As a Spotify user, for many years now, something that I have always valued in a particularly positive way about the service is everything related to music recommendations that may interest me. Whether it’s with the mixes created to measure, with the songs that it adds to the playback when we finish listening to the content of a list that we have created, etc., I think there is a lot of intelligence behind its operation.
It’s never quite clear to me if the recommendation process is based exclusively on artificial intelligence algorithms or if, more likely, Spotify it also has a team of music professionals who are dedicated to reviewing the results of these algorithms in order to, in a team with their developers, fine-tune their operation and, in this way, achieve that on some occasions we can even doubt whether we have added a song ourselves to a list, or if it has been Spotify who has considered (usually correctly) that it was a good fit there.
Be that as it may, in the dean of music streaming sThey are very aware of the importance that users attach to this function and, consequently, they are concerned with improving it on a regular basis, either by proposing new types of mixes, or taking them to other sections of the service, in order to extend their reach, have more users verify their proper functioning and, of course, , making them more likely to keep their subscription.
The latest proof of this is found in a tweet by Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of the company, in which previews Spotify’s upcoming Your offline Mix featurea way that, as we can quickly deduce from its name, will offer us content related to what we listen to, allowing us to access it even if we are not connected to the Internet at that moment (and no, of course, I am obviously not talking about the lists of synchronized playback, is something different).
As we can read in The Verge, which would have obtained more information about it, the playlist would automatically save “a mix of your recently played songs for when the vibe is up but your connection is down«. In the image, we see that the test you have taken has generated a list of three and a half hoursso we can understand that this function seeks a balance between offering a good amount of content, but not consuming an excessive fraction of the storage of the device on which the service is being used.
Although there is still no date for its launch, the fact that it is the CEO of Spotify himself who has shown it on his personal Twitter account, invites us to think that we won’t have to wait too long until it debutsso we will remain vigilant.
