Turn your track into a looping Spotify Canvas: a short 3–8 second vertical video in the exact 9:16 format Spotify wants. Free, no login, no watermark — and everything is rendered in your browser, so your audio never leaves your device.
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A Canvas is the short looping video that plays behind your song in the Spotify app instead of the static cover. Artists use it because it makes a track feel alive — and Spotify has said Canvas can lift streams and saves. To upload one in Spotify for Artists it has to match a strict spec:
| Aspect ratio | 9:16 (vertical) |
| Length | 3–8 seconds, loops seamlessly |
| Resolution | 720×1280 or higher |
| File | MP4, no sound |
SLOVO's Canvas mode exports exactly this — you don't have to worry about the numbers.
Free & no watermark. No subscription, no login, no logo slapped on your video.
Private. Your song and video are processed in the browser — they never touch a server.
Reacts to the beat. Presets pulse, punch and glow with your music; you can even make your own video loop physically react to the sound.
Lyrics built in. Auto-generate subtitles in English, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish and burn them into the loop.
A Canvas is three to eight seconds long and repeats forever while somebody listens, which makes it a very different object from a music video. Two rules follow from that. It has to loop without a visible seam, because the join is the thing a repeated clip trains the eye to find. And it has to survive being watched a hundred times, which means slow, hypnotic motion beats a fast cut every time — anything frantic becomes irritating by the third play.
The loop carries no audio: the listener already has the song playing. That is why the export here is built as a silent file rather than a video with the sound stripped out afterwards. It also means the visual has to carry the mood alone, which is a good argument for using your own artwork or a photograph rather than a generic template.
Cover art works, but a still photograph in 3D often works better. Pick the 3D PHOTO card and a neural network in your browser builds depth from the picture: the subject is lifted off the background, the background hidden behind them is filled in, and a slow camera move turns a single image into a loop that reads as filmed rather than generated. The models download once; the photo never leaves your device. See the 3D photo effect page for how it works.
A Canvas has no sound, so you do not even need to load the song. Choose a video without music, type the length — 8 seconds is the classic choice — and export: the file comes out with no audio track at all, which is exactly what Spotify asks for. Turn the beat switch off in the top bar and nothing pulses; the photo just drifts in depth, which is what a loop that plays behind a song for minutes should do.
The same route works with any other visual: SMOKE for a portrait in drifting smoke with the light behind the head, LIVE PHOTO for a frame that breathes, or OFFICIAL with your cover in the centre over a liquid background. Whatever you pick, keep the motion slow and the first and last frames similar, so the loop has no visible jump when it restarts.
Depth. 3D PHOTO on the cover photo or a portrait — the slowest and most “filmed” option, and the one that survives hours of looping without getting tiring. Atmosphere. SMOKE or LIVE PHOTO on a portrait: drifting smoke with light behind the head, or a frame whose bright parts breathe softly. The cover itself. OFFICIAL keeps the square art in the centre, the way listeners recognise a release, over a background that slowly sinks into the depth. Avoid anything that flashes or cuts: on loop it becomes tiring, and it runs into Spotify’s content guidelines.
SLOVO produces the file; uploading it is done in Spotify for Artists, where Canvas is attached per track. Requirements are set by Spotify and change from time to time, so check their current guidance before uploading — the export here targets the standard vertical format and the three-to-eight-second window.
The same project also gives you the other pieces of a release: a 9:16 clip for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, a 16:9 upload for YouTube, and a lyric video if the song leans on its words. Building them together keeps one visual identity across every place the track appears.