3/2/2024 0 Comments Spotify aura colors![]() If you see inconsistent data across screenshots, this is why. (This has changed throughout the course of writing this post, because I listen to music while I write. Spotify’s numbers of how many minutes I spent listening are pretty close to my less-accurately-calculated numbers, although as I pointed out last year, both numbers are fairly flawed. ![]() It’s possible that the energy and/or valence of these tracks helped contribute to the music mood, but it’s honestly tough to say. Who knows how to really interpret these values, but here they are represented in a column chart, to prove to you that graphical representations of data are not sufficient communication. Using the Spotify developer console to call the track audio features API yields the following metadata for Kyle (I Found You): If I take the time to dig into this further, I can check and see what the audio features are for my top Last.fm track: I felt fairly emotional and moody, tbh (those might be the same). I wouldn’t describe my year, or even my music listening, as being largely driven by trying to stay amped up, entertained, occupied, optimistic, or wondrous about life. Pink: Often described as the hopeless romantics of the aura spectrum, pinks view the world with a sense of optimistic, childlike wonder. ![]() Purple auras tune in to get amped up, entertained, and moving while they navigate the twists and turns of their day. Purple: This aura color pairs well with passionate music listeners. It’s purple and pink though, so that means: I don’t yet have comprehensive Spotify audio feature data for my listening history, but I can’t begin to guess which music I listened to was categorized as “ecstatic” or “innovative”. The closest metadata available in public APIs is the “energy” audio feature, which isn’t enough on its own to associate with an emotion (at least in my opinion). My best guess is that there must be an internal API that contains mood descriptors for Spotify tracks that helps them build their emotion-based playlists. Below are the six moods and corresponding hues that could come up in your 2021 Wrapped Audio Aura. ![]() Spotify Wrapped this year included an “audio aura” with my top “music moods”:ĭigging into this feature, it seems that Spotify consulted an “aura reader” to assign colors to “six mood descriptor categories” and matched them with Spotify tracks.Īfter we created your personalized 2021 Wrapped experience, we assigned a weight percentage to the two audio “moods” that best represent your listening, and the final product is a swirling gradient of color. Want to skip around this post? Here’s what I cover: I’m back with my yearly music data rundown, featuring a comparison with my Spotify Wrapped data (as always), a deep dive into my artist obsession of the year, some added stats about when I listen to music this year (and whether it’s different from past years), and more. Thinking about how I had a January and February stacked up the same way I spent all of my 2019, and booked up an April 2020 to be more of the same, and then whomp, pandemic, and all of my priorities changed.
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