Digital Media

For my final project I have redesigned Spotify basically combining the concept of Soundcloud and Spotify, with many new additions and changes. The app will be split between the classic  media player platform and an interactive mode, called either the Curio or Maelstrom (since it's Swedish). Users will be able to have multiple windows open on one screen (i.e. playlist and album at once, etc.). The friend feed feature will be expanded to reach its potential as a social platform with the ability to post to a feed and like and comment on (personally to the other user) others posts. You can send a Queue to another person and you can opt to Sync with another user through a button next to their name on the friend feed (which is called Community and separated into a Live section with just listening activity, and a Feed section with all posts). The Community section will also feature posts of recommendations of "communities" to follow ("Psychedelic Rock" "Dancing music" "Memories of hearing Eye of the Tiger for the first time" "best rap playlists out there") which are exactly the same as subreddits that you can follow with Spotify with user Moderators and posts from different users whose Spotify profiles you can explore or follow if you like their opinions. This already exists on the Spotify website but no one knows about it so it is not taken advantage of. The discover mode will be expanded to its full potential using the Curio, where the Soundcloud-esque unreleased music is housed, tools to mix the sound on released and unreleased tracks (remove audio to use beat etc) and record new beats (I'm not sure if this would work, but my rationale is that Spotify owns rights to the songs, and through this upcoming artists can skip the hassle of getting approval to remix released songs and give royalties, etc.- Spotify would automatically ensure that copyright law is adhered to and the artists of the parts of songs used will automatically receive a royalty if it is legally required - if not, then the remix is taken off Spotify (you can't download these creations without going through a process with artist approval and stuff and Spotify gets a small royalty if your song is released maybe just for a period of time) - this will enable so many more people to learn and experiment with creating music because each one of us has our own unique sound waiting to be expressed inside)). The lyrics feature will be brought back but only for artists who submit the lyrics so you don't have to go through Genius. But Genius will be available as a third party extension, like articles from music review websites in the Curio if you choose to see those results (the Curio will take advantage of third party info as such and is supposed to be the Internet's creative junction for music experimentation). The initial idea behind the Maelstrom/Curio was a more fun guessing game, a more intuitive Made For You section that it is like Discover Weekly that never ends, a radio based on everything you listen (including results you have saved and those you have not) to that uses AI to learn what you like to listen to based on different moods, time of day, weather, etc. to predict what you would want to hear. Saved songs will not have a 10,000 limit anymore, because it will just be seperated internally as multiple 10,000 song playlists that appear as one to the user. But you will also have a playlist called "Everything" that houses everything you've ever put in a playlist. I have been randomly coming up with ideas for this for like years so I keep finding more ideas saved in random places but that is the lengthy gist.