Spotify: Listening Together

An global music listening experiment

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Listening connects us, sometimes if we know it or not.

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Hey Everyone, today I want to suggest a special Spotify project, very interesting indeed. Happy listening and discovery. About Listening Together It started as an experiment in 2014, when media artist Kyle McDonald had the idea of finding the “serendipity” of two listeners pressing play on the same song within milliseconds of each other. Fast forward to seven years later, and Spotify has hundreds of millions of listeners around the world. And the power of the original idea inspired us to once again look into the data. When we did we found that now, every second, more than 30,000 people start playing the same song as someone they’d never met. Listening connects us, sometimes if we know it or not.

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6yr ago

It's a great idea @juliusdesign, well done! First question comes to my mind is that why not let me find another user who is listening to the same music as me right now? It would be even more amazing!

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6yr ago

@juliusdesign @khannavid Absolutely! I was looking for this, so I could match with someone around the world listening to the same tracks - and maybe say hello? :)

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6yr ago

TuneMeet

@juliusdesign @khannavid @obliterator I think you should check out https://tunemeet.com pretty much does exactly what you described: Matches you with person who is listening to the same song right now. We will be launching it later this week in Product Hunt as well.

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6yr ago

That's great! I followed you so that I won't miss the launch. good luck @olli_!

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6yr ago

@olli_ Thank you! I will definitely check it out! We want to throw a little party this weekend, along with the participants of Lightining in a Bottle, a cool EDM festival that was supposed to happen this weekend, but got cancelled :( This will help me get the songs aligned and get everybody rocking on the same tunes! :)

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6yr ago

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Well done, @juliusdesign. Music is a powerful tool for bringing people together. Related to this, I watched this Music Explained video by Vox last night which touches on the science of music:

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6yr ago

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@rrhoover thanks! This episode is very interesting. Music is more powerful than you might think. 👋🏻

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6yr ago

Hey man, seems to doesnt work on my chrome for some reason? It says optimized for certain devices and browsers

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6yr ago

Great idea and really a nice thing. But how can I see if my currently played song is accessible and if someone is co-listening? Also: is there a possibility to "invite" someone to actually start listening together? Would be nice to access it directly from the spotify app.

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6yr ago

but I can not choose a song so for me it doesn't work... it isn't "listening together" but it's "listening what the website wants to play"

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6yr ago

Milo

Have always found this fascinating. Reminds me of Lisn and what it could've been!

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6yr ago

I really like the idea behind the product, but without any connection to my preferences or a choice what kind of music I would like to explore, likelihood that I listen to music that does not fit my preferences is much too high. And then, if i find somebody on earth whose music style suits me, I would like to store or favourite that listener or even get to know the person behind...

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