Another shareable Spotify tool has been discovered in the wild, this time in the form of the Spotify Palette. This data-driven Spotify spinoff is a new way to share musical tastes with Twitter and Facebook followers, but with an accessible art style. Best of all, it only takes seconds to set up, decode, and share.
Spotify has officially launched dozens of small tools for sharing user profile data. Its algorithms are designed to generate content based on user interests, so extending that functionality to viral social media posts is understandable. The idea was an instant hit, and years later, Spotify actually has at least one weekend a year, when users post their year-end playlists and share them with fans.
Recently, Spotify granted third parties access to user data to integrate other features. That decision led to unofficial features like the Spotify Palette, a system that classifies a person’s recent listening habits into musical traits, each assigned a color. As the name suggests, these colors are arranged into a palette, creating a visually distinct way of expressing one’s listening choices. The system was designed by Israel Medina, a software developer, according to his LinkedIn profile at the bottom of the Spotify Palette homepage.
How to Create and Use Your Spotify Color Palette
Accessing the service couldn’t be easier. After logging into the Spotify Palette website through a mobile device or desktop browser, users will see a login button. For anyone signed in to Spotify on the aforementioned devices, this should be a one-click login, otherwise, make sure you have the appropriate credentials available. Within seconds of logging in, Palette does all the work building… the palette… with some extra options.
Scrolling down will show a brief explanation of what these colors mean. For example, someone with a playlist of mostly high-energy tunes might be told they have a red palette because “Red is the color of passion or desire and can also be associated with energy. “Under that explanation there will also be some esoteric statistics about the music used to build the palette, such as”Average price” or”average energy.“
A small “burger” icon on the screen opens a menu with three options. One of them points to a list of songs that have influenced the palette created over the past six months. Of course, each song is a link that opens the track on Spotify and further verifies the data. The second option links to interesting art displays. Spotify Color Palette will display a collection of images or artwork from Google’s Arts and Culture database with a color scheme similar to the user’s palette. It’s both confusing and convincing, and finally, the last option in the menu shows the palette again. From there, thanks to the Spotify Palette, simply screenshot any of these pages and leave it to others to draw conclusions about what the green song sounds like.
Source: Spotify Color Palette