At an event in New York City today, Spotify revealed a redesigned app experience for its 90 million free customers. It’s the first major change to Spotify’s free tier since 2014, and visually it looks a lot like what The Verge reported earlier this month. Free listeners will now get on-demand access to 15 “select” playlists; you can play any song you want inside those playlists and are no longer stuck in a world of shuffled playback. You’ll have to deal with shuffle beyond those 15 playlists, but this is still a significant improvement over how things have been until now.

Spotify says users have created over 2 billion playlists. The updated app will help assist users with this “playlisting” process by suggesting songs that are similar…

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