A Spotify trick to find songs you can't remember the name of is hidden in plain sight on the app - but many users won't be aware it's even there. The search function on the digital music and podcast service has a number of powerful features.
Most people who use Spotify regularly will know that you can search for playlists, genres, songs, albums, moods, podcasts and artist profiles. The search bar will also find you upcoming concerts.
However if you don’t know a song’s title but know a snippet of the lyrics, you can search at least three words to see what Spotify suggests. Songs with those lyrics will show as a "lyrics match" in the results, a Spotify guide says.
You can also carry out an advanced search by entering your search term in quotation marks. This will narrow down the results to exact matches only.
To search by the year, type in year then a colon then the one you're looking for - for example year:1969. For a wider search on a range of years it would be year:1969-1972.
You can also refine your search by using AND and NOT, while + and - will do the same job. Spotify suggests one example of this might be typing in Metallica NOT Anger, which will display all Metallica tracks except with the word anger.
And you can search any of the advanced search options to find the exact song you want. Spotify suggests: "Search for a range of years but exclude some - year:1989-2013 NOT year:1993 and find music by genre and year - genre:metal AND year:1982"
