Spotify’s SongDNA is like a musical Wikipedia on steroids — I just can't stop using it

Sometimes listening to music just isn’t enough, and part of the streaming experience for a lot of music enthusiasts is digging beneath the surface of the songs and albums they love the most, which is why Spotify’s SongDNA is one of my favorite new features to come from the service.

It’s not the first music streamer to do this, however. Tidal Credits has been around since 2019, but SongDNA adds a layer of depth to Spotify’s playback tools, and after spending ample time testing the waters, I’ve decided that I simply can’t get enough. Here’s how my first hands-on went down.

An endless sonic encyclopaedia

That’s what SongDNA is in a nutshell. Ever since it was leaked back in October, I’ve been waiting patiently for SongDNA to drop, and when more users started seeing it in beta last ...