Instagram and Spotify appear to be working on a new feature that would let Instagram users continuously share what songs they’re listening to via the app’s Notes section.

Though not yet official or confirmed for a launch, the potential feature has been leaked by app researcher and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi on Threads. If true, it looks like we’re heading ever-closer back to the days of Myspace, when music was more widely shared on online profiles.

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Paluzzi’s Threads post shows a screenshot with a new option that would allow users to “continuously share” their music from Spotify, instead of selecting a song from Instagram’s catalogue, though it states that you can “stop sharing at any time”.

Instagram already launched the ability to share 30-second song clips over a year ago via Notes. The Notes feature itself arrived in December 2022, and began allowing users to share small status updates via thought bubbles. These display above a user’s profile picture on their profile page and via the direct messaging feature.

In other Spotify news, CEO Daniel Ek revealed in July that a deluxe tier of the streaming platform is indeed on its way, following rumours of a Hi-Fi subscription plan with lossless audio circulating for a number of years.

It’s been suggested that it could bring more AI-powered features, headphone sound quality optimisation, and advanced library management. Ek said it may arrive “at around a $17 or $18 price point”, and will be “sort of a deluxe version of Spotify that has all of the benefits that the normal Spotify version has, but a lot more control, a lot higher quality across the board, and some other things that I’m not ready to talk about just yet”.

It is currently predicted that Spotify will release the deluxe version later this year.

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