Spotify Daily Mix - The music you love, minus the effort. Just for you.

@rrhoover I'll let @flaneur talk about the roadmap, but a #protip workaround is to start playing your Daily Mix from mobile and use our Connect feature to keep listening on desktop.

@rrhoover Already in progress, so shouldn't be too long!

@mayafish not yet!

@jackdweck @mayafish We're rolling out gradually on iOS and Android over the next 24 hours.

@flaneur @jackdweck @mayafish really looking forward to this!

@flaneur I still don't see it in my Spotify and it's been 24 hours. I've been patiently waiting and excited for this!!

@todkiry Should now be out to everyone with the latest version of the app on iOS or Android, at the top of "Your Library".

@ogustin According to @flaneur interview on fastcompany: "[...] internal user studies showed that naming these lists after genres ("My Daily Hip-Hop Mix," for instance) altered people's expectations and complicated the experience. Instead, successive lists are named as simply as possible: Your Daily Mix 1, Your Daily Mix 2, and so forth." Read the whole thing on: https://www.fastcompany.com/3064...

@lucaslazaro @ogustin @flaneur i'd like to hear a little more reasoning behind this. sure its as "simple" as possible, but its also as meaningless as possible.

@lucaslazaro @flaneur Thanks for your answer. I understand their purpose, but as @gopietz points it out, it is really meaningless (+ you can find the main genre by looking at the artists)

@ogustin @lucaslazaro @gopietz Yes, that's the point ;) The inside scoop: mix groupings are personalized and unique, and may often fail to adhere strictly to genre (but they capture something else about the relationships between the artists you play a lot). By focusing on what artists are inside, without labels, we found people could point and go "oh, that's my chill mix and this one is my more dance-y vibe", or "that's my 70s and 80s mix", and be happier with the end result. Early in development, we had a user with a mix that was mostly Hip Hop with some R&B and other stuff thrown in -- it was a cool mix, and the user thought it sounded great. But at the time it was named after the primary genre, eg. "Your Hip Hop Mix", and when Prince came on, they were like "this must be an error, Prince isn't hip hop", even though the mix itself was enjoyable. We're still looking at future ways of getting cleverer with the naming, but that's how we landed on something deliberately neutral for now.

@flaneur @ogustin @lucaslazaro thanks for the honest explanation! these smart machine learning algorithms can group by something we dont even have words for :)

@flaneur would love to also read a technical write-up on the how you guys are doing this! > Discover Weekly reached 40 million listeners (more than all Apple Music and Tidal subscribers combined) and generated 5 billion streams on Spotify That's an impressive stat!

@andrewwarner I've never met anyone that actually uses Siri on a regular basis. Does it really make things simpler?

@namshee maybe I misunderstand what you mean with 'cast'-ing, but I can cast my spotify music to any speaker in my flat from the desktop app as well.

@gopietz Ah! I can see that now too! I'm sure it's not always been there? Thanks!