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Spotify's adding even more social features as it seeks to keep users from leaving the app to share

music. The company on Wednesday said it's introducing a new messages feature that'll let users

see what their friends are streaming in real time and send requests

to start jams, the app's collaborative listening feature. Now, users would first have to navigate

to their settings and turn on the listening activity feature in the privacy and social section.

Now, once that's done, your listening activity will appear at the top of messages chats. You can tap a friend's

listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji. As for starting

a jam, premium users can tap the jam option in the top right corner to send a request to their

friends. If the other user accepts it, they'll become the Jam host, and both

users would be able to add tracks to a shared queue and listen to music together.

Listening activity and request to jam will roll out to the iOS and Android apps and markets

where messages is available and will be broadly available in these markets by early February.

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