What Music Should I Listen to? Let’s Ask the Weather-Based Music Selector!

Weather influences our emotions and we listen to music for its vibes…why not combine it all into a tailored playlist?

Pavle Marinkovic
Predict
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5 min readMar 9, 2021

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Photo by Victor Xok from Unsplash

I know I’m not the only one that has a hard time finding music to listen to.

It has to be the right one for the mood I’m in, otherwise, it won’t feel right.

And that mood of ours is influenced by many things, one of which is the weather. You know how there’s a saying for it, “being under the weather”, but we don’t usually think about how much it can affect us.

Mood states do change with the weather, so why not use this variable to find the right music for us?

How are we classifying music today?

We have multiple libraries of music on the web and it’s not always easy to navigate through them.

If you search for certain keywords like “chill music”, you’ll find a variety of playlists that don’t seem to have anything in common. You thought you were narrowing your search, but the results are only increasing your current confusion.

Today, personalized music recommendations use one of these two approaches (or both but shown separately):

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Pavle Marinkovic
Predict

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