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Google Play taps Big Data. It nearly mirrors your mind...

Nov 29, 2016, 16:07 IST
Who knows everything about you? Except the government that has been snooping on you. Google! How you talk to your friends, what are you preferences at what time, where are you, and just everything is controlled by the search engine giant these days. Which clearly means, except Google, there no one is equipped enough to provide you with music on your mind.
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Google is using the force of big data and machine learning to convey users the songs they need, when they need them.

Next time you open Google Play Music on any gadget, the first thing you'll see is a rundown of playlists you may like, in addition to a short description for why the app made any given selection. In case you're at work, and it's raining, possibly you get some encompassing piano to help you centre the evening endlessly. Just returned home, washing up? It's somewhat like Google Now, the predictive sustain of all that you presumably need to know about right now, with the exception of completely focused on music. Consider it a super-smart, hyper-customized set of radio station presets. Simply open the app, tap one, and go.

To do this, the Play Music group is tapping into the full Google Data Machine surprisingly. It's picking playlists by looking at the music you've listened to sometime recently, obviously, additionally your search history, your YouTube plays, even what's in your email and calendar. It considers that data of nearby things like time of day, area, the climate, and the sky is the limit from there. So you like Jazz at work, yet you require help since it's raining and you've been in meetings throughout the day, in addition to its practically time to get to the gym? Play Music may mirror your mind.

Google additionally declared a new look for its Play Music home screen, while including that there's an offline playlist, in view of what you've recently been listening to, for those times when you can't discover a connection.

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