A Swedish start-up named Tunaspot has built a Spotify app which lets you tag playlists to a specific location and allow other people to discover them.
The app lets users put together a playlist and then place it on a map -- at a festival, perhaps, or in a coffee shop or club. Other users can then browse a map of playlists to discover music related in some way to their location.
Each playlist, which is referred to as a "tuna", is given a popularity ranking on the service, which reflects how many times that it's been shared and subscribed-to ("caught" in Tunaspot parlance). The most popular will show as a "hot spot" in certain areas.
Tunaspot's co-founder, Alex Esser, explained: "With access to all the music in the world -- what should one listen to? We believe that the location is the next important filter for streaming music services. Music is memories and memories are almost always connected to a specific location."
While the app doesn't seem to have been put into the Spotify App Catalogue just yet, if you've got Spotify installed then you can have a play around with it by following this link. For the time being, it's only been launched in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, but a wider roll-out is planned.
Via-wired
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