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My running playlists are sacred. They’ve been tuned over the years to provide just the right amount of anger and aggression at just the right time. So it’s with some angst that I turned over playlist control to Spotify Running and its promise to serve me a “non-stop mix of music you love.” Love.
The wonderful thing about music is the way it affects emotion. It’s not like other art forms where the mind has to consciously engage and interpret the poem, painting, or play. Music rides an instantaneous link to the heart. We play “whatever we’re in the mood for” — sometimes to enhance it, sometimes to change it. This human fickleness is hard for a computer algorithm to predict.
Surprisingly, Spotify gets me.
Although buried between…
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First Click: Spotify Running is a surprisingly great music discovery tool http://www.danieluk.net/news/first-click-spotify-running-is-a-surprisingly-great-music-discovery-tool/ #Play, #Tool
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