Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

Spotify has a very cool feature called Community [2] where users can talk about what they want Spotify to do. The most upvoted ideas are things like "change my username" or "filter explicit songs." My personal wishlist is a "don't play this song again" button [3] and native Homepod support [4].

The point is that users aren't asking for Spotify to interpret their emotional state, they just want comparatively basic features.

1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342854806_Just_the_...

2: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas

3: https://tinyurl.com/y52qtavt

4: https://tinyurl.com/y3hlw6ky

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by redisman » Mon, Feb 01, 2021, 3:38 AM UTC

spacephysics wrote: post #4

designatedtruth wrote: post #2

Future looks scary my friend.... future of tech is scary.

How do we make it less scary?

Smash all the computers? Unless you regulate very tightly what you can track about your users I don’t see any mechanism for companies to stop doing this kind of stuff as it is great business

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by airstrike » Mon, Feb 01, 2021, 3:40 AM UTC

millstone wrote: post #7

Here is the referenced July paper [1]. Spotify has a very cool feature called Community [2] where users can talk about what they want Spotify to do. The most upvoted ideas are things like "change my username" or "filter explicit songs." My personal wishlist is a "don't play this song again" button [3] and native Homepod support [4]. The point is that users aren't asking for Spotify to interpret their emotional state,…

> The point is that users aren't asking for Spotify to interpret their emotional state, they just want rather basic features to work.

Obligatory “If I’d asked customers what they want, they would have told me a faster horse.”

People may not realize the value of this new feature because they have not even imagined it.

Re: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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Post by falcolas » Mon, Feb 01, 2021, 3:42 AM UTC

spacephysics wrote: post #4

designatedtruth wrote: post #2

Future looks scary my friend.... future of tech is scary.

How do we make it less scary?

Stop believing that just because we can do something, we have an intrinsic right to do something.

We should also probably stop letting “shareholder value” drive our morals.