The feature will work with any music app, not just Spotify or specific streaming services.
Philips also announced many new lights and features, including a new Corsair collaboration for gamers.
Galaxy owners who also happen to have Philips Hue lights in their homes will be pretty excited to find out that Samsung and Signify are collaborating to make it easier to host a home rave. Or, in more precise words, to synchronize music playing on their phones with their Hue lights.
Unlike the previous Spotify integration with Hue, this doesn’t have access to your exact playlist and doesn’t analyze the entire metadata of a song to anticipate upcoming beat changes. Instead, it monitors audio output and looks for beats. The upside is that it works with any music app on Samsung phones and tablets, so it’s no longer limited to Spotify. You could synchronize your lights with local music files just as well as any streaming service, or potentially even that 20-minute voice message from your long-lost aunt.
