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

Spotify is rolling out a brand new function known as Song Psychic that may enable its clients 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 provides intelligent methods of turning Spotify’s music information into insights designed for social sharing. However within the case of Music 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 would possibly ask a psychic or Magic 8 Ball only for enjoyable.

To make use of the function, you may 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 may decide from a wide range of broader classes, like Faculty, Associates and Household, Love, Profession, Life’s Biggest Mysteries, My Future, Myself, Fashion and Lunch. (The latter may help you determine what to have for lunch!)

Inside every part, there are a variety of pre-populated questions you may faucet on to get solutions, like “Am I the drama?,” “Does my crush like me again?,” “Will I get a elevate?,” “Ought to I am going to promenade?” and lots of others. Or, you can begin typing your individual query within the supplied field and the app will begin providing ideas of others you possibly can ask.

When you have got entered your query, the “Music 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, in case you requested if somebody has a crush on you, it would reply with a tune titled “You Want” (ouch!) or one thing extra affirmative. A few of the solutions are a bit mysterious. Simply as a Magic 8 Ball generally refuses to reply a query with its “Ask Once more Later” response, Spotify’s Music Psychic might reply with a solution of its personal, like “Why?” as an alternative of straight responding. Or it may provide a obscure time-frame, like “Finally” (a tune by Tame Impala). All its responses are within the type of musical tracks, nonetheless.

We discovered that you just don’t truly must 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 beneath, 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 solely at random,” which means it’s not leveraging your private information to return to its conclusions. The expertise can be designed for “leisure solely,” the location warns, and “shouldn’t be thought-about a severe supply of recommendation on any challenge in anyway” — 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 obtained caught on a display screen and the again button wouldn’t work throughout one in every of our checks. Nonetheless, the expertise might be fairly enjoyable and would doubtless enhance customers’ time spent within the Spotify cell app, if it had been higher marketed. The Music Psychic wasn’t instantly out there by its personal hub within the app, although, so that you’d must hold returning to the web site to get it to pop it up.

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

The corporate confirmed that Music Psychic is one in every of a lot of initiatives designed to “have a good time 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 High 5” 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.