{"id":19409,"date":"2020-03-25T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=19409"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:13:17","slug":"spotify-are-looking-at-matching-music-to-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/spotify-are-looking-at-matching-music-to-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify are looking at matching music to photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Spotify are trying out a whole new method of music discovery by matching the mood and moment of photos to songs, according to reports.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of tools for music discovery available int the age of music streaming, but you&#8217;ll be hard pressed to find one that recommends music based on pictures. That is unless Spotify launch a new image-to music tool that they are reportedly testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reverse engineer of apps Jane Machun Wong, Spotify are trying this out right now. In a tweet at the weekend Wong said that Spotify are working on a feature that will let users take a photo and they will then be recommended music that matches the &#8220;moment and mood&#8221; of that photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spotify is working on letting users take a photo and recommend them music that matches the moment and mood<br><br>I tried it by taking a photo of the view from my room and it keeps recommending me Indie pop for some reason <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z5kYZ0XYjy\">pic.twitter.com\/z5kYZ0XYjy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1241287791511605248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: &#8220;I tried it by taking a photo of the view from my room and it keeps recommending me indie pop for some reason.&#8221; Wong has previously uncovered un-released features that Spotify are working on like their Anchor button for creating podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully Spotify have also assured that they won&#8217;t save or use the photo afterwards. 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