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Spotify Stations is a supplement to the main Spotify app, and is sort of like an iPod Shuffle to the regular app’s iPod. It’s a minimalist take on Spotify, with music sorted by stations, so that you can’t just listen to a full album or crank through the entire back catalogue of Fleetwood Mac in order. You pick ‘stations’, which are named after genres, eras and artists, and then enjoy a curated feed of music. If you pick an artist you can choose to just shuffle through their catalogue or play music that is like theirs as well, which is, theoretically, a cool again inevitably hits.