Spotify could soon allow users to create in-app podcasts with new tools

Music stream­ing plat­form Spo­ti­fy has announced it is test­ing new tools that will allow users to record, edit and pub­lish pod­casts direct­ly from the main app. The com­pa­ny rolled out this fea­ture in New Zealand last month. This elim­i­nates the need to have a sep­a­rate app like Spo­ti­fy’s Anchor to cap­ture and pub­lish a quick record­ing for pod­casts, reports TechCrunch.

Not­ing the launch of this fea­ture, out­go­ing Spo­ti­fy exec and Anchor co-founder Michael Mignano said it will allow users to cre­ate an episode “with­out any addi­tion­al tools or hardware”.

He joined the audio stream­ing com­pa­ny after it acquired Anchor in 2019.

The video post­ed by Spo­ti­fy New Zealand shows that if you have the fea­ture, you’ll see a + but­ton next to “Your Library” in the bot­tom bar on the home screen. When you tap on it, you’ll have the options to ‘Record Pod­cast’ or ‘Cre­ate Playlist’.

Once you tap the Record Pod­cast option, you’ll see a land­ing screen and a record but­ton to start record­ing a clip. You can record audio in one take or hit the pause but­ton to pause, the report said.

Once you have fin­ished record­ing, you can edit the clip and add back­ground music via a pre­set of avail­able tracks.

After edit­ing, you can give it a title, put in an episode descrip­tion, tag anoth­er pod­cast or song, and pub­lish, he added.

At the moment there are no details on whether this tool will be avail­able for users in oth­er mar­kets and how to access ana­lyt­ics for your podcast.