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Can a Playlist Be Your Therapist? Balancing Emotions Through Music
Summary: A new musical app takes listeners on an emotional “rollercoaster ride”, leaving them in a more positive emotional and focused state than when they first started listening to the soundtrack.
Source: Acoustical Society of America
Music has the potential to change emotional states and can distract listeners from negative thoughts and pain. It has also been proven to help improve memory, performance, and mood.
At the upcoming meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Man Hei Law of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will present an app that creates custom playlists to help listeners care for their emotions through music.
The presentation, “Emotion equalization app: A first study and results,” will take place at the Grand Hyatt Nashville Hotel on Dec. 5 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern U.S. in the Rail Head room, as part of ASA’s 183rd meeting running Dec. 5-9.
“As humanity’s universal language, music can significantly impact a person’s physical and emotional state,” said Law. “For example, music can help people to manage pain. We developed this app as an accessible first aid strategy for balancing emotions.”
The app could be used by people who may not want to receive counseling or treatment because of feelings of shame, inadequacy, or distrust. By taking listeners on an emotional roller-coaster ride, the app aims to leave them in a more positive and focused state than where they began.
Users take three self-led questionnaires in the app to measure their emotional status and provide the information needed to create a playlist. Current emotion and long-term emotion status are gauged with a pictorial assessment tool that helps identify emotions in terms of energy level and mood.
Energy level can run from high, medium, to low and mood can register as positive, neutral, or negative. A Patient Health Questionnaire and a General Anxiety Disorder screening are also used to establish personalized music therapy treatments.
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By determining the emotional state of the user, the app creates a customized and specifically sequenced playlist of songs using one of three strategies: consoling, relaxing, or uplifting. Consoling music reflects the energy and mood of the user, while relaxing music provides a positive, low energy. Uplifting music is also positive but more high energy.
“In our experiments, we found out that relaxing and uplifting methods can significantly move listeners from negative to more positive emotional states. Especially, when listeners are at a neutral mood, all three proposed methods can change listeners’ emotions to more positive,” said Law.
About this music and emotion research news
Author: Ashley Piccone
Source: Acoustical Society of America
Contact: Ashley Piccone – Acoustical Society of America
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Original Research: The findings will be presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
Barack Obama shares his summer playlist
A former president’s duty is never truly done, especially since those duties are usually limited to “don’t do anything” and “show up when they open your library,” but Barack Obama has courageously continued working on his annual summer playlist—one of the keys to the relative unity we all shared when he was in office. (And this is not to be confused with his annual list of his favorite music of the year, which is totally separate list that he also personally complies all by himself every year.)
Anyway, Obama put out his summer playlist, and like all of his playlists, it’s a weird mix of stuff that definitely seems like something he’d like and stuff that seems suspiciously hip for a former president (not to mention dad) in his 60s. But whatever, if any of this is less than true, it has to rank pretty damn low on the list of things that politicians have lied about. So what’s on the playlist? It includes Obama’s podcast partner Bruce Springsteen (and a pretty famous track of his at that), Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy,” Nina Simon’s “Do I Move You?,” Joe Cocker’s “Feelin’ Alright,” Al Green’s “I Can’t Get Next To You,” and—in one of the most surprising picks we’ve ever seen on one of these Obama lists—“Praise You” by Fatboy Slim. Yes, not only is someone listening to “Praise You” in 20-goddamn-22, but that someone is Barack Obama.
“Praise You” aside, the list also has a lot of newer songs (newer than “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim?!), like “Break My Soul” by Beyoncé (is Obama hinting that he’s going to quit his job, whatever that is?), Harry Styles’ “Music For A Sushi Restaurant,” and “Angelica” by Wet Leg. Also, we’ve had “Praise You” playing in another tab, and we’ve gotta say: It still hits. Obama was right! Song of the summer!
How to Export Your Entire Spotify Library for Free
There are many reasons to move away from Spotify. Apple Music now has lossless audio at a cheaper rate. If you use Amazon Prime, Prime Music comes free; if you have an Echo smart speaker, it’s the cheapest way to stream your music. Spotify doesn’t have music by Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. No matter the reason, there’s never been more competition between music streaming services.
Sadly, streaming services aren’t exactly eager to make it easy for you to export your library so you can take it with you—but there are many third-party websites, apps, and services that can fill that gap.
Use SongShift to switch from Spotify to Apple Music
If you use an iPhone or an iPad and are moving from Spotify to Apple Music, use the SongShift app. The app has been a go-to solution for the past couple of years, and it’s still the best. More importantly, it’s fast and it’s free.
Well, sort of. While SongShift puts a limit of 100 songs per playlist transfer, its Library Transfer feature is free. So if you’re OK moving all your music to Apple Music and then recreating your longest playlists, you can get away with using the free tier. SongShift supports Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Deezer, and Pandora, and you can even export in JSON or text files. If you’ve spent a lot of time creating playlists, it might be worth paying for the $4.99/month subscription, moving all your playlists, and then canceling it.
To get started, open the SongShift app, and connect both Spotify and Apple Music accounts to the app. Then, tap the Plus button from the top. Tap “Setup Source,” choose “Spotify” from the “Songs” tab, and from the selection page, go with the “Full Library Transfer” option.
Next, tap “Setup Destination” from the “User Library” tab, and go with Apple Music. Tap “Continue,” and select “I’m Finished.” Now, let SongShift do its thing.
After the process is done, you’ll find your music in Apple Music, or any other music streaming service.
Use TuneMyMusic on the web
If you don’t use an iPhone, or if you want to use a web-based service that works on any platform, go with TuneMyMusic. It lets you transfer playlists and your entire library between Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Prime Music, Pandora, and more. You can transfer 500 songs for free. To transfer more songs, you’ll need to use the $4.50/month premium plan.
Open the TuneMyMusic website and click the big “Let’s Begin” button. Then, choose “Spotify” from the source list, connect your account, and click the “Load from your Spotify Account” button. Here, you can choose different playlists, or you can use the “Favorite Songs” option to transfer your Liked Songs (your entire library).
Then, go to the next page, and choose your destination service. Connect the service and click the “Start Moving My Music” button to start the process.
Use FreeYourMusic for free song transfer on any platform
If you don’t like the TuneMyMusic service, and you don’t mind using an app, try out the FreeYourMusic service. It’s available for Android, iPhone, Windows, and Mac. It offers unlimited song transfers for free.