Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time

Snapchat is present letting users stock the euphony they’re listening to successful existent clip via a caller diagnostic successful Snap Map, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Called “Now Playing,” the diagnostic lets users nexus their streaming work relationship (starting with Spotify) and stock what they’re presently listening to via Snap Map, and spot the songs their friends are enjoying.

The diagnostic has been integrated with Spotlight videos, which are Snapchat’s TikTok-like short-form videos, too: You tin prevention immoderate songs you observe successful a Spotlight video straight to Spotify, oregon sojourn the track’s leafage connected the level to bash so.

Users tin take who tin spot their listening activity, and the diagnostic won’t amusement your last-played opus oregon listening history, though sharing volition stay progressive arsenic agelong arsenic you person opened Snapchat wrong the past 24 hours. If a idiosyncratic is inactive for much than 24 hours, sharing volition beryllium paused automatically, and lone resumed erstwhile the app has been opened again. You tin besides intermission sharing for 3 hours, 24 hours, oregon indefinitely.

The caller diagnostic comes arsenic societal media platforms proceed to clasp euphony find and sharing. TikTok, wherever viral trends often signifier planetary euphony charts, lets users share songs from streaming services to the societal network, and besides prevention songs they travel across. Instagram, meanwhile, allows users to stock what they’re listening to done Notes, which are the abbreviated presumption updates that look astatine the apical of users’ DM inboxes.

Even Spotify itself has leaned into societal euphony sharing, launching a feature that allows users to stock what they’re listening to with their friends successful real-time.

“Music is 1 of the astir idiosyncratic ways radical explicit themselves, and it becomes adjacent much meaningful erstwhile it brings friends closer,” Manny Adler, Snapchat’s caput of music, said successful an emailed statement. “Now Playing adds a caller furniture of look and find to Snap Map, helping Snapchatters stock the soundtrack to their time and find caller euphony done the radical they already know.”

The integration adds different diagnostic to Snap Map, which has much than 450 cardinal monthly users. Launched successful 2017, Snap Map was initially meant to beryllium a mode for users to spot their friends’ locations and browse nationalist Snaps from astir the world. Over time, the diagnostic has expanded to see section hotspots, activities, and now, euphony discovery.

Snapchat says the caller diagnostic is rolling retired to users successful regions wherever some Spotify and Snapchat are available, with Canada coming soon.