How to Take Advantage of New Spotify Features for Websites

As the year 2019 gets closer to its final days, we are seeing major web properties starting to unveil their reviews of what happened since January, but it should be noted that December 31 will also mark the end of the second decade of the new millennium. News websites will likely wait until we are closer to New Year's Eve to roll out their decade in review, but it is safe for other web destinations to wrap things up now.

Leave it to Spotify to come up with a clever way to summarize this strange decade and show off some interesting web design magic along the way. The end-of-the-year tradition of this leading music streaming service is known as "Spotify Wrapped," and it goes beyond the usual parade of hit songs and gossip this time around. For this end-of-the-decade edition of Wrapped, Spotify chose to highlight its various algorithms to show users their personal listening analytics in a visually appealing format.

Once you log into your Spotify account and visit the Wrapped section, you will get to see how many minutes of your life you have spent listening to music over the decade. You will also get insights into your favorite artists, musical genres, podcasts, and other data visualization features. The web design community took immediate notice of how this neat presentation, which seems to be optimized for Chromium-based browsers, was coded; one aspect that popped up was the frames per second and overall utilization of RAM as well as processor resources, which is pretty high.

In essence, Spotify Wrapped is an example of all the neat things you can do with WebGL, but some developers feel that it is overkill because not all listeners have personal computers or portable devices powerful enough to get a smooth experience. It seems as if the jury is still out on heavy WebGL coding and how it has come to replace Flash; there is an inherent problem in assuming that everyone will browse on powerful systems. Considering that independent Linux distributions designed for old hardware often include light and speedy Spotify clients, it would make sense to make a Wrapped feature that does not rely on WebGL. For more information click here https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/.