Spotify appears to be testing a new feature called Social Listening, which would let multiple users add songs to a queue in real time, somewhat like the defunct social media platform Turntable.fm (minus the chat and open invite policy). The feature, unearthed by reverse-engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong and reported on this morning by TechCrunch, is just a test right now. There’s no indication that it would ever make its way to the consumer version of Spotify.
But the screenshots Wong was able to pull from code hidden in the Android version of Spotify shows a pretty sleek setup screen where users can scan each other’s codes or share a link and then create a shared queue. According to Wong, the feature appears to be only available for…
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