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Spotify Launches New Stat Tracking 'Only You' Hub and Collaborative 'Blend' Playlists for Friends

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Spotify today announced a new collaborative playlist and a collection of new stat tracking features for users. The company is referring to the stat tracking updates, called "Only You," as a way to see your Spotify Wrapped stats earlier in the year.

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In total, there are six new ways to break down your Spotify listening history, including finding out which artist most aligns with your astrological birth chart, what songs you listen to the most at certain times of the day, and more.

  • 1) Your Audio Birth Chart - Spotify aligns your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs to match you with some of your favorite artists. Sun shows the artist you listened to the most over the last six months; 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.
  • 2) Your Dream Dinner Party - Spotify generates a personalized dinner party mix after you select your dream dinner party guests.
  • 3) Your Artist Pairs - Spotify pair two disparate artists together that you've listened to recently, showing your range of musical interests.
  • 4) Your Song Year - Spotify shows off the most popular year of the music you listen to.
  • 5) Your Time of Day - Spotify tells you the songs and podcasts you listen to the most in the morning and at night.
  • 6) Your Genres/Topics - The last category brings everything together by combining music and podcasts that "set your listening apart."
In addition to Only You, Spotify is launching a new personalized feature called "Blend" in beta. With this, two friends can merge their musical tastes into one curated playlist that they can both listen to.

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Blend playlists will be updated daily, and will grow over time based on how each user changes their listening habits. To start a Blend, tap "Create Blend" in the Made For You hub on mobile, tap "invite," and select a friend to share the playlist with.

Currently, Blend is only available on iOS and Android mobile devices. To read more about Spotify's announcements today, check out the company's blog post.

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You just can’t beat Spotify.

Tried out the Blend feature with my friend and SO. It’s super cool, especially since my friend and I always are sending each other music. Now it recommends music match both of our tastes for both of us automatically!
 
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while the announced Apple Watch offline feature is not going anywhere - I am sure they will be implementing this social media ******** with utmost haste
 
kenni417 said:
where there hell are the features we’ve been asking for? where’s the hell is the old design? where s the watch feature they showed weeks ago?
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I thought I was going a bit crazy in thinking I had read about the download to Apple Watch bit because I don’t have access to it.
 
xxray said:
You just can’t beat Spotify.

Tried out the Blend feature with my friend and SO. It’s super cool, especially since my friend and I always are sending each other music. Now it recommends music match both of our tastes for both of us automatically!
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whatever rocks your boat …
 
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Where is the fix to Spotify crashing on M1 Macs after putting the Mac in sleep mode and then waking it up? it has only been 6 months. Despite my dislike of Apple Music for pushing a lot of stuff in which I have no interest, I have gone back to it. It is ok for playing full albums which I do frequently.
 
Wow, something other than them whining to the government and media. I thought they had lost this capability.
 
These are amazing features Spolicy added in order to further distance themselves from Apple Music's monopoly and low bar feature sets.
 
at this point it's embarrassing that they release such a useless thing and still can't give everyone lyrics
 
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xxray said:
You just can’t beat Spotify.

Tried out the Blend feature with my friend and SO. It’s super cool, especially since my friend and I always are sending each other music. Now it recommends music match both of our tastes for both of us automatically!
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Its insane how good their algorithim is. I jumped on years ago before it was in the US so I have literally years of history with my account and Im so impressed with how good it is at recommending music.

Gave Apple Music a shot with the trial and I can't believe how bad the UX alone is with the app. Everything feels like it takes forever to load, the recommendations arent that great and the discovery aspect of it is really just not good.

Spotify is ****ing great and being such an audiophile, its been amazing with my obessesion with music.
 
xxray said:
You just can’t beat Spotify.

Tried out the Blend feature with my friend and SO. It’s super cool, especially since my friend and I always are sending each other music. Now it recommends music match both of our tastes for both of us automatically!
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Yeah, until you realise just how many tracking systems they have running. When you go on to the Spotify website and allow cookies (which everyone will do without thinking, because dark patterns), you’ll be opting in to no less than 200 tracking services

Spotify is rotten.
 
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