{"id":77034,"date":"2025-10-15T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77034\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:21:07","slug":"spotify-spotted-working-on-a-songdna-feature-that-showcases-the-people-behind-your-favorite-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77034\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify spotted working on a ‘SongDNA’ feature that showcases the people behind your favorite music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify has been spotted developing a \u201cSongDNA\u201d feature that would allow users to discover music through the credits \u2014 the writers, collaborators, vocalists, engineers, lyricists, producers, composers, and others who worked on a given track or album.<\/p>\n

The feature was discovered<\/a> in the app\u2019s code by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who was able to generate<\/a> screenshots of how SongDNA would appear in the app. Based on her findings, SongDNA would introduce a visual experience where you could essentially navigate through the credits, see how people were connected to each other, and explore their various works.<\/p>\n

For instance, Wong showed how one artist, Rei Ami<\/a> from the \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d cast, had lent her voice to other tracks beyond those from the movie. <\/p>\n

If Spotify releases the feature to the public, it could challenge the streaming service TIDAL\u2019s interactive credits<\/a>, which also lets you explore music through the contributors behind the songs you love. The addition could be useful for music industry pros looking for collaborators, as well as anyone wanting to learn more about the people who work behind the scenes in music creation.<\/p>\n

Shortly after posting screenshots to social media, Wong<\/a> said<\/a> Spotify\u2019s app was updated to remove references to the SongDNA feature. Reached for comment, Spotify declined to share further details but did not issue a denial. <\/p>\n

Following Wong\u2019s post, another reverse engineer and technologist, Chris Messina, was able to confirm<\/a> SongDNA\u2019s existence by finding references to the feature within the app\u2019s code. According to Messina, the lines of code suggest the feature could be used to reveal the network of contributors behind songs, allowing users to explore more of their work, he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image Credits:Chris Messina via Threads (opens in a new window)<\/a><\/p>\n

While some wondered if SongDNA would be Spotify\u2019s answer to Pandora\u2019s Music Genome Project, it appears that\u2019s not quite the case. The Genome Project<\/a> uses hundreds of different details, or \u201ctraits,\u201d corresponding to a particular characteristic of the music to classify tracks and determine how they\u2019re related.<\/p>\n

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SongDNA, for now at least, appears to be more focused on just the people behind the music, not the music itself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify has been spotted developing a \u201cSongDNA\u201d feature that would allow users to discover music through the credits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8846,85,46,409,9828,9832,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-77034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-spotify","13":"tag-streaming-music","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}