Apple Music Introduces Five New 'Find Your Mood' Stations

[MacRumors]

Apple Music today introduced five new mood stations that allow you to shuffle through songs fitting for a certain mood. The stations are available to Apple Music subscribers worldwide in the Music app under Home → Find Your Mood.

Apple says the mood stations are personalized based on your Apple Music listening history, and they are always updating with new songs.

The new stations:

• Feel Good: Happy music with a positive vibe
• Energy: Upbeat music to get you moving
• Relax: Music that helps you find peace in the moment
• Focus: Music to help you lock-in to the task at hand
• Feeling Blue: Moody music that helps you lean into feeling down

These five new stations join the "Love" and "Heartbreak" stations that launched earlier this year.

Article Link: Apple Music Introduces Five New 'Find Your Mood' Stations

 

[VulchR]

With all due respect, it sounds like they're marketing elevator music. No thanks.

 

[kneisen]

With all due respect, it sounds like they're marketing elevator music. No thanks.

Worst elevator ever. *cracks phone in half*

 

[sw1tcher]

How about a station for our 10 emotions: Anxiety, Envy, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Embarrassment, Ennui, Nostalgia

 

[ofarlig]

How about fixing so it plays actual relevant songs after my playlists end first? I keep testing Apple Music about once a year and then cancelling because they are still a long way behind Spotify when it comes to recommendations.

 

[stiligFox]

How about fixing so it plays actual relevant songs after my playlists end first? I keep testing Apple Music about once a year and then cancelling because they are still a long way behind Spotify when it comes to recommendations.

I find that sometimes it’s hit or miss for both services but when they get in the groove, they’ll suggest perfect music for me. Apple Music took longer to learn my style and required me to favorite whatever I liked, and now I like everything it suggests for me. Spotify was great for a while but my tastes changed and it’s not wanting to adapt and is instead suggesting things way outside my tastes.

Algorithms are decidedly finicky things, I swear.

 

[Reformed]

These are very welcome I guess. Apple needs to keep working on the algorithm, all of my now favorite bands were discovered on Spotify a couple years ago. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to discover any relevant music on AM.

 

[SlyBriFry]

ChatGPT: Spotify first introduced "mood" playlists in 2013. These playlists were designed to cater to specific moods or activities, making it easier for users to find music that suited their emotional state or situation.

...Yep, about the same time I dumped iTunes.

 

[toobravetosave]

give us $2-$3 albums and end streaming 😈

 

[ofarlig]

I find that sometimes it’s hit or miss for both services but when they get in the groove, they’ll suggest perfect music for me. Apple Music took longer to learn my style and required me to favorite whatever I liked, and now I like everything it suggests for me. Spotify was great for a while but my tastes changed and it’s not wanting to adapt and is instead suggesting things way outside my tastes.

Algorithms are decidedly finicky things, I swear.

Apple Music have never given me a single recommendations that wasn't utter garbage and the complete opposite of what I was listening to. If I use Spotify I find new music to listen to but when I use Apple Music that never happens.

If I make a playlist and listen to it they shouldn't require me to liking songs or having much past interaction to be able to play something relevant, just play something based on what I was just listening to. But no, Apple Music would play me something like K-Pop after listening to my "best of 70s/80s list"...

But then again Apple seem to be terrible with algorithms in general, Siri have always been unusable, Apple Maps is terrible and the list goes on.

 

[brofkand]

Apple Music's recommendation engine is so bad they might as well stop trying.

 

[sos47]

First song on „Herzschmerz“ was Rammstein - Bingoooo 👌🏼
“Dıscover Musıc” ıs a dısaster - every song - ı hate ıt
“My Radıostatıon” ıs pretty good
(I have around 3000 songs tagged ın my lıb, so suggestıons should be accurate)

 

[jason4427]

ChatGPT: Spotify first introduced "mood" playlists in 2013. These playlists were designed to cater to specific moods or activities, making it easier for users to find music that suited their emotional state or situation.

...Yep, about the same time I dumped iTunes.

So that means you’re ready to come back now?

 

[LinkedTriforce]

How about a station for our 10 emotions: Anxiety, Envy, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Embarrassment, Ennui, Nostalgia

…I logged in for the first time in ages just to like this comment lol. LOVE the Inside Out movies!

 

[coffeemilktea]

This probably works better (and is simpler to use) than Spotify's new playlists too.

 

[Cirillo Gherardo]

Tim Cook is really obsessed with Apple Music opening people to new music. I wish it had much less emphasis on that and just made the things I already know I want to listen to easier to find.

 

[BJMRamage]

I saw and tried it this morning...a few good songs and then a slew of songs I wouldn't listen to normally and after the second song I kept skipping. I figured it wasn't personalized until I saw this article. YIKES!!

Not sure how many times I have to hit "Play less of this song" for it to not play that song anymore...and if I do that for each song an artist has that pops up...maybe stay away from that artist too. I have favorited LOTS of songs to help the algorithms but they are very much hit or miss.

I do wish they had a LIKE and a FAVORITE option. and more importantly a LIKE an artist option.

 

[Kottu]

I use youtube music. Not the best quality but I can watch YouTube videos without ads.

 

[ApplesAreSweet&Sour]

With all due respect, it sounds like they're marketing elevator music. No thanks.

Agree.

I've used AM for close to two years and simply cannot get used to how little new music I discover when using it.

Would have been perfect as the integration with my Apple devices is phenomenal. But the suggestions just don't cut it.

I've now switched to YT Music -UI is kinda odd and not much better than AM. But the suggestions are a million times better.

And with YT Music, I also get to listen to all the cool "home-brewed", remixed and bootlegged stuff that you don't find anywhere else as it's not official releases.

 

[SlyBriFry]

So that means you’re ready to come back now?

Not in the right... mood.

 

[CarAnalogy]

How about a station for our 10 emotions: Anxiety, Envy, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Embarrassment, Ennui, Nostalgia

It doesn't matter. Whatever button you push, it's just pop.

 

[S.B.G]

I tried AM for a week or so again and canceled it again. I'm sticking with Qobuz, my local library and managed via Roon.

 

[victorvictoria]

Thanks but no thanks. I pick the music I want to hear based on other criteria.

 

[victorvictoria]

I saw and tried it this morning...a few good songs and then a slew of songs I wouldn't listen to normally and after the second song I kept skipping. I figured it wasn't personalized until I saw this article. YIKES!!

Not sure how many times I have to hit "Play less of this song" for it to not play that song anymore...and if I do that for each song an artist has that pops up...maybe stay away from that artist too. I have favorited LOTS of songs to help the algorithms but they are very much hit or miss.

I do wish they had a LIKE and a FAVORITE option. and more importantly a LIKE an artist option.

I wish they had a "don't like" and "block" options for artists, tunes, albums and genres.

 

[victorvictoria]

Doesn't Pandora already do this for free?