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What is the Spotify app?
The Spotify app allows you to turn your digital signage into a music hub, perfect for creating the right vibe in any space. Whether you're setting a chill mood in a café, pumping energy into a gym, or adding a lively touch to your retail store, this app displays real-time track details, album covers, and artist information from your Spotify playlists.
Customizable to match your branding or event, the app ensures your screens deliver more than just music - they create an engaging audio-visual experience for your audience.
Keep in mind that the Spotify app is designed specifically for touch-enabled devices, making it easy for users to interact with the music and playlists directly.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up and configure the app to integrate seamlessly into your digital signage content.
How to configure the Spotify app in Fugo
There are two ways to add content with Fugo - via our playlist builder and in our Design Studio (recommended for this app). We’ll cover the steps for both methods in each section.
Using the playlist builder
1. Log into your Fugo Account. If you don’t have an account yet, you can start your 14-day free trial here.
2. Click Apps in the top navigation bar to get to our app store.
3. Locate the Spotify app (you can search for it to move things along) and click Try App.
4. A window will pop up where you'll be prompted to either create a new playlist for the app or add the app to an existing playlist.
Choose how you'd like to proceed and & click Continue.
5. Now you're ready to configure the app.
6. First, set the Duration of the app. That is, how long it will display within a playlist of slides.
☝️ Note: This app is designed to integrate into an existing screen layout, rather than functioning as a full-screen display. For the best results, we recommend setting it up using the Design Studio.
Even if configured in the playlist builder, it will maintain its embedded layout, positioned at the top of your screen.
To adjust its placement (e.g., moving it to a specific area of your screen like the bottom, right, or left) or to apply a transparent background so it overlays other content, these customizations can be made in the Design Studio.
Jump to this section for instructions.
8. Clicking Add My Code will open up the code editor, where you can tweak the code of the embedded app.
You can find the link to the playlist on Spotify buy clicking the three dots, then selecting 'share' and 'embed code'. From there click 'show code' and copy the link highlighted below.
Replace the highlighted link within the edit code menu
Click Preview to go back to the configuration window or click Apply to apply your changes.
8. If you're happy with these settings, click Save Changes.
9. Your Spotify app instance will now be listed as a slide in your playlist.
If you want to add more content to this playlist, click Add more content and use the content picker to select the content you want to add (media, apps, dashboards, Studio content, etc.)
To continue on to publishing instructions from here, you can skip to section 3: How to publish the app to your screen/s.
Using the Design Studio
1. Click Studio in the top navigation bar. Then click Create in Studio to start a new design.
2. This will open up a blank canvas for you to start adding content to! To add the Spotify app, either scroll to find it in the Apps menu to the right or search for it to find it faster.
3. Click the app or drag and drop to add it onto your canvas.
4. Customizing the Spotify app settings works the same way in the Design Studio - all settings will be found in the panel to the left. To bring up the panel, click on the app from the canvas.
You can continue to customize your content however you wish in the studio! Some ideas to customize this might be:
Add your company logo the slide
Add text boxes and scrolling ticker texts with important messages, reminders, or requests pertaining to your content or company initiatives
Add QR codes to your display to create calls to action for your colleagues or employees
Incorporate other apps & integrations into the display, such as the World Clock app or CNN app to grab attention with live updating headlines
Highlight key data points from your reports or dashboards for easy reference
In my example, I’ve embedded the Spotify app within my touch menu:
When you’re satisfied with how your content looks, click Save and Close. This will close out the design studio. To publish this content, you’ll need to add it to a playlist, which we’ll cover in the next section.
How to publish the app to your screens
Note: If you want to add content you created in the studio to a playlist, you’ll need to navigate to the Playlists page by clicking Playlists in the top navigation bar and Create Playlist to start a new playlist.
That's where we'll pick up our instructions below.
1. Give your playlist a name (we suggest making it something relevant to distinguish it from other playlists later on down the road.)
2. Click Select Screens to choose where to publish your playlist. You can publish this playlist to one, or multiple screens.
3. If you used the playlist builder to configure the app, you'll already see it listed under the Content for your playlist.
If you used the Studio to configure the app, you'll need to click Select Content and select it from the Studio Content tab in content picker.
3. You can also add more content to your playlist by clicking Add More Content and choosing other apps, uploading media, or from the content that you created in the studio.
4. When you've selected all the content items you want to add to this playlist, you're ready to put it on screen or schedule it!
Click Preview it to see what it will look like on screen.
To publish it to screen right away, click Publish. This is will send it to your screen/s right away & play it indefinitely until you unpublish it.
To save it & come back to later, click Finish later.
To get specific about what dates, days, and times this playlist runs, you can use the Schedule. Learn more about scheduling capabilities in our playlists collection.
Need more help?
You can email us at support@fugo.ai to let us know, or reach out via our handy chat box if you have any questions or are having trouble getting the Bitcoin Tracker app working with your signage.
Happy publishing!