Spotify Will Let Friends DJ Together With New Feature

Spotify appears to be testing a "Social Listening" feature that lets friends control the music together.

This is similar to its collaborative playlist feature, but it contains a real-time component. The idea is that collaborators are listening to the same songs, together — whether physically in the same room, or apart.

Software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who is known for discovering unreleased app features by digging through code, recently spotted the feature and posted about it on Twitter.

In Spotify, there's a button that takes you to your connected devices, which normally allows you to determine what device you're playing your music on. For those with the new feature, the option "Connect with friends" appears in that menu.

When you choose that option, Spotify generates a QR code and a link, or an option to "scan code." You can either share your code or link with a friend, or scan someone else's code.

While Manchun Wong has found her way in, Social Listening is currently only available to Spotify employees.