# ‘We're not building something that puts the music in the background, we want to put it in the foreground’: Former Head of Innovation at Spotify on wanting to make music platforms interactive again, and whether they can survive without the reliance on AI

> The current state of music streaming is interesting, yet unpredictable. The shift from the CD era into the streaming era has made access to music more ubiquitous, but it’s also thrown up problems: some users aren’t…

- **Source:** [TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/audio/audio-streaming/the-next-major-music-platform-should-give-people-something-to-do-with-the-music-spotifys-former-head-of-innovation-on-his-plans-to-launch-an-interactive-music-service-and-whether-ai-features-will-help-or-hinder-streaming?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a6f60b0a229a6dea7999f30)
- **Published:** 2026-08-02
- **Category:** Apps
- **Tags:** #ai
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