Spotify has released a new personalised wrapped-like feature called ‘Only You’.
The feature, which launched today (June 2), creates six lists which show your music organised according to a number of new categories. ‘Your Genres/Topics’ is based on features that “set your listening apart” from others whilst the category, ‘Your Time Of Day’, tells you which music you listen to most at both night and day.
Another list shows you which years of music you listen to the most frequently (‘Your Song Year’) while another looks at your most unusual artist pairing, showing a disparate mix of artists you have listened to one after the other, for example.
‘Your Dream Dinner Party’ creates a personalised dinner party playlist after you select your own musical dinner party guests, whilst ‘Your Audio Birth Chart’ aligns your horoscope’s Sun, Moon and Rising sign to match your favourite artists.
As reported on Macrummours, the “Sun shows the artist you listened to the most over the last six months” whilst the “Moon matches you with an artist that best shows your emotional side and Rising ties it all up with an artist that you’ve connected with recently.”
Another separate feature launched by Spotify today was the ‘Blend’ feature which allows two friends to merge their music into one playlist which both friends can listen to.
You can see some of the reactions to the new feature below:
Spotify didn't exactly lie#onlyyou pic.twitter.com/XC7VjcERgh
— Anya Gupta (@anyeahgupta) June 2, 2021
spotify, i don’t think im the only one pic.twitter.com/9hTra5fKAk
— Stephanie ♡’s chloe and meg (@choncehalo) June 2, 2021
The new Spotify feature gets me pic.twitter.com/caPKuSVM4G
— Dylan (@notbeaverboy001) June 2, 2021
Spotify called me out for having weird playlists and a random taste in music
#onlyyou pic.twitter.com/as3LKWgonc
— Louie (Anthony) (@OnTheUpAndUp) June 2, 2021
My audio birth chart is pretty much on point. @Spotify
pic.twitter.com/efYg9gJvLP
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Roxy
Last month (May 4), over 180 musicians signed an open letter taking a stand against Spotify’s new speech monitoring patent. The streaming company had a patent approved earlier this year for a piece of technology that can monitor and record both users’ speech and background noise to help curate music for Spotify users.
The likes of Tom Morello, Laura Jane Grace, DIIV, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, Downtown Boys, Talib Kweli and many more signed an open letter calling on Spotify to never use, license or sell the patent. It was also backed by a number of organisations including the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers.
You can read the letter in full here.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had secured the funding to buy Arsenal from owner Stan Kroenke, after the London club were involved in the ill-fated plans to launch a European Super League. However, his bid was later rejected.
The streaming platform boss’ plans were met with hostility from musicians, who suggested he fix Spotify’s much-criticised payment model with his money instead of investing it in a football club.
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