[All Platforms] As a user I want help identifying my tastes in music

[Devcon4]

Spotify is great at curating new music that I will like but as a user it's hard for me to understand my tastes in music. Say I listen to a lot of electronic music, I get some mixes that have trance music and others with house, and techno. As a casual user I might not know that I'm a big fan of trance even though I listen to a lot of it and just classify my taste broadly as Electronic. My tastes might also be more granular than sub-genres, I might like 4-on-the-floor beats but not like drops. Spotify currently recommends me songs based on songs, and while I might like them if it could help me find more music by recommend a whole style of music rather than a few examples of that style. As a user if I can better understand my taste in music more than just a handful of songs I like it enables me to use Spotify to find more songs that I will probably like.

This could be implemented many ways, ultimately it comes down to showing the user features/elements of the music that they like. Adding tags to songs or playlists as a sort of breakdown would work. A "tastes" section that better told me what music I like based on what I listen too could also help.

Ultimately I feel that helping a user better understand their taste is very important. It allows them to better engage in the community that they may have not known existed and to find more music that they will like. 

[Petya]

Hey there @Devcon4 ,

Thanks for posting in the Community about this! We appreciate your feedback about finding songs classified by your taste.

We've moved your idea suggestion to Help Boards. If you have a specific idea you would like to see implemented (e.g. for a new feature which does not currently exist, or an improvement on an existing feature), feel free to post an idea submission.

You can refer to this Spotify Answer on how to submit ideas that get approved.

Thanks and have a nice day!