. With that out of the way, here’s the rundown:
- Play any track or podcast on Spotify and tap on the Spotify connect icon at the bottom left.
- On the next page, tap on Start a Jam.
- Then on the Spotify Jam page, hit Got it. Free users will not even see this option, though.
- Next, choose Share link to send the Jam link with your friends or tap on Expand code to let your friends scan the QR code and connect.
- Your friend on their end will get the option to either Join the Jam from their device or use your speaker if they’re there with you. You’ll see these same options when getting into a Spotify Jam session.
- Once people have joined your Jam session, you will see a new panel hover over every track you play. Tapping on it will open up a small window where you can also tap on Add songs to add tracks to play during the session. Here, you can also choose to End the Spotify Jam session.
- You can tap on the participants icon to go to the Spotify Jam Session details page.
Here, you can choose to invite people, remove all participants, or selectively remove someone.
After your buddies have joined in, you can ask them to add more people if they want to. You can have a party of up to 32 Spotify users in a Jam. Moreover, any of the added users can play songs in the jam. If you’ve followed the steps and still Spotify Jam is not working for you as intended, check out our guide for the fix. What do you think of the feature, and did you get it to work following these steps? Do let me know in the comments down below!
You can create a Spotify Jam session and invite your group to it. Simply play any track, tap on the connected devices options, and tap on “Start a Jam”. Then you can share a link or the QR code to invite your friends to listen to Spotify together.
No. Users who don’t have a Spotify Premium subscription won’t even see the option to start a Jam on the app. However, you can still invite your friends who don’t have the paid tier, but Spotify will prompt them to upgrade to Premium.
Those of you who are a participant in someone else’s Spotify Jam session will see an option for “Leave” at the top of the page. You can tap on it to come out of the session immediately.
