1) Play Music is the best at predicting what you want to listen to when.
When you load the app, you’ll see a selection of moments it thinks are relevant based on your habits, with each of those moments opening up to a selection of music based on your tastes.
Google got a hold of this system when it bought context-focused music app Songza in 2014 and has been developing it ever since.
“We’ve had a long time to get good at what it takes to be good at that,” Play Music project manager and Songza founder Elias Roman said. He added about working at Google: “It’s a really complete and exciting and brilliant team. [We’ve] been very, very happy working with them.”
No other app comes close at contextually personalized recommendations.
Although Spotify is planning to do a lot more here, it has “just started investing a lot of effort in trying to understand user behaviors at different times and different contexts they’re in,” lead software engineer Edward Newett said. For now, Spotify’s main tab, called Browse, shows the same selection of playlists to everyone, with only minor adjustments for time of day.
Apple Music and others are even further behind.
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