Spotify is known to be tweaking around with its algorithms to better their song suggestions to the user for the longest. This time they are experimenting with the Nostalgia factor says the new patent.
The patent application was filed a few months back in 2020. It was the month of September that the application was published by the USPTO. The application portrays a framework by which Spotify distinguishes a user’s demographic group and suggests melodies that would be ‘nostalgic’ to that listener, in light of the past listening history of the user.
“A server system gets to a profile of a user of the media-offering support. The profile demonstrates a demographic group of the user. For each track of a majority of tracks, the server system decides a year related to the track,” according to the application.
The patent portrays a framework thusly: if a user is truly into any particular band during the ’80s, the calculation will suggest other famous melodies from 1985 and 1987. The trigger here is to suggest music dependent on the listening propensities for others inside the user’s demographic, explicitly from the exact or general period during those years.
The system chooses content for the user have put together in any event partially concerning a proclivity of individuals from the demographic group, when contrasted with individuals from other demographic, of music from the year related with the track. The framework gives the content to a gadget related to the user.
The patent indicates a distinction between age and non-age demographics. Users around a similar age keen on the melody make up one demographic, while users are intrigued by a similar tune yet not in a similar age section make up another. Other segment factors that may affect the sentimentality patent incorporate nation and sexual orientation.
The patent incorporates language for building a customized playlist around a particular year. On the off chance that you have affectionate recollections of the year you graduated, or the year you got hitched – Spotify can summon that late spring’s most blazing hits to hit your nostalgic nerve at that time. It’s a cunning and honestly a little bit frightening approach to keep users tuning in to music for an assortment of reasons.
Our go-to thing is music to make the best memories in our lives. Presently, Spotify wants to distinguish the behavior and take into account it with this nostalgic patent. By exploring your listening history, Spotify can recognize when music affected you most. Listen to a sad song multiple times in the most recent week? Spotify would know you likely encountered an awful separation as of late, and you’re remembering those times.
Patent Source: https://bit.ly/3dyI3Ut