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Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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

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Post by hashmal »

milofeynman wrote: post #18
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,…

I want private mode playlists. Playlists full of my kids songs that put the app in private mode so they don't mess up my suggestions.

Can't you achieve the same result with a family subscription?

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Post by blondie9x »

Anyone remember Songza or Grooveshark? That was so beautiful. Makes Spotify and Pandora look a fool. What Spotify or Google Music Apple Music should be doing is what Songza was doing. Time of day, weather, genre, what do you want to do? -> Go

I miss this! http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/06/songza-goes-universal-wit...

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

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Post by eloisius »

geofft wrote: post #17
redisman wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The Luddites were right, and we tend to reject that conclusion today more because we have no idea what to do if it's true than because we really think it's false. (The Luddites were also not blanket opposed to technology, just technology that for absolutely no good reason made their lives worse instead of better.)

Luddites were opposed to advances in the textile industry, like automated looms. This does not strike me as a technology that made life worse in the long run. Affordable access to decent quality clothing for most of the worlds population sounds like a win. Especially for women who were freed from The responsibilities of manufacturing clothing for their families and could later pursue careers.

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

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Post by dv_dt »

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,…

Spotify would do better to get back to basics on song suggestion instead of trying to guess emotional state - Pandora still finds similar songs by musical elements better than Spotify. A good example to try is to select a song that is out of genre for an artist - an acoustic version of a song that usually doesn't do acoustic for example. The suggestions for similar songs from Spotify all have to do with the artist genre not the actual song.

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

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Post by airstrike »

hashmal wrote: post #21
milofeynman wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want private mode playlists. Playlists full of my kids songs that put the app in private mode so they don't mess up my suggestions.

Can't you achieve the same result with a family subscription?

You can switch between profiles, though

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Post by boraoztunc »

spacefiish wrote: post #16

The link returns a 500 Internal Server Error - maybe it was the HN hug of death, but this post doesn’t seem big enough yet for that? Either way, I hope to read this when its back online. Seems interesting, and also scary.

I read this on Pitchfork [1] couple of days ago, their source was Music Business Worldwide [2] and with a provided US patent: Identification of taste attributes from an audio signal [3]

[1] https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monit...

[2] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotifys-latest-inven...

[3] https://patents.justia.com/patent/10891948

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

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Post by [deleted] »

airstrike wrote: post #9
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.

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

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Post by approxim8ion »

blondie9x wrote: post #22

Anyone remember Songza or Grooveshark? That was so beautiful. Makes Spotify and Pandora look a fool. What Spotify or Google Music Apple Music should be doing is what Songza was doing. Time of day, weather, genre, what do you want to do? -> Go I miss this! http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/06/songza-goes-universal-wit...

Grooveshark was incredible. Completely free too.
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