Spotify is reportedly testing a new social feature that will allow users to discover new music based on what their friends are listening to. Called Tastebuds, the feature is believed to have been originally discovered by renowned software reverse engineer, Jane Manchun Wong, who says she found multiple references to Tastebuds within the apps’s codebase which suggests that it would enable users to “discover music through friends whose taste you trust”.
Spotify is working on Tastebuds, letting users discover music through their friends pic.twitter.com/uqUXmRvEKo
According to TechCrunch, a non-functional landing page for the feature could be accessed for some time on the official Spotify website, but the company seems to have since taken it down, as the link now redirects to the Spotify home page. There’s not a whole lot more info about the feature as of now, but we’ll hopefully hear more sooner rather than later.
Spotify confirms that it’s “always testing” things like Tastebuds, but it has no relation to the music dating startup of the same name pic.twitter.com/M5yGlhMbad
Even without Tastebuds, users can already post links to Spotify tracks on various social media platforms, including Instagram and Snapchat Stories, but the new built-in social feature will make it easier for users to organically discover music based on the preferences of their friends and family, even without anybody sending them any links.
