World’s one of the leading music streaming service provider Spotify is prototyping a new way to discover what friends have been listening to, called “Tastebuds.” This new tool is designed to let users explore the music taste profiles of their friends.
Tastebuds is offered through a navigation option alongside Library and Home/Browse sections. Anyone can access a non-functioning landing page for the feature at https://open.spotify.com/tastebuds. The feature explains itself, with text noting “What’s Tastebuds? Now you can discover music through friends whose taste you trust.”
Without Tastebuds, there are only a few ways to interact socially on Spotify. You can message friends a piece of music through buttons for SMS, Facebook Messenger and more, or post songs to your Instagram or Snapchat Story.
The newest feature Tastebuds will, however, keep the users inside the app without the need of sharing it using other apps. It should be noted here that Spotify did bring an in-app inbox feature for sharing songs but it later removed as it might not have wanted to make the music discovery app a social app.
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Earlier, Spotify used to have an in-app inbox for trading songs, but it was removed by the company in favor of shuttling users to more popular messaging apps. On the desktop app, you can view a Friend Activity ticker of songs your Facebook friends are currently listening to.
Currently, Spotify has no features for directly interacting with friends within its mobile app. There’s a possibility that the company was purposefully restricting social features to force users to rely on its own playlists and discovery surfaces. This enabled Spotify to influence which artists got featured and rose to stardom. This in turn gave it leverage in negotiations with record labels.
Tastebuds App Spotify Playlist
You can now check out what your friends have been listening to and add it to your list, as Spotify says – “What’s Tastebuds? Now you can discover music through friends whose taste you trust.”
Spotify computer chromecast mac. So far, Spotify has had no features for you to directly interact with friends within your mobile app. They dropped their own inbox, that let you trade songs with friends, in 2017 and kept the Friend Activity ticker only in the desktop app. Their social features have been pretty limited, revolving only around sharing bits and pieces of data on existing social networks and Spotify's music discovery has mostly revolved around its own playlists and algorithms.
This gave Spotify an advantage when it came to negotiating with artists and labels, a practice which can be considered questionable. As Slashgear reports, 'This gave Spotify the power to play king-maker, massively influencing which artists got featured and rose to stardom. This in turn gave it leverage in its combative negotiations with record labels, which worried their artists might get left off playlists if they don't play nice with Spotify in terms of sustainable royalty rates and access to exclusives.'
And it helped the music-streaming service stay on top of its game with Spotify improving its licensing deals and becoming a critical promotional partner for labels and that meant paving the way to its IPO. Spotify's shares now sit at $152, up from its direct listing price of $132.
In a better space now, it seems at least, Spotify seems to be ok with letting users get inspired by what their friends are playing giving them more control over what they discover.
The Spotify app has also been reported to be running very slowly for some users. Regardless of whether you’re subscribed to Premium or prefer the free version, which plays on ads and shuffle only, the problem still seems to eventually creep its way down to your Mac. Spotify playlist error on mac. I'm trying to post a playlist on playlist exchange and the URI for all of my playlists keeps coming back as invalid. I'm just copying the link directly from the desktop application that says Spotify URI.
Tastebuds is designed to let you explore your friends' music taste profiles and it sits as a navigation option next to your Library and Home/Browse sections. There is a also a non-functioning landing page for the feature on the web.
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Users need to tap the pen icon to 'search the people you follow', and from there you can view information about what users have been playing most and listen along or add songs to the library.
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Tastebuds App Spotify Account
Other than that landing page on the web, Spotify has made no official confirmation of Tastebuds or when it plans to launch the feature.
Tastebuds Dating App
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