SPOTIFYEXPLAINED: User-centric Mobile Application for Music Exploration

Many music streaming services, such as Spotify, contain a large volume of heavy users, whose user profiles may contain tens to hundreds artists or hundreds to thousands favorite tracks. For those users, it may be difficult to understand, what data the service collected about them, what is the base for its automated decisions (e.g., recommendations) and why are particular items suggested to them. This may decrease user's willingness to explore the suggested content and may eventually lead to the decrease of user satisfaction and trust. In this demo, we present SPOTIFYEXPLAINED Android application, which is built on top of Spotify API and aims to bridge the aforementioned understandability gap. Specifically, the application contains several tunable views on users' music profiles and visually explain the connections between both the already known content as well as newly suggested items.