The platform received the patent for the new algorithm
Do you listen to Spotify or does Spotify listen to you? That is the question. Music is a great tool to change, explore or live intensely a mood and now the platform of streaming he can tell if you are happy or sad.
The music listening app has just won a patent for its algorithm, which will be able to determine your mood and from there, recommend a song.
But you may wonder, how will Spotify know whether to recommend “Con Altura” by Rosalía, “Lovely” by Billie Eilish, “Bet It” by Michale Jackson or “Tres Veces Te Engañé” by Paquita la del Barrio? The answer is very simple in practical terms and surely very complete in terms of programming, so we will not get into there.
What the new system that the application patented will do is analyze the user’s voice and background noise, in order to send recommendations according to your gender, age and accent. If the algorithm qualifies your tone of voice optimistic and hears that you are with a lot of people, it will surely recommend a perreo for your party.
The patent they obtained on January 12, according to
he also proposes using “intonation, rhyme, and stress” to infer how the user feels. They may even recommend a playlist according to how you feel.
This update is not likely to arrive anytime soon, but it is a vision of what it will be like to use the service in the future. streaming. At the end of the day, recommending music is complex because even though two people are the same age, have the same stress level, and live together, their preferred musical genres may be different.