How to start a Jam on Spotify?[2024 Complete Guide]

Spotify Jam is a user-friendly invitation-based feature that allows users to listen to music with others in real time. Spotify first introduced co-listening on iOS and Android, and now it's available on desktop.

Contents

1. How Spotify Jam works?
2. How to start and share a Jam?
3. How to join a Spotify Jam?
4. How to stop Spotify from automatically starting a jam?
5. FAQs
6. How to download Spotify playlists without Premium?

How Spotify Jam works?

Spotify Jam is a personalized, real-time listening session for you to listen to music together with your friends. With Jam, Premium subscribers will be able to invite others to contribute through a shared queue and enjoy a musical experience made exclusively for everyone listening. Friends who join a Jam can listen and add songs to the queue together, whether in-person or joining remotely. Everyone has a single queue where yall can add or arrange songs, if one of you stops the song (or gets a call) it pauses for everyone.

How to start and share a Spotify Jam?

Note that only Spotify premium users can start a Jam.

On mobile

1. Tap  from the Now Playing bar or tap ... icon on playlist page and choose Start a Jam.
2. Tap Start a Jam.
3. Share the QR code, or tap Share link to invite your friends. You can also tap your phones together to get them to join the Jam if you’re logged in to Spotify and your Bluetooth is turned on.

On desktop

1. Open a playlist, tap  or right click on a track or playlist.
2. Tap Start a Jam.
3. Click Invite button on the right side. Here you can share a QR code, or tap Share link and send it to your friends.

How to join a Spotify Jam?

When someone click the link or scan the QR code you share with them, it opens the Spotify mobile app, they will see a popup that asks them if they want to join and listen on their own device, or join and listen locally on your device.

Note:

1. Only Spotify premium users can start a Jam.
2. Both premium and free users can join a Jam.
3. Premium users can join remotely and play the Jam on own device. Free users can only choose to play from the host's speaker.
4. You’d better share the link when inviting others to join, as the QR code or Bluetooth method may not show the ability for others to join remotely as those methods are mostly intended for others to join locally.
5. Anyone in the Jam can add songs to the Jam, adjust playlist order.
6. The host of a Jam is able to toggle whether or not guests are able to control the volume.

How to stop Spotify from automatically starting a jam?

Spotify will automatically start a Jam when you are connecting to a smart speaker or most Bluetooth speakers. Users on the same WiFi will receive an invitation to your Jam. You can disable this in the Connect Picker.

1. Tap .
2. Switch Others can start or join a Jam on this speaker on .

FAQs

Q: I have Premium and I can host my Jam but can't join other's Jam, why?

A: Check if you are using adguard DNS, if yes, turn it off and try again.

Q: I have Premium and I joined a Jam. Why can't I listen to music on my device?

A: In this case, clear Spotify cache and restart the Jam.

On iOS/Android

1. Open Spotify app. Tap Home - Your profile.
2. Tap Settings and privacy - Storage.
3. Tap Clear cache.

On Mac/Windows

1. Open Spotify app. Click your profile - Settings.
2. Scroll download and click Clear cache.

How to download Spotify playlists without Premium?

Only premium users can download playlists for offline playback. Is there any way to download Spotify playlists without premium? With Ondesoft Spotify Converter, everything is easy.

With Ondesoft Spotify Converter, you can easily download all your favorite songs as MP3, M4A, AAC, etc. and listen to them offline without Premium. The program will preserve the original sound quality and ID3 tags after running 10 times faster conversion speeds. What's more, Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter has a built-in Spotify web player. You can easily download the Spotify songs you want without using the Spotify app. The converted files can be played on any media player. Follow the steps below to learn how to download and convert Spotify songs with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter.

1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player, whether free or premium.

2. Choose output format (optional)

Ondesoft Spotify Converter will download Spotify songs in original format by default, mostly in M4A format. You can also change the output format to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.

3. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists

Browse or search to find the songs, playlists or albums you want to download with the built-in Spotify web player. Click the red Add to list button to load all songs.

All songs in the playlist or albums will be checked by default. You can uncheck the songs you don't want to download.

4. Click Convert button

Click Convert button to start downloading Spotify music to the format you choose.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify songs, albums or playlists in MP3 format. You can then transfer and play them anywhere such as iTunes , Google Play Music , iPod , Sandisk , Phone , etc. or burn them to CD .