Spotify’s new ‘Tune Psychic’ is sort of a Magic 8 Ball that solutions your questions with music

Spotify is rolling out a brand new characteristic referred to as Song Psychic that can permit its prospects to ask Spotify questions and get solutions within the type of music. The addition builds on the success of Spotify’s personalised, year-end review called Wrapped, which affords intelligent methods of turning Spotify’s music information into insights designed for social sharing. However within the case of Tune Psychic, the aim is to not look again at your listening historical past, however to leverage Spotify’s understanding of music and tune titles to reply a variety of private questions — like these you may ask a psychic or Magic 8 Ball only for enjoyable.

To make use of the characteristic, you’ll be able to go to spotify.com/songpsychic in your cell system or scan the QR code on Song Psychic’s website. 

As soon as within the new expertise, you’ll be able to decide from a wide range of broader classes, like College, Buddies and Household, Love, Profession, Life’s Best Mysteries, My Future, Myself, Fashion and Lunch. (The latter can assist you resolve what to have for lunch!)

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Inside every part, there are a variety of pre-populated questions you’ll be able to faucet on to get solutions, like “Am I the drama?,” “Does my crush like me back?,” “Will I get a raise?,” “Should I go to prom?” and lots of others. Or, you can begin typing your personal query within the offered field and the app will begin providing options of others you might ask.

When you will have entered your query, the “Song Psychic” asks you to press your finger on the display screen, then colours swirl round as mystical music hums within the background earlier than your reply is revealed within the type of a tune.

For instance, if you happen to requested if somebody has a crush on you, it would reply with a tune titled “You Wish” (ouch!) or one thing extra affirmative. Among the solutions are a bit mysterious. Simply as a Magic 8 Ball generally refuses to reply a query with its “Ask Again Later” response, Spotify’s Tune Psychic could reply with a solution of its personal, like “Why?” as a substitute of straight responding. Or it may supply a imprecise timeframe, like “Eventually” (a tune by Tame Impala). All its responses are within the type of musical tracks, nonetheless.

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We discovered that you just don’t really need to press your finger on the display screen to get your response — that’s only a gimmick. However your reply is shareable by tapping on a button under, which pops up a built-in sharing sheet for posting the reply to WhatsApp, Instagram Tales, IG DMs, Messenger, Fb/Fb Tales, Snapchat, X, Messages and extra.

Although Spotify doesn’t promote the expertise as being AI-powered, it does provide the feeling of asking an all-knowing AI chatbot a query. (The corporate says it really works by matching particular key phrases in tune titles and questions.) On its FAQ, nonetheless, the corporate notes that its solutions are “generated entirely at random,” which means it’s not leveraging your private information to come back to its conclusions. The expertise can also be designed for “entertainment only,” the positioning warns, and “should not be considered a serious source of advice on any issue whatsoever” — an addition {that a} lawyer absolutely pressured Spotify to incorporate.

There’s a little bit of a lag in navigating the app and getting responses at instances — so it’s nowhere close to as quick as one thing like ChatGPT. We additionally received caught on a display screen and the again button wouldn’t work throughout considered one of our assessments. Nonetheless, the expertise will be fairly enjoyable and would seemingly improve customers’ time spent within the Spotify cell app, if it have been higher marketed. The Tune Psychic wasn’t instantly out there via its personal hub within the app, although, so that you’d need to hold returning to the web site to get it to pop it up.

Tune Psychic is accessible to Spotify’s free and Premium subscribers in 64 markets and in 21 languages, the corporate says.

The corporate confirmed that Tune Psychic is considered one of a lot of initiatives designed to “celebrate the spirit of Wrapped year-round.” Already, it’s debuted numerous shock, unique interactive experiences for followers and artists, from the New Years-inspired “Playlist In a Bottle” to “My Top Five” artist experiences with Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, ROSALÍA, BTS and Taylor Swift.

Up to date, 2/29/24, 12:54 p.m. ET with further particulars.