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Kristina Terech

Spotify finally unveils a desktop app miniplayer to end window-juggling, but there's a catch

A woman sitting on a coach and on her laptop, wearing headphones, at night time.

Spotify Premium users rejoice - the music platform is finally adding a ‘miniplayer’ for its desktop app to improve users’ experience - a whopping three years after the web app got a similar feature.

The new miniplayer has two different designs and can be activated in the bottom right corner of the full-screen player, prompting the app to shrink into a minimized view showing media controls and song information. As I mentioned above, this isn’t the first appearance of a condensed Spotify player, but it’s the first implementation of the feature for the app's desktop version. 

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