Spotify's New Feature Builds Playlists for Your Pets Based on Their Personality Traits and Your Listening History

[MacRumors]

Spotify today announced "Pet Playlists," which builds custom playlists for a cat, dog, iguana, hamster, or bird (via The Verge). The playlist generator combines your pet's personality traits with your own listening history on Spotify, building a list of songs that the company says both you and your pet can enjoy.

To get your Pet Playlist, visit Spotify's new Pet Playlist website, choose an animal, and then answer questions about their personality and temperament. Spotify will combine this information with your listening habits to create a Pet Playlist that's automatically added to your library, filled with about 30 songs.

While music for pets isn't an exact science, we consulted with experts in the pet industry for the best approximation for what might work best for our featured animals. Incidentally, we only use the information you provide us to create your Pet Playlist. The information is not stored and is not used for any other purpose.

When subscribers were last counted, Spotify had 113 million Premium subscribers as of October 2019, compared to Apple Music's 60 million as of June 2019. According to Spotify, the streaming service is growing twice as fast as Apple Music.

Apple Music finally caught up to Spotify in one area in 2019, introducing a "Replay" feature that let its users track their most-played songs from the previous year, as well as every single year since they started using Apple Music.

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[itsmilo]

I would love to know what they smoked when they came up with that idea

 

[steve217]

Early April fools day?

 

[subjonas]

I think the world is ending.

 

[j3x]

If this is true then wtf Spotify??, they can do this but not give me unlimited download for offline... if I have enough storage and paying premium let me have it offline dammit.

 

[30ftandrising]

So many important things that should be done by Spotify...(*)
So many ******** that is done by Spotify...

I call Spotify’s product management ‘problematic’ to say the least. As a Spotify user for years I can say Spotify is a mess.

(*) better Audio Book integration, improved playlists (done by humans), sticking to an UI for 6 months, more control over radio stations and daily drive.

 

[Hastings101]

I love that they did this because it’s hilarious, but they should have saved it for April Fool’s.

 

[steve217]

This reminds me of Robert Mitchums role as the crazy network president in “Scrooged”, when he wanted more programming for cats.

So they used glued antlers to make rein-mice.
😆

 

[HEK]

Playlists for pets? Now that deserves a double face palm for sure.

 

[drinkingtea]

This makes no sense.

 

[Saturnine]

Christ sake! So many good ideas are submitted to Spotify on their forums and the majority of them are rejected.

You know like:

- Streaming to multiple external speakers
- Landscape mode on iPhone
- Lyrics

Meanwhile, this crap is being developed and I’m paying for them to do it.

 

[HEK]

If my dog scratches the screen of my iPhone with her sandy nails, no treats for a month!

She does love ❤ those hits, like,
“I’m Barking At The Moon” and
“The Mailman Woke Me From My Snooze”
And all time favorite....”Woofing In My Dreams”.
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[JSTee]

What about the ability to reset daily mixes? My son used the family echo dot for a week and now my daily mixes are unlistenable.

Or what about fixing some of the security issues with Spotify connect?

 

[OneHandWaving]

Especially useful if, like the bods at Spotify, you have a shark that needs to be jumped over.

 

[techfreak23]

I’m glad this was more important than adding the ability to queue songs on the Apple Watch app or adding lyrics to the main app...

 

[FloatingBones]

Spotify has been doing dynamic ad insertion in their "free" music service. They're now going to do it for their exclusive podcasts. Guess you've gotta scramble for money to pay for Obama.

These guys are gutting the concept of podcasts. I will be happy when they implode. My pets will have to do without.

 

[Biu_miu]

Man, screw my household pets, they aren’t chipping in for monthly subscription, so they better don’t even dream about playlists from my account!!!

 

[Kabeyun]

Sometimes in a spitballing session they’re just spitballs.

 

[Unity451]

I love that they did this because it’s hilarious, but they should have saved it for April Fool’s.

If they saved it for April 1st, that would imply that it was a joke. By doing it now, it's obvious that they're really really onboard with this.

 

[nburwell]

But why? Slow day at the Spotify offices?

 

[entropys]

Cat ladies rejoice.

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

Someone had too much time on their hands. I guess Spotify considers their platform fully developed. I wonder how many ideas in the Spotify community got ignored for this instead? 🙄

 

[pweicks]

Oh gosh. People these days are more concerned about their pets than they are about their own children.

“Um, excuse me, but my pets ARE my children.”

So stupid. People are becoming so depressed and miserable these days they just sit at home and talk to their cats and dogs all day rather than getting out and learning how to communicate with their family, friends, coworkers and, yes, even strangers. Tells a lot about our society and the direction it’s going in.

 

[cube]

- Snoop Dogg

- Cat Stevens
- Cat Power
- Pussycat Dolls

 

[BushySquirrel]

And all i want is Spotify to bring out Lossless streaming and better quality like Tidal 💁‍♂️