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Spotify Teams With Ancestry to Make Playlists Based on Your DNA
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Absolutely nobody, that's who.
It's extremely troubling how hard these people are trying to get you to give them your DNA.
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Curious to see how it even picks the results.
"hm this person is 8% Portuguese, just play any music from Portugal"
When humans eventually die, I'm certain we'll look back and regret how somewhere in the early 2010s we decided to just randomly send corporations our DNA for glorified dinner party anecdotes.
At best it's locale based, but it's probably going to feel like "here's the kinda music You People like." Then there's the issue of regions being very diverse in the kinds of music that come out of there. What single track sounds like America? Walk This Way with Run DMC + Aerosmith or something?
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I guess the one utility might be to expose people to more international music or something but none of that is worth using Ancestry lol.
Yeah, the premise that if you're genetically X then Y kind of music represents you is pretty inherently racist.
Oh boy. This is going to be an offensive but hilarious story. Better start writing the apology press release now.
Now what would be really cool is if they ran your DNA through a machine learning algorithm that would generate a song using your heritage as 'influence' for the song. The amount of influence from a given region would be proportional to that percentage in your DNA.
This is going to end terribly
I'll probably get a bunch of Australian classic rock, some American stuff, and one Polish song.
I'll probably get a bunch of Australian classic rock, some American stuff, and one Polish song.
Seriously.. how hard is it to randomize an array for Christ's sake?
Product team really stretching for ideas. Sadly enough, there's totally a crowd that would eat this up.
September 24, 2019 - Spotify Offers Playlists Based on Video Feed Watching You While You Sleep
Users need only install the latest mobile version of the Spotify app, which now requires permission to capture video, and set their phones on a stand facing their bed. The new Spotify app will do the rest. Spotify has not detailed exactly how songs are chosen based on video of their sleeping users, but assures us that they definitely won't be selling access to these feeds to creeps across the globe.
Users need only install the latest mobile version of the Spotify app, which now requires permission to capture video, and set their phones on a stand facing their bed. The new Spotify app will do the rest. Spotify has not detailed exactly how songs are chosen based on video of their sleeping users, but assures us that they definitely won't be selling access to these feeds to creeps across the globe.
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