If you open up Spotify’s desktop app on a Mac or PC today, things should look a lot more “mobile.” That’s because the company has redesigned the “Your Library” and “Now Playing” interfaces to make them more aligned with Spotify’s ...

As someone who listens to Spotify a lot through its desktop app while working, the fact that the world’s most popular streaming music service has never had a more discrete, configurable miniplayer you could tuck out of the way has always baffled me.

In the desktop app, open Your Library, click the plus button, choose Create a playlist folder, name it, then drag playlists into it. You can also nest folders for finer control. If you have years of playlists, folders turn endless scrolling into a tidy system.

This morning, thousands of people opened Spotify to find that the streaming service was offline. Spotify went down around 9 am Eastern in a widespread outage that affected the mobile apps, desktop app, and website for about two to three hours. According to ...