Philips Hue Lights Getting Deep Spotify Integration

Starting today, the popular Philips Hue smart lights will feature a deep integration with the Spotify streaming music service, allowing Hue users to sync their lights to their Spotify playlists.

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The Philips Hue system will use an algorithm to analyze the metadata of each song in real time to make Hue lights flash, dim, brighten, and change colors while matching with the beat, mood, genre, and tempo of music on Spotify. The algorithm even takes into account factors like loudness, segments, pitch, and more.

With the Sync tab in the Philips Hue app, users can personalize the Spotify integration experience. There are tools for starting and stopping the sync, changing the brightness and intensity of the lights, and choosing a palette to change the colors of the lights.

Spotify integration is free to use, requiring a Hue Bridge and color-capable Hue lights like the White and Color Ambiance Smart Bulbs. The feature works through the Philips Hue app and it does not require a microphone to react to the music, so the syncing experience can be done with no background noise and while leaving the phone free to be used for other tasks.

According to Philips Hue parent company Signify, the integration works with any Spotify-compatible audio device, which includes speakers, computers, and smartphones. All that's required is linking a Spotify account and a Philips Hue account in the Hue app, and the lights will perform whenever you play a Spotify song.

The Philips Hue and Spotify integration will begin rolling out as an early access program for Philips Hue App 4 users beginning on September 1.

Those who have the current version of the app can tap on the "What's New" update with the Spotify card and can select "Early access" to try it out. After October 2021, Spotify integration will be a permanent feature in the Philips Hue app.

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Top Rated Comments

NightFox Avatar
49 months ago

...flash their living room lights like some bad 80s disco :oops:
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
joelhinch Avatar
49 months ago
This is definitely awesome… But I don’t use Spotify. Apple? Your Q…
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sw1tcher Avatar
49 months ago

Why would anyone want to flash their living room lights like some bad 80s disco :oops:
To match their Fast and the Furious car lights?




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alexe Avatar
49 months ago
That sounds pretty cool!

To all the non-Spotify users who commented above: Just use Spotify. It really doesn't matter much for you on which service you listen to your music and Apple doesn't need to own it all. I use Spotify by principle because Apple makes way too much money with way too many things already. It can't harm if there is some room for other players, too. Definitely better for consumers in the long run. Just my opinion.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
PlasmStudios Avatar
49 months ago
Too bad you basically need to be Jeff Bezos to be able to afford a halfway decent setup with Hue.

Now I could totally see Apple integration a feature like this right into Homekit into control any homekit based accessories. Perhaps even a closer tie in with Apple Music. We'll just have to wait and see I guess
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
twistedpixel8 Avatar
49 months ago

Glad I'm not alone!
Apparently we missed that it’s rolling out over a week so it might be a few days before we actually see it. I’ll never understand why they do stupid things like this that confuse people. I will likely have forgotten about it by the time it’s available.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)