Spotify and Genius partner for Fact Tracks

Starting today, Spotify and the Brooklyn-based startup Genius have unveiled a new FAQ style function in a burgeoning partnership.

Entitled ‘Fact Tracks’, the collaboration is a new program that works alongside Spotify’s playlist providing a summary for each track played. Both Spotify and Genius users will be able to actively add relevant content and knowledge to the platform opening up the possibility for audiences to engage with streamed content. Fact Tracks is accessible on the Spotify iOS app now.

Genius has garnered attention over the last year for its promotion of open source and community explication of the internet.

There’s been plenty of debate over the value of music distribution on through online avenues, but this latest innovation, added with the new RIAA record sales system, speaks to a slow, but steady change of the views on the digital age of music.