A new annotation feature lets people attach a short note to any track in a playlist they own — why it made the cut, where they first heard it, the memory attached to it — visible to anyone who opens the playlist.
2026-07-31 · by Moe Ameen
Spotify announced User Notes on July 30, 2026, a feature that lets a listener attach a short personal note to an individual track inside a playlist they created or manage. The note sits beneath the song and is visible to anyone who can see the playlist, with the author's name linking back to their profile. Spotify's pitch is context: the note is space to say why a track made the cut, when and where you first heard it, or the memory attached to it — a first date, a drive, a trip. To add one, you open a playlist, tap the three-dot menu next to a song, and choose "Add note."
Spotify framed it as turning a playlist from a list of songs into something more personal. "User Notes transforms playlists from a collection of songs into a more personal space for music discovery, bringing together personalization and added context around the music that listeners love," the company said. The feature is open to listeners aged 16 and up on both the free and Premium tiers, but the initial rollout is limited to select markets rather than global from day one.
It landed alongside Running Mode, a separate, Premium-only iOS feature in Spotify's Fitness Hub that builds pace-matched playlists — but User Notes is the one aimed at how people annotate and share music. It also marks a competitive gap: neither Apple Music nor YouTube Music offers a comparable per-track annotation tool, so this is a differentiator Spotify has to itself for now. Spotify did not publish a character limit or moderation details in its announcement, so treat the exact mechanics as subject to change during rollout.
User Notes is Spotify betting that a short story next to a song is what turns a playlist into something people care about — and that same story is the highest-converting content you can make about your music off-platform. Kompozy is the AI content generation and multi-platform publishing engine that takes it there. Feed Kompozy the note you'd write for each track — why it made the cut, the memory behind it — and it generates net-new formats Spotify can't: a Carousel Post with one track's story per slide, Quote Graphics pulling the best line, a Persona Short where your avatar narrates the story behind the playlist, a Blog Article on the whole set, and an Email Newsletter to your list.
Then Kompozy schedules and publishes it across nine destinations — the eight primary social platforms plus blog and email — through a per-post review pipeline and autopilot, each asset reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 automatically. The Persona Brief keeps the voice consistent whether it's your annotation on Spotify or your caption on Threads. User Notes gives your playlist a story on one app; Kompozy turns that story into a week of on-brand posts that drive saves and follows back to it from everywhere your audience already is.
User Notes, launched July 30, 2026, let you attach a short personal note to an individual song inside a playlist you created or manage — for example, why the track made the playlist or where you first heard it. The note appears under the song and is visible to anyone who can view the playlist, with your name linking to your profile.
Open a playlist you created or add tracks to, tap the three-dot menu next to a song, and choose "Add note." Type your note and save it. It then shows beneath the track for anyone who can see the playlist. The feature is available to users 16 and older on free and Premium plans in select markets.
Not as of the July 2026 launch. Spotify's per-track annotation feature has no direct equivalent on Apple Music or YouTube Music, which is part of why Spotify is positioning it as a differentiator.
Write the story behind each track once, then use Kompozy to spin it into a carousel, quote graphics, avatar video, a blog post, and a newsletter, and publish across the eight social platforms plus blog and email — driving listeners back to the annotated Spotify playlist.