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Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

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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,…

Maybe because people who want this aren't their customers.

I've argued that recommendation system for music are near useless for years because they don't group music together by what I actually want to hear together, and that it needs to be more careful about interpreting my actions because what goes together varies by mood and purpose.

E.g. you can't just take genre,or artist, because the music I want before bed need to be slow, soothing and familiar. Transitions between tracks also need to be much less abrupt than other times of day.

Other times I want something new and surprising.

Or loud and upbeat.

Until they convince me they can do that they're not getting my money.

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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?

Oh, here's a missing basic feature: casting in the Spotify Kids app. Which isn't possible, so I use my account for my kid's songs

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post #63

Link is dead for me. Does anyone know how this works? Is it: Spotify asks how I'm feeling, I click the frowny face, and then it recommends me some sad songs?

https://archive.md/rTcAg > Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional state and location type to serve up the appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all! > Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to assess a user’s demographic attributes, determine their emotional sta…

Thank you. This is so much worse than what I imagined. Still, my prediction in that this will, unfortunately, turn out to be a popular feature.

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Beepity-boop beep! Emotional state detected: Depressed!

Suggesting playlist:

  1. Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
  2. Michael Andrews – Mad World
  3. Klaus Nomi – The Cold Song
  4. Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless
Did You Know: This playlist has been brought to you by analyzing frillions of Spotify users with advanced AI and selecting the optimal songs matching any emotional state.

Enjoy! :)

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Interesting! Like what.. a genre name?

I named a playlist "metal", it started recommending metal songs without me having added anything yet.

That would be just one signal for the recommendation engine, given that you only named the playlist without any songs that probably weighed in quite heavily on the recommendations. Did it change after you added songs or kept suggesting metal songs?

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post #59

Stuff like this will just have me on bandcamp exclusively. Spotify has been a terrible experience, but for the sake of my teenage son, we decided to get a family account. Spotify is too obsessed with telling me how to consume music, I don’t need an album shuffled by default, the artist picked the track listing for a reason. The way Spotify cues music is bizarre. Their user interfaces are confusing and clunky. For a p…

It's easy to play them in whatever order you like, just build a playlist.

That seems an extreme solution for playing the tracks as listed in an album (but a good rationale for Spotify to _not_ turn auto-shuffle on by default)

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Urgh all music recommendation engines are broken as soon as you go out of like the top 10 genres and big labels. Listening to folk music is basically “7 degrees of Beyonce”. Start with any English folk song, start the radio feature on Spotify, and it won’t be long until it swaps to Taylor Swift, and then the next step is Beyonce. It’s like they forget about where you started and only base each suggestion off the last track.

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

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> emotions using speech recognition technology. Because many don't know the actual term for what they're analysing, I thought I'll post it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_prosody Honestly, I don't think this is a good idea. It opens one up for manipulation. You feel this way and Spotify will suggest you something that makes you feel rather that way. It doesn't matter if it's one or more songs meant to s…

also, not everyone wants to listen to happy music when they are sad. source: me
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