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Spotify appears to be developing a “SongDNA” feature that allows users to discover music by credits — writers, collaborators, vocalists, engineers, songwriters, producers, composers and others who worked on a given track or album.
was characteristic discovered The app’s code was reverse engineered by Jane Manchun Wong, who was able to generated Screenshot of how SongDNA appears in the app. Based on its findings, SongDNA will introduce a visual experience where you can basically navigate through the credits, how people were connected to each other, and explore their various works.
For example, Wang shows how an artist, Ray I am From the “KPop Demon Hunters” cast, has lent his voice to other songs outside of the movie.
If Spotify releases the feature to the public, it could challenge streaming service TIDAL Interactive creditswhich allows you to explore music by the contributors behind your favorite songs The addition can be helpful for music industry professionals looking for collaborators, as well as anyone who wants to learn more about the people who work behind the scenes in music creation.
Shortly after posting the screenshot on social media, Wong said Spotify’s app has been updated to remove references to the SongDNA feature. Reached for comment, Spotify declined to share further details but did not issue a denial.
Following Wong’s post, another contrarian engineer and technologist, Chris Messina, was able to confirm SongDNA exists by finding references to the feature within the app’s code. According to Messina, the lines of code suggest that the feature could be used to reveal the network of contributors behind the song, allowing users to explore more of their work, he said.
While some wondered if SongDNA would be Spotify’s answer to Pandora’s Music Genome Project, it seems that’s not the case at all. D The Genome Project It uses hundreds of different descriptions or “features” related to a specific characteristic of music to classify tracks and determine how they relate.
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SongDNA, for now at least, seems to be more focused on the people behind the music, not the music itself.
