I am a kind of guy who has least interest about music. But these days, my interest towards music is growing rapidly. Thanks to +Spotify
It is good that Spotify uses Machine Learning for some usecases. This music streaming company has so many opportunities to change the human beings into music lovers.
Wakeup Song
Aren't you bored of listening to default alarm sound in your phone. I want Spotify to wake me with my favorite song. Like google updates home page with new doodle everyday, I want Spotify to surprise me with new tune/lyric everyday.
Contextual songs
We see in many movies that a lover proposes his girl friend using his/her favorite song at the background.
I want Spotify to understand the context that current user is in and play songs.
Few instances are:
when I am fishing...
when I am working...
when I am sad...
when I am having food...
Many think that they might loose the privacy if they let an application read more about them. I don't have any comments in this except suggesting Spotify to enable/disable the option to know more about user.
Test run for musicians
Do you think only software developers have a chance to do A/B testing? Musicians also can. Only if Spotify helps them.
Let musicians release unnamed and unknown songs to users and observe the user's interest.
Last but NOT least, whenever I come home I want to the say 'Spotify on' instead of music on. Let's add to Google Now/Siri keywords
when a software developer like me can think of these many scenarios? why can't +Spotify with more than 1k employees think?
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