There are many ways Spotify diversifies the streaming experience better than other streaming services without becoming boring. Spotify deserves its spot at the top of the music-streaming food chain.
Spotify is in a league of its own when it comes to personalizing a listener’s experience by constantly creating and putting together playlists tailored to the user’s listening patterns.
Spotify Wrapped, one of the more notable and popular features on Spotify, occurs at the end of every year. This feature recaps the users’ listening habits over the past year by revealing the user’s top songs and artists and how long they listened to a particular song or genre of music. Spotify then puts together a playlist of the user’s most listened-to songs.
An older feature, known as Discover Weekly, makes it easy for users to find different songs that align with their tastes.
Every Monday, Discover Weekly features a playlist of 30 songs for the listener, giving them more listening options that can potentially be added to their playlists.
Currently in early development is Spotify DJ: An AI that determines which songs to play for the user based on their history and real-time feedback.
Similar to Discover Weekly, the DJ makes an effort to expose the listener to new songs that they might enjoy by introducing them to songs that they have not heard before.
The DJ will also give some info about an artist when introducing a song to the user.
If the listener is not feeling the songs played by the AI, all they have to do is hit the DJ button in the bottom right-hand corner, and it will switch things up.
Back in September 2023, Spotify launched daylists, which feature playlists composed by AI of songs that the user listens to at different times of the day.
“I usually don’t pay attention to most of their features, but the daylist feature is cool; I think AI is taking over the world,” said Zinia Greene, a fourth-year student. “I like that it generates playlists often; it saves me the trouble of always having to make my own.”
The playlist updates throughout the day to reflect listening habits on certain days and times during the week. Each update to the playlist includes a different title made up of AI.
Spotify makes sharing music easier and more exciting with the addition of a blend. A Spotify Blend is a combination of two users’ music tastes meshed together into one playlist.
The blend updates daily, and after its creation, it gives both listeners a percentage of how similar their music tastes are.
These numerous features keep Spotify at the top amongst other music streaming services.
As AI expansion continues to push the boundaries of music exploration, the intel gathered by Spotify’s systems helps drive their success over other services, always bringing the listener back for more.