If you have a Smart TV at home and you’re an avid user of Spotify, you might be pleased to learn that Spotify has recently announced that they have added more partners to their Spotify Connect list. What this means is that there will now be some Smart TV brands that will play nicely with Spotify connect.
This is expected to kick off with Philips’ Smart TVs and other brands are expected to be added at a later date. Other partners added by Spotify include Bose, Panasonic, and Gramofon which Spotify expects to detail at an announcement they will be making at IFA 2014 which is taking place next week.
Spotify has also announced that Spotify Connect will gain Multi Room functionality which allows users to group speakers together in your home to play the same music, so that your guests or yourself will be able enjoy the same music regardless of which room you are in at the moment.
For those unfamiliar, Spotify Connect is a Spotify Premium feature lets you beam songs from the Spotify app on your phone/tablet to supported speakers. According to Stan Garmark, the VP of Product at Spotify, “Our mission with Connect was to give people a better way to listen at home, and we have delivered exactly that for music fans all over the world in just one year.”